Hey all,
I just started digital photography about two months ago, and I owned a DSLR Nikon D50.
Recently, I have been thinking to buy a lens for taking distant photos. I've been looking around the forum for a while. But the more I read the threads about telephoto lens, the more i get confused The distance that I would like to take is maybe like to be able to take the face of a 2 metres tall statue clearly from 15 metres distance. And my budget is around $400. Any suggestion which lens to buy?
My current lens is AF-S Nikkor 18-55 mm 1:3.5-5.6G ED
Can anyone give me a short explanation about what each words mean?
Last time I went to a camera shop and asked for the price of a 70-300mm lens for Nikon, and the guy asked me, 'Is it ED?' or something like that. So I was like 'umm... yeah!', not sure of what it is.
One more thing, can I used other cameras' lens for Nikon? Because when I search for Nikon lens in the search engine, some names appeared like 'Opteka, Sigma, Tokina, Quantaray'. But they also wrote 'For Nikon D-series'.
I just started digital photography about two months ago, and I owned a DSLR Nikon D50.
Recently, I have been thinking to buy a lens for taking distant photos. I've been looking around the forum for a while. But the more I read the threads about telephoto lens, the more i get confused The distance that I would like to take is maybe like to be able to take the face of a 2 metres tall statue clearly from 15 metres distance. And my budget is around $400. Any suggestion which lens to buy?
My current lens is AF-S Nikkor 18-55 mm 1:3.5-5.6G ED
Can anyone give me a short explanation about what each words mean?
Last time I went to a camera shop and asked for the price of a 70-300mm lens for Nikon, and the guy asked me, 'Is it ED?' or something like that. So I was like 'umm... yeah!', not sure of what it is.
One more thing, can I used other cameras' lens for Nikon? Because when I search for Nikon lens in the search engine, some names appeared like 'Opteka, Sigma, Tokina, Quantaray'. But they also wrote 'For Nikon D-series'.