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hi all
I am currently a canon user with a large investment in canon gear.
I would like to move over to Nikon and have already sought a sale price for all my canon gear.
my main interests are landscape and travel photography.
I have handled and played around with the d750 and so far very impressed, what lenses would you recommend?
thanks in advance.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum! I have been hearing a lot of people jumping ship for the D750. (two canon users from my work recently switched to the D750)

As to what lens? What's your budget? Primes or zooms?

hi
budget of around £2000 for lenses.
iam off to Nepal in Jan so need a general walk about lens as well as a wide angle and possibly something with a bit of reach.
my canon lenses that I used were the 24-105L and the 70-300L so I suppose the Nikon equivalent
thanks

Welcome and hello. It always intrigues me why people jump brands. I guess the lenses you're maybe looking at are the 24-120 f/4, or at a real budget push a 24-70 f/2.8, and maybe the 70-200 f/2.8, or 300 f/4??

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Welcome to the website.

Welcome to the dark side.

Welcome !

welcome to the forum. are you open to using 3rd party lenses?

Welcome to the forum.

. For general purpose travel the 24-70 is an excellent lense. I use 18-55 on DX, which is near enough to the 24-70 on FX, and find it suffices most of the time. If you need a lighter lense then the 24-85 VR will do.
. For longer reach, a prime is the best option, and the 300mm F4 with TC14 is the most cost effective 300/420mm combination you can get.

For landscapes there are excellent wide angle Manual Focus AIS lenses still in production. You can get either a new one or a pre owned one at a substantial discount. The 28mm F2.8 is one of the best lenses in this range.
Manual Focus Nikkor 28mm f/2.8s wideangle lens
Zeiss 28mm f2.8 v Nikon 28mm f2.8 v Olympus 28mm f2

Howdy and welcome to Nikonites!

If you're considering the D750, the lens that gets the most mentions is probably Nikons 14-24mm f/2.8. Fantastic lens, with the exception that it doesn't pair up well with filters.

The other option, if f/2.8 is not required, would be the 16-35mm f/4 which will save a little money, plus it accepts screw on filters.

Welcome to the forum.

I currently own "just" the 28-300 for my D800. I've had no issues with the lens. The advantage is when you're travelling, you wont need to take many lenses with you. However, when I have had the camera a year, I will be taking stock of what I have shot, and buy the lens most suited to the shots I have been taking... but keeping the 28-300 for when I am travelling

jigler said:

hi all
I am currently a canon user with a large investment in canon gear.
I would like to move over to Nikon and have already sought a sale price for all my canon gear.
my main interests are landscape and travel photography.
I have handled and played around with the d750 and so far very impressed, what lenses would you recommend?
thanks in advance.

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I have the D750 and mostly do landscape and night at the moment. You'll love the dynamic range it can grab.

I'm using the 18-35mm most but ordered a Samyang 14mm to go extra wide. The Samyang is supposed to be sharp as a butcher knife but is fully manual. Fully as in focus and aperture. It's however ridiculous cheap for a wide prime. I'm pretty satisfied about the 18-35mm. It lacks the 2mm extra the 16-35mm provides and the VR (which I don't need since I pod most). But it is at least as sharp and costs a reasonable amount less.

18-35mm 3.5-4.5 is (~$750) while it's not as wide as a 16-35 (~$1250) it's cheaper and many say that it's sharper. 16-28 Tokina (~$650) is also great bang for your buck but you sacrifice the useful 35mm end.

The Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 is what I use and it can be bought for (~$1000) or less, it hasn't steered me wrong, but doesn't have VR. The Nikon 70-200 f/4 (~$1400) or the Tamron 70-200 f/2.8 (~$1100) also cover the far range. They both have vibration reduction, I'd get the Tamron because it's cheaper faster and nearly as good as the Nikon equivalent. It would also give you money for a solid nifty-50 which is my prime of choice.

I don't like using things 18-200 all-in-one zooms because the distortion annoys me but I can see their usefulness when traveling. To each their own.

jigler said:

hi
budget of around £2000 for lenses.
iam off to Nepal in Jan so need a general walk about lens as well as a wide angle and possibly something with a bit of reach.
my canon lenses that I used were the 24-105L and the 70-300L so I suppose the Nikon equivalent
thanks

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Welcome!

Were I starting a new kit with a decent budget building around the D750 I would do the Nikon f/4 sort of trilogy, 16-35 AF VR f/4, 24-120 AF VR f/4 and the 70-200 AF VR f/4. Got more dough mix in some f/2.8 like @jaydean above does.

2 things you may not be yet aware of..... do not forget Nikon Ai or Ais manual lenses or older Nikon AF D glass. I have bits of each and are incredible on D700 (and cheap!)

Good luck, post pics!

Forgot to look at the lenses you mainly used on Nikon, those ranges would en covered by the 24-120/f4 (~1200) and the 70-300/f4.5-5.6 (~$600) which are nearly identical to what you were using.

If you don't mind a tickle of distortion the 28-300/f3.5-5.6 does everything well.


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traceyjj said:

Welcome to the forum.

I currently own "just" the 28-300 for my D800. I've had no issues with the lens. The advantage is when you're travelling, you wont need to take many lenses with you. However, when I have had the camera a year, I will be taking stock of what I have shot, and buy the lens most suited to the shots I have been taking... but keeping the 28-300 for when I am travelling

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I had the same lens on my D800 but you are missing out on so much. Once you try a prime you will be amazed.at what the D800 can do.
If you can, try the 50mm f/1.8 it's not mega expensive and I guarantee it will amaze you.

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I had the same lens on my D800 but you are missing out on so much. Once you try a prime you will be amazed.at what the D800 can do.
If you can, try the 50mm f/1.8 it's not mega expensive and I guarantee it will amaze you.

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I'm not ruling anything out lens-wise. This past year, and the early part of next year were/will be expensive. (my twins turn 21 in January, so thats not going to be a cheap birthday ) but first stop on the new lens front will be a nice ultra-wide.