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<blockquote data-quote="charleskeith" data-source="post: 624420" data-attributes="member: 43725">Hi! I am new to this group, albeit not to digital photography or film photography. I have replaced my much used (and well loved) D90 with a new D5500 plus two lens kit. The package economics made it cheaper to buy the new camera with a 2 lens kit, even though they duplicate lenses already in my kit. The questions I have deal with lens performance. I certainly could look up MTF's and do my own (informal) resolution tests, but I though maybe I would get the group's opinions first. 1. The new kit has an AF-P 18-55 f3.5-5.6 VR lens. My old lens is an 18-55 f3.5-5.6 GII non-VR. Which will have better performance? Is it worth giving up the VR for the nicer A/M control and manual focussing of the old?2. The new kit has an AF-P 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 3G ED (non-VR) lens. The old lens is an AF 70-300 f4-5.6 G. Which has better performance at the same aperture? How is it that the EG elements lost 1/2 stop at 70 mm?3. Also (lessons learned the hard way, in spike of Nikon's advice), my favorite lens (of my zooms) for portraiture is a Sigma 24-70 f2.8 DG HSM. Unfortunately, it does not autofocus on the new camera! Any solution? Will Sigma perhaps update?Nice threads, here!Charles Keith</blockquote>

[QUOTE="charleskeith, post: 624420, member: 43725"] Hi! I am new to this group, albeit not to digital photography or film photography. I have replaced my much used (and well loved) D90 with a new D5500 plus two lens kit. The package economics made it cheaper to buy the new camera with a 2 lens kit, even though they duplicate lenses already in my kit. The questions I have deal with lens performance. I certainly could look up MTF's and do my own (informal) resolution tests, but I though maybe I would get the group's opinions first. 1. The new kit has an AF-P 18-55 f3.5-5.6 VR lens. My old lens is an 18-55 f3.5-5.6 GII non-VR. Which will have better performance? Is it worth giving up the VR for the nicer A/M control and manual focussing of the old? 2. The new kit has an AF-P 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 3G ED (non-VR) lens. The old lens is an AF 70-300 f4-5.6 G. Which has better performance at the same aperture? How is it that the EG elements lost 1/2 stop at 70 mm? 3. Also (lessons learned the hard way, in spike of Nikon's advice), my favorite lens (of my zooms) for portraiture is a Sigma 24-70 f2.8 DG HSM. Unfortunately, it does not autofocus on the new camera! Any solution? Will Sigma perhaps update? Nice threads, here! Charles Keith [/QUOTE]

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