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<blockquote data-quote="lokatz" data-source="post: 637813" data-attributes="member: 43924"><p>Hi there, The 18-200 is a good compromise for most shooting situations. It performs pretty well in the standard zoom range but weakens a bit on the wide end and considerably more on the tele one. With your shooting preferences, the tele side should not be too much of a worry, though.</p><p></p><p>I do a lot of landscape and architecture shooting. Believe it or not, I've found myself taking multiple shots and stitching them into a panorama later with my 12-28mm on the D7100 (same with the 11-16 I had before), so yes, I do believe the 8mm make a big difference. Stitching (using Microsoft's excellent-and-free ICE) is not that hard, but with an effective length of 27mm for your 18-200, you'll have a lot of pictures to stitch when you want to take a shot that 'shows it all'. Even 10, 11 or 12 are sometimes not enough. So, yes, go for a wide lens - you'll love what it gives you that your current lens can't.</p><p></p><p>The reason I went for Tokina's 12-28mm instead of the comparatively-priced Nikons you mention: a German magazine I value highly for its diligent lens testing gives the Tokina 61 points for image quality where the Nikons get 51.5 respectively 54.5. Only Nikon's fantastic-but-pricey 14-24mm scores higher among wide lenses.</p><p></p><p>As far as a 50mm 1.8 goes. that'll do wonders when shooting your kids indoors. As far as "what else is nice" goes: how much money do you want to spend? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lokatz, post: 637813, member: 43924"] Hi there, The 18-200 is a good compromise for most shooting situations. It performs pretty well in the standard zoom range but weakens a bit on the wide end and considerably more on the tele one. With your shooting preferences, the tele side should not be too much of a worry, though. I do a lot of landscape and architecture shooting. Believe it or not, I've found myself taking multiple shots and stitching them into a panorama later with my 12-28mm on the D7100 (same with the 11-16 I had before), so yes, I do believe the 8mm make a big difference. Stitching (using Microsoft's excellent-and-free ICE) is not that hard, but with an effective length of 27mm for your 18-200, you'll have a lot of pictures to stitch when you want to take a shot that 'shows it all'. Even 10, 11 or 12 are sometimes not enough. So, yes, go for a wide lens - you'll love what it gives you that your current lens can't. The reason I went for Tokina's 12-28mm instead of the comparatively-priced Nikons you mention: a German magazine I value highly for its diligent lens testing gives the Tokina 61 points for image quality where the Nikons get 51.5 respectively 54.5. Only Nikon's fantastic-but-pricey 14-24mm scores higher among wide lenses. As far as a 50mm 1.8 goes. that'll do wonders when shooting your kids indoors. As far as "what else is nice" goes: how much money do you want to spend? ;) [/QUOTE]
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