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<blockquote data-quote="srgonu" data-source="post: 81054" data-attributes="member: 11055">Hi Nikonites,This forum is listed at the top of my Google search and found amazing activity here.&nbsp; Started my journey in photography an year ago with my Nikon D60 and fell in love with it. Since am also interested in Video I decided to upgrade to Nikon D5100 (after going through lot of investigation between Sony SLT-A57, Nikon D5100 and Canon T3I since all of them belong to same price range). Need help in deciding the lens:I take lot of photos of my 4 yr old kids portraits and while she is playing. I am gifting my Nikon D60 to my brother along with the standard 18-55 mm lens that came with it. Only problem I encountered with that lens is that when my kid is playing in a play area or playing with her friends I can't zoom enough to get that perfect shot. I read lot of people saying that its better to have both 18-55mm and 55-200mm and some people prefer just the 18-105mm. I don't want my camera to be outstanding in the crowd with the longest lens. I like the length of 18-55mm lens but not sure how 18-105mm look and am not really confident yet to carry to lens all the time. Can some of experts here please suggest based on my requirement?. (May be some other lens from Tamron or another is better).&nbsp; Sorry for the long post. Thanks</blockquote>

[QUOTE="srgonu, post: 81054, member: 11055"] Hi Nikonites, This forum is listed at the top of my Google search and found amazing activity here. Started my journey in photography an year ago with my Nikon D60 and fell in love with it. Since am also interested in Video I decided to upgrade to Nikon D5100 (after going through lot of investigation between Sony SLT-A57, Nikon D5100 and Canon T3I since all of them belong to same price range). Need help in deciding the lens: I take lot of photos of my 4 yr old kids portraits and while she is playing. I am gifting my Nikon D60 to my brother along with the standard 18-55 mm lens that came with it. Only problem I encountered with that lens is that when my kid is playing in a play area or playing with her friends I can't zoom enough to get that perfect shot. I read lot of people saying that its better to have both 18-55mm and 55-200mm and some people prefer just the 18-105mm. I don't want my camera to be outstanding in the crowd with the longest lens. I like the length of 18-55mm lens but not sure how 18-105mm look and am not really confident yet to carry to lens all the time. Can some of experts here please suggest based on my requirement?. (May be some other lens from Tamron or another is better). Sorry for the long post. Thanks [/QUOTE]

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