Nikon 18-140 VR Kit Lens or Tamron 18-270 DI-II VC

[Prefrosh01]

Good Morning,

Let me begin by saying thank you for all the information I have learned coming to these forums daily!

I am just about through reading the Bryan Peterson Understanding Exposure book (very good book and I highly recommend it) and multiple times he references setting the focus on the lens from 3' to infinity depending on the situation. I noticed that the 18-140 Nikon lens does not have this feature, but my wife's Tamron 18-270 does. The Tamron is on her D3100 which is not used very frequently and the 18-140 is on my D7000 which is used as the daily shooter.

Which of these lenses would you put on the D7000?

Thanks for the replies in advance!

 

[nickt]

I have both. I prefer the 18-140. The 18-270 is a superzoom and more compromises are designed into it. It can be soft wide open especially at full zoom. Autofocus can be slower too. Nice lens for when you need to travel light, but the 18-140 is sharper and faster for me. It spends a lot of time on my d7100.

 

[Deuce808]

It depends on how you want to shoot things. Hyper focal has its uses, a lot for landscape to get everything in focus, it also has some use for walk around because you can just shoot everything without having to adjust focus. Really it applies to manual prime lenses (or if you don't change the focal length of your zoom). Set your hyper focal and walk around and snap away, funky angles, candid shots, shoot from the hip. Everything from x to infinity will be in focus. You will have to change the hyper focal for every zoom and aperture change you make. But since you have a zoom, and it's a sharp zoom, and it has auto focus so your free to change length at will, and change settings to match the available light, etc. so you may not need to worry so much about hyper focal. It's a good technique to learn though.