Like your Pup, I'm all in on APS-C cameras. I use a SIGMA 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM Contemporary lens with my D7500 as a general purpose, walking around lens. It's quite good.Not for me, but I got the Pup a new normal zoom for her D5600. Since she is likely to stick with DX cameras for the foreseeable future, I decided to upgrade her 18-55 kit lens. I wanted to get her the Nikon 18-200, but the new ones were all out of stock, and no telling when, or if, they will be back in stock. Her birthday is coming up and I talked to her about it. She was fine with used. I looked at KEH and they had an EX+ for an excellent price. Got it in today, and it looks in extremely good condition. Never bought used gear, other than a couple refurbs, since I was in my 20s and got a used Practica as my first SLR.
It also looks more like a much better lens, compared to the kit lens it's replacing. Metal bayonet, and much more robust looking all the way around. Having a longer zoom ratio should be very convenient for her style of shooting. She sometimes misses shots because of not switching lenses. With this she can cover wide angle to pretty decent tele reach.
Patrick, you clearly don't live in Scotland as it has been miserable for weeks nowWith temperatures and humidity rising in the UK I decided that hard cases and gel sacs needed replacing with a dry cabinet.
I bough this Spolehli off Amazon - it's 55L and dimensions a bit small, so it was a case (pun!) of trying and seeing if it works.
After raising a book case shelf one level, the cabinet is a perfect fit, conveniently next to my disc station, router and UPS.
While seemingly small, ALL four of my Haselblad lenses and camera fit on one shelf, the Nikon Z8 and 5 lenses fit on two shelfs, leaving room on th bottom tray for the 2x teleconverter. It will be too small for the z 180-600 though. But that's for the future!
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How do you like the 24-120, Danno? For some reason, I thought you already had a copy of this lens.I shifted my gaze from the 180-600 Z lens to something I would get much more use out of... I went with the 24-120 f4 S lens. I am just not a fan of packing the big lenses around, but the old me pushes me to think I can handle it... it will be fun... there is no downside...
Maybe I will wait a while and get the 100-400
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I really like. It is very sharp and stays on my Z8. I am glad I bought it. It has taken the place of my 24-70 f2.8 when I am out. I still us the 24-70 at church.How do you like the 24-120, Danno? For some reason, I thought you already had a copy of this lens.![]()