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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 206687" data-attributes="member: 12496">Well, the choice depends only on the view you want to show.18-55 mm is from wide angle to mild telephoto.  This will be for most situations, certainly indoors.55-200 is from mild to relatively extreme telephoto.  It brings distant  far things closer, to enlarge the view off them (if that is your choice).  Like maybe for photographing a bear in the woods, etc.Go out in the front yard, and look though both them, at like 18mm and at 200mm - looking at something say half a city block distance.  It is the view that changes.  The 200 mm lens will bring it 200/18 = 11 times closer and larger, than at 18 mm.But at other times, you need the wide angle field that 18 mm can show.  Or most often, some suitable point in between.  You zoom to show the view that you want to show.</blockquote>