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<blockquote data-quote="Ad B" data-source="post: 646806" data-attributes="member: 37491"><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000">Hi,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000">I intend to buy (I think) 2 prime lenses.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000">Not so expensive stuff, just good, pretty light sensitive and very sharp...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000">That's pretty much my requirements.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000">As far as I have read, my choices would be a Nikon AF-S 24 mm F1.8 and Tamron SP 85 mm f/1.8 Di VC USD(Model F016).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000">To use on my D850. The 24 mm, a smaller and lighter combo for urban area. Shorter as a 20 to 24 mm gives too much distortion, I don’t want to deal with that.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000">The 85 mm for a bit longer work, man/street photography or maybe portraits.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000">Are these lenses in the opinion of the more experienced, good choices?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000">I like those pretty little AF D models, but they don’t get good numbers from DXO...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000">According to DXO the results of the AF-S 24 mm and the Tamron 35 mm lens are nearly the best in this length, very good, very sharp.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000">But, strange (in my opinion), I can’t find a used 24 mm on the Internet.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000">It this lens so good that no one sells it...?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'"><span style="color: #000000">Or does this lens have dark sides, so that no one buys this lens and therefore there are no secondhand 24 mm AF-S lenses for sale...?</span></span></p><p></p><p>My zooms are a Tamron 24-70, a Tamron 28-300 and a Sigma 150-600 C.</p><p>Thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ad B, post: 646806, member: 37491"] [FONT=Bookman Old Style][COLOR=#000000]Hi, I intend to buy (I think) 2 prime lenses.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Bookman Old Style][COLOR=#000000]Not so expensive stuff, just good, pretty light sensitive and very sharp...[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Bookman Old Style][COLOR=#000000]That's pretty much my requirements.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Bookman Old Style][COLOR=#000000]As far as I have read, my choices would be a Nikon AF-S 24 mm F1.8 and Tamron SP 85 mm f/1.8 Di VC USD(Model F016).[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Bookman Old Style][COLOR=#000000]To use on my D850. The 24 mm, a smaller and lighter combo for urban area. Shorter as a 20 to 24 mm gives too much distortion, I don’t want to deal with that.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Bookman Old Style][COLOR=#000000]The 85 mm for a bit longer work, man/street photography or maybe portraits.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Bookman Old Style][COLOR=#000000]Are these lenses in the opinion of the more experienced, good choices?[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Bookman Old Style][COLOR=#000000]I like those pretty little AF D models, but they don’t get good numbers from DXO...[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Bookman Old Style][COLOR=#000000]According to DXO the results of the AF-S 24 mm and the Tamron 35 mm lens are nearly the best in this length, very good, very sharp. But, strange (in my opinion), I can’t find a used 24 mm on the Internet.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Bookman Old Style][COLOR=#000000]It this lens so good that no one sells it...?[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Bookman Old Style][COLOR=#000000]Or does this lens have dark sides, so that no one buys this lens and therefore there are no secondhand 24 mm AF-S lenses for sale...?[/COLOR][/FONT] My zooms are a Tamron 24-70, a Tamron 28-300 and a Sigma 150-600 C. Thanks. [/QUOTE]
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