Chatterstatic
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Im suffering from a bit of an upgrade dilemma I have been enjoying dabbling in macro/close-up with a D60 and it's kit 18-55 non VR combined with a set of Polaroid extension tubes with electrical pass through an four piece diopter set it all new to me but I'm enjoying producing images of things that most people pass by if you know what I mean and way dilemma is as follows I'm wanting to add a Nikon 55-300 which can be had for 299 euros on Amazon and have been also eyeing up replacing the D60 with a D3200 349 euros body only on Amazon.
Reasoning for the lens is to be able to back off from subjects a bit and the reasoning for for the d3200 is crop factor honestly 24 mega pixels gets me doing a Homer donut impression every time I think of it but I can get one or other for the moment then wait a couple of months for the next, I'm also going to be upgrading my tripod as the Manfrotto travel tripod I have is driving me demented stupid trigger mechanism and the way the head rotates badly and it's not that steady with a focus rail on it so a Manfrotto 055 is also on my shopping list.
If I changed the lens to a Tamron one or Sigma it would shorten the delay between items, but I'm typically impatient and it's all causing a general overload at the mo...
Help............
Reasoning for the lens is to be able to back off from subjects a bit and the reasoning for for the d3200 is crop factor honestly 24 mega pixels gets me doing a Homer donut impression every time I think of it but I can get one or other for the moment then wait a couple of months for the next, I'm also going to be upgrading my tripod as the Manfrotto travel tripod I have is driving me demented stupid trigger mechanism and the way the head rotates badly and it's not that steady with a focus rail on it so a Manfrotto 055 is also on my shopping list.
If I changed the lens to a Tamron one or Sigma it would shorten the delay between items, but I'm typically impatient and it's all causing a general overload at the mo...
Help............