New camera.

i have decided to get a refurbished 300s from Nikon. 700 was a bit over budget for me. i have a manual 24mm,28mm, 50mm, a 70-300 tamron and my kit lenses 18-55 and and 55-200. a 3rd party flash that works great. what i need to know is im wondering what would be a good combo within my budget. spending about half on my camera i still want a flash that is triggered by remote and at least 2 prime lenses to go with them. I am comfortable using the manual lenses. so im looking at 60mm and 85mm or even sell my 50mm for an af-s one.

what would be your combo. I will be ordering in the next 2 weeks.

You will enjoy the D300S, I sure have enjoyed mine. If you can afford the 18x200, I really like this lens, it pretty well stays on my D300S. As near a perfect lens as you will find.

Since your kit lenses cover the bases I would buy a 85/1.8 and/or the classic 105/2.5 to round out the manual lens kit. Congratulations on the 300s. I wish I would have had the budget to get the 300s (or the 700 for that matter) mainly because of the metal body. They are pretty neat.

newbshooter said:

i have decided to get a refurbished 300s from Nikon. 700 was a bit over budget for me. i have a manual 24mm,28mm, 50mm, a 70-300 tamron and my kit lenses 18-55 and and 55-200. a 3rd party flash that works great. what i need to know is im wondering what would be a good combo within my budget. spending about half on my camera i still want a flash that is triggered by remote and at least 2 prime lenses to go with them. I am comfortable using the manual lenses. so im looking at 60mm and 85mm or even sell my 50mm for an af-s one.

what would be your combo. I will be ordering in the next 2 weeks.

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Congratulations on the D300s! Its truly a great workhorse of a camera, I won't part with mine.
I also have the 18-200 3.5-5.6 lens & its a very good all around lens. I also have the 35mm f1.8 which I bought for $205 including tax & let me tell you since I have it I use it 50% of the time it works that good for my needs. I also use my old manual focus lenses from the film camera days & they also work very well with the D300s.And by the way I still use my old sb10 & sb 11 flashes from yesteryear with equally good results.!!
Again lots of luck with the new addition.!!

Joe

I also am thinking of a new telephoto lens with an f stop of 2. or lower, it seems that my old mf lenses when mounted on the d300s have that added 1.5 crop factor so my 50mm f1.2 is a 75mm f1.2 & my 105 mm f2.5 is a 157.5 mm lens so I don't need the newer lenses unless I want auto focus, recently I used my old series E 70-200mm zoom lens & the crop factor came in very handy, I shot across a football field & took a shot of a soccer game on the next field with good results, it was a 350mm shot that came out very clear.My point is don't be too quick to give up the old manual focus lenses because on the d300s they're fantastic unless you have a specific need.!!
Joe

My reccomendation is this
Get the D300s and SB-700 & then I would suggest the 50mm f/1.8 along with the 70-300mm VR ED lens. Both work great on the D300. I also love the 35mm f/1.8. The next glass I would get is going to be 70-200 f/2.8 or 200-400mm f/4