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Nikon D40 18 135mm Lens Kit

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Nikon D80 18 135mm Lens Kit

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Pentax DA 18 250mm f 3 5 6 3 ED AL IF Lens for Pentax and Samsung Digital SLR Cameras

What a range! The smc PENTAX DA 18-250mm F3.5-6.3 ED AL [IF] interchangeable zoom lens, designed for exclusive use with PENTAX digital SLR cameras, will provide just about all the coverage you’ll need. With an approximate 14X zoom ratio covering from wide-angle to super-telephoto ranges, this versatile lens handles a great variety of applications from wide-angle landscapes to close-up sporting events and wildlife photography.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Good quality lens
It pretty close to what it is advertised to be. Not good for low light. under bright natural or artificial lights it works great.

5 Stars Terrific lens for the money
It seems that one has to find out which are the outstanding Pentax lenses by reading a lot, and by trial and error. Price is no guide, as with this lens which sells for about half the price of the equivalent Nikon lens. It is an outstanding lens, and even at 250mm (that’s 375mm in 24×36 lingo!), with Pentax’s superb anti-shake mechanism, it is very useful.

An extraordinarily impressive and useful lens. As always, the drawback of these zooms is their lack of speed. f/6.3 is the maximum aperture at 250mm, but if it were any faster, the lens would be enormous. I use two “prime” lenses for speed — 50mm f/1.4 (one of the GREAT buys out there) and my trusty old 85mm f/1.8. Those two, plus a 16-45mm Pentax zoom, and this zoom, cover just about everything. I just wish Pentax would stop improving the camera body about every twenty minutes.

5 Stars Fantastic Walk Around Lens
This Pentax version of the Tamron original does JUST what I wanted it for at a very reasonable price. When I go on trips or outings, I want to carry very little. This more than adequately replaces my previous down-sized kit of an 18-55 and a 50-200. Not only is one lens much lighter than two, it takes considerably less space and provides me fewer opportunities to introduce dust into the camera body while I change lenses. On top of that, it produces sharp pictures with minimal CA.

What it’s not:

Fast. Making this range of zoom fast would require lots more glass (bigger and heavier) and even more cash.

A real macro lens. It doesn’t compete with my FA 100 2.8. This too is a heavy lens and I don’t usually take it on trips.

A real telephoto lens. A 300 and up would be truly heavy and require mounting on a tripod (still more weight).

An ultra-wide ange lens. At its widest it’s the equivalent of a 28.

What it is is a lens I can rely on to capture the picture in almost any situation without having to resort to extensive post-processing work,

5 Stars The best option!
The best option for people like me, who wants to take good pictures but are a little lazy to carry a big bag of accessories every time you go out.

Good photos in all range, good build and love the “lock” key… perfect!

BTW, Pentax rules!

5 Stars Anateur/Enthusiast Photographer
Don’t let anyone tell you anything about the negative side of this DA 18-250mm zoom lens. It is a little darling gadget in exploring good photography. Amateur and enthusiast would just love to have one in his bag. Its focal length is tremendous. You can zoom back and fore with one touch. I was laboriously using two lenses (18-55mm and 50-200mm) in the past; now I just carry one with my camera inseparably. Best of all, it has a tiny lock switch on the barrel to prevent extending out when you carry your equipment up-side-down. Otherwise, you probably have to use a suspender to hold it back.

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Nikon D40 18 55mm Lens Kit

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Nikon 50mm f 1 4D AF Nikkor Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras

Fast enough for shooting in just about any type of light, this is an ideal first lens; perfect for full-length portraits, travel photography or any type of available-light shooting. The Nikon 50mm f/1.4D AF Nikkor lens delivers distortion-free images with superb resolution and color rendition. Accepts 52mm filters.

The AF-Nikkor 50mm 1:1.4D is Nikon’s current version of their fast ’standard’ prime lens, and while this specific model was introduced in 1995, the basic optical design dates back to the manual focus 50mm 1:1.4 AI of 1977. It features a traditional layout of 7 elements in 6 groups utilizing spherical surfaces only, which Nikon claims will deliver distortion-free images with superb resolution and color accuracy, plus high contrast even at maximum aperture. The 50mm focal length is considered a ’standard’ lens on the FX format, with none of the ‘perspective distortion’ characteristic of wideangle or telephoto lenses, whilst on the vastly more popular and widespread DX format it behaves like a short telephoto, ideal for portraiture.

The 50mm 1:1.4 is one of the older lenses in Nikon’s lineup, and this is reflected in several aspects of its design. The lens features a traditional aperture ring, which will be appreciated by photographers who grew up with mechanical manual-focus 35mm SLRs; however autofocus is ’screw-drive’ from the camera body.

Headline features

• 50mm focal length
• Fast F1.4 maximum aperture

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Awesome
The is the best lens I own, if your into photography buy this one, it take fast and tack sharp pictures.

3 Stars little disappointed
The lens itself works good, but until you can use them…

To connect it to the camera (Nikon D300) it needs some work because the connection points are poorly fabricated, the thread is sluggish.

Also the cap itself is a mess. No Nikon cap, only a white plastic thing that hardly covers the sensitive connecting points, nothing to screw, only to plug.

If you are somewhere dusty or your camera bag is not 100% dust free – you will get no protection.

So I have to buy a real Nikon cap to protect my new NIKON lens. That is pretty crazy.

When I had a look onto the lens, it was completely clear: made in China.

This has been a lesson to me.

Before I buy lens, I definitely will ask where they had been made,

I do not want to have poor fabricated cheap things for that costs.

4 Stars Excellent all-purpose lens
I got this 50mm 1.4 lens to take low light pictures of our upcoming baby on my D90. I needed a fast lens to keep flash from going off my newborn’s face. Test shots with this lens are amazing. Opened up to 1.4 you can nearly take pictures in the dark. The shallow depth of field you get at 1.4 allows you easily select a focus point and blur out the background and foreground.

I could have purchased the cheaper 50mm 1.8 but I wanted the extra stop and since it’s a full frame lens it will work when I upgrade to an FX camera bodies. Get the best glass you can afford don’t abuse it and you will save money in the long run.

3 Stars This is not my old Nikon 50mm F/1.4
When I purchased this lens I was looking for a low light lens with the solid construction and exceptional performance I enjoyed with the 50mm F/1.8 lens I used 20 years ago with my Nikon F series. What I got instead was a mediocre made in China lens that hunts and is noisy when focusing. Very disappointed.

I already have a the 18-200mm AF VRII lens from Nikon which is an exceptional lens.

I was looking to use the 50mm in lower light situations but the lens is not worth the $350 so I’ll be returning this one to Amazon.

5 Stars This lens meets expectations
I expected a tack sharp, fast lens with excellent autofocusing…and guess what? It does all those things very well indeed. It also makes for very clean shots straight into the sun. Almost no reflections are present in the end photos. Geometry is the best of all the lenses I own.

This is the fastest lens I own. Playing with a shot at f1.4 is tight depth of field on a whole new level. I shot a pic of my daughter at f1.4 at a distance of about 24′. She appeared to be facing me almost directly. One eye was in focus and one was out. All the rest of her face was out as well. I have found that portraits where you want the background as out of focus as possible at best shot at about f2.8

This lens will meet or exceed all of your expectations.

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