Quote (hestJaevel @ Feb 12 2010 11:54am)

I dno why people are telling you to pick up nikons 50/1.8 as it got no AF-motor built-in, which you'd need for d3000.
I also have a nikon d3000, and my first buy after the kit lens was a macro lens, tamron 90/2.8, awesome one!
BUT, you should know what you want before buying, if you want to catch the detail in everyday-subjects/other stuff you
should get a macro lens, if you like to catch landscapes and that kind of stuff, a wide angle is the shit for you. A zoom is nothing I ever used so I can't help you out there.

Anyway, good LUCK with your photographing, d3000 is a nice beginner camera

Quote (hestJaevel @ Feb 12 2010 01:54pm)

I dno why people are telling you to pick up nikons 50/1.8 as it got no AF-motor built-in, which you'd need for d3000.
I also have a nikon d3000, and my first buy after the kit lens was a macro lens, tamron 90/2.8, awesome one!
BUT, you should know what you want before buying, if you want to catch the detail in everyday-subjects/other stuff you
should get a macro lens, if you like to catch landscapes and that kind of stuff, a wide angle is the shit for you. A zoom is nothing I ever used so I can't help you out there.

Anyway, good LUCK with your photographing, d3000 is a nice beginner camera

Quote (xbaun @ 12 Feb 2010 21:42)

Well, I'm def going to be getting a macro/wide angle lens for it
just lookin to see what JSP has to say

Eh - just looked at the tamron 90/2.8 its around $500 =/

I'd like to stay around $200 or less for lenses now =X
Hahaha I'm cheap

Quote (CitizenScuba @ 12 Feb 2010 21:18)

Thats why I said the  AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G or AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D's

Quote (xbaun @ Feb 12 2010 01:42pm)

Well, I'm def going to be getting a macro/wide angle lens for it
just lookin to see what JSP has to say

Eh - just looked at the tamron 90/2.8 its around $500 =/

I'd like to stay around $200 or less for lenses now =X
Hahaha I'm cheap

Quote (hestJaevel @ Feb 12 2010 06:16pm)

for 200$ the only quality lens I can recommend is the 35 / 1.8 that already was recommended for you
I wouldnt recommend anything that isn't high quality as it changes the result so much. The whole reason to use a dslr is because of quality, right?



Yeah that's right, 2 persons recommended the 50/1.8 though, that's the first sign these guys got no clue, one of them even recommended 18-200 as a quality lens.
Joke of the day ^^

Quote (hestJaevel @ Feb 12 2010 09:16pm)

Yeah that's right, 2 persons recommended the 50/1.8 though, that's the first sign these guys got no clue, one of them even recommended 18-200 as a quality lens.
Joke of the day ^^

Quote (Eek @ 13 Feb 2010 08:29)

I guess i should keep my mouth shut for anything besides Canon, since that's what i shoot.

Honestly didn't know the 50 1.8 doesn't AF on the D3000. I was assuming it was just like the Canon 50 1.8 which AFs on any EOS body. : /

Quote (hestJaevel @ Feb 13 2010 03:33am)

Yeah, not easy to know
but generally 50 is a good focal length for half body portraits etc (with 1,5x crop ~75)

Quote (Eek @ Feb 13 2010 12:37am)

Well at least i know now  and won't run around telling ppl to buy the Nikkor 50 f/1.8 only to have them come back and ask me why doesn't AF work

50mm is a very nice focal length indeed. I love it, tho a little long indoors

Quote (CitizenScuba @ Feb 13 2010 02:49pm)

You only can tell them that in the case that they have a d3000 or d5000...

Quote (xbaun @ Feb 11 2010 11:14pm)

I'm kind of new to photography, I've been taking pictures for a long time, but recently got a d3k (Nikon d3000).
My point-and-shoot digital wasn't enough anymore, and though I realize it is the artist that makes the art not the brush, so I got an upgrade.

Anyone else use this camera? What lenses would you recommend, and what do you like to shoot with it?
I'm up to anything, and sorry for lack of pictures I live in western PA and I've been snowed in since I got it, so I've been stuck with taking pictures of my house and the scenery ones around here aren't great.