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Old 06-16-2010, 11:47 PM   #54
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Which raises the question do I trust the guy at the Camera Store. They seem okay but I am always a bit leery. When I was in he did recommend not buying the kit lens but a step up 200 mm. Was an upsell but seems consistent with what I have read about kit lenses.
Definitely an option. A lot of people like the 18-200 (myself included - although the only references I have are point-and-shoots) but it won't make much of a difference except that you won't be changing lenses. If it's out of your budget, don't worry about it. Kit lenses are compromise lenses, but so are superzooms.

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Did you go for the Nikkor?
Yeah. Not the easiest choice to not regret as its advantages are more subtle (on paper) than extra zoom, but it helps that the other ones have come down in price a lot in the past year, and my Nikkor which was the cheapest is now the most expensive!

Oh, and I got it at Vistek... wish I had gone to The Camera Store instead. Have tried to support them ever since I went to the Digital Photo Expo, which was excellent and which they put on.

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