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The DX Dream Squad

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March 2018    Nikon Reviews    Nikon Lenses    Nikon FX Dream Team

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Only a few inexpensive DX lenses simply happen to be exactly what we need for shooting anything with DX cameras.

With nothing but a couple of the Dream Squad lenses (the 10-20mm DX, xviii-55mm AF-P VR, 35mm f/1.viii DX and 55-200mm VR DX II), you'll be prepared for any serious assignment.

You're far meliorate off spending your money on these Dream Team lenses and a D3300 than throwing limited money abroad on fancier cameras.

The Dream Team will outfit you for anything, and I rarely carry all those lenses. All I unremarkably acquit is the 35mm f/1.eight DX or 18-55mm AF-P VR and I'grand done, or just the x-20mm DX and 55-200mm VR DX II. All you need is one lens on your camera and the second in your pocket, and you lot're proficient.

I originally wrote this page in near 2008. Today the 18-300mm VR II could also exist the only ane lens you'd ever demand to replace the entire Dream Squad.

It's e'er better to carry less; see also Assembling a Arrangement.

Personally, just get the ten-20mm DX, 35mm f/1.8 DX and 55-200mm VR DX II and you're done. Feel free to replace the 35mm and/or 10-20mm by the xviii-55mm AF-P; few people demand or know how to use an ultrawide lens similar the x-20mm.

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All yous really need for 90% of everything you might want to shoot is the 18-55mm lens that probably came with your photographic camera.

Nikon 18-55mm

Nikon 18-55mm AF-P VR kit lens. (55mm filters, 7.1 oz./200g.)

Personally, I usually shoot with this or the 35mm f/1.eight and leave the rest at home. I move a few steps closer or farther away to frame, and I'thou adept. The 35mm f/1.8 is a tougher, faster lens than the basic 18-55mm zoom.

Nikon 35mm f/1.8

Nikon 35mm f/1.8 DX (52mm filters, half-dozen.95 oz/197.0g).

This 35/1.8 is an ultra abrupt and ultra fast normal lens. It's often the only lens I carry.

The Dream Team pinnacle

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Either unmarried lens above is all yous really demand. Option one, and go.

If you lot insist on ownership more than lenses, here are the only two or three you'll ever demand for everything on DX cameras.

Never comport lenses whose focal length ranges overlap. I'g very serious about this. If you conduct any lenses which overlap, y'all'll not only have to lug them all over, you lot'll miss photos equally you waste product your time wondering which lens to use for each shot and spend time jamming them on and off your photographic camera. Run into also Assembling a System.

A pro photographer carries simply two lenses, often on two dedicated bodies. With these, he'due south prepared for everything.

One lens is a wide zoom, and the other is a tele zoom. Often a pro throws a fast, fixed, normal lens in his pocket for depression light, just that'south it. Anyone who carries more is probably an amateur who doesn't shoot oftentimes enough to thin out his bag.

Pros know they don't demand to encompass every millimeter of focal length. The difference betwixt the long cease of the wide lens and curt stop of the tele lens is close enough that a few steps forward or back makes upwardly the difference. Pros don't bother with mid-range zooms, although some wedding photographers will apply a midrange zoom and goose egg else.

Click any of the lenses or links for detailed reviews.

Ultra Broad: 10-20mm top

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Nikon 10-20mm

Nikon 10-20mm (77mm filters, 8.ii oz./230 thousand).

This new, ultralight lens likewise has superb performance. It'southward a fraction of the price and weight of the older 10-24mm and 12-24mm, which are too perfectly neat lenses.

For well-nigh people, the 18mm cease of whatsoever zoom is wide enough. If this is you, forget this ten-20mm lens and employ ane of those instead.

This is a specialized lens. Run into How to Utilise Ultrawide Lenses for more than.

If you get the 35/1.eight lens instead of an eighteen-55mm zoom, then you may need this lens.

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Nikon 35mm f/1.8

Nikon 35mm f/1.eight (52mm filters, 6.95 oz/197.0g).

The Nikon 35mm f/1.eight is spectacular, especially when you consider that information technology sells for merely $200.

For many photographers, including myself, I could quite happily shoot with naught but this lens on my camera forever. Learn to move in and out and you don't need a zoom.

Tele Zoom: 55-200mm VR 2 tiptop

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Nikon 55-200mm VR

Nikon 55-200mm VR II (52mm filters, 10.4 oz./296g, 3.half dozen'/1.1m close focus).

This lightweight $150 tele lens is magnificent. It is optically marvelous, and handles and works great on every DX photographic camera.

It takes the same 52mm filters as most Nikon lenses like the older 18-55mm and 35mm f/1.8 lenses, and has Vibration Reduction (Image Stabilization) for sharp hand-held shots at every focal length.

The only negatives to this superb and compact lens is that you need to exist careful to grab the camera and not the lens, since the bayonet lens mount is plastic (this keeps weight downwards), and that y'all have to move a switch to get into manual focus mode. More expensive lenses often allow instant manual focus override simply past grabbing the focus ring.

If sports are your matter, get the 70-300mm VR AF-P below instead, as it has almost instantaneous autofocus. No, you lot don't demand any other lens to comprehend the 55-70mm or 35-70mm range; yous won't miss it.

Other Teles

I own huge pro f/2.8 tele zooms, but I still prefer to shoot this 55-200mm VR lens when I shoot DX. I prefer its minor size and focal length range; that's the whole indicate of DX cameras.

You can pay more, but all y'all're getting will be tougher build quality, more weight, the demand for bigger filters, instant manual-focus override and faster autofocus — but yous'll lose the ability to zoom every bit brusk as 55mm.

If yous actually desire to pay more (I don't), you tin use either of the 70-300mm DX AF-P VR or 70-200mm f/ii.eight FL on DX instead, only why pay that much money just to carry more than weight? The pictures are the same.

Get only i tele. If y'all become either of these, don't bother with whatever other like the 55-200mm.

Nikon 70-300mm VR AFP

Nikon 70-300mm VR AF-P (58mm filters, xiv.5 oz./412g, 3.7'/i.1m shut-focus).

For action and sports, the 70-300mm VR AF-P has ultra-fast autofocusing. I'd strongly propose information technology instead of the 55-200 or 55-300 for activity shots. Exist sure to get the VR version; the very similar non-VR version lacks image stabilization and makes it very hard to go sharp pictures.

Nikn 70-200mm II

Nikon 70-200mm f/ii.viii FL (metal 77mm filter thread, 50.three oz./1,425g with tripod neckband, 3.6'/i.1m shut-focus).

Full-time pros use the Nikon 70-200mm f/ii.8 FL. I doubt anyone actually needs a lens this big and expensive, but if you lot shoot all solar day for a living, you'll love information technology.

What About the 18-200mm? pinnacle

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Nikon 18-200mm

Nikon xviii-200mm VR II .

The 18-200mm VR Two replaces the entire dream squad in one lens.

The 18-200 is awesome, and is all most people need, but information technology's big, heavy and expensive, and doesn't work as well in the dark as the 35/1.8.

I've gotten and then lazy that the 18-200mm is too heavy for me to want to carry around all solar day. It suits the chunky old D200 and D300, only I don't shoot either of those cameras anymore.

If you conduct an 18-200mm VR, deport nothing else except the 35/1.eight for the night.

If y'all carry the 10-24mm, do not carry the heavy 18-200mm VR because information technology duplicates part of the range. If you're going to conduct the x-24mm, bring the 55-200mm VR instead of the bulkier xviii-200mm VR.

The xviii-200mm VR takes a 72mm filter, while all the other lenses except the 10-24mm take standard 52mm filters.

What Most the eighteen-300mm VR? top

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Nikon 18-300mm

Nikon 18-300mm VR .

Nikon 18-300mm

Nikon xviii-300mm VR Two .

Merely like the 18-200mm, the larger Nikon 18-300mm VR and newer Nikon 18-300mm VR Two each replace the entire team.

Get one of these if you want to cover a huge range in one large twist of the wrist.

What About the 28-300mm VR? top

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Nikon 18-200mm

Nikon 28-300mm VR .

The Nikon 28-300mm VR is a big, fatty FX lens. It's big because it covers larger format cameras, but it doesn't cover broad-bending on DX cameras.

Don't utilize the 28-300 on DX cameras; use the new Nikon eighteen-300mm VR II instead. The 28-300 will work on DX, simply I'd only use it on FX.

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Range

Max Speed

Weight

Filters

Price (vii/09)

Price (10/17)

Dream Team

ten-200mm

f/1.8

25.5oz/723g

52 and 77mm

$1,200

$651

10-xx + 55-200

x-200mm

f/3.5

18.6oz/526g

52 and 77mm

$one,000

$454

18-200mm

18-200mm

f/3.five

19.8oz/560g

72mm

$700

$646

18-55 + 55-200

18-200mm

f/3.5

17.5oz/496g

52mm

$520

$394

35mm f/1.8

35mm

f/ane.8

half-dozen.95oz/197g

52mm

$200

$200

18-55mm

xviii-55mm

f/three.5

vii.1oz/200g

52mm

$120 or free

$247 or free

Gotchas tiptop

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These DX lenses are of picayune use on FX cameras. If you see an FX camera in your hereafter, you lot'll wind upwardly buying all new lenses.

Yes, FX cameras downgrade themselves automatically to DX if yous attach one of these DX lenses, just you'll only be using the center of your sensor and viewfinder. You'll quickly tire of that.

Even though Nikon touts "Compatible!," yous'll wind upwards ownership FX lenses for any FX camera yous purchase.

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