On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:44:02 GMT, "Yi-Zen Chu; Yiren Qu" <yizen@attbi.com> wrote:

>I have sold off all my zoom lenses and I'm thinking of getting a couple

>of prime lenses to cover the entire range of useful focal lengths. Which

>focal lengths do people usually get esp if they do not have any zoom

>lenses at all? In particular, I am using a Nikon system - what

>recommendations do people have? Right now, I already have the 20mm 2.8

>AF, 35mm 2.8 [f2] AF, 55mm 2.8 Micro MF, 105mm 2.5 MF, and the 180mm 2.8EDIF AF.

Check out www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/slemn.html for

Nikkor list with evaluations. I would stay with the

20mm f2.8, 35mm f2, and 180 f2.8, and add the 85 f1.8

AF (close to the 105, but easier to use, and faster).

In the tele range, zooms are better-quality and more

useful than in the mid-range or WA ranges, and I find

the oldest AF version of the 75-300 quite good. If

the budget permits, though, the 300mm f4 AF, and

particularly the 300mm f4 AF-S are excellent long

lenses that are fast enough and compact enough to be

practical. For macro, you could keep the 55mm, and

possibly add a TC200/201 if you can use small

apertures (as with TTL flash), or replace both the

105 and 55 with the 105M...