new toy for my holidays

[South-east boy]

total first price is £169, but with trade in my old 18-55 lens £40 and with a coupon £20 off plus 5 years warrenty i think its ok, plus they thrown in a lens protecter too, so i was very happy

£169?! How did you manage that, as it's around £580+ at the cheapest!:

http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=http...lhTJA3N6fs3osg

Edit: Ah, I thought you meant you got the Nikon one, but seen you meant a lens for you Nikon camera, so yeah you can get other brands for cheaper.

[lastlid]

£169?! How did you manage that, as it's around £580+ at the cheapest!:

http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=http...lhTJA3N6fs3osg

Edit: Ah, I thought you meant you got the Nikon one, but seen you meant a lens for you Nikon camera, so yeah you can get other brands for cheaper.

Ah. So does that mean any brand of lens will fit any camera, sort of thing?

[South-east boy]

Ah. So does that mean any brand of lens will fit any camera, sort of thing?

Nope, for say Canon, only Canon and companies that mainly make lens dedicated to the brand of camera that you have such as Sigma, Tamron and Vivitar etc will fit. Of course own brand ones such as Canon or Nikon will mostly be better, but you'll pay for that. But every company that makes lens will have some good ones, amazing ones, but also not so great ones. You need to look up on reviews of the one that you're thinking of buying to see what that actual quality of it is like.

[stevewool]

Ah. So does that mean any brand of lens will fit any camera, sort of thing?

just check what you need and what you can afford, why spend more money on something that may only get used so many times,and to many of us the quality of the pictures most cannot tell what it was took by, goodluck

[stevewool]

£169?! How did you manage that, as it's around £580+ at the cheapest!:

http://www.google.co.uk/url?url=http...lhTJA3N6fs3osg

Edit: Ah, I thought you meant you got the Nikon one, but seen you meant a lens for you Nikon camera, so yeah you can get other brands for cheaper.

no could never afford a nikon and i cannot justify the cost, so its a tamron, and for me that will be a good start