Gone... All Gone!

[hyakuhei]

Today the mean man from Parcel force comes to collect two lovely lenses and take them away to the evil people at MPB.

I figure that as I barely use my camera I shouldn't really have lenses like the Nikon 17-55 F/2.8 sat around not being used. Its not that I don't like using them its just that often when I go on holiday I find I'll take my camera with me but most of the time I'll leave it in the hotel and just use a point and shoot or even - heaven help me, my camera phone.

I'm keeping my camera because I love aviation photography. Currently all I have in my camera bag is a D300, a Nikkor 300 F/4 AF-S and a teleconvertor.

So I've been wondering, should I go for the Nikon 18-200 VRII as my everyday / holiday lens, should I just use the money to pay off my stupid bills or even consider getting something like a Canon G12, that I'll use every day on holiday...?

This is mainly a rant. I'm downsizing due to not really using my existing kit and wondering what to do.

 

[andyred]

Hi Robert

Can't help you with the lens quality etc directly, but if you didn't use your SLR with the lenses you already had on holiday, would you use it with a different lens ?

It sounds like you might be better going for something like a G12 you mention

 

[stu_the_flat]

Personly I find it to easy to sit infront of the computer and think "I should buy a Fuji X100" or some such.,

Just go out with the gear you have got and use it and see if you come up with limitations.

Personly I think that a D300+18-200 is going to be just as bulky and annoying as the 17-55mm.

I love my Voigtlander 40mm. it makes a fantastic relativly campact camera set up out of a DSLR, (brillant on my old D60) It is manual foucs but to behonest I find that it makes the photographic prossess more fun! I can tell you from expreince that shooting a wedding using MF lenses is not fun!

Stuart

 

[farrance]

Keep the SLR for your aviation and have a G12 for your everyday fun.

Maybe even look at a M4/3?

 

[boliston]

If you are budgeting for a G12 then for just a small bit more you could get a M43 like the Olympus E-PL3. Especially if you sell the 17-55 and just use the Nikon and 300/4 for aviation.