Macro & Portrait lens for D60

[hewhoknows]

Ive got a D60 with the standard 18-55mm kit lens and it also came with a sigma 70-300mm lens.

Planned to use the 70-300 for any sports stuff i go to as i get to loads of martial arts competitions etc.

The 3 areas i love are landscape, partrait and macro photography and would like to have a suitable lens for each. Was wondering if the Tamron 90mm f2.5 macro lens would be ok for portraits as well as macro?

Also, what lens would people recommend for landscape work? I was looking at the Sigma 10-20mm??

 

[Arkady]

Was wondering if the Tamron 90mm f2.5 macro lens would be ok for portraits as well as macro?

It'll work as a normal lens as well as in macro mode, so yes, why not - 90mm is a decent focal length for portraiture and it should give reasonably pleasant bokeh if used wide open at f/2.5.

 

[Dave Pickett]

The sigma is fine as well, The Tamron is very sharp! I have both and like them a lot.

 

[TooLate]

Obviously you can set your 70-300 at 90mm and take test pictures, to see if you're happy with 90mm in terms of distance from your subject and what you get in the frame. For example, how far away would you be to get a head-only portrait or a head+shoulders portrait?

Assuming that's OK for your needs, then the Tamron would be probably be good (I want to get one myself when funds allow ).

PS I think that the older Tamron 90mm is F2.5 and the current one is F2.8 link

hope that helps.