What is the best digital SLR nikon d90 camera lens?

Question

I'm just starting out and I'd like to take shots of rooms, and make then seem bigger than they really are, include entire buildings in a single frame and make people seem as if they are larger than life. Can anyone suggest the perfect lens for me?

Answer 1

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What's your budget look like? Makes a lot of difference.

In zooms, the Sigma 10-20mm has very good bang for the buck. Nikon only goes to 12mm wide with their own lenses, and in this sort of lens, that 2mm makes a huge difference. The Nikon 12-24 is good too, don't get me wrong.

I am pretty happy with the Nikon 14mm f/2.8, shooting on a Fuji S5Pro. One of the best lenses I've ever had the pleasure to use. Serious chunk of change to buy one though.

You may also wish to look into tilt and shift lenses, I believe Nikon calls theirs PC lenses, for Perspective Control. You can do all sorts of interesting things with them.

Best bet is to get to a camera store, and play with a few of the lenses. Mount them on your camera and look through the viewfinder. Pop off a few shots to remember them by!

Much easier to choose if you actually have some idea what the lens will do!

After all that, I'd still go with the Sigma 10-20.

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the other guys answer is also super good, but i gotta choose one and i think i'm developing a type of brand loyalty for this guy, plus i love the part about the perspective control

Answer 2

Thing is, what you're looking at is a wide angle lens.

And for a wide angle lens, the optimal thing to have is a full frame camera. Which the D90 is not.

The D700, D3 and D3x is.

However, that's not to worry; you can still use a wide angle lens on your camera, which has a crop factor, or focal length multiplier, of 1.5x.

You can choose from Nikkor, Sigma, Tokina and Tamron.

Tokina, just to note, is more expensive than Sigma or Tamron (usually), but the quality tends to be better because its made by ex-Nikon engineers.

Still, you won't pixel peep, I suspect (cropping to 100% and examining the photo very, very closely), so a Sigma 12-24mm would do.

In fact, Ken Rockwell can help:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/digital-…

But don't really listen too much to what he has to say, he's a little cynical.

Do some research on those four; all are good, note!