Re: Nikon 18-200 vs Nikon 14-24
Very well put DSP. Another example, I have both lenses and lugged them both to the Grand Canyon this summer. At 18mm, with the 18-200 in those landscape pictures of the canyons, you could see the "curvature of the earth". Fully 1/3rd of my images captured with the 18-200 when the lens was not held exactly parallel with the earth showed this distortion.
The optics of the 14-24 produced rock solid results with no such distortion. Even my girlfriend shooting a 12-24 Tokina didn't have the troubles the 18-200 had "keeping it [the horizon] straight". Fortunately, even PS Elements can get the distortion out without too much difficulty, but still, who wants to have to correct hundreds of images (together we shot over 4,000 images).
Don't get me wrong, I love the 18-200 VR. It is ALWAYS on one of the DX-sized bodies, but I have had to mount the 24-120 VR (my next favorite "walk-about" lens) on the D3.
Jeff
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