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Originally Posted by Douglas
From your description of what you need, I think maybe the 16-85 VR lens might be your key lens then. It sticks within your zone, and is a fairly sharp lens from what Ive heard. Better then the 18-105 which has a bit more reach, but seems to be a bit less sharp.
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From what I've seen of it, it's every bit as good as the 18-70 DX lens but the addition of VR made it pricey. The reason I mentioned it was for the focal range versatility much more so than the fact that it has VR. I'm not a fan of VR in lenses in this focal range as I just don't feel it's needed and for what it drives the cost up to, I don't believe it's worth it. I'd rather save the money on the lens and put it towards a tripod that can be used with all lenses.
Tripods... the original VR.
Nikon needs to stop muddying the water with all of the new kit lens introductions. The 18-70 was, and still is, a darn good lens. Improve the optics if you must but stop with the 30 new kit lenses in 2 years. It's really confusing to the entry level shooters. You need to make the product mix easy at the entry level and give them a relatively high quality, inexpensive lens with respectable optics. To me, that was the 18-70 DX and the 24-85 f/3.5 - 4.5 AF-S.
Nikon should put that R&D money into a good 70-200 f/4 AF-S VR and bring back the 70-180 micro zoom and have it go 1:1, bring in a 400 f/4 prime or the 400 f/4.5 prime again.
Julio