Originally Posted By: steelfrog
You are the 2nd person to recommend that Tokina. I think that has to be one of my primary hiking lenses.

So, if I go with Tokina, and given that I rarely use a ton of zoom, you think the 25-70 is the way to go?


to follow up on the ultra wide Tokina 11-16mm - look at the chart on this page for probably the best summary of what is out there in this market right now

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/digital-wide-zooms/chart.htm



with 25-70, you mean the 25-50 nikon, equivalent to 37.5-75mm on a DX camera? It's a manual focus lens, so you have to deal with that, plus you probably have to program the lens paramters into the D2x body.

with these two lenses, you have a gap in the normal wide angle range - really only barely wide with 25mm, almost normal lens, and then at 16mm you are at what's equivalent to what is considered already a strong wide angle (24mm equivalent for full frame, or 90 degree picture angle)

I think something like the 18-55mm VR I use would work better to cover your range, be AF, and lighter than that 25-50mm, and much better hand-held at low light (VR). It just won't take "enchanting" images ;-)


you mentioned Macro - here's the only one that really does the job and isn't already discontinued
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/200mm-micro.htm ($1600)

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