Cameras - Nikon's Advanced Amateur Kit

Second chapter of the kit recommendation series. It is advised to read the prefix of the first chapter "Cameras - Canon's Advanced Amateur Kit".

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Nikon is suggesting two body options for the advanced amateur photographer: D90 and D300s. From image quality aspect, both will get you very good image quality and relatively low noise, including high ISO. Major difference is the maximum FPS, which is higher for the D300s (Not talking about the pricing difference). Here, as with Canon, the photographer should decide how advanced he/she is. The D90 mode wheel provide the amateur oriented modes (Portrait, Landscape, Close-up, Sports...) while missing on the D300s (Assuming you know by yourself how to set the camera for each profile).

Three choices are avaiable for the prime zoom lens, spanning the range of quality and wide view up to convenience. The first choice is the wider 16-85mm providing 24-130mm coverage, image stabilized.

Next is the 18-105mm, slightly less wide but with extra moderate telephoto - translating to 28-150mm. Again, as with all suggested lenses, image stabilized.

 

Last prime zoom lens option is the 18-200mm, one lens doing all.

 

The telephoto zoom lens is 70-300mm (Exact model is AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED - the image stabilized VR version !!!!). The viewing angle is translated to impressive 105-450mm.

Speedlight is the second from range top SB-800.