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Camera lenses for the D3400


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Cissal21

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Hi, I'm fairly new to photography and I recently brought a D3400 last year and wanted to get a few more lenses. The camera came with a 18-55mm lens. I just brought a 70-300mm lens and a 10-20mm lens is there any others that will benefit me? I looked at a 18-300mm lens but not sure if that would be the same as a 70-300mm lens. Many thanks Chris

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It really depends on what things you like to shoot and how you go about doing it.  You effectively have the range of 10mm through 300mm covered with the exception of 55mm-70mm.  The 18-300 would cover that range (18-300) but not as well as your current lenses.  Only you can say if you need additional lenses to accomplish what you want to with your camera, but here are my thoughts:

 

You may eventually want to look at either a prime lens (non-zoom) or higher end zoom lenses that can be used in lower light and in general have both broader functionality and higher price tags.  Sometimes significantly higher.  Use your gear that you have and pay attention to anything you find to be a problem - such as low light.  Also pay attention to where you are shooting mostly - meaning where you are in the zoom range.  Those things combined should tell you what range to focus on and what capabilities you find lacking.

 

Once you have some of that info in hand, it will make it easier for us to help you find your next piece of equipment...



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You may eventually want to look at either a prime lens (non-zoom) or higher end zoom lenses that can be used in lower light and in general have both broader functionality and higher price tags.


I don't recommend spendy lenses on a D3xxx-5xxx body for the simple reason that it will be hit or miss as to how well they will focus.

These bodies have no facility to calibrate the phase detect autofocus with specific lenses, so it is a bit of a crap shoot to get any lens that will focus accurately. Of course you can work around the issue focusing in LiveView, but I don't imagine many shooters want to have to enter that mode when they're using big, fast glass.

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The lenses you have now covers most of what you can expect to shoot with this body. The dim viewfinder will get in the way of enjoying available dark photography and the AF is a bit slow for sports, so if you want to venture into those types of shooting, you need a more advanced body as well as the faster zooms or primes.

 

IMO getting a super-zoom will not offer any added value over the lenses you have as the photo quality will be lower.

 

If you feel some money burning holes in your pocket, the only things lacking for the serious student is a couple of speedlights with a radio trigger and maybe a macro lens. There is no need to get the expensive Nikon speedlights as a modern Yongnuo or Godox kit has the radio receivers built-in and is ready to use if you get it complete with a trigger. The Nikons need clumsy add-ons to work over radio instead of IR.



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I have a Tamron 16-300 lens for my D5600 and while I love the lens as a all in one solution for travel photos I would never recommend this lens to anyone who wants sharp photos.  It's soft on the low and high ends of the range and in low light it will sometimes hunt for focus.