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Hey everyone,

I am currently thinking about investing in a second lens for my Nikon D40x. The three I have been looking at most are: Nikkor 18-135mm afs DX (comes standard with the D80), the 55-200mm afs VR, the 18-200mm afs VRII and the 18-200mm afs without VR.

I do very general photography so would like a good multi-purpose lens. I am on a relatively tight budget at the moment, so the 18-200mm VRII would be really stretching it.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks for your help in advance!

Dan

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I have the 55-200mm afs VR and its a really good lense but it does get a bit annoying having to swap them all the time and you do sometime miss good shot becuase you cant swap them fast enough so if you have the choice i would go for the 18-200mm
How good is the VR on the 55-200mm? Do you find it a useful feature at all?
Dude I just orded this baby with the VR. *haven't gotten it yet* I did some research on it, and well, without VR you can see a difference. I will see if I can dig up the link. The 18-200 is an amazing lens but it is spendy. If you are getting really serious about photogrpaghy and have the spare cash go for it, but if not, the 55-200 DX VR AFS is a good lens. I'm a broke college student and I sadly save up for lenses LOL so for the price if I turned this lens down I'd be insane.

Lets see linky....
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/55-200mm-vr.htm

Ok so like don't take his word as gold but he seems to have an idea of what he's talking about. Frankly, you can't find a lens like this for that price.

Also look for the lens on like Amazon, it usually retails for $249 or so but I got mine cheaper through them.

Good Luck!
Great, thanks for your fantastic advice! I found it for a really low price actually, and it was the one I was considering most anyway. Let me know how you find it when it arrives!
I have the 55-200mm afs VR as well and I find that I hardly use it because it's quite troublesome to keep swapping the lenses around and I tend to carry a small camera bag for convenience so I end up not having the space to bring along another lens. And I agree with David that you might miss a good shot when you can't swap the lenses fast enough. You might even drop the lenses in a frenzy!!!
I'm actually thinking of selling both my 55-200m and kit lens and getting a 18-200m.
If you find that you might grow slack after awhile of handling two lenses (I know I did lol) , then I suggest that you go for the 18-200m. :)

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