Thank you to all who helped me out. I appreciate your comments and will
give serious consideration to the 35mm so many of you mentioned.

I'm just trying to shake the dust off after a decades long hiatus myself,
so I appreciate your comments.


Gary
Stanwood, Washington


In a message dated 7/6/2009 9:30:52 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
thad@... writes:

--- In Nikon-D70@yahoogroups.com, ab7rk@... wrote:
> [...]
> I am currently using the 18-200 mm (f 3.5-5.6 G ED) Nikon lens with
> my D70 and am very happy with it. I am thinking about picking up a
> faster, primary fixed lens for those low light situations. (I hope
> my terminology is correct.)

It is. :-)

> I'd appreciate hearing from others about what they use.

My favorite for that usage is the 50mm F/1.4D AF Nikkor. It's amazing
capturing wine bottle labels in a room illuminated by a single candle.

Unless you're going for special effects, even a fast lens will often
mandate a relatively long exposure requiring holding the camera against
some kind of support (e.g., door frame, window sill, back of a chair, or
even using a mono-/tri-pod) in a dim/dark situation.

The beauty of DSLRs, and what got me back into photography after a
decades-long hiatus, is the near instant feedback on your shot that's
possible via the LCD for both the shot itself and the histogram.




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