Jake Trexel |
FM3A lens, for my special needs I am going to purchase a Nikon FM3A, and I am not sure what lenses to purchase. Do to my many disabilites: I cannot get down on the ground any more to take flower and bug pictures. My wife can bring in different samlples from the woods and so on, then I can. I also want to take pictues of the sky, moon, distant shots with a zoom lens of animals that I cannot get real close to. I have been out of photography since 1991 and things have changed. Is it possible to use just 2 lenes to do all I want to do, or do I have to purchase more due to my problems ? Also if you dont mind, what company should I purchase them form, Nikon, Tamron or what ? Thanks for taking the time to read all of this. Jake
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George Anderson |
"I have been out of photography since 1991 and things have changed." I'll say, you missed most of the autofocus era, and the digital revolution. No matter, the FM3a will make you feel right at home. May want to read up a bit on latest developments in photography before making your purchases. The FM3a is a manual focus camera only, so you might as well purchase Nikkor manual focus (MF) lenses (AI or AIS mount) secondhand and enjoy the better build quality and cost savings over newer autofocus (AF) lenses. If you're doing a lot of macro (closeup) or landscape work you won't find much use for AF anyway. For closeups you'll want a good quality macro lens. Some recommendations are the 105mm/2.8 Nikon Macro Nikkor, 200mm/4 Macro Nikkor, and the 105mm/2.8 Kiron. Very, very good lenses. I normally prefer Nikkor (Nikon) lenses to third party alternatives, but that Kiron is a sharp lens.
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