Help with new lense for Nikon D3300

[Jonny L]

Hi Folks,

I’m after some sage advice. The other year I bought my other half a Nikon D3300 for her birthday, we do a lot of walking with the dog and she loves taking pictures as we go - mainly of flowers, animals and backdrops.

Sometimes she struggles to get zoomed in enough to take the picture she wants, can you guys suggest a good lense to accommodate this? The current one she has is the 18 - 55mm vr one which came with the camera.

My budget is around £250 for this, which having looked about I can see may be a bit tight.

I have seen some reasonably priced Tamron lenses, can anybody comment on these?

Thanks in advance!

 

[i know nothing]

Probably want to consider something like this. Just make sure it's compatible with the D3300 (check the Nikon website).

Edit:- It is compatible according to their website, but they advise:-

When using it with a D5, D750, D610, D600, D5500, D5300, or D3300, be sure the camera firmware has been updated to the latest version.

So you'll need to update the firmware.

Edit 2:- Might want to look at this as well.

 

[Greebo]

That Nikon 75-300 lens isn’t bad at all. Friend of mine owns one who has little money for camera gear and I am very impressed with the quality of the pictures from it bearing in mind I am comparing them to my lens and camera which cost almost ten times as much.

 

[skeet]

To add, I’ve just upgraded my Nikon 18-55 and 55-200 to a sigma 18-300 contemporary, second hand from LCE in excellent condition for £269. I am more than happy with the results so far.

 

[robfosters]

This is a good lens. The Nikon magazine think very highly of it.

https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/used-equi...300mm-f-4-5-6-di-vc-usd-nikon-fit/sku-737839/

 

[Jonny L]

Hi chaps, thank you very much for all of your help!

I ended up going for the second lense that I know nothing suggested, it’s cost effective and should compliment her existing lens well.

I really appreciate the input!