Whats the best lens for shouting a wedding, I have 18-55, 70-300, I was going to get the 55-200 for NikonD40?

Question

Whats the best lens for shouting a wedding, I have 18-55, 70-300, I was going to get the 55-200 for NikonD40?

Answer 1

I hope you are not the wedding photographer. What you have will do fine for candid wedding shots.

Answer 2

The 18-55 would most probably be best, you may need the 55-200 occasionally during the event, and the 70-300 is out of the question.

The 18-55 would be great because when it is on minimum zoom (18) you have a very wide angle, and the lens is just a good all round lens!

Answer 3

If you are wanting to do weddings you should look to a fixed focal length not a zoom. I would suggest a least an 85mm but not over 200mm. A fast lens is preferable. At least a 2.8 but 2.0 or larger is better. A zoom would be ok if it is fast. Maybe the 80-200 2.8 but it gets heavy and allows camera shake.

Good luck!

Answer 4

For Weddings, you should bring both:

The Nikkor 55-200mm

The Nikkor 18-55mm

you might need to use both lenses, but if you had to choose just one, you should really just take the 18-55mm lens. When photographing weddings, with groups of people, you might need wide angle coverage, which you get with 18mms. There's a big difference with 18mm ( wide angle ) and 55mm ( what you see through eye ),

that's really nice wide-angle coverage. And, this lens is also useful when you're taking individual portraits. This is a very good Nikkor lens. You can zoom it to 55mm's and throw the background really out of focus, which is a plus in wedding photography, and group photography in general. You really need to bring the 18-55mm lens

i said you might want to bring the 55-200 because you might have to take pictures in the chapel, and you might have to zoom further, and use the flash.

why not bring the 70-300?

because you really don't need that telephoto zoom length, and it's not the BEST portrait/wedding lens, thats more of a wildlife lens, and since your subject have two arms and two legs, you can just use the 18-55mm lens.