Yet Another Lens Upgrade …

For those of you whom have followed this blog, you may remember another post or two about me upgrading my standard zoom lens.  Well, I have done it again.  I had been fairly satisfied with my purchase of the Tamron 17-50mm 2.8 lens that I picked up back in February until my wife and I got back from our honeymoon in Bali.  When I was looking over the hundreds of shots that I took with the lens I came to realize that I wasn’t that happy with the sharpness and the overall Image Quality (IQ) that I was getting.

I knew that the only step up for me was to bite the bullet and spend the money on a proper Nikon lens. The only choice was if it was going to be the 17-55mm or the 24-70mm. While the reviews for the 24-70mm are a touch better than they are for the 17-55mm, I found that I really the 17-55mm focal length range on my D90.

While the price tag of a new Nikon 17-55mm can be a little shocking I was able to track down a fair amount of used lenses on sites like eBay, Adorama, and Craigslist

After scouring sites like these, I grabbed one off of eBay at an amazing price. The seller seemed highly creditable and provided extremely detalied photos of the lens and its cosmetic flaws. It was this disclosure that steered me away from buying from a site like Adorama who grades the used equipment on their site.

The lens came on Friday afternoon and I could not be more happy with it.  I have learned my lesson and I will never by a third party lens like that again.  In the case of lenses, I really believe that you get what you pay for and that putting cheap lenses on a nice body is a waste.