Recently we took Barkley to the beach. As you know, I bought him a Jeep to take on the sand. But I also bought a new camera lens to get great pictures! It was well worth it! If you're a Nikon user, the lens is the Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3G ED. This is a cheaper, but also newer, version of the more expensive f/3.5-5.6G lens. The main difference between the two is weight... the less expensive version is considerably lighter. In fact, I don't notice much of a difference between my 18-300mm and my 18-70mm. Now some will say there is a quality difference between the two, but I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference in the real world, and you probably can't either. Both of these lenses are very, very good. For the records these photos were taken on a Nikon D5500. From my three day trip, I got about 30 photos which I really liked, which is pretty good considering my object was in constant motion.
So what's the advantage of the 18-300 for a guy like me? Better ability to get close to my subject. Better results for depth of field. And the 18-300 works great as an unofficial camera too. Basically it's an all around fantastic lens that can be used in any situation. Zoom lens have their downsides... they are a jack of all trades and a master of none. But if you're using the lens to capture your pet, you don't have time to be switching out lens, and you probably aren't going to want to carry a bunch of lens around either.
The photos below haven't been processed in any way. They are straight from the camera... the only editing is for cropping (obviously.)
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