Dave Hodgkinson Photography

Nikon lens question for the photographers

I’m shifting my photographic focus somewhat, starting back at Central St. Martins, working on refining my style, hell, working out what my style is, and building a portfolio. Trouble is, I like taking photos of lots of things: people, travel stuff, musicians, london by day and night, sunsets and so on. Jean-Loup Sieff is my hero, along with early Liebowitz, Newton, Tillmans and the lovely Cecil Beaton so people are definitely a focus. But! That’s me setting the scene. I’m wondering what gaps I have in my lens armoury. Oh, I’m seriously considering acquiring a film SLR too, probably a Nikon F4 or similar, which I’d like to also use my lenses on. So, here are the lenses I have:

Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 – slightly crocked in the auto-focus department but still a great lens
Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 – a great, cheap lens
Nikkor 80-200 f/2.8 – brilliant fast zoom and portrait lens
Tokina 17-50 f/2.8 – my walkabout lens, cheap, plastic, but has survived the pit well
Tamron 55-200 f/4-5.6 – walkabout zoom lens, cheap but good for the price

So in that lot, am I missing anything? There’s a couple of 35mm and 85mm primes that look interesting.

I don’t mind “legacy” lenses as long as they’re either auto-focus or the focus detection works.

Anyone?

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