I've just past my FZ28 onto Connor and purchased my first DSLR, I managed to get a Nikon D80 at a reasonable price mainly because that model has been taken over by the D90.
The camera came with a 18-135 kit lense which looked huge compared to the skinny looking telephoto lenses of my slr day's, I rushed outside [as soon as the battery had charged up] and took a few picture's of birds on roof tops, telegraph poles etc and downloaded these to my P.C.
They weren't good, infact the 135mm although looking huge still left me with tiny black dot's in the middle of white pictures [the black dots were the bird's], I am totally new to digital SLR's and just spent quite a large amount on the D80. What I need to know is what telephoto lense should I buy [I only really have money for one at this stage], the bulk of our picture taking is walking along the riverbank taking pictures of waders then perhaps coming back through the wood's and getting a few shots of birds in tree's etc. If we're really lucky we'll get a picture of a kestrel hovering over it's breakfast though not seen our local one for a while now.
Right I know nothing about the numbers on the lenses or the right lenses for the D80, I'm currently watching about 75 on ebay but really don't know if any's suitable.
Help guys
Thanks
Brian [who's off out with his Son this morning and going to get trounced in the pic department
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