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What would the best lense for sports photography (NASCAR Racing)?
I bought a Nikon D40x a couple of weeks ago with the standard 18-55 lense...I'm attending the NASCAR races next weekend and would like to buy a better lense to take action shots of the cars. The races will start in daylight and end late at night. What lense(s) would you recommend? (I would like to stay under $300)
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- You'd probably like to have about 300 mm as your long end of the zoom, but you won't find that under $300. The new Nikon 55-200 VR lens at $250 might be a good choice. 200 mm is pretty decent, actually, and the VR will help you continue to get shots as it gets darker and they are running under the lights. This is an AF-S lens, so it will autofocus on your D40x. You would not be happy with a non-autofocus lens at a NASCAR event. Since you know what you can do with the 18-55 lens, go to my page on focal lengths and see where the 55-200 range picks up. This is NOT a lens test or a camera test! It is merely intended to show the difference between various focal lengths. The camera was a Nikon D200 and the lens was the Nikon 18-200 VR lens. There is further explanation on the image itself. It would help if you click on "All Sizes" above the image. I have NO IDEA why Yahoo! will not let me put a link to my Flickr page in this answer, when it has been fine in other answers tonight...
