Some photographers have a very clear idea about their favorite subject matter and it's pretty easy to recommend lenses.
Now let's look at the second question more closely – which lenses to get. You can use DX lenses on a full frame camera, but they will automatically crop to the smaller sensor size. This doesn't matter much with telephoto, portrait, or macro lenses, but with smaller DX-format cameras you need ultra-wide lenses and standard zooms designed for the smaller format. You can use any full frame lens on a DX camera, but there will be a 'crop factor' which makes the lens's angle of view look narrower. You can't fit Nikon Z lenses to a Nikon DSLR.īoth Nikon Z and Nikon DSLR cameras come in two sizes: full frame or APS-C (DX). You can fit Nikon DSLR lenses to Nikon Z cameras with Nikon's FTZ adapter, but it's not ideal as a long-term solution.
