The Camera Store, Calgary

Lunchtime today saw me striding out in the bright sunshine, walking about seven blocks to The Camera Store, one of Calgary's better photo stores and a full service Nikon dealership. There I tried out several consumer zoom lenses and eventually bought the 18-70mm zoom that appears to be a useful piece of glass with excellent properties. It's my first "G" lens in that it has no aperture ring but it does have manual focus override as well as a silent wave motor for the auto-focus.

It is not exactly the travel lens I was looking for in a previous post but it will serve the "one lens fits most everything" rule.

Meantime, I guess I don't really need my 24-120mm zoom, so it will probably go on eBay after Christmas.