Q&A: Is Nikon D60 default kit lens good enough for taking dental clinical photo or I should buy Macro lens too?

by …:::julianne villaflor (www.ennailuj.tk)

I want to buy Nikon D60,my first motive is taking photo of my patients(I am prosthodontist) but I dont want to buy extra lenses!I want to know is it suitable for this purpose or not?

Answer by fhotoace
Really the lens used for that in the days of 35 mm SLR’s used by dentists was the 200 mm medical macro Nikkor

For your purposes the 105 mm VR with R1C1 close up speedlight

http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/Product/Flashes/4803/R1C1-Wireless-Close-Up-Speedlight-System.html

The 18-55 mm VR lens is perfect for shooting groups, family, friends and even portraits, but is not what you will need for your prosthodontist work

Hopefully Dr. Sam will chime in here.

Answer by kwaaikat
Really I reckon it will work positively well. The 18-55 is more macro capable than most non-macro lenses. The magnification of the 18-55 is an brilliant 1:3 life size. Specialist macro lenses are 1:1, which is needed mostly for insects and the like. Many lenses that are not real macro lenses, but that has got “macro” in it’s name, don’t go much beyond 1:3 anyway. Even with a 1:1 lens, you would have photographed teeth and gums on 1:3. I’d say try 18-55 out first, because it might just work. Really it might just work very well. Also since you’ve already paid for your 10 megapixels, and since you are not going to frame your pictures on very large prints against your living room, no one will notice after-shot cropping.

Adequate light is going to be a larger concern, and a more expensive lens would not have solved all of that. Since it is small reach photography, and since the lens itself is small, the on-camera flash may just work. If not you may need to buy an external flash, if at all possible a ring flash. If you can get a ring flash of any kind (used even) it would be brilliant. The R1 setup is brilliant but expensive. Additional ringflashes (such as the older SB-28) work as well for your purpose. You can also get a conventional external flash (such as the Sb-400) with a ring flash converter.The point is, if you do have funds, buy a ring flash, not an extra lens.

Whatever you choose to do, please do try your current setup first. . Not sure whether your 18-55 has VR or not. I reckon it does, but let’s assume it does not. The most tooted 105 Vr macro lens is an brilliant lens. But compared to an 18-55, you pay for the VR (which you don’t need since you’re going to use a flash), for the long reach (which you won’t need unless your subjects are prone to biting) an for the 1:1 (again, which you won’t use).

Answer by Regall L
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Answer by SgtPepper
Your camera is not very suitable for the kind of photography you have in mind but with effort you can manage.

Don’t buy any lens. For photographing teeth, the kit lens will not be sufficient but with cropping you can have excellent photographs of teeth upto the molars.

One conundrum that’s faced while using dedicated macro lens is condensation on the front element / filter from the patient’s breath. You can’t heat these lens to the body temperature disparate many instruments.

You’ll be best off clicking photographs from a small away and then cropping.

Another conundrum that you might face is while photographing inside of high teeth. If you have a excellent mirror and a trained assistant, you might be able to do well. If not, it makes sense to buy a dedicated camera for dental photographs. I suggest a Kavo intraoral camera. Don’t worry about the cost. It’s worth it in the long run.

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I have a Nikon D60 and need a compatible fill in lens that will work with the auto focus. What do you recommend? I see some lenses on the Nikon website but I don’t know if they’re compatible. I see that Nikkor has AF and AF-S lens. What is the difference? Does the camera auto focus of does the lens? Or both?

Answer by Andre M
All lenses currently on the site should work with the D60 as it has an AF built into the camera. Only the D40 has limitations. As for the type of fill in lens, what do you want to shoot? Remember the sensor is a 1.5 crop so multiply any focal length by that amount to get the field of view equivalent to a 35mm camera which is what focal lengths are based off of. If you want to do landscapes and some portraits a fill in in the range of 24-35 should be excellent. If you want a more likeness specific look in the 50-200mm range. Sports you want 85-400 around depending. Indoor sports usually 85-200mm. Outdoor sports, 200-400. Of course I do not mean a zoom lens when I say 24-35 etc, just a fill in that falls within that focal range.

Answer by AWriterWandering
AF refers to the ancient stylishness of autofocus Nikon used, which employed a motor in the camera body which connected to the lens via a “screwdriver” on the mount. AF-S lenses on the additional hand come with their own dedicated motors, which are much quieter and often nearer too.

Both the D40 and D60 lack the motor needed by persons ancient lenses, which earnings it will only autofocus with AF-S models (or the occasional AF-I model). This greatly limits your choice when it comes to fill in lenses. Besides some super-telephotos and a couple macro lenses, all Nikon offers right now is the 50mm 1.4 AF-S. And technically that’s not even out yet. Beyond that you have the Sigma 30mm 1.4 HSM and 50mm 1.4 HSM (HyperSonic Motor = Their equivilant to AF-S).

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