Hey folks, Matt from rdtheimage.com. Got a reader writing in, a viewer I should say. This is Ronnie on the e-mails. New guy here and very new, only been doing this for a month and I'm also and I'm also an old guy also. I currently own a D3300, my first camera and was thinking of upgrading to the D7100 or the 7200 until I saw one of your YouTube responses that the quality wouldn't be noticeable. I found it's 7100 really cheap and I almost bought but my question is, what's the best lens I can get under 200 bucks to make my picks pop? I have the Nikon 55 to 300 VR and the 18 to 55 VR. I like taking macro and I have an extension and I like the moonshot and I have a Sigma 600 for that. What am I missing here? Do I have to spend 600 bucks on a lens or 1200 on a camera to up my game? I like shooting in manual modes and focus. I attached a picker to so he's got a pick of a macro of some type of insect on a plant and he's got a pick of a moonshot. So I will go with the 7100, no doubt about it in your situation. The only advantage is 7200 really, it's basically the same camera, there wasn't much of a change in the two. The 7100 has a little bit deeper shot buffer. So in other words, if you're shooting moving subjects, you're using tracking and you want to be shooting fast and not have the buffer fill up, the 7200 is better for that. If you're not shooting a lot of frames per second, then you're not going to notice it really on the 7100 and I will go with the 7100 in a lot of situations except for the one I just specified because of the savings, because other than that, the same auto focus system is basically the same camera. This doesn't have the same enhanced shot buffer, it's basically with the 7200 at it when it came out. What lens for 200 bucks? That's a toughy, but I'm going to answer it quickly because with the 200 dollar limit, I will go with a Nikon 50mm f18G. Actually, you could go with a Nikon 50mm f14D or an f18D as well. All of those you could get for under $200 and they're all phenomenal lenses because they're going to give you a fast lens. It's going to give you the ability to have a shallow depth of field. It's got a nice bouquet. You could take a portrait, blow it the background, any subject you're going to be able to blow it the background more than any of the lenses you have right now. So, when anybody is in the kind of situation where you're in, where you have the standard kit zooms, that's the first lens I always recommend you go to whether you're shooting Nikon or Canon or any system is get a fast 50. It's the cheapest, most economical way to get a high performance lens. 50s are optically not challenging to make as far as when you look at some of the other lenses a manufacturer will make so you can get a very, very good performing lens at a very good price. That's why they're not expensive, but they also tend to be like on the Nikon. All those lenses are some of the best performing lenses in the entire catalog. So, that's what I would recommend you go with. If you want to save a little money, the D version, so the 1.8 or the 1.4, or even for $200, you get the F1.8G, the newest, latest and greatest, which is a really nice camera. But, or a nice lens, but the 7100 or the 7200 both have built-in autofocus motors, so they can drive the D versions of either of those. So it doesn't matter. You, which one you want to get, if you want to save a little money, get the older D version. They're smaller and lighter. The advantage with the newer G version is it's got the AFS motor in it, so it's usable on other bodies that don't have an autofocus motor built-in. Like for instance, the 5,556, 33,300, 3,400. But it also, the optics, the coatings and whatnot are a little bit better. They would claim that you would have maybe less prone to flare or some situations like that. Maybe out in the sun. Overall though, I mean, I have a 50mm F1.4D. That's my choice of 50 at the moment for Nikon. And I love it. It gives you that added speed, 1.4 over the 1.8. And I got mine for $200 Canadian, which would be less than that in America. So what would you guys do? Do you agree with me? Would you go with a 50? Do you agree with the choice of the 7100? Let us know in the comments below what you would do and why. Is there another lens you would recommend? Every thing wants to, under $200, to make his pictures pop. Let us know in the comments below. Let us help out, Ronnie. Thanks for your question. And stay tuned. We'll be back soon here at rdatheimage.com.