As you know, last year I bought the Nikon D60 . This camera is going perfect for me to understand how they work SLR cameras, but one of the things I always was complaining about was how limited was the zoom, the Nikon D60 comes with a 18-55mm lens which is what I have me or if you buy the camera with two lenses pack, the two lenses that come the pack are a 18-55mm and a 55-200mm, so it depends on whether you want to take pictures from near or far you have to be changed lens, which means you have to pay the two lenses when you want to take pictures.

When I bought the camera and knew I was too lazy to go change lenses, so I bought the pack directly that only carries the 18-55mm lens.
Since long ago I wanted to buy the lens' AF-S DX VR Zoom Nikkor ED 18-200mm F3.5-5.6G (IF) "which is like say the two lenses mentioned above into one, thus You can take pictures from far and near without having to change lenses, but what scared me was the price, as in the catalogs of Nikon, this lens is worth 110,000 yen (about 815 €).

The other day I saw on Yahoo Auctions Japan (Yahoo's auction site) that had many lenses second hand for sale, so I ended up buying me the lens I wanted for 47000 Yen.
The Japanese are very careful with all their belongings, so as I imagined, the lens came flawless, no scratches and works perfectly.

The people who sell on Yahoo Auctions Japan usually only ship products within Japan, but if you come to Japan someday, I recommend you to look at Yahoo Auctions items, since the products are usually sent a few days after winning the auction.

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