What the difference between 18-55mm vr & 55-200mm lens?

It's a nice choice for a starter camera. Your pictures will be very high resolution and its got a lot of technology to keep your pictures clear. The controls are fairly intuitive but you will need to learn about the manual modes. Have you taken any classes for photography or read any books? I recommend Langford's Photography, you can read the reviews here: http://autumnlegend.com/detail/B000RAIQ18. There are also plenty of automatic modes for you to fall back on if you need to take pictures for any reason but make sure you take the time to learn about the manual modes. It is very rewarding once you get the hang of it.

Focal length determines how "close" your image is, and how much of your scene is in the shot. The higher the number (200mm) the closer distant objects will appear and the smaller the angle of the shot. This means that any behind your main focal point will look very distant. The smaller focal lengths are for photographing objects closer to the face and are called wider angle.

Now what are you planning to photograph? I would suggest 18-55mm for a start because it covers 50 mm it is pretty standard and is the "angle" your eye sees naturally. If you plan on photographing very distant objects then the 55-200mm lens might be better. In either case if you have the money you will eventually want more lenses and you might just want to spring for both because 18-200mm is a great range and offers you a lot of versatility.

The millimeter specs are the lenses focal length. The lenses are zoom designs, so you can change their focal length. One of the lenses can be adjusted from 18mm to 55mm and the other lens can be any focal length between 55mm and 200mm. As a pair, those two lenses cover a very useful focal length range for almost any subject.

There's a bunch of math behind how focal length is calculated. As a photographer, you only need to know what it does to your pictures. Lower focal length lenses give wider view angles. Higher focal lengths give narrower views.

Having two lenses can be confusing for a new photographer, since there's already plenty to learn about just the camera, not to mention the lifetime of practice it takes to learn how to understand light, colour and composition to make good pictures. I recommend starting with the 18-55mm lens and leaving the 55-200mm at home when you first start out. The 18-55mm is great for general purpose pictures and will force you to physically move closer to subjects you want closer views of, which is much better technique than the lazy way of using a high focal length lens to do all the work.

Once you can make good photos with the 18-55mm, give the 55-200mm a try and learn what it's all about.

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Gwen L is mostly correct. One thing however is that 50mm only roughly equals the human eye on a 35mm film or digital equivalent camera. On so called "crop frame"* dSLRs like the D60, a focal length of 28 to 30 millimeters is closer to the perspective of the human eye.

*crop frame means the sensor inside is considerably smaller than a 35mm film negative. Though still several times larger than what you would find in most digital compact cameras.

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If you don't know the difference, you may be looking at more camera than you need. What is your photographic experience up to now? If you've never used an SLR, you might want to start with a simpler point & shot camera. Even though I had thirty years of 35mm SLR experience, I started in the digital world with a Canon A620, and still use it instead of my D40 sometimes. Good photography is more about the photographer's knowledge than equipment.