Going back 12 years, I was shooting almost everything with a 12-million-pixel Nikon D300 and a Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR lens. I loved that combination partly because it was all I had at the time; that camera and lens went everywhere with me.
It was a compromise using that camera and lens back then, and looking back at those images in 2023 only compounds those feelings: low light shots suffer from high-sensitivity image noise, and the sharpness and resolution are far from perfect – that lens is so complicated, with so many different optical elements, after all.
