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Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro + Tamron AF Zoom 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Di II LD lens. You can buy these lenses very cheaply on the secondhand market. I paid £29. I had owned the Nikon VR equivalent, two copies in fact, and didn't really like it, although the results were good enough. Then I found that carrying a heavy pro lens when just enjoying an outing was a bit fatiguing, and so I bought this Tamron. It's compact and lightweight without the encumbrance of VR motors, and a fine performer at f/8 - f/11; decent even at wider apertures when not fully stretched. Its field-of-view is equivalent to an 80-300mm lens on a full-frame camera. Not bad for a lens you can carry around in your coat pocket.