Photographed with a Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 Series E lens on a Nikon D2Xs camera.

If you don't need any reach beyond 150mm and you can cope with manual focus and trombone zoom, this is the lens to get. It has constant aperture of f/3.5, impeccable optical performance at all apertures and focal lengths, and can be found secondhand for a song.