I don't know how "useful" a 105mm lens would be to me. As everything would appear tighter. Personally I find a 24 to 50mm very useful whether on a DX or FX body. Anything longer or shorter, I just don't know how to handle.
For reason unknown to myself, I much prefer to shoot with my manual focus lenses from the 80s. Though they don't provide metering on my D70 but I just think they have more character which is important for somebody who doesn't have any. I can't find any fault with my 18-70 DX lens or my 24-85 zoom nikkors, it's just that I don't use them much at all if I consider less on convenience, especially the 24-85, after I bought it from Canoga, it pretty much retire right away. Granted they are all "toys" but the 24-85 just doesn't see the light of day too often.
People ask all kinds of questions, myself is guilty of asking them too. One of them is what's a good walk around lens, or what's a good landscape lens. Those questions invite ridicules as often as they invite answers. Some people like 18-200 zooms as their walk around lens and some people just don't. You just have to pick your poison and die the way you want to die.
I bought two gigantic nectarines from a street vendor immediately before I joined Fung, you and your large groups of classmates or schoolmates — some of the gals were from Malaysia — to have soup together in that restaurant I mentioned in the other comment of mine. I think the guy from Singapore who became a cop later was also there. The two nectarines were singularly as big as my fist. They're yummy.
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