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Originally Posted by nostatic
Do you need the zoom? If you're shooting indoors with available light, then you will need a fast lens. VR doesn't get you that much as you need a reasonable shutter speed so that your wrestling subjects aren't blurred (assuming you're trying to capture action). In other words, VR is great to stop your motion, but doesn't do anything to stop their motion.
If you can move around to get the shot, a 50mm/f1.4 is going to get you the most light indoors.
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All excellent points, IMO.
The problem for me was that going from the 18-200 as an everyday lens to the 50 (which, as you know is more like an 85 on a DX camera) was just too limiting and often times I didn't have enough space to back-up to compose the right shot.
I've been happy using a diffused and bounced flash with the 18-200 indoors.
Of course, everyone should have a 50mm lens and the f1.8 is excellent, as well, at only $100 or so vs. 3xs that for the f1.4
FWIW.