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By Hiffle from Holyoke, MA on 6/21/2007

I bought this lens along with a Nikon D50 body when the camera first came out. This lens and the camera, along with a small holster pack, has accompanied me on several trips and endured a short season of sports shooting during the two years I have owned it.

In strong light, it holds its own with Nikon's own lenses and is (reportedly) superior to Nikon's own 18-200 lens (non-VR variety). In softer light it doesn't seem to have Nikon's contrast...but can be punched up in post-processing as the lens itself is quite sharp. In fact surprisingly so all the way out to 200mm (I have now run tests against the Sigma 70-300APO and the Nikon 80-200 ED IF),

The lens is smooth and "positive" in action and as an all round lens, is hard to better except for not having vibration control. It obviously lacks the speed and contrast of lenses in the $1000 plus range, but otherwise holds its own.

Shot at widest - 18mm at 1/200s f/7.1 iso200

Tags: Shot at 28mm, Using Product

Shot at medium tele - 95mm - 1/500s f/5.6 iso200

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By LHP girl from Lighthouse Point, Fl on 5/9/2007

completely satisfies what I need in a lense at a great price.

By Tiny Malone from Las Vegas on 4/26/2007

Over all this is a good lens. I shoot landscape and automotbiles. I shoot primes for cars, but this does purdy good in the field. I've not tried Nikons 18-200 (hard to get) but reading the reviews made me decide that type of zoom would be a good option to have a walking around lens. Ran 382 frames through two weeks ago at Red Rock, Valley of Fire and Zion. Good overall, though the light was flat so I am not sure that is a good way to judge this lens.

Seems well built and everything has a good feel to it. I would say yes to a friend

Zion National Park

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By CCC from Louisiana on 3/26/2007

The reason I did not give it 5 stars (only 4) was because there might be a lens out there that is better. I just don't know if there is one!