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The 18-200 mm I am finding on my camera more often. The range of this lens is quite good, yes there is some barrel distortion at the short end, but at the long end I find more than acceptable. Value for money as a walk about lens or travel lens is very good. the only down side for me is the lens is a tad slow, but easy fixed using a higher ISO.......

The light was not good, but my results are fair. A brighter day would have been better, but I had the time so...... all shot using the Nikon 18-200mm

ISO 320 2000 @ 5.6


ISO 320 160 @ 5.6 Shot through glass with overhead lighting

POST BY WELLY MOVED TO EXISTING 18-200MM THREAD

A few photos taken with my new 18-200mm. I don't know about you, but I think it's pretty sharp!

Shot with a Nikon D70s. I realise the two images are fairly similar, but wanted to prove the sharpness wasn't a fluke on my part!




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moved post........

....... a quick shot of a sea gull in flight, hand held..... for a walk about, and general purpose lens, I find the 18-200 mm very good. On the D2Xs & D300 I am finding that the lens is a lot quicker to focus and a lot sharper than when I was using said lens on a D70s....... and my lens is about 18 months old, some lens creep, but I tend to carry my gear in a bag unless shooting, less chance of equipment being damaged.......

D2Xs 18-200 mm ISO 200 AF-C 750@f8 hand held, full frame image @ 200mm


EDIT: ...... sorry for the break in transmission..... a seniors moment.....

POST BY Quentin MOVED TO THIS THREAD

Lovely image Big Pix,

Don't know if its the perspective but the wings are nice and long. Give's the bird a very determined and powerful aspect

Thanks for sharing

Quentin

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This was done at 200mm wide open:


Racing at Auckland

You can see that the lens is sharp at the long end plus it shows almost no color fringing (this is a standard situation against the glaring sun at the sea to reveal CA!)

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i can see some on the edges of white bits of sun reflection in the water I know, you said almost

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Hehe, look at the following pic to know what fringing is all about:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38912116@N00/1444256940.
(from my review of the Tokina 80-400mm)

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ooooooh...purple glitter on the sea

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This was more luck than judgment, but here's a good example of how sharp the 18-200mm can be:


and a 100% crop:



This was taken with my D80 at Monkey Island in Sanya, China and the stats are:

112mm f5.6 ISO 160

Mark

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Hey Thomas,

Ken Rockwell claims that the D300 corrects this somehow. You've had this lens when your D80 was your prime body, have you noticed this?

Cheers

The D300 does what any decent post-procesing software does: It tries to correct CA when developing the jpg. But the more CA there is the harder it gets to make a sharp conversion from the RAW

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I recently bought a D60 kit (w 18-55mm VR lens) and was thinking of upgrading to the 18-200mm VR lens. If the 18-200mm lens is slow to focus on the D70, would that mean that its also likely to be slow on the D60? should i reconsider buying that lens?

i checked out the 18-200mmVR in the store, it focuses very quickly on the d60. although i cannot compare it to other bodies at this time

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Thanks, smiles77! i'll be checking out the lens at the stores soon

Hahaha apparently this lens emits a sound that irritates my girlfriend to no end. I can not hear it, so i assume its a sensitive female hearing thing, since they can hear higher pitched sounds.

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