We used the kit lenses at their widest and longest focal lengths and with various apertures. The crops are taken from the extreme lower left corner of the chart and presented here at 100%.

Zoomed-in to telephoto, the situation is much improved, with decent results even with the aperture wide open. Unlike the Canon lenses shown here, the Nikkor also doesn’t exhibit lower contrast when zoomed-in with its aperture open.

Note: crop details which appear smaller here are due to them being captured with lower resolution cameras and / or a lens which couldn’t focus as close to the chart. In each case though, the crop still represents the extreme bottom left corner of each camera’s frame. The Canon G7 and Olympus E-400 show a different portion of the chart because they capture narrower 4:3 aspect ratio images, but again these still represent the extreme bottom left corners.