Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6G ED Auto Focus-S DX Nikkor Zoom Lens - White Box (New)

The lens was good and came with everything it said it would and quickly. It did not however, work well with my Nikon D60 camera. The zoom didnt go as far as I needed and of course the auto focus didnt work all the way which I heard after the fact is typical for this camera. No fault of the lens. I sent it back for free and the seller did give me a full refund. Thank you.

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I first bought this 55-200mm through an outside vendor and its amazing how these electronics megastores will mark up their items to a ridiculous price. This lens is NOT worth over $200 and if you paid that much, I advise you return it and save $$$$ by ordering through amazon.com which was what I did. I returned this nice lens to that store but bought it again through amazon.com and saved $100! Anyways, this lens goes great with my 18-55mm lens that came with my Nikon D50. The 3.6x zoom is not bad at all and if you can live with the slow autofocus, its actually pretty good bang for your buck. You start losing a little depth when you near 200mm. The images are still sharp (depth starts to suffer the more you zoom in). This lens is actually quite good in regards to image quality. If youre expecting rapid focus, this lens is not for you. No matter how good the lens/camera is, I always photo edit afterwards anyway. This lens is worth the money if you are not really willing to fork out the $$$ for Vibration Reduction (dont get me wrong, its great to have, but I was taking pictures fine with a tripod and remote and I dont mind lugging those along). Plus changing lens is no big deal for a photographer of my type. This 55-200mm lens is a winner in my opinion.

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I use this lens more than I use the 18-55mm. This is a better lens for portraits so that you arent up into somebodys personal business. I was able to take a picture of a plane in the sky, and though I could not zoom in on all the details with the lens, I could crop the image on my d5000 and still print the cropped image at a 18x20. And see the details. I noticed a little noise on completely zoomed in images if they are cropped, but I love this lens. It does not have VR (vibration reduction) so hold your hand steady, or use a tripod for slower shutter speeds. If you need to go out with your camera and cant lug around your bag of lenses, take this one. It gets the job done. But remember, just because you can zoom way close, this is NOT a macro lens...

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First of all, the lens shade comes with the lens... interesting, since they offer to sell you one when checking out? The lens is small and light, smaller in diameter than my 18-135 zoom for the same camera. Excellent overall image clarity and performance... one problem with this particular lens, an artifact appears upper left in every image. Varying degrees of fuzziness depending on the focul length, but its always there and I have to photoshop it out! Contacted Nikon for warranty service on the lens and there has been no response... apparently, Im stuck with it. Aside from the spot, the lens is in every other way a good performer and for the money, I think its well worth it. Im using it with the Nikon D80, a camera I thoroughly enjoy.

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Good lens to have, it arrived on time and was packaged as promised correctly, no dings or scratches.I havent had time to take out on my kayak yet as this lens I think will be ideal to use because of how close I can get to the wildlife in a Kayak. I also think because the weight factor wont be a problem to quickly access the camera for some quick bird pics.

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I bought this lens because I was looking for a decent starter telephoto lens. This Lens does fine in good lighting but lacks the aperture to shoot at night without adding speedlights or having a very slow shutter speed. I was looking a buying the VR version but decided it was a uneeded feature since I do have tripods. That said I havent had any issues with blurred pictures except in low lighting when the shutter is down around 1/60th. Overall if your are looking for a lens to shoot your kids games, wildlife etc. during the day. This lens will not let you down.

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