Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3G ED Vibration Reduction Zoom Lens with Auto Focus for Nikon DSLR Cameras

If you want to do most everything with just one lens. This is the one. Super sharp up to 200mm and sometimes including 300mm. I use a D7500 which ups the zoom to 450mm. I am too invested in DSLR lenses to realistically switch to mirrorless. I love optical viewfinders. There has never been a better time to get this lens.

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Excelente precio beneficio. Es algo pesado, pero tienes un excelente lente con una versatilidad de enfoque excepcional

First of all, this lens makes life so much easier. I love not having to carry around two lenses, and swapping between them for various shots. Also, the reviews on here complaining about the quality of the pictures it takes need to consider a few things: First of all, you are using a zoom lens. You will not get fixed lens quality from a zoom lens. Also, the quality of the shots this lens is capable of is just as good as the 55-300mm Nikkor lens. The ghosting that is described occurs in all lenses if you zoom in all the way and then blow up the picture beyond what it should be. I love this lens! It is simple to use, works great and even works as a Macro lens. I am no professional, but for the average daily hobbyist, this lens is perfect. If you want to go spend thousands of dollars to get a better quality zoom so you can magnify the pictures, then do that, and don't write negative reviews about a lens that you tried to make do more than you knew it was capable of when you bought it.Update** I have now had this lens for a few months, and I am still more and more impressed with it. I have managed to take a few pictures that have now been rated in the top 50 trending on the National Geographic User Submitted Photos page. The capability and portability of this lens are just getting better and better. I am including some more photographs, now that I have had a chance to expand on it some.

I own a variety of amateur glass for my Nikons. Body's; I use a D5100 and D5500. This is by far my most commonly used lense. During family outings, parks, zoo days, this is my go to lense. It allows me to capture near and far without carrying two cameras or swapping lenses.However, compared to my 18-55 and 55-300, the pic quality does suffer ever so slightly at different ranges.When out at 300, this lense falls about 10% short of where the 55-300 can reach. and the pic quality at that range is arguably better on the 55-300. I say arguably because ive never went 1:1 on these shots to compare. The real 1:1 testing I have done has been in shorter range, and while the zoom reach is definitely shorter, the quality is so similar at close range its hard to decipher..Ive taken shots at the local zoo with both and taken very similar shots on different days, and i do prefer the 55-300 for quality, but still use the 18-300 for its versatility.What this has allowed, which is awesome.. is for me to carry my second camera with a prime lense instead of having the 18-55 on it. Now i carry either a 35 or 50 on the d5100 to grab great portraits.Sometimes i like to pull in really far, and get a close up of an animal, then come back out and grab a pic of the boy with the animal in frame in the background. Having this 18-300 allows all of that in one package.I attached some pics i caught with this lense.Pros*) 18-300 in one lense, that in it self is a HUGE pro**) Extremely small and light weight. Its lighter and smaller than the 55-300. Is that a pro however? ive read and found personally, when a lense with similar or more attributes is smaller than a comparable model with less.. The image quality is usually what pays the price.Cons*) 18-200 moves very freely, and nice. 200-300 meets some opposition and stiffness.**) 300 on this lense and 300 on my 55-300 are not the same 300. Sadly i noticed this with my tamron 16-300 as well, i had hoped the nikon wouldnt do that to me; but it has.Would i recommend this to others, absolutely. Would i recommend it over the 55-300; that depends on situation. I personally feel I will have a use for both. I just need to figure out how thats going to work for me.All of this is on DX bodies only, as this is a DX lense I feel its fair to only bring those up. On an FX body you need to enable a DX crop mode and loose a chunk of the resolution only using the center of the image sensor. No point in doing that :PI personally dont own an FX body yet, but the plans are there to add one to the mix sooner than later :)Pics and what lense was used -55-300jaguarsnow leopardred pandaboy in green shirt18-300lionsboy in blue

I’m a professional photographer, and have my favorites for portraits, but I wanted to give this lens a try since I had given away my 70-300mm lens and I was missing it. I found myself only using the 70-300 lens for moon shots the last few years. So naturally the first photos I took with this new lens is a photo of the super moon this week! Extended all the way out to 300mm. I’m really impressed with this lens. It’s so much lighter, and the clarity zoomed in at 300 is amazing! I have yet to use it at the wide angle, but I’m really looking forward to having this lens in my camera bag!