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chinesestunna
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Registered: Apr 4, 2005
Location: United States
Posts: 308
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Review Date: Sep 28, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $200.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Price, performance, weight
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a bit soft wide open, speed even at wide open
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I've used this lens for 3-4 months now as my workhorse telezoom, and it has met my expectations as an excellent telezoom for the beginner or someone on a budget.
Distortion: very low at all focal lengths, besides, this is a telephoto, not like we're doing architecture or something.
Focus Speed: very very snappy, for a non AF-S, this is as good as it'll get  extremely fast in a way that will make all other non AF-s seem really slow
Flare/Ghosting: very good, I don't have an issue with this unless shooting almost directly at the sun, and I don't have the hood!
Chromatic Aberration: this is non-ED, so you will get some in high contrast shots, but shoot NEF and use Camera Raw or whatever post processor you want and you can get rid of them, I did
Build Quality: Pretty damn good, especially in today's world of plastic (nothing again the material, just the feel of some lenses) lenses, this is metal, so you can beat people with it  hehe, j/k
Sharpness: Decent wide open, but stop down to F8 and you'll just make images that cuts through anything, very very sharp
Handeling: I'm not a fan of push-pull zoom, but for the price, what can I say, I'll learn and it is growing on me
***OVERALL***
I like it a lot, don't expect 80-200 F2.8 stuff from it obviously, take care to shot in well lit areas so you can stop down for that sharpness
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 Sep 28, 2005
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obelix
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Registered: Jun 21, 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 194
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Review Date: Feb 10, 2005
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Inexpensive, very fast focus, excellent sharpeness and contrast, all metal body
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Push pull zoom can suck in dust.
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The best budget priced telephoto zoom lens out there. Excellent sharpness and contrast. Decent bokeh and very good build quality.
Ken Rockwell swears by this lens. Very rarely does this lens show up in keh.com and it is usually snapped in a day or two.
With a 4 feet minimum focus distance, it can be used for quasi macro photos as well.
Strongly recommended.
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Feb 10, 2005
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