Review on Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED Zoom Lens with Vibration Reduction & Auto Focus for Nikon DSLR Cameras by Junseo Siu ᠌

Name: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED Zoom Lens with Vibration Reduction & Auto Focus for Nikon DSLR Cameras
Item: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED Zoom Lens with Vibration Reduction & Auto Focus for Nikon DSLR Cameras
Rating: 4

September 13, 2022

I like everything, the quality is good and the price is reasonable.

This lens is my first love. It was with him that my acquaintance with the world of telephoto began. It had to be sold in order to switch to 70-300 VR - it is devoid of all the shortcomings of 55-300. But after 3 years, I was so tormented by nostalgia for its colors and tactile sensations that I bought it again! Unlike the hard, sharp, fast and cold 70-300VR, the 55-300 is a very creative soft-focus telephoto more suited to nature photography than dry industrial reporting.

Pros

1) Moderately and sharp enough at all focal lengths for any task, and the sharpness is not obsessively hard like that of the 70-300VR 2) Beautiful warm picture with amazing reproduction of natural colors and skin tones. Similar in color to Jupiter 37A. 3) For a TV set, it is universal in range. 4) Lightweight, relatively cheap on the secondary market, easy to find. 5) For the money, very high build quality.

Cons

1) This glass has become famous for its dull autofocus - to solve the problem, set the AF-S mode on the carcass and the center point and you will have sharpness and hit where you need it. 2) The ugly manual focus mechanism that I didn’t even touch the ring with my hand + it’s short-stroke and loose 3) The second problem follows from the first - the front lens block rotates