Review on New Nikon 18-105mm Vibration Reduction 📷 Zoom Lens with Auto Focus for Nikon DSLRs by Eunu AT ᠌

Name: New Nikon 18-105mm Vibration Reduction 📷 Zoom Lens with Auto Focus for Nikon DSLRs
Item: New Nikon 18-105mm Vibration Reduction 📷 Zoom Lens with Auto Focus for Nikon DSLRs
Rating: 3

September 13, 2022

Not my best purchase, could have found something else.

I purchased this lens only because of the wide angle, I didn’t need the zoom as such. I was looking for a lens for shooting mountain landscapes and had very little time and money left before the trip. I had to buy this lens because wide-angle primes were more expensive and there was no point in taking a screwdriver for the Nikon D5000. Now after the trip, this lens is carefully stored on my shelf and is waiting for the next trip to the mountains.

Pros

1) Wide range of focal lengths. 2) Quite sharp and conveys colors well but with sufficient lighting. 3) There is a stabilizer. 4) With a lens hood, the lens is resistant to backlight. I even shot landscapes at dawn with the sun falling into the frame. The silhouettes of trees, grass, everything turned out to be quite contrasting and the colors were saturated. I don’t even know what hares look like on this lens, I have never seen them clearly defined. 5) Convenient to operate. 6) Fast autofocus.

Cons

1) A plastic, vacuum cleaner construct, in the far-focus position, the lens looks more like an ugly children's spyglass made of cheap Chinese plastic, and with a hood it looks just ridiculous in my opinion. The bayonet is also plastic. With this lens, I always have the feeling that it is about to fall off or break the mount on the camera. I don't like ZUMA. 2) The lens is quite dark, there is nothing to do with it indoors or in cloudy weather without a flash. With insufficient lighting, detailing almost completely disappears in the photo, an eerie grain climbs in the shadows and, in general, the picture comes out dull and dirty. 3) The bokeh is somehow flat, not voluminous, but because of the seven aperture blades, it is also sometimes "nutty". 4) There are geometric distortions and HA, especially at a wide angle, there is vignetting from the lens hood.