Review on Nikon 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED IF AF-S DX VR Zoom Lens with Vibration Reduction, New in Bulk Packaging (White Box) by Eh Shee Lay ᠌

Name: Nikon 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED IF AF-S DX VR Zoom Lens with Vibration Reduction, New in Bulk Packaging (White Box)
Item: Nikon 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED IF AF-S DX VR Zoom Lens with Vibration Reduction, New in Bulk Packaging (White Box)
Rating: 3

April 06, 2023

Thought it would be better, but overall not bad.

As I was seated on the D7100, I had three copies of this glass in my possession. Only one of the three was uniformly sharp, while the other two had issues with their angles and their AF.
The secondary market price of this glass is unquestionably justified by its quality. However, there is another great glass called the 55-300VR that outperforms it in every way. It has beautiful bokeh for low-light zoom and stunning color reproduction. Those who claim that a 55-200mm lens can produce superb portraits are not engaging in the amateurish folly of a beginning photographer who initially invested in a digital single lens reflex camera (DSLR) equipped with a double whale. To get started, give your wretched crop bodies a typical full-frame telephoto lens and examine the difference in the resulting image quality. The bokeh produced by the mediocre 55-200 lens is a far cry from that produced by the legendary 70-200 lens. Even with super-zooms such as the 18-300VR, the picture quality and bokeh are noticeably more expensive, beautiful, and plastic.

Pros

1) The price on the secondary market: one penny for a telephoto with a stub 2) Excellent sharpness from f/7.1 to f/16, variable according on the focal length 3) Conveniently small and not very heavy 4) Produced through the use of trustworthy and high-quality mechanical means

Cons

2) There is no drawing as such; it is very technical, rough, and flat. 1) The bokeh is terrible; it is cheap and flickers like scales; and 2) There is no drawing as such. 3) The color reproduction is very average, acidic, and lacks the ability to see halftones; also, it imparts a murky tint to the shadow areas. On the 24pm cropping, the photo that he took was awful both in terms of color and pattern. The stupidest thing is that there is only one "whale" sharpness, and that's it.