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Review on Nikon 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED IF AF-S VR Nikkor Zoom Lens for Nikon DSLR Cameras with Enhanced SEO by Eunu Cha ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

I'm satisfied, it's a good purchase.

I bought this lens specifically for shooting wild animals and birds during trips to nature. Before that, I used Nikkor 55-300 for almost a year. Switched to Nikkor 70-300 due to faster autofocus. The lens pleases! Fast and accurate focusing, iron stabilizer, excellent design. Constant manual focus control helps a lot! At any time, it is possible to correct the focus, and you can use the lens as a spyglass by rotating the ring manually, saving battery power. Thread diameter for filter - 67mm. I use the lens without a protective filter. The protective function has been shifted to a deep complete hood - both from glare and from ubiquitous branches. The lens is sharp starting from an open aperture in the range of 70-200mm, in the range of 200-300mm the sharpness is slightly lower, on such FRs it is desirable to cover the aperture to f / 8, but micro-sharpness is still not enough, small details sometimes merge. The lens pattern is interesting, pleasing to the eye. Nikkor 70-300 suffers from chromatic aberration. They are easy to correct during processing, but still I want to see them less often and to a lesser extent. P. S. Shooting of wild animals and birds faded relatively quickly, although from time to time the birds still get into the frame. But not a single mass event that I attend is complete without a TV set. Parades, concerts, festivities and other fun. I can’t imagine any scenes I shot without a telephoto.

Pros
  • - good drawing - excellent design - fast, accurate and quiet autofocus - internal focus - permanent manual focus priority (M/A) - excellent dual-mode optical stabilizer - metal bayonet with dust protection
Cons
  • - chromatic aberration - I would like more sharpness in the range of 200-300mm