The Nikkor DX 18-200mm VR II is an super-zoom lens advised for Nikon’s of DX architecture DSLRs

Nikkor DX 18-200mm VR II lens review

The Nikkor DX 18-200mm VR II is an 11.1x super-zoom lens advised for Nikon’s ambit of DX architecture DSLRs. Announced in July 2009, it’s the amend to one of the best accepted lenses for the Nikon system, now accouterment it with added good aegis adjoin zoom creep, area the lens butt can aback extend or abjure beneath its own weight.

Mounted on a DX-format body, the DX 18-200mm VR II delivers the aforementioned 27-300mm agnate ambit as its antecedent which takes you in a moment from wide-angle advantage to admirable telephoto. This allows you to shoot an all-embracing landscape, afore bound zooming-in to grab a photo of, say, an abnormal bird perched on a branch. It’s this amount of adaptability which has resulted in abounding Nikon owners application it as their absolute lens, abnormally back travelling.

Like its predecessor, it’s altogether accessible at best focal lengths or in low ablaze acknowledgment to Vibration Reduction (VR) accessories which, according to Nikon, accommodate up to four stops of compensation. Unlike its battling from Canon, it additionally includes quick and quiet focusing, a elastic sealing on the lens mount, and comes supplied with a lens awning and pouch. As an AF-S model, it’ll additionally autofocus on all Nikon DSLRs, including the entry-level models which don’t affection congenital motors.

The aggregate of an awfully adjustable zoom ambit and admirable achievement fabricated the antecedent DX 18-200mm VR one of the acknowledged lenses in the Nikkor catalogue. But one accepted complaint admired zoom creep, area its butt continued or abandoned beneath its own weight. Nikon’s addressed this in the fresh adaptation of the lens with a about-face on the ancillary of the butt which locks it in the advanced position for transportation. Nikon has additionally bigger the optical coatings to added good abate apparition and flare.

Our analysis of the beforehand DX 18-200mm VR lens was one of the best accepted at Camera Labs, so while there’s alone basal changes to the fresh lens, we’ve absitively to run it through our absolute analysis apartment for a cast fresh report. This has accustomed us the adventitious to conduct abounding added tests beneath real-life altitude at a array of focal lengths and apertures, while comparing it adjoin the most recent Nikkor zooms. You’ll see the pros and cons of the DX 18-200mm VR II adjoin the exceptional DX 16-85mm VR, the DX 18-105mm VR kit zoom, and at the best end of the ambit the DX 55-200mm VR.

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