This lens is fantastic. It’s sharp from 70mm all the way to 200mm wide open. It’s a great low light lens. VR is amazing. The build quality is top notch. It doesn’t lengthen to expand to 200mm. It does that internally. The weather sealing is also great. I am in love with this lens. This is the only zoom lens I would ever consider to use for portraits. Just a fantastic lens all around **the best thing about this lens is the Vibration Reduction or VC as they call it. It’s 2nd to none. Better than lenses twice the price. The stills VR setting is such a fantastic feature. It will allow you to hand hold shots at very low shutter speeds. You can shoot 200mm at 1/30 SS or even lower.

I like this lens very much. Build quality of the product super. Image quality is great. I definitely recommend to my friends and family.

I’m an amateur photographer and added this lens to my D610 Nikon and picture quality is excellent and stabilization is also great

Compared to Nikon version this is a bargain. Well built and great quality images. Toll it for a walk around the shore and produced some stellar pics .

I don't make money with my photos, so the Tamron 70-200mm is a much more affordable option for me. I think that this is an excellent lens. I rarely took it off my camera until I purchased the Nikon 200-500mm. I've used it to take my son's and niece's senior portraits. I would recommend this lens.