“Which is better for me The Nikon 18-300 or the 28-300? I do a lot of sports pictures but pick up a few small wedding inside churches too. I see the 28-300 says not good for low light but what is low light for say (inside a Church?)”
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Both the AF-S NIKKOR 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR and AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3G ED VR would be great additions to your camera bag and are capable of shooting weddings, portraits, sports events, and low light situations. You will want to keep in mind when deciding which lens to purchase that these are two different formats – the 28-300mm being an FX format lens and the 18-300mm being a DX format lens. An FX lens on a DX camera will result in a magnified image, referred to as the 1.5x crop factor. A DX lens on an FX camera may result in a vignette effect, which can be prevented by adjusting your Image Area settings in the camera to DX (24 x 15) 1.5x.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The two lens are about the same speed. You have much more image control in post production than you do with the 1/3 stop difference in speed favoring the 25-300. Only one of the answers to this question I've found really covers lens quality. I have both FX & DX cameras and have rented the 28-300 with very good results. Yet the other lens, 18-300, has more coverage and is said to have better optics especially in the wide range for the DX camera. But having a 15x lens is just a must for video so I'm getting the 18-300 (28-450mm eq on DX camera*.) I have other wide angles lens when Quality outranks Expediency; fast primes AND a DX 12-24 that I use often in FX *The image size on either format remains the same size on either sensor. For example, using the same lens, a 1/2 inch image on a FX sensor is also 1/2 inch on a DX sensor which is 2/3 the size of FX. Quality is better on my FX camera than the DX camera because of pixel count only - not lens compatibility.
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