Customer Ratings & Reviews

bought this lens as part of a package deal. the price was great and the lens took terrific pictures.

I love all the settings it has! It allows me to practice my photography skills!

Everything I needed/wanted. Would have rated 5 stars if it wasn't overpriced af

this was a birthday present and they liked it and all of the new features

Bought as a gift, daughter loves it. Works good, no complaints

When the lenses are priced right I will buy more, the more of an assortment I have that way I can be ready for anything. But the next time I am interested in buying I hope I do not have to go find someone. Nobody was in the camera area and I virtually had to yell out for somebody to come and help. The product is OK but the service SUCKED.

had to order the lense, shipped directly to my home for Christmas, then camera said no lense attached, had to return

This was a very good buy when I purchased it in deal ($150 ). I am not a professional photographer so I do not have anything to compare it to but I am very satisfied with the quality of the images I get with this.

This lens came in a bundle with the Nikon D3300 camera and is great at taking photos from a distance.

Great lens as expected from nikon, sharp crisp images with great bokeh. Compact design and light weight. The lens gets 4 stars but over all for the price it should come with the hood and lens pouch that is pictured and says its included but it doesn't so i only gave 3. So now after spending $350.00 on the lens i now have to go and buy a hood for it. Shaking my head nikon.

The lens is great for new users as well as seasoned camera users.

I purchased this lens for my mom as a Christmas present and she absolutely loved it. She had the 18-55mm lens that came when i bought her the camera a couple years ago and was in need for an upgrade.

This very light weight zoom lens covers the traditional 35mm film camera range of 85mm to 300mm. At the wide end, using f/4 to blur the background, it is a fine lens for close up head and shoulders portraits. Fully zoomed out, you can get a great photo of the runner stealing second base or details on the bell tower of an old church 200 feet above you. The sharpest results are at f/5.6 and f/8 at the wide end and at f/8 and f/11 when fully extended. The VR II vibration reduction lets you take sharp photos of non-moving subjects using very slow shutter speeds, such as 1/50th of a second. For sports action or a running deer, you need a fast 1/1000 or 1/2000 shutter speed as VR II vibration reduction helps only to correct minor camera movement: it can NOT "freeze" the movement of your subject. The plastic build and plastic mount make this a rather fragile lens. Take your time to carefully mount the lens correctly to avoid damage to the mount. Avoid using it where the wind is blowing lots of dust or salt spray. If you are gentle with it, this lens will provide years of good service. It has a very low price, but when used correctly, it will provide photos that match the quality of lenses that cost five times as much.

This lens has an amazing performance with my D5300, ideal for landscape pictures. Hardly recommended.