Nikon AF Nikkor 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED-IF Lens

As others have stated, this is a nice all-purpose lens. It is lightweight, focuses well, and produces sharp photographs. For the money, you cannot do better.

I also have the Nikkor 18-200 VR lens, which has three advantages over the 28-200: it it an AF-S lens with a built-in focus motor, it has VR, and it goes to 18mm at the wide end. On the minus side, the 18-200 is much more expensive, heavier, and the zoom creep drives me crazy. If it wasn't for the lack of VR, I'd be perfectly happy with the 28-200G lens.

This is a great all purpose lens to help minimize how much you have to carry around in your bag. You can go from a wide angle landscape shot instantly to a long distance closeup with just this one lens mounted. Relatively light weight for the functionality rendered.

Very compact - just slightly larger than my 28-80mm. A bit slow to focus, but overall a great lens for under $250.

took the lens and the D70S on vacation and shot over 500 pictures. All are perfect.
Nice all around lens.

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Tim Valencia

I have tried many and this lens produced much sharper pictures than the other one I tried.
It is light and compact making it easier to leave on as an everyday lens.

May I first say I graded this as excellent FOR THE PRICE RANGE !!! with that said works very good through all ranges. Is one of my most used lens and is on camera 95% of the time have had this lens for appx 6 months has operated flawlessly and have taken appx 4000-6000 photos with it am working towards purchasing the VR version of this lens.

Works well w/ my Fuji S2 PRO SLR. The price was right for a "like new" lens.I bought this lens on a personal reccomendation.

This lens was designed and manufactured as an inexpensive, small and sharp do every thing zoom to fit Nikon's consumer 35 mm film cameras. When Film was replaced by the Nikon DX digital sensor, this lens was no longer the do every thing lens it was designed to be. The sensor was smaller than the 35mm format and 28-200mm became more like a 42-300mm lens, thus dropping the wide end perspective of the lens. Nikon stopped producing the lens in 2006.

Now, with the introduction of the new high end D3-D700 and D3x cameras with the 35mm-FX sensor this lens is back in vogue, since Nikon sells nothing to replace it with, it is probably the best walking around lens for these full frame sensors. It is a cheap, slow, very small and light plastic lens with a plastic mount, not built to pro standards. It has a fair amount of distortion ( fix it in Photoshop ) but still better than most after market lenses of it's reach. It however is SHARP, focuses to 16" with nice color reproduction and good build quality. What else do you need? Just don't pick-up your D3 by the lens, it might break off.

So far I've been pleased with this lens. Great for travel and casual use. It is made of plastic - including the mount, but still feels sturdy enough. Optically it is very good for lens of this range. It is very small when zoomed all the way in. It can be locked in the zoomed in position to prevent it from extending while walking around.

Build quality is not up to pro caliber Nikon lenses but neither is the price. The distortion can be quite obvious but nothing that cannot be fixed in Photoshop in post processing. That being said, this is a very sharp, small, compact, lightweight, fast focusing lens that is an absolute joy as an everyday walk around lens for FX form factor Nikon DSLR's. If you own a DX form factor Nikon the 18-200 VR is a better lens but would be useless for all practical purposes on a D3X, D3 or D700. The 28-200 sure beats constantly changing prime lenses, or using heavier pro lenses with more limited ranges on an FX Nikon unless your subject calls for something specific.