Super zoom for SLR cameras have long been available. Your typical weaknesses as distortions in the Endbrennweiten, low light intensity and vignetting (shading of the borders) led, however, that the former representative of this genus could hardly convince. Nikon 18-200 but has managed to convince me to, if not enthusiasm.
The focal length range equivalent to a moderate wide-angle (small-converted to 27 mm) until quite powerful telephoto, the 300 mm to the “old bill” covers. A removable lens (for digital SLRs is always a risk, because it is easy to dust on the sensor einhandelt) is only very rarely required. The brightness of the lens is 3.5 in wide angle and 5.6 in the telephoto range is not a record, but appropriate and useful.
Like any lens tends also the 18-200 Nikon significant pincushion distortion in wide angle and not quite as prominent barrel distortion when approaching the 200 mm. If you’d like, just a white wall directly from the front to take photos, will find that the corners of the image of concern are dark: this is the vignetting, even without the attached filter, etc. not be overlooked. Strikingly, all these errors, but only in rare special recordings, and in the daily operation disrupt these errors is usually difficult.
I use this lens on a Nikon D70, I photograph exclusively in NEF format (Nikon RAW), and convert images with my DxO Optics Pro. This software eliminates the errors described picture (and some others such as color bleeding, etc.) so that the quality of the resulting photo is a reliable first-class. These corrections are also compatible with Photoshop and other software products available, although not as comfortable. Thus, the errors that zooms practically meaningless.
Not yet mentioned, I have built-in image stabilizer (Nikon calls it “visual” as vibration reduction). With it, you actually win, as promised in advertisements, so the four time stages. So is without VR 1 / 250 second is required to establish a unverwackelte shot, enough with this lens and activated VR 1 / 15 second. The shake-based scrap rate is thus very much reduced. VR spells can not but of course, a minimum level of care is required.
In short, except for very specific areas of the host has to do with this lens is always the right focal length to the camera, the Board ensures that it produces little blurred, and the usual figure errors can be with minimal digital retouching to remove. What remains are technically first-class shots. Moreover, the 18-200 quite compact and not too heavy. For me it is the ideal companion, as I have him in my previous life-long photographer is not yet known.
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