How will this superzoom lens perform on a high megapixel sensor?
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Stay with the 200. Vignette is minimal to none and the clarity of the 18-200 is very impressive. Clear and sharp edge to edge(this impressed me the most.) You wont miss the 300 and you can take the money savings and apply to another lens.
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My opinion: This lens is perfect for tourism, because you want a light baggage to travel anywhere. This lens is very flexinility about zoom (10x) and a good sharpness buy lower than a fix lens, for this reason for a great shot i prefer a fix lens for the sharpness or when i have low ligth i need a lens with good aperture (2.8 or less). For amateur photographer it's a recommendable lens for shots for memories, but if you want more sharpness, then i recommend a fix lens.
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Deepak, I am currently using this lens on a Nikon D300 with 12.3 megapixels. I own several Nikkor lenses, ranging from wide angle to 300mm. This 18-200 is the best of all. Since receiving it, I have not taken it off the D300. I use it exclusively. It is a great lens. The VR feature is also fantastic. Low light shots come out great. I would highly recommend this lens for high megapixel cameras. It works great on my D300. I think you will be very happy once you use it too.
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All I can say is that it's one fantastic lens. Might be a tad heavy. Really sharp and I would recommend it. Willard Krieble, Largo Florida
150333
The number of megapixels has far less to do with a good picture than a great lens. This lens is great and will perform well on any Nikon DX camera
150334
All I can say is that it's one fantastic lens. Might be a tad heavy. Really sharp and I would recommend it.Willard Krieble, Largo Florida
55022
See previous answer which covers question. However, be aware this particular lens acuity is an issue for some photographers. I don't know what results would be for certain applications at 450mm equivalent. For general pix usage should be fine.
352399
I have used this lens very successfully with my Canon EOS T3i. I hope that you have the same experience. Bob
1372331
The zoom certainly helps. Makes your image appear to be eight times closer. However, say for example you are shooting a bird 100 ft. away. He still will be a long way off, for example he will not cover the whole screen. Most people shooting wildlife use lens with basically 200x. If you are shooting a deer for example at 100 feet with a 8x he will pretty well fill the screen. If you could get within say 20-30 feet your 8x would work fairly well.
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If you mean in 35mm terms, then it would be like a 90 mm to 350 mm given that the sensor format is half the size of 35 mm. If you mean zoom factor, then it would be 175mm/25mm = 7X since the normal lens for this format would be 25 mm. 7X zoom doesn't sound like much in this day of mega-zoom point-and-shoots, but because of the resolution available, even under low light with the ISO bumped up, you can crop quite aggressively and still have a very nice image. I shot birds in deep shade the Amazon at ISO 6400, cropped, and you would never guess it.
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The speed and focus depends on the camera you mount it on but this is a high quality lens. The image quality is fantastic. To get 1 stop better in speed isn't worth the extra money in my humble opinion. If you have a body with high ISO ability you will be quite pleased with this lens. It is designed for full frame FX cameras.
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according to fuji specs super macro zoom will focus at 1 cm. I have not tried this yet
437336
Its a prime lens so it has a constant zoom. I used a D90 and it worked perfectly well.
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You are not looking at very expensive optics here, and you can't compare the performance of this lens to one costing thousands of dollars. That being said however, this lens will perform pretty well shooting the moon. You will find it hard to get perfect focus on infinity. If you have the extender, which will double your length, you will get even closer shots. Also, some people can't stand that this lens is all mechanical, just like the old 35 MM lenses. I love shooting with this thing. You can actually hand hold to get some very good bird shots. I hope this answers your question. Good luck. For the price, you should do okay! You are not looking at very expensive optics here, and you can't compare the performance of this lens to one costing thousands of dollars. That being said however, this lens will perform pretty well shooting the moon. You will find it hard to get perfect focus on infinity. If you have the extender, which will double your length, you will get even closer shots. Also, some people can't stand that this lens is all mechanical, just like the old 35 MM lenses. I love shooting with this thing. You can actually hand hold to get some very good bird shots. I hope this answers your question. Good... » Read More You are not looking at very expensive optics here, and you can't compare the performance of this lens to one costing thousands of dollars. That being said however, this lens will perform pretty well shooting the moon. You will find it hard to get perfect focus on infinity. If you have the extender, which will double your length, you will get even closer shots. Also, some people can't stand that this lens is all mechanical, just like the old 35 MM lenses. I love shooting with this thing. You can actually hand hold to get some very good bird shots. I hope this answers your question. Good luck. For the price, you should do okay! « Show Less
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While it will probably physically attach the quality is certain to be awful. The superzooms simply do not have enough resolution to spare to attach a teleconverter and that f6.3 suddenly becomes f12.6 so your autofocus isn't going to work either. I tried it with the Nkkor 18-200 VR and a Nikon D200 and while technically it worked the results were worse than just cropping the image without the converter. In particular chromatic abberation was greatly exaggerated making the resulting images look like they'd been made with a ten dollar disposable camera (albeit with a very long lens).
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Works with full frame at 85mm and crop sensor at whatever the factor is 1.6 or 1.5
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This is the best lens in the world (I say with prejudice) - take one of your zooms, set it to 85mm and see if THAT focal length will work for you. If so, BUY BUY BUY. It's so razor sharp. Feel free to ask me more.
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Well, I'm assuming you're using the eos camera. So yeah, it's good for both and an all around excellent lense that I've been extremely pleased with.
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Since this is an EF lens, it will work fine, but using it on a 'crop sensor' camera, (I am) will increase the effective focal length X1.6. I bought an 'aftermarket' teleconvertor with mine and I love the combo (200x1.4x1.6 at maximum and still tack sharp). This is an amazing lens. period. and it's heavy
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it works well.. you just have to move forward and back for the lens to detect the objecting, zooming didn't work with my lens, I've only tried it out with the 18-55mm lens. the picture looks clear.
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Very! But the shots taken by it are worth the effort. As the other commenters said, you should slow down and set it up properly...... this is not your regular point and shoot to go type of lens. And it's extremely bulbous and heavy with a lot of knobs...... good luck!
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This is not a bad lens at all. It is certainly not the fastest or sharpest, but a very sharp and fast zoom with this range would be very expensive and bulky. I use it for bird photography with decent results. I would not get same results with any available point and shoot camera.