Nikon AF-S DX 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR Lens - Black

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For less money, the B+W 62mm 010 is an excellent filter, as is the multicoated version and basic multicoated Hoya filters, but the Hoya HD3 is the toughest and the best. This lens has outstanding macro performance; it gets super-close and there is no need to fiddle with macro settings; it just focuses from infinity all the way up to super-close. At the 18mm setting, there is some barrel distortion, as demonstrated in the photo above. This turns into mild pincushion distortion in the telephoto range. Chromatic Aberrations The lens is light, or at least, it is light compared to my sigma 105mm OS Macro, and my tamron sp vc 70-300mm lenses, and it partners a 5xxx series camera perfectly. I think that as long as you have very basic post processing skills you'll actually love the lens. It performs well at f/5.6 - 8.0 and with VR helping things along, you'll capture sharp images which give a nice three dimensional look. I would consider it good to around 110mm, beyond which, the optics are fighting to deliver, so unless you have to, avoid going all in at 140mm. If you must, just crank up the ISO to ensure not only your shutter speed is a bit higher, but also, your aperture is not wide open. All in all, considering the price, this is not a bad lens. If you need one for vacation travel, and don't want to risk a very expensive lens, or carry a heavy one around all day, this could be perfect.

Just grab the electronic focus ring at any time for instant manual-focus override anytime the camera is awake. It moves with just fingertip.When used in the 1:1 square crop mode on DX it sees the same angle of view as a 60~500 mm lens sees when used on 6×6 cm Hasselblad. As expected the VR is extremely effective, just the same as the 18-200mm VR. It's also very subjective, depending on how stable you are when you hold a camera. I found I could take photos which were consistently free of camera shake at 1/15th second at 140mm (so 210mm effective focal length) that's pretty similar to my 18-200mm VR if not slightly better. It's also exceptionally good, that's over 3 stops of improvement on a consistent basis. At 18mm I could get away with about 1/8th second but couldn't get much slower, not surprisingly, so the benefit is less at shorter focal lengths but then it's less necessary too. Your results may vary significantly. The Nikkor 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G AF-S ED DX VR (phew!) lens appears to be sort of a double duty lens. First, it's filling in for the old discontinued 18-135mm, which was a very sharp but flawed lens that didn't have VR. Second, the new lens appears to be trying to up the ability ante for the 24mp sensor cameras, where even the well-behaved 18-105mm is showing its age. Nikon has gotten better with each generation of its convenience zoom designs (both DX and FX), and the 18-140mm is just another example of that. Although this lens isn't available as part of a kit yet, it seems like the logical home for this will be sold bundled with an SLR. Whether it will be added to a kit with one of Nikon's current SLRs, or a new one remains to be seen. The scale on the left side is an indication of actual image resolution. The taller the column, the better the lens performance. Simple.

I think it's true to say I've built up a shooting style with the 18-200mm VR that avoids the worst of its shortcomings. It'll be nice to know that I don't have to do that with the 18-140mm VR, I will be able to shoot wide open at 140mm and get a relatively shallow depth of field without completely trashing the image quality. High optical performance is realized with the employment of one ED glass element and one aspherical lens element Based on CIPA Standard. This value is achieved when attached to a DX-format digital SLR camera, with zoom set at the maximum telephoto position.I also did some tests at 75mm and the same general pattern is there. The 18-200mm is better at 75mm than it is at 140mm but is still way behind the 18-140mm in the centre and is also worse in the corners. The AF-S Nikkor 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G E VR puts in a pretty impressive performance all round (here shown on the 16MP Nikon D7000). Sharpness is high, especially towards the wide end, although it drops a bit at telephoto.The lens isn't at all bad at maximum aperture,but as usualfor this kind of lens, the best results are generally obtained at F5.6 - F8. Coma ( saggital coma flare) often causes weird smeared blobs to appear around bright points of light in the corners of fast or wide lenses at large apertures. In lenses that have it, coma goes away as stopped down. Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR lens test data The 18-140mm has a very wide zoom ring at the front of the lens (over half the lens's length), and that ring covers the full focal length range in a bit less than a quarter turn. At 140mm, the lens extends another 2" (53mm) via two embedded barrel sections. These sections have less play and slop in them than many of the Nikon variable aperture zooms that use such designs. The 67mm front element does not rotate during zoom or focus. The front element is very close to the front of the lens, though, so be careful you don't zoom into something (or use the optional HB-32 bayonet lens hood).

The lens is not claimed to be weatherproof, but there is a rubber seal around the lens mount that should provide basic protection against dust and moisture. Focal Range Its overall size and weight is very well-suited to a camera like the Nikon Z50 that we tested it with, as shown in the product photos. VR (Vibration Reduction) minimizes camera shake by offering a shutter speed equivalent to 4.0 stops* faster The lens is very well made. Despite being "refurbished", lens appeared brand new. Took a day of use to free up the zoom and focus rings - feeling a little course at first, these are now fine. One thing I would have liked is a focus distance scale for manual focus and a wider focus ring. It's much sharper at f/11. For real-world macro shooting, shoot at f/22 to f/32 to try to get enough depth of field:The Nikon Z DX 18-140mm F3.5-6.3 VR is a versatile wide-angle to moderate telephoto all-in-one 7.8x zoom lens for Nikon DX APS-C sensor mirrorless cameras, where it provides a 27-210mm equivalent focal length in 35mm full-frame terms. Something else I have seen comments about online is that this lens suffers less from focus breathing than the 18-200mm VR. I'd say that's not the case, it seems to be pretty much the same. And why would it not be, it's a super zoom, the design constraints are largely the same as the 18-200mm VR.

Everything works perfectly on every digital Nikon ever made, except that you're wasting most of your sensor with FX cameras.

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The front section of the lens is tight and has no play, while many more expensive zooms have front sections that wobble if you try to move them side to side. So there! If you compare this lens to a fixed 135mm lens, it looks about the same at infinity, and at six feet (2 meters), this lens includes about 20% more in each direction than the 135mm lens. This difference becomes greater at closer distances.