How about the Nikon 55-200?

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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:10:34 GMT, Aaron Blacksmith
<Aaron@Nospam.com> wrote:

>The Nikon AF-S DX 55-200/4-5,6 G ED is priced surprisingly cheap, which
>makes med suspicious. Has anyone experience about it? How does it
>perform compared to other lenses in the same range (Nikon, Tamron,
>Sigma, Tokina...)

If I only could get my hands on one of those, I would have told You.

The Sigma DC 55-200 is not a bad lens either, if you can't wait. The
biggest difference could be the AF-S (SWM - other brands call this
HSM and USM), but it seems it's not a 'real' SWM, only a
light-weight one...

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This lens was supposed to be available in early June. Now Nikon says
mid-July.
There are no hands on reviews of this lens anywhere. The one posting on the
internet about a pre-production sample is no more helpful than Nikon's
advertising.
The Nikon 18-70 kit lens is a suprisingly good lens so one can only hope
this 55-200 will be in the same category. The key issue is reasonable
optical quality, i.e. low distortion, as a tradeoff for the remarkable size
and weight of this sort of slow lens (f4-5.6).
The Canon 55-200 is not all that great a performer and the Sigma has not
been formally reviewed, at least anywhere I can find, by anyone other than
end users.

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"Aaron Blacksmith" <Aaron@Nospam.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:K4Dve.27957$d5.180699@newsb.telia.net...
> The Nikon AF-S DX 55-200/4-5,6 G ED is priced surprisingly cheap, which
> makes med suspicious. Has anyone experience about it? How does it perform
> compared to other lenses in the same range (Nikon, Tamron, Sigma,
> Tokina...)
>
> Thanx for your input...
>

Some sample pics from the D50 with 18-55 and 55-200 lenses:
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/nikon/d50-review/gall...