Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6G (4.3x) Lens

If you want a binocular with photo taking facility then use this lens instead. If you Want to take a Bird' s photograph in decent quality, you can do that with this. Fully extended with hood this is a bigsize light weight rocket launcher kind of lens. Manual focus on cheaper DSLRs. I keep it for occasional Bird picture. Caution, birds think you are shooting to kill, so take care of hiding it. I shoot from inside the car. If you want to sell photographs or comparing quality with $1000 high end zoom then spend that amount to get something else. Cheaper option than this: catch the bird, ask somebody to hold it and take the picture.

I bought this lens from Flipkart for my D90 about 5 months ago and have been using it intermittently. First, the autofocus with the D90 internal motor is good in daylight. Towards late evening if you try to take a picture of a crow on a nearby tree, the autofocus simply hunts. As there is no VR, you essentially get what you paid for. Without tripod and below 1/300th of a sec shutter speed, the pictures clicked with even the slightest of camerashake are as as good as worthless. Moreover the glass is not ED as compared to the 5 times more expensive 70-300 VR ED lens. Coming back to the lens under review, at 70~180mm (this lens gives a 35mm equivalent of 105mm ~ 450mm on the D90) you get decently sharp pictures. Beyond 200 mm, you'll get sharp pictures may be at arounf f8~f11 but you'll have to bump up the ISO which inturn increase the noise. You can use the pics but with some post processing in LR. All in all a cheap lens from Nikon to produce cheap looking photographs. I find the lens to be a better portrait lens than a long telephoto. You can see some sample pics in azon for this lens and compare with the pics taken by the VR version. All in all its a good lens to own for a beginner on a budget. However if you are a beginner and have the dough, you are better of going in for a 70~300 VR ED (67 mm filter size) or a comparatively cheaper 55~300 DX in you own a DX size camera (much lesser filter size so amount of light entering is also less :( ...) Or you may go for the sigma or tamron lens which come with the macro option (no VR still) at a slightly more expense than this lens. Hope this review helps. On a lighter note, after reading my review if you still want to go ahead and buy this lens, tell me i'll sell mine for cheap :D :D

As usual, kudos to flipkart for the next day delivery even if they promise 4 business days.

My colleague bought for his Nikon D40. Results were excellent.
So, I bought for my Nikon D3000 and it proved.
Use tripod at maximum zoom.
As far as Flipkart, I received on the third day and their serviceand response is superb. But has to be maintained.

I bought this lens sometime back to go with my Nikon D3100. Though Flipkart delivered the item in good time, and am happy with the service of Flipkart, I am far from satisfied with the product itself.
First of all, if one has to use this lens one has to have steady hands like an expert marksman. It is practically impossible to shoot good quality pictures with this lens- even with a tripod. At 70 mm perhaps one can get a decent shot.

Since it doesn't have auto focus, it is useless in most cases, especially if the subject is moving.

Shame on Nikon to market such a lens. It has put this product in the market just to cause damage to other auto focus lens manufacturers in this range.

I would never recommend this lens to anyone who is interested in good photography.

I got the lense in less than 2 days well packed. Opened the package to see that the lense is "FULL BLACK" (which i wanted anyways), but not Blabk & White as mentioned on the add for the product..

Apart from that it is an amazing lense. If you are a beginner that i would not suggest it as it is a manual lense without the focusing motor. If you are quick enough to zoon in & out & focus that 'NOTHING LIKE IT'..

Overall good service by FLIPCART as always, good product for the price..

TOTALLY SATISFIED..
Thank you FLIPCART..