Nikon 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S VR Zoom Nikkor Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras

I take a lot of motorsport and wildlife photos. Whilst this lens has its limitations, it is pretty impressive for amateur usage. I've used it with a D40 body and frankly you'd need to spend thousands of dollars more to improve on the imagery.

This lens is very good, and very powerful. The VR is really efficient: with good light, you can take picture without tripod at 300mm without any trouble.
The only cons I have is when the light is not strong enough: this lens needs a lot of light.. or a tripod. Otherwise your pictures will be blurry.
But for this price and this great quality, I don't really care and I am enjoying it!!

I've found the optical performance of this VR lens to be flawless. It is easy to manipulate, especially with the focus ring being close to the camera body (instead of the other end of the lens). My only suggested improvement would be to have a tripod mount on the lens itself. The package becomes rather unbalanced when your only choice is to use the camera's tripod mount.

This lens was to replace our existing Sigma 70-300 APO. Not only is the Nikkor far sharper, but it also has the built in silent focus motor (AF-S) and vibration reduction (VR). This is our first lens with VR and it works very well allowing the lens to be hand-held. We always used the Sigma on a tripod. While it's no match for the 70-200 F/2.8 Nikkor, at 3x the price, this lens beats other consumer telephoto zoom lenses I've tried. By far the best 70-300 available.

Recieved my lens quickly, good communication, knew exactly what day delivery was to be made. Quality of lens is exactly as advertised. Clear sharp pictures. Flawless focusing in AF mode. The VR feature works well. Definitely a must have lens for a Nikon SLR camera.