Nikon 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED-IF AF-S DX Nikkor Lens

Nikon 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED-IF AF-S DX Nikkor Handling and features

As with Nikon's other sub-professional lenses, the lens barrel is constructed from high quality plastics with a metal lens mount. It has a slightly textured finish, which doesn’t show marks easily and a large rubberised zoom ring, which extends in two sections and doesn't suffer from zoom creep when pointed downwards. It balances extremely well on the Nikon D300 body used for testing and is quite lightweight at only 420g.

As focusing is performed internally the 67mm filter thread does not rotate during use, making this lens ideal for use with graduated and polarising filters. Focus speeds are reasonably quick and the thin manual focus ring offers a decent amount of resistance, which makes applying fine adjustments fairly straightforward.

The minimum focus distance of 38cm isn't overly special for a lens in this focal range, although I rarely found myself hitting the minimum focus stop during normal use.

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