While the lens itself has great reviews I can't support buying it from Walmart or their supplier. The box came heavily damaged without any packing support to keep it from bouncing around inside the outer cardboard box.

Finally Nikon provided a tilt shift lens that enables the user to change the orientation in the field depending upon its use for architectural or landscape photography. Canon has provided this feature for all of its tilt shift lenses since 2009 so it is great that Nikon is at least providing it with...

Such a great lens for near and far! Was tired of trading out lenses and love this!

Nobody expects a zoom with as ambitious of a range as the Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3G ED VR to be an impeccable optical performer. Issues like distortion are readily removed, either in-camera or via software, but there's no fixing a lack of detail.

Long 16.7x zoom range; Optical stabilization; 1:3 macro magnification; Relatively light and compact

Distortion throughout range; Weak edge and telephoto performance; Hood not included

The Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3G ED VR ($699.95) dangles the promise of an extremely long zoom range in front of photographers, making it appealing to shutterbugs looking to minimize lens changes or pack light for a vacation. Its build quality is solid, as you'd expect from Nikon, but its asking price is on the high side and image quality is very disappointing when zoomed past 200mm. It'd be a little easier to recommend at a lower price, but at $700 it's not too much of a stretch to opt for Nikon's pricier, far superior AF-S DX Nikkor 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR instead. Design The 18-300mm follows the design paradigm of every other modern Nikkor zoom. Its barrel is black polycarbonate with gold accents, and both the zoom ring and manual focus ring have a textured finish. The lens measures 3.9 by 3.1 inches (HD), weighs 1.2 pounds, and supports 67mm front filters. It's smaller than the pricier 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6G, which comes in at 4.7 by 3.3 inches, weighs 1.8 pounds, a...

The Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3G ED VR lens entices buyers with a long zoom range, but image quality at the telephoto end is lacking.

Long 16.7x zoom range; Optical stabilization; 1:3 macro magnification; Relatively light and compact

Distortion throughout range; Weak edge and telephoto performance; Hood not included

Superzooms have just got even more powerful with the Nikkor 18-300mm, but is it a lens for everyday use and what compromises have been made? Find out with the AF-S DX Nikkor 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR review

I've now taken hundreds of shots with my Nikon D7100 to compare the A. 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3G DX with B. 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G DX and C. 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G FX, chosen best of three in all categories and carefully compared them. Here's what I've observed: 1.

Impressive focal length range; handy size; saves having to change lenses in the field

Vignetting at 18mm; not super sharp; focus breathing at 300mm with close subjects; significantly overpriced

Nikon's AF-S Nikkor 18-300mm F3.5-5.6 VR lens offers the longest zoom range currently available for any interchangeable lens camera system. But this comes with all of the usual optical compromises associated with a superzoom, in a large, heavy package.

Huge 16.7x focal length range (while maintaining F5.6 aperture at telephoto); Good image quality in the wide to short telephoto range; Fast; quiet autofocus; Good build quality; smooth zooming action and no zoom creep; Decent close-up capability; Nikon DX SLR owners looking for the longest possible...

Very soft results at telephoto; Extreme distortion across most of the range (but can be corrected in-camera with recent SLRs); Image stabilization not as effective as on similar lenses; especially at telephoto end; Flash shadowing at wideangle on smaller SLRs; Large; heavy and expensive compared to...

I purchased this lens along with a D3300 a few months before my recently completed Tanzanian safari, in order to become familiar with it in time for that big trip. Now that I used it for 2100 pictures in Africa, I can report that the lens is good, not great.

Gary Wolstenholme reviews the compact super-zoom Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3G ED VR lens.

Good sharpness in the centre; especially when stopped down; Extreme 16.7x zoom range; Effective VR system; Good build; Relatively compact and lightweight

CA levels towards edges of the frame are high; Performance towards the edges of the frame could be considered disappointing at 18mm and 300m