Nikon 18-70mm f3.5-4.5 AF-S G ED

[Spec A!]

Nikon 18-70mm f3.5-4.5 AF-S G ED

Nikon D70 : @70mm : 1/60th : f4.5 : 200 ISO : Aperture Priority Mode


Nikon D70 : @50mm : 1/400th : f10 : 200 ISO : Aperture Priority Mode

[Murph]

Sweet lens, mine lives on my D80. The only DX lens that is sharper and better is the 16-85mm. One heck of a good lens.

[Paulo]

Nikon D1x : @ 18mm : 1/10th : f4 : 800 ISO : Center Weighted metering

Nikon D1x : @ 18mm : 1/30th : f4 : 800 ISO : Center Weighted metering

[Paulo]

Nikon D1x : @ 18mm : 1/5th : f3.5 : 800 ISO : Center Weighted metering

[HaloZ]

my first lens and love it.
D80 @ 18 mm : 1/200 : F3.5 : ISO 800 : Pattern

D80 @ 18 mm : 3.6sec : F4.5 : ISO 100 : Pattern
please ignore the reflection in the glass.

D80 @ 70 mm : 1/800 : F7.1 : ISO 1600 : Pattern

D80 @ 18 mm : 1/40 : F3.5 : ISO 200 : Pattern

[bondarnes]

The 18-70 is in my opinion one of the most underrated Nikkor lenses ever made. There is a reason it was the kit lens included with the D70 and also the D200. It is a very good lens for the price and I used it exclusively as my studio lens of choice until I purchased the Nikkor 24-120 which I also consider to be underrated.

[Colyn]

Fort Worth, Texas Stockyard District. D90 with 18-70mm

[Toronto111]

The zoom ring is nonlinear and squeezes together the wide angles. This means that you have to be careful moving the zoom ring at the wide end since small changes in rotation result in larger changes in focal length. At the tele end you can make very precise adjustments.

[Colyn]

Originally Posted by Toronto111

The zoom ring is nonlinear and squeezes together the wide angles. This means that you have to be careful moving the zoom ring at the wide end since small changes in rotation result in larger changes in focal length. At the tele end you can make very precise adjustments.

I'm not really concerned with absolute focal length. I turn the zoom ring till the image is what I want in the viewfinder..

For that matter most fixed focal length lens are not the actual focal length as marked.

[wasserball4]

Originally Posted by bondarnes

The 18-70 is in my opinion one of the most underrated Nikkor lenses ever made. There is a reason it was the kit lens included with the D70 and also the D200. It is a very good lens for the price and I used it exclusively as my studio lens of choice until I purchased the Nikkor 24-120 which I also consider to be underrated.

comparing the 18-70mm with the new kit lens 18-55mm, with few exceptions, the 18-70mm wins in sharpness in the ISO 12233 chart test. It is a nice flexible lens that when I sold my D70s with it, I bought an used one for my D90 as a spare non prime lens.