Buy Low Price From Here Now
Get better pictures from your digital SLR with this Nikon USA: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR lens. Its special Vibration Reduction Image Stabilization reduces camera shake, so your pictures come out sharper. And with its three aspherical lens elements, lens aberrations are rare. And if you need to take a picture fast, the Silent Wave Motor produces high-speed and quiet autofocus operation. 3 aspherical lens elements virtually eliminate coma and other types of lens aberration even when used at the widest aperture. Nikon Super Integrated Coating (SIC) offers superior color performance and substantially reduced ghosting and flare. Close focusing distance to 1.3 feet throughout the entire zoom range. Rounded 7-blade diaphragm for more natural appearance of out-of-focus image elements Picture angle equivalent to focal length of 24-127.5mm (in 35mm format) Focal length - 16-85mm, Maximum aperture - f/3.5-5.6, Minimum aperture - f/22-36, Lens construction - 17 elements in 11 groups (with two ED glass elements, three aspherical lenses) Maximum reproduction ratio - 1/4.6. Filter/attachment size - 67mm. Diameter x length - Approximately 2.8 x 3.4 inches Weight - Approximately 17.1 oz. Supplied accessories - 67mm Snap-on front lens cap LC-67, Rear lens cap LF-1, Bayonet hood HB-39, Flexible lens pouch CL-1015 Optional accessories - 67mm screw-in filters
Readmore
Technical Details
- AF-S DX Nikkor 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR lens- Designed For Wse With Nikon DX Digital SLR Cameras Including The D40, D60, D80, D90, and D300
- 24-128mm Effective Focal Length for APS-C Sensor Cameras
- Vibration Reduction Allows In-focus Shots with Longer Exposure Times (up to four shutter speeds slower)
- Ideal For Wide-Angle Shots and Portraiture
See more technical details
By J. Liao (NYC)
Great lens to walk around with, very sharp, wide enough for landscapes (though with some distortion) and good telephoto for portrait shots with good bokeh. VR works great, build quality is solid. This is a great step up lens if your considering moving up from a kit lens.
By Dr. Mr. Feldesman
I purchased this as a midrange all-purpose lens for my D90. I also have a D300s. After using the lens on both bodies and taking all sorts of pictures - portraits, landscapes, closeups, wide-angle, I could not come up with a single image that I would be willing to display. All pictures were slightly out of focus and extremely soft at all focal lengths. Mind you, I'm accustomed to some sharp images from my 10-24, my 35 mm, my 17-55 ED 2.8, my 70-200, and my 105 micro Nikkor. I am returning the lens for its utter lack of sharpness (at $700 I don't regard this as a "cheap" lens) and am ordering the out-of-stock 24-70 mm lens at 2.5x the price. There is, IMO, no point in buying a lens covering this particular range unless it is a high end lens. I have a couple of overlapping focal lengths but with two bodies, I like to keep different lenses on different bodies and switch bodies rather than lenses. The 16-85 mm was a huge disappointment to me.
By Ellie (North Shore of Boston, USA)
Remarkable zoom lens. Here's how I'm using it: my body is a Fuji Finepix S3 PRO Nikon mount with the wonderful Fuji Super CCD SRII imaging chip. I mention this because only a great lens will bring out all that this chip can offer. First, when I got the body I tried it with my old Nikkor 50mm f1.8 prime lens. Wonderful sharpness and color. Then I bought the 16-85 through Amazon from J&R in New York which has been an excellent supplier to me for several years - 1 day shipping to Massachusetts for regular rates. After some initial testing at home, I took it to Harvard Square and did my usual style of wide angle street shots, architectural, people, mild telephoto, and some interiors. The autofocus is rapid but with my Fuji body, which is based on an older Nikon design, focus at extreme telephoto end was iffy. But wait, I blame that on the Fuji autofocus detector feature which, being years older that current Nikon models, wasn't up to the task. So I could easily focus manually when needed. The payoff was at home when I uploaded the shots and viewed them in Picassa 3 under high magnification I saw that they were about as sharp as my 50mm prime lens. I saw no color fringing. And the barrel distortion at the wide end was less that I've noticed from my Leica point-and-shoot models V-lux 1 and D-lux 4. The color, using the Fujichrome setting in the body, was outstanding with excellent contrast. This is not a light, plastic mount lens. The combination of this and my heavy Fuji S3 body made my arms sore by the end of the day. So, now I am looking for a modern Nikon DX body, maybe the D5000 (when Nikon exhausts its stock plagued with power regulation problems), to mate with this lens which is as close to being my all round lens as I might have wished. Other that paying well over $1000 for an f2.8 Nikkor zoom, this seems to me to be the sweetest focal range (24mm to 128mm in DX) at a reasonable price considering its quality. Pair it with a quality prime telephoto or a 70-400mm zoom and you can cover nearly any situation with confidence in the resultant image quality.
By nicjaytee (London)
You really don't want to keep swapping lenses unless you have to and with this one... you don't have to. Covering the most used and useful focal lengths from 16mm (24mm old style), which is probably as wide as you want to go in everyday shooting, through to 85mm (128mm old style), which is in the most popular mid-range telephoto length, it's all here in a single lens.
Size wise it's a bit bigger than a standard 18-55mm lens; weight wise it's quite a lot heavier; but despite its weight it's still small enough and (just) light enough to be used as a "stock" lens. Maximum aperture of 3.5 to 5.6 is good and its VR (vibration reduction) system not only completely compensates for any aperture restrictions but very significantly extends your camera's versatility by allowing you to shoot at slower shutter speeds without a tripod. And... the pictures it produces are, to me, indistinguishable in quality from my other Nikon lenses.
Sure you can get all of this much cheaper, but only if you're prepared to cart at least two or more lenses around with you and regularly swap between them. What you're paying for here is the speed & convenience of a genuinely portable solution to probably 99% of your photo requirements: other than where you need A2 size or larger photos at exhibition quality levels, you don't need a longer zoom lens given the pixel resolution of current Nikon SLRs and the fact that you can enlarge sections of their photos to almost double their size without any noticeable loss of quality, you only need a wider angle lens for specialist, ultra-wide shots, and - because of its VR system - you only need a wider aperture lens in equally specialist situations where absolutely minimal depth-of-field is critical.
Problems? Only one: at its widest angles the lens blocks part of the illuminated area when using the built-in flash on my Nikon D40X producing a black shadow in the lower part of the picture. This is easily avoided by zooming in to around 20mm (30mm old style) and, of course, isn't an issue when using a separate flash unit, but... it's annoying if you're in point & shoot mode and forget to correct for it and, the same problem may well occur with the built-in flash units on other Nikon bodies.
However, other than this minor niggle this is a superb, if expensive, replacement for your stock lens which once on your camera will rarely come off. Brilliant!
By Norman L. Cropp
Nikon 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G AF-S DX ED VR Nikkor Wide Angle Telephoto Zoom Lens for Nikon DSLR Cameras Outstanding. Should be kit lens for most if not all Nikon DSRL cameras
Images Product
Buy Nikon 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G AF-S DX ED VR Nikkor Wide Angle Telephoto Zoom Lens for Nikon DSLR Cameras Now
