Nikon 28-300 Review – Stuck in Customs

Nikon 28-300 Review

Check Latest Lens Prices

The Nikon 28-300mm is a must have lens!

The Nikon 28-300 Lens

This is just a placeholder for my upcoming review. But in the meantime, people always ask, why did you buy it? Here are my quick answers:

  • It is full frame, and not like the unfortunately cropped DX 18-200 lens
  • I shoot so many daytime / sunrise / sunset landscapes — the range of this lens from 28-300 is amazing
  • I really dislike changing lenses all the time.  This should do everything that 2-4 of my old lenses used to do… and no need to swap all the time!
  • This saves me space in my bag.  This one lens now will replace my 28-70 and my 70-200.  That’s pretty amazing!
  • Some photo-snobs complain about the sharpness of the lens. I don’t see it so much. For example, look at my shot of San Francisco below… plenty sharp for me!
  • Note this lens is particularly ideal for me because I shoot on a tripod a lot, which means I don’t care if the f-stop is not so great. Handheld is fine in the daytime, but at night, you’ll really need a tripod for a clean photo.

Interim Field Tests (pending the full review)

So far, the lens has been incredible. I use this plus my 14-24 quite a bit. It has been very solid, focused extremely fast, and the flexibility is incredible.  In fact, it’s so flexible, I’m still getting used to it…  I keep saying to myself, “I forgot I could zoom in so far!”

Nikon 28-300 Lens Photo Examples

Below are some sample photos from the lens… I’ll add more as time goes on!

Nikon 28-300 Review

Above:  The Most Beautiful Road in the World (Queenstown to Glenorchy) — Shutter 1/30; f/5.6; 44mm; ISO 100

Magical Fog in San Francisco over the Golden Gate BridgeI recently drove across the bridge and up this little mountain road to try to find this shot. I started driving up a road I knew well, but it was closed. Closed! So I parked, got out my tripod, and hiked about a mile up this hill to get to this spot. It was a very cool night, but there was some strange inversion happening. Almost anywhere I stood on the side of the hill was a stead hotel-room 72-degrees. And there was zero wind. It was a perfect night, and just when I arrived, the fog really started pouring over the bridge, so I set up for this shot...- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

HDR Photo

Nikon 28-300 Review

Above:  A Peaceful Farm in Gibbston – Shutter 0.7s; f/5.6; 28mm; ISO 100

Nikon 28-300 Review

Above: Sheep on the way to Paradise, NZ — f/5.6; 70mm; ISO 100

High Dynamic Range Photo

The winter lake in the evening — f/4.8; 28mm; ISO 100

More Example Photos

To show you how much I like this lens and the range of the thing at the same time, here are two photos I grabbed while visiting the space shuttle. I’ll let you figure out which one was at 28mm and which one was at 300mm.

The Mighty Rocket Awaits Today I had a great day at NASA. I've come back to the space coast in Florida to see the space shuttle Endeavor blast off, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.Around noon, I was invited out with a group of other Twitter peeps to see the RRS Rollback event. This is the slow-motion but exciting time when they peel away to the Rotating Service Structure to reveal the shuttle. It was so awesome that I almost forgot to send a tweet. - Trey Ratcliff Read more here at stuckincustoms.com.

The Mighty Rocket Awaits Today I had a great day at NASA. I’ve come back to the space coast in Florida to see the space shuttle Endeavor blast off, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.Around noon, I was invited out with a group of other Twitter peeps to see the RRS Rollback event. This is the slow-motion but exciting time when they peel away to the Rotating Service Structure to reveal the shuttle. It was so awesome that I almost forgot to send a tweet.Here you can see a zoom in I took at 300mm. It shows one of the workers on the scaffolding making some final preparations for the launch.- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

Other Lens Reviews

You can read all the Lens Reviews right there on the link.

Any questions about the nature of these reviews? Visit my Ethics Statement. It’s all quite simple!