Nikon 28-300mm AF-S Nikkor f/3.5-5.6G ED VR Zoom Lens

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Extended Warranty Program is designed to provide you with additional coverage for manufacturer defects. Electronic malfunctions always seem to happen right after the Manufacturer Warranty expires! When you purchase an extended warranty you purchase that peace of mind for those unexpected malfunctions and costly repairs, you are making a wise investment for your equipment.

Buying an extended warranty service plan not only means you are getting the highest level of customer service, but also means you can rest assure in the event your product needs repair. The technicians we have are factory trained and authorized to repair your product and we are using the most up to date computers and state of the art testing equipment needed to properly diagnose and repair your product. There is no limit to the number of repairs throughout the life of your service plan. If it is determined that your product can no longer be repaired, it will be replaced with a new product of like kind and quality.

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Enjoy a true worry free experience for your new product. We'll keep your product working like new and if we can't, we'll buy you a new one. Our service plans are underwritten by an A+ rated insurance carrier ensuring financial protection for the entire length of your plan.

This warranty does not cover equipment which has been misused, tampered with, modified or damaged as a result of accident, water, grit, impact or lack of proper care as indicated in the manual of operations.

-This extended warranty covers all parts and labor.

 

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-2 Free CCD Cleaning for the Life of the Contract

-1 Free Video Head Cleaning Per Year for the Life of the Contract

 

By adding the accidental option to one of our service plans, you are enabling your purchase to be covered for unintentional damages to your product as a result of: impact or dropping, liquid damage or unintentional physical damage. Dropped coffee on your keyboard? You’re Protected, Your cell phone fell out of your hand and your LCD screen cracked? You’re Protected! Your Ipod fell as you were running and now it can no longer play music? You’re Protected! Your digital camera dropped and now cannot zoom in or out? You may be considered quite clumsy, but You’re Protected. You get the idea!


This option goes above and beyond a manufacturer’s warranty which would not provide coverage on such damages as listed above. Although accidental coverage covers most damages it does not cover intentional damages of any kind or losses due to theft. When adding accidental coverage to your contract, your service plan will begin immediately upon the date of purchase and extend up to five full years. Adding accidental coverage guarantees that your product will perform as intended for the life of your coverage.

 
-Manufacturer Defects

-Impact Damage

-Sand/Grit Damage

-Accidental and Unintentional Abuse

-Mechanical Malfunctions

-Normal and Abnormal Wear and Tear

-2 Free CCD Cleaning for the Life of the Contract

-1 Free Video Head Cleaning Per Year for the Life of the Contract

 

Nikon 28-300mm AF-S Nikkor f/3.5-5.6G ED VR Zoom Lens
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The Nikon 28-300mm ƒ/3.5-5.6G produced some odd results for sharpness, which may or may not be objectionable. As the lens is intended for a full-frame audience, I will begin with our observations with the lens mounted on the D3x.

Perhaps the most striking result we obtained was with the lens set to 28mm and ƒ/3.5. We've started coining the term ''sombrero'' to describe this performance - softness in the center, sharpening up out towards the corners, and the some more corner softness. Fortunately, stopping down even to ƒ/4 dramatically reduces this phenomenon, and by ƒ/5.6 we see performance we would expect from a thousand-dollar lens - a sweet spot of sharpness in the center, degrading to slight corner softness. Stopping down at 28mm doesn't produce further sharpness, until ƒ/16 where diffraction limiting removes the central sharpness. This performance is also observed at the 35mm setting.

In the mid-range (50-105mm) we don't see the sombrero effect, just some soft corners, when used wide open. In these focal lengths, ƒ/5.6 produces a reasonably sharp center degrading to soft corners, and stopping down to ƒ/8 produces slightly more overall sharpness.

At the telephoto end (200-300mm) the lens produces mediocre results when used wide open (ƒ/5.6), but fortunately, stopping down just one stop to ƒ/8 cleans it up - the image is overall just slightly soft, with corners that are just slightly softer. Stopping down further than ƒ/8 doesn't produce any sharper results.

 

Fully stopped-down results are nothing to write home about - while the images produced are consistent from corner to corner, they're soft at the wide end (28mm, ƒ/22) and downright blurry at the telephoto end (300mm, ƒ/36).

The above commentary is essentially applicable to the sub-frame images produced on the D300s, with the caveat that soft corners are less of a factor given the reduced field of view available in that camera.

So the question is, especially at wide end showing the sombrero pattern, will the average user notice this effect? As a complement to our sample images, we shot a series of photographs of a flat brick wall, with both the Nikon 28-300mm, and a lens we know to be incredibly sharp, the Sigma 70mm ƒ/2.8 Macro.

Name Nikon 28-300mm ƒ/3.5-5.6G ED VR AF-S Nikkor
Image Circle 35mm
Type Standard Zoom
Focal Length 28 - 300mm
APS Equivalent 42 - 450mm
Max Aperture ƒ/3.5 - 5.6
Min Aperture ƒ/22 - 38
Diaphragm Blades 9 (rounded)
Lens Construction 19 elements in 14 groups, including 3 aspherical and 2 ED elements
Diagonal Angle of View(Based on image circle) 74 to 8.2 degrees
Focus Details AF-S with Silent Wave Motor (SWM) and internal focusing; M/A focus mode switch
Front Element Rotation No
Zoom System Rotary with Zoom Lock Switch
Closest Focus 0.5m / 1.6 ft. (throughout the entire zoom range)
Magnification Ratio 0.32x / 1:3.1 (at 300mm)
Filter Size 77mm

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