A short compared to the two:
70-300er VR
+ Stable
- Longer design, therefore be careful that the lens will fit in your pocket or stay on the body in the bag can
- Significantly heavier
55-300er VR
+ Easy
+ Small (fits in my little pocket where it is screwed on my D5000)
+ VR I could not compare - these causes here for me little miracle
+ Grosserer Wide makes it for me "Immmerdrauf"
- Not as stable
- Rotating front element
- You can not intervene manually in the AF
I am not a professional, at least you can take pictures with the lens so together with the D5000 just in automatic mode, as if one had a compact. For me the pictures at 300mm with VR and really low light (at dusk) is so crisp.
As with the minimum focus distance is 70-300er with 1.5m unfortunately somewhat large.
I would buy me at any time.
Thanks also to Amazon for the quick delivery and secure packaging.