To use only under the best lighting and motive conditions.

I bought this somewhat older lens in the Nikon version for my D3100, because I was looking for a cheap and still good lens as an advanced amateur photographer, with which one riff a good snapshot of all layers. What I did not know when buying: On a Nikon D3100 autofocus does not work, have the both the camera and the lens actually. This problem is apparently in principle available bie this combination.

As a result, zooming or focusing may only be done manually, and also because the lens revealed glaring weaknesses. Sharp images you get are only entered in the range up to 100 mm, everything is rangeholt closer, becomes blurred. It's just not possible to have a beautiful macro shot hinzubekommen example a flower, the darn part simply does not focus so much one struggles. Thus each photo trip is an ordeal and the fun will be the loser. Even worse is when shooting in the dark. Despite ISO 3200 images are blurred and out of focus.

For half a year I propose me to the part around. And the problem of not being able to focus on is getting worse. Increasingly, and especially in cold weather fails the manual zoom all: means you round and round, but the lens does not extend or. For rapid response and snapshots, for that matter on the fastest possible maneuverability, absolutely not suitable. I am more than disappointed with this lens. Although I am more of a photo-amateur, but even with other cameras with AF lens (Nikon D90 + AF-S DX Nikkor 28-200mm) photographed, and thus almost always hammer out good images with very high resolution. I'm going to leave this part well again and spend the one two hundred euros more for a better Nikon lens.