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Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies
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If you're a regular visitor of our forum, you probably read the discussions following the reviews of the Nikkor AF-D 18-35mm lens on both the D7000 and D3x.



Quite often when we publish a review where the verdict doesn't quite meet the expectations of the community, we're accused or at least suspected of having measured a bad sample. Usually this is not the case, since we carefully check for several "alarm signs" during the review process, which help to identify lenses with issues. In fact, a good portion of the review work we do never leads to published results because of optical flaws we discover.



Well, I'm really sorry to report that in case of the Nikkor AF-D 18-35 indeed a bad sample was used for the reviews. For once, our triggers didn't set off the alarm bells and the poor measurement results led to verdicts that didn't do the lens justice.



Our reader and forum member studor13 kindly provided a second sample of the lens (thanks a lot!), which performed slightly better on FX, especially at the end, and significantly better on DX. I have updated both reviews accordingly, the optical verdict on FX has been increased slightly (from 1 to 1.5 stars) but quite a bit on DX (from 1.5 to 3 stars).



Since the initially tested lens was also used for the older D200-based review, which cannot be redone (due to lack of the test camera), I have removed that review.



The two remaining reviews can be found here:



FX: http://www.opticallimits.com/nikon_ff/67...18353545ff



DX: http://www.opticallimits.com/nikon--nikk...18353545dx



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Messages In This Thread
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by mst - 01-10-2012, 11:41 PM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by mst - 01-10-2012, 11:55 PM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by Guest - 01-11-2012, 12:11 AM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by Guest - 01-11-2012, 07:35 AM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by mst - 01-11-2012, 07:46 AM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by mst - 01-11-2012, 07:47 AM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by PuxaVida - 01-11-2012, 07:52 AM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by Guest - 01-11-2012, 08:27 AM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by Studor13 - 01-11-2012, 09:32 AM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by Guest - 01-11-2012, 03:19 PM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by mst - 01-11-2012, 11:29 PM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by Guest - 01-12-2012, 12:13 AM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by Studor13 - 01-12-2012, 07:57 AM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by soLong - 01-12-2012, 08:11 AM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by PuxaVida - 01-12-2012, 08:36 AM
Nikkor AF-D 18-35: my apologies - by Studor13 - 01-12-2012, 07:03 PM

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