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Originally Posted by SteveMD
I have a D40 with the 18-200mm VR and like most, bought it so that I would not have to lug around two lenses and keep changing them out. The camera was $500, the lens was $850 lol.
There is only one downside. If you use the built in flash on most Nikons at anything less than 40-45mm, the lens obscures a small area which shows up as a semicircular shadow at the bottom of the picture (the lens is quite large even when retracted). I have attached a photo depicting this.
So if I know I'm going to be taking pics indoors and am not going to need the telephoto aspect of the lens i.e. family get togethers etc. I put the kit lens back on.
It's a very good lens though. The VR mechanism is amazing when you understand it's workings. Little gyroscopes in the lens detect movement and move one of the lens elements to compensate!! That to me is incredible.
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hmm....that shadow's pretty bad...are you SURE that's from the lens and not something overhead? i haven't had that problem...