{"id":918,"date":"2012-07-11T09:42:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T07:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2012-07-11T19:54:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:54:15","slug":"testing-cheap-glass-nikon-28-80mm-f3-3-5-6g-on-d7000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"Testing Cheap Glass. Nikon 28-80mm f\/3.3-5.6G on D7000"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s always fun to test diffrent lens\/camera combos.<\/p>\n

Today I went to Tivoli, Copenhagen with my family. It was a fine summer day, but I was not really in the mood for photography, but in order to try something different i took an old Nikon 28-80G that normally sits on my rarely used 35mm Film SLR and put it on my D7000<\/p>\n

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It felt like a really lightweight combo, and although the lens felt like a fragile plastic toy I was pleasantly surprised by the outcome. The pictures seem sharp enough with decent contrast, and I will definitely shoot this lens again if I need a light weight mid-range zoom.<\/p>\n

It does not compare to the 35mm f\/1.8G AF-S DX or the Sigma 17-70 mm f\/2.8-4.0 OS HSM that I regularly use, but once stopped down I found the 28-80G to be a solid performer on a DX. For the sub 50$ price point, it’s almost ridiculously good.<\/p>\n

Well, the pictures are here, so judge for yourself. They are un-cropped jpgs as they came out of the camera.<\/p>\n\n