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Nikon 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED-IF DX AF-S Nikkor

I bought a Nikon D70 when it first came out in 2004, this was the "kit" lens that was supplied with it, having been a full time working professional photographer until I retired 5 years ago, the 18-70mm was my lens of choice for the majority of my jobs, it has seen me through literally thousands of weddings and portrait sessions as well as social events etc and is still working perfectly, any problems that have been mentioned by other reviewers, such as vignetting and barrel distortion at the wide end, are not that serious and can easily be corrected in Photoshop or DxO. The build for such a cheap lens is very good, mine has been chucked in and out of the car boot, used in the pouring rain and generally not looked after as well as it maybe should have been, but even after all of these years it still works as well as it did they day I bought it, it has outlived many Nikon cameras. I have a couple of Nikon 18-55mm VR lenses as well as a couple of 18-200mm VRs, and although obviously the 18-200mm lenses are very useful because of the huge zoom range, optical quality of the 18-70mm is superior in my opinion than either of the above.