Thoughts on the AF Nikon Nikkor 70-300mm F:4-5.6?

State your opinions and user experience below if you d ever own one or had experience with one.

If you mean the cheapy cheapo version, waste of money.

Outdoor sports, terrible for landscapes.

It won't autofocus with a D3xxx or D5xxx.

Go to photozone.de and check out their lens reviews. They give numerical values in their sharpness tests, making it easy to see which lenses are sharper and by how much.

You need to be looking at the Nikkor AF-S 70-300 mm VR lens if you have one of the Nikon entry level digital SLR cameras.

I have one of the older Nikkor AF 70-300 mm I purchased around 2003 and it works perfectly fine on all my pro and semi-pro Nikon cameras.

I use it primarily for shooting air shows and that is about it. In full sun it could be a good lens for shooting field sports, but I shoot most of my sporting events indoors or at night, so I use a group of much faster lenses, the 70-200 mm f/2.8, 200 mm f/2.0 or 300 mm f/2.8