I recently bought a Nikon d800e, brilliant, but needed fx lenses, first lens I bought was a f/2.8 105mm again brilliant, but needed a zoom, I have the 18-200mm dx zoom for my d7000 again a wonderful lens, I bought the 28-300mm from Jessops, (I got £70 back from Nikon thru their Christmas money back scheme) anyway lens is as you would expect from Nikon.
I compared it to my 105mm lens and found very little difference in it even at 300mm I think the 105mm was just a tad sharper, but you don't have the versatility of the zoom, I'm still not sure which lens to use as my walking around lens, but I think I'm leaning towards the zoom.

I am still learning about this lens, It's not quite as sharp as I would have hoped, but this may be my fault I was not using a tripod and at 300mm you had better have a steady hand even with VR.
One thing I have noticed is an electrical, short circuit sound when focusing, I've gone online and it has been noticed by other owners, whether it's a fault or not, don' know, I have three other AF lenses and they don't make that noise, comments anyone?

Good all round lens, I had the 18-200mm on my d7000 it is the only lens I use, and for my d800e the 28-300 zoom lens will probably be my walk around lens, but for portraits and really fine photography I will use the Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 lens.

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18-200mm dx lense

the fact it's a Nikon and will resale OK

nothing is sharp
at wide angle really bad edge colour distortion
and it's slow
I had strange unnatural greens too, thought it was the camera until I tested another lens

a good all round lens, for some, but on my D200 I have been very disappointed

- image quality is surprising considering the extreme zoom range
- lightweight (compared to many other lenses in that category)
- focuses in very low light conditions
- acceptable distortion (except when shooting vertical and/or horizontal lines)
- VR allows a couple of extra stops
- solid build

- Expensive (but when you consider all the lenses it replaces, it's a real bargain)
- Distortion at max wide and max long ends

This is an amazing lens. It is relatively new on the market and I wasn't sure how it would perform seeing as it has been labelled a "do-it-all" lens. So far, it has exceeded my expectations on my Nikon D700. I shoot just about everything but mostly people and travel. This lens is on my camera almost all the time.

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I've used lots of Nikon lenses, most notably the AF-S 24-70mm f2.8 and the AF-S VR 70-300mm f4.5-5.6 on my D700.