Will this lense work through the whole zoom range on a Nikon D700 which is full frame? I don't know because I currently use a Nikon D200, and am considering to upgrade.
If it's a Di II marked lens, then I don't think it will without vignetting. They were designed for APS-C sensors.
If you were thinking of upgrading the camera, then I dare say you'd find that lens lacking in some departments, too, so you'd probably be thinking of dropping that lens.
It was marketed soley for those replacing their superzoom compacts - and one of the first lenses I've seen for slr cameras advertised by way of the 'zoom factor'. From that perspective, it's not a bad lens in that you needn't change it often. From a photographer's point of view, it's far too slow, depth of field control is lacking, it's not sharp enough (especially at the long-end) and - even if it could be fully utilised on a f/f camera - it would be a waste of a good sensor as the lens couldn't resolve what the sensor's capable of seeing.
Hey,
And wow. You wanna use such a bad long zoom on such a great, full frame camera? First, it's not even possible, it won't work, cause it's for APS-C cameras.
Second, I believe that when you upgrade to such a professional body, you should have better lenses than these ultra wide-zooms that are very bad and have small aperture at 250mm+.
I seriously recommend you to use better lenses on such good bodies
Mick is absolutely correct.
You have made the classic mistake of thinking that an expensive camera takes better photographs.
You would get better pictures from a D3000 with a decent lens than a D200 or D700 with cheap compromised glass like the 18-270.
It's like putting remoulds on a new porsche.
Spend your money on glass rather than a body.
Your D200 is what, 3 or 4 years old and you are replacing it?
Buy decent glass and you'll be using it in 20, 30 years.
Get the D700 by all means, but it will only ever shine with decent lenses.
For what its worth the lens will mount and operate on a D700, the viewfinder will mask out the full frame to show only the useable cropped area, as on your D200.
The crop factor still applies, as the camera detects the lens as a DX type, so the 18 will still be more like a 27mm wide angle rather than a true 18mm.
Even if it were to mount and operate on a full frame camera you would get massive vignetting and even when you zoom in the lens will be softer at the edges with more aberations, simply because the lens has not been designed to cover a full frame sensor.
The available resolution on the D700 will also drop to 5MP with a DX type lens fitted. So by upgrading to a D700 with that lens you are halving the 10MP you have available to you just now.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't upgrade, the D700 is an excellent camera, but you SHOULD ditch that lens. It's only going to hold you back if you want to go full frame.
It will work, if not well.
If you are set on a super zoom, what you want to look at are the Sigma and Tamron 28-300 lenses, the Tamron 24-200, or the Nikon version if you can find it. There are also 28-200 lenses.
It really is kind of silly to spend that much on a body and then go cheap on the lenses.
Without chastising you, the technical answer is yes the lens will work and you'll get the full zoom range. However, there is a significant caveat to add. That caveat is that the camera will automatically crop the image sensor. This basically makes the D700 produce an image with slightly less resolution than a Nikon D40 or D70/D70s.
If you are looking to improve image quality and you know you'll eventually go full-frame, look to spend that $2700 on your lenses first and consider the D300/D300s if you still want to upgrade your camera body. The Tamron 18-270mm is a decent travel lens for APS-C format cameras but it is far from the best lens available and generally wrong for a full-frame camera like the D700. Superzoom lenses offer a lot of convenience but that convenience comes at a cost of overall image quality. So you have to set your priorities and build your camera/lens system accordingly.
No it will not, I just went to B&H Photo's website and to the web page for that lens in the Nikon mount and read this excerpt:
"Not compatible with 35mm cameras or Digital cameras using full-size (FX) image sensors"
I placed a link below if you want to check it out. If you get the D700, then you would look for a 28-200mm zoom which Tamron does make (see 2nd link below).
Hope this helps.
Mark
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