I hesitated to buy this lens for my Nikon D40X - probably looked at this list of six or seven times before the purchase. Truthfully, I was worried about how cheap it is. Now I am probably a pretty average amateur photographer in that most of my pictures are family matters: children sports, vacations, birthdays and the like. But that does not mean I'm willing to compromise on quality just to save some money and I know that the Nikon 55-200 is a quality lens.
But I have purchased is based on Michael Del Priore review (his was the only study at the time) - I thought at that price (especially compared to the Nikon 55-200), why not give it a shot, and I glad I did .
This is an excellent lens. The autofocus motor is quick and does not chew up the battery (I was worried about it, but I shot almost 170 pictures of my son's game two Saturdays ago, and not use more battery power than the Nikon 35-70 lens that came with the camera). As "cinderoo" I have not had any stability problems to speak of either, even snatch away, while the subsequent 12-year-old boys running the length of a field. It may be a bigger problem with macro photography, but I would think that most of the (admittedly limited) macro photography I would do would probably use a tripod anyway.
Now no one would mistake me for a professional photographer, but I can tell you that when I pull up pictures taken with my D40X and this Sigma lens on my 24 "iMac, and watch them full screen, they are * all * I was looking for when I I decided to move to an SLR camera.
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