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<blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 575975" data-attributes="member: 6277">You do not give a lot of details here like what camera you are using it on. Please make all your comments here so no one has to leave the site to read something somewhere else. The 55-200 is an inexpensive lens and also a slow lens. On a lower level camera you may not have enough light for it to focus that good. I started off with the D3100 and I did have a 55-200 zoom for it. I never had a problem with battery use using that lens nor did I have any focusing problems with it as long as I used it in the appropriate shooting conditions. When I did move up to the D5100 it still worked good. Once I moved up to the D7100 I did find that the better cameras showed the lack of sharpness on the inexpensive lens and I had to buy better glass.&nbsp; The better the camera the better glass you need.So if I were you I would look at how you are shooting before I started blaming the equipment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Kuykendall_RIP, post: 575975, member: 6277"] You do not give a lot of details here like what camera you are using it on. Please make all your comments here so no one has to leave the site to read something somewhere else. The 55-200 is an inexpensive lens and also a slow lens. On a lower level camera you may not have enough light for it to focus that good. I started off with the D3100 and I did have a 55-200 zoom for it. I never had a problem with battery use using that lens nor did I have any focusing problems with it as long as I used it in the appropriate shooting conditions. When I did move up to the D5100 it still worked good. Once I moved up to the D7100 I did find that the better cameras showed the lack of sharpness on the inexpensive lens and I had to buy better glass. The better the camera the better glass you need. So if I were you I would look at how you are shooting before I started blaming the equipment. [/QUOTE]

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