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I thought the same but as for the 70-300vr my pics 'appear to me' to be noticably better quality? having said that I have only made the transition from jpeg to raw in the last couple of months....
Don't get me wrong the images are still sharp, and the only images I'm complaining about are the ones taken at the full 300mm which didn't appear to be as sharp as those from the D90 - in other words it might simply be me being hyper picky because it's a new camera. However going from the 70-300vr to the 105VR the sharpness improvement is noticeable.
Edgar, and for anybody else who has the 18-200vr, I've just remembered a trick that I used which really improved the sharpness I got from this lens. Try this:-
Make sure you're in AF-S focusing mode, set the lens to 18mm, focus on something relatively distant and take a shot. Now look in the focus distance scale window of the lens - I'll bet it's reading barely more than 3 meters. Now set the lens to 200mm and focus on the same thing. Keep your finger half pressed on the shutter release, pull back to 18mm and take a shot. This time the focus distance scale should be reading closer to infinity. When you compare the two shots I'll bet you'll find the second shot that you took to be far sharper than the first. This trick seems to work well at all focal lengths up to around 150mm, the effect obviously diminishes thereafter.