AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

I purchased this lens 7 months ago, and I loved it in every aspect, except one. I my camera fell off a chair on to a carpeted floor, approx, 20 inches. and the lens broke in half. Right at the part where it connnect to the camera.

Excellent, sharp, fast perfect lens for actions sports in close, in all lightiing conditions. Durable, excellent zoom, works in all conditions.

It is nearly impossible to fault this lens.

I use this on a D3. I´ve been using it for about a year and a half.

This is the most common professional lens that I use for everything! This is the first lens everyone should buy when buying a professional dslr! If you can afford it, it´s well worth it! If you can only choose one lens this is the one you should get!

I have been using this lens instead of my f70-200 mm 2.8 ED lens. It has less weight but just as sharp as my zoom lens. it focuses very fast which I like even in low light. I see why people love this lens and I concur. a little expensive but worth it. I would recommend this lens to anyone who can afford it.

I replaced a 3rd party 2.8 lens with this Nikkor lens. There is simply no comparison. The Nikkor outperforms any 3rd party lens by leaps and bounds! This lens stays on my camera most of the time.

I bought this lens to take advantage of its speed and mid range zoom. Little did I realize that this would become my standard lens. I shoot with two bodies and this lens never comes off one. It is remarkable sharp, fast to focus and very forgiving across a wide range of f stops and focal lengths. It is so sharp that is allows to crop aggressively to get the effect of a longer lens without giving up very much at all.

It is also rugged. Just back from three weeks in the Mid East and was thrilled that I had this lens in my bag.

I gave up on my 20-year old Pentax SLR and lenses in early 2010 (after some disappointing landscapes and panoramas in 2009) and switched to a Nikon F6 backed up by a Nikon D700. I bought both the 24-70 f/2.8 (this lens) and the 70-200 f/2.8 VRII, and a 50mm f/1.4G ´´normal´´ lens. But the 24-70 has become my ´´new normal,´´ despite its substantial weight. I scan (or upload) all my photos to a computer, and I am just amazed by the sharpness and lack of distortion that I get with this lens. My hat´s off to Nikon.

I use this for most outings. I use it for panoramas, portraits and landscapes. It focuses close as is great for flowers. I also have used it with a set of extension tubes for macro work.

The only draw back is when using the on board flash, there is a small shadow zone where the top of the lens stops some of the light. Not a big deal since I usually run the SB900.

This was the !st lens I bought when I moved up to full frame along with the 14-24 mm Ultrawide Zoom. A big chunk of money in one day and a couple big lenses to boot. Now I had the cake and I could eat it too if I so wished. The lens is quite large and looks even bigger with the supplied hood. I actually had to let some people I photographed with it, look through the viewfinder so they were not under the impression I was zooming super close. It´s intimidating but it puts out and once you calmed the nerves of your subjects it shuts them up as well. The pictures I have taken with it are all good if not great but when shooting people I can see the aprehension unless I let them see for themselves the preview on my LCD to lighten them up. Big lenses seem to make ordinary folks quiver so I don´t use it for that purpose though I really do like this lens. It´s crystal clear at all apetures and setting from 24mm to 70mm and it really fits the gap intended knowing well the 70mm to 200mm was going to be my next purchase. In a strange way I wish the lens were more compact similar to other lenses in it´s class but then I would wonder about the glass. This is serious glass, no doubt, just more than it looks ironically.