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17 reviews
Very versatile, high quality lens
I've had this lens for more than a year now and taken a few thousand pictures with it. It blows my old Tamron zoom completely away. 24-85mm is a huge range. It's just so darn convenient to zoom instead of changing lenses. The color is excellent with only a little aberration noticeable with extreme contrasts. It's certainly bigger and heavier than a point-and-shoot camera, but it delivers the same kind of instant flexibility. The "macro" switch is a little cumbersome and mine broke off after a while. I have other lenses for macros so I put a piece of tape over it and haven't missed it. It takes sharp photos, but certainly not as sharp as my Nikkor 60mm f2.8D macro.
My biggest gripe with this lens is the barrel distortion at the wider-angle settings. I can never seem to fully correct the distortion in Photoshop and on architecture shots I could spend forever trying.
I hardly ever use the 85mm end of this lens and over half the pictures I take (on my D50) are at 24mm. I've never tried the Nikon 17-55mm, but it is highly rated and I sometimes think of trading this in for one. But that lens is much more expensive.
Heck, if money was no object, I'd hire a porter to carry around a bag of prime lenses and clean each one every time I switched. But in the real world, this is a great all-purpose lens in its price range. Not to mention that leaving a lens on the camera eliminates the chance of a piece of dust landing on the sensor.Read full review...
Really Sharp!!
This is a great walk around lens as it is wide for landscapes and zooms to a great portrait length. Add to that the fast macro setting you can’t go wrong with this lens. The extra stop helps low/available light situations and the shorter DOF wide open makes a very noticeable difference when shooting people and subjects.
I have this lens and the F3.5 ED version and despite the excellent reviews for the cheaper lens, I can see why Nikon is discontinuing the cheaper lens in favor for this one. Images are tack sharp with much more contrast. Focusing is a tad slower and is heavier than the cheaper version, but it is still very fast and faster than my 55-200mm VR! Macro setting is useful and is almost as sharp as my dedicated 60mm. If you are an advanced amateur, want a walk around lens and are concerned with extreme sharpness with great macro ability and a good lens for portraits with great Bokeh, this lens is for you. If you normally just snap away and money is tight, the cheaper version is still a very good lens, but there is a reason why this one is almost $200 more than that one new.Read full review...
sharp portrait & product photography lens
This lens is one of the best made by nikon. stunning sharp, other pictorial results excellent as well. PC-E version is a bit lighter than older PC, but you cannot use PC-E mounted on any older body and any of extension rings, bellows without electric contacts cannot be used because of electronicaly managed aperture, PC version has no problem. Optically both versions are similar. Nice piece of lens.Read full review...
Nikon D2Xs Camera
The Nikon D2Xs is a professional, but very easy to use camera. If you can get a used one in good condition, don't hesitate, I'm happy with my DX2s & I hope you'll be too.
This is a VERY sharp lens.
This is an incredibly sharp lens, as are all the Nikon PC-E lenses. I had a 24 PC-E for landscape, and wanted the 85 PC-E for flower and macro photography. I am VERY pleased with the lens. It is perfect for what I need it to do, bring a group of flowers into focus. I don't know that I will ever use the shift on this particular lens, but it does work. On the 24, I use that quite a bit.Read full review...
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Wonderful lens!
Great lens and great price. Works beautifully on the D700. In switching from DX to FX I lost the use of my main lens which was a 17-55 2.8, excellent lens. For the full frame this 24-85 works perfectly and at the moment is way, way more affordable then the 24-70 2.8. For anyone else making the switch from DX to FX loosing the 1.5 crop factor takes some getting used to. On a full frame 24mm is very wide and while not a contestant 2.8 still works great in low light.Read full review...
unique lens
difficult to use and get use too, but it is a great option for shooting
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Good All Around Lens
This is a great all purpose lens. It allows you to take Portrait, Landscape, and Macro shots with a single lens - not many pieces of glass can make this claim. The only reason I'm giving it a 'Good' rating instead of 'Excellent' is because the Nikon 24-70 f/2.8 is noticeably sharper, but costs 3x the price. If you're looking for value, this is your lens.Read full review...
Good Multi Function Lens
This lens has a broad range of use and if fairly fast the macro funtion is a little cumbersome to use but works well. I would say it is not tack sharp at wide open apeture and the amount of distortion is perceptable however for an all around lens it does very well.Read full review...
Delighted with this excellent lens
The 85mm affords effortless, sharp, color-accurate panorama segments for a wide range of landscape images to be combined in Autopano Pro. It also produces excellent closeup nature portraits.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: pre-owned | Sold by: filmanddarkroom