Good sharpness, especially at 28-35 end. Good center sharpness at 18-20. Very good sharpness at all angels, stopped down towards 6,7. The lens has good coulor control and is also quite good when taking pictures outside in the sun. The contast is the best I''ve seen in a zoom. Build quality is good exept for the plastic ring where the sunshade mounts.

The camera was not linear after aprox 6 months of use. Why this happened i don''t know.

I like color, i like sharpness and i like overall good distortion qualities. The Nikkor almost succeeds to a full extent.

Customer Service

I complained to the norwegian repair shop about the linear problem and they now promise repair within five days plus shipment times.

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Cosina/Voigtlander 19-35.

Weight, IF, ED, SMOOOOOTH,

Some light falloff, distortion is noticble, but less so then I imagined before using it.

The optics on this lens are incredible. Very sharp, although, as you would expect from wide angle zooms there is some light falloff. The solution is simple, no detail in the corners. Apart from that, the IF is super smooth and quick, my favourate lens.

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nikkor 24-120, sigma 20 2.8

Lightweight Sharp High quality/price ratio

Variable aperture. A constant f/4 would be preferable.

I recently swapped my AF Nikkor 20-35/2.8 D for the AF ED 18-35/3.5-4.5 D (+ AF 85/1.8 D). In fact, I mostly used the 20-35 for outdoor photography, well stopped down, so I decided to sacrifice the f/2.8 aperture (I already have the AIS 28/2.8) and to get one lens more (the 85/1.8). Moreover, my 20-35/2.8 showed the color fringing in the out-of-focus areas that Bjorn Rorslett mentions in his web site (http://www.foto.no/nikon/index2_PC.html). This lack of concurrent focus for primary colors causes fuzziness (even at f/8-f/11) in the depth-of-field zone distant from the center of the image. This effect is not important for people photography, but could be a critical issue in landscape photography. COLOR RENDITION. The lens performed well, but could not match - in my opinion - the clarity of the 20-35 in terms of nice colors. Do not misunderstand me; I mean that my 20-35 had a WONDERFUL color renditon (which is not related to color fringing), while the 18-35 has a GOOD color rendition. In particular the 18-35 has a slightly warm/yellowish color rendition, which doesn''t match well with E100VS (final color rendition of well-developed slides depends on the lens+film combined effect and this topic is never taken into account by magazines. SHARPNESS About sharpness, the 18-35 has a good, even sharpness when it is stopped down by a couple of stops (namely in the in the 24-35 mm range). At the wide end, corner sharpness is not so good wide open (center, anyway, is sufficiently sharp even at f/3.5). Center sharpness of the 20-35 was better (I have not performed a side-by-side comparison, but center sharness of 20-35 is oustanding). I could not detect color fringing (with 8X loupe) in landscape pictures taken with the 18-35. So, 18-35 sharpness is better in the DOF zone (probably due to the ED element) and lower (but still good, anyway) in the center of the frame. DISTORSION Distorsion is better than I expected. The 20-35 was better corrected, but it did not go below 20 mm!! I have used the 18-35 to take pictures of buildings without any trouble. Of course, litlle distorsion is visible in the slides when straight lines were close to frame borders, namely with the lens set at the wide end (more or less below 24 mm). FLARE & GHOSTING I was really surprised to see how well the lens behaved in counterlight shots. Flare is v

Customer Service

Nikon Italy Assistance is rather good. I never used for my AF lenses; the sole needed service was for my cameras.

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AF Nikkor 20-35/2.8 D AF Tamron SP 20-40/2.7-3.5 AIS Nikkor 20/2.8 AIS Nikkor 28/2.8 AIS Nikkor 25-50/4

Excellent sharpness & colour rendition with little distortion and have light weight of 370g

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I have to throw away the above lenses after trying this terrible sharp items (even only view directly through the lenses), absolutely comparable to Prime of my friends (not bright aperture), and it will go with me all the time with my favour - Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8 ED to provide my sharpness picture from All Nikon's ED! Also, to remember it was only 370g. At the same time, I have also bought the New Nikkor 24-85mm f/2.8-4.0 IF-D version, it is good but cannot compare to this ED lenses

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Tokina 20-35mm f/2.8, also f/3.5-4.5 (sold to buy the f/2.8 version)& Nikkor 24-120mm with overlapped range in 24-35mm portion.

ightweight, Aspherical and ED glass, IF fast focusing & static front element, 77mm filter size, hood provided, build quality better than other Nikon 'consumer' line products.

a slight barrel distortion visible from viewfinder on top of the frame, not f2.8

a great substitute of AFS 17-35 Nikkor for 2/5 the price and 1/2 the weight. a great travel lens.

Customer Service

not yet needed

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Nikon 20mm AFD, 50mm f1.8AF, 80-200/f2.8 AFD, 75-300 AF, 70-300 AF-ED, Tonika 28-80/f2.8 ATX Pro, etc

ED GLASS, Light, filter matches 80-200mm(which every Nikon user should own)

not 2.8, but then it probably won't be small and light.

Very impressed with this lens so far. Fast and light weight lens. And the most important thing is ED Glass. Nikon's ED glass is great and in my opinion makes all the difference. First test tells me this a another Nikon winner, and shoud be own by all, unless you a lot of money and can afford the 17-35 AFS, that's if you need AFS and 2.8. But the 18-35mm does a d*** good jobs of keeping up. It focus very fast, and when shooting landscapes 3.5 is also enough. Enjoy the lens, I know I will.

Customer Service

Haven't needed to.

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Tokina 20-35mm, Nikon 20mm, 24mm

Good optics in terms of sharpness. Because of ED glass? Well built for an amatuer lens. Light weight.

A good 77mm Circular Polarizer for this lens is so expensive.
Short throw manual focus.

No regret selling the 24mm fixed for this zoom. Very very versatile too. It is my favourite lens for this fall.

Customer Service

Not used it yet.

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Nikon 24mm f2.8
Nikon 28-105mm f3.5-4.5

Newest Nikon lens,
ED-glass,
Sharp image,
Fast and quiet focus,
Inexpensive,
Light weight,
Anti flare shade included,
Nice build quality, Feels solid and looks cool,
Close focusing

- 77mm filters are expensive,
- Not very fast (I'm used to a 50mm 1.4 :-))

Read about this lens in a Photokina 2000 rapport. Got it to get the scale and size of New York on my first trip there in 5 years, and I was not disapointed.

This lens stayed on the camera all the time. The 18mm end really is the "shotgun" of cameras for the tourist - point it in the general direction of your target and it gets it. For dark and dim interiors or night shots I just put it on some sort of stationary object with a long exposure time and timerrelease for pretty amazing lowlight snapshots.

I plan to get the new 24-85mm as well. Checked it out - and build and focusing is lovely, but had to wait getting it because of budget restraints.

The way I see it: These are the perfect lenses for the "New Nikon N80 policy": 80-90% of the performance of the top of the range for under half the cost.

Customer Service

B&Hs New York store is a tourist attraction - check it out, feels like santas workshop where all the gifts are cool photo stuff :-)

-Havn't tried customer service

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-That crappy "default Nikon lens that comes with the N80
-Nikon 24mm/2.8
-Nikon 50mm/1.4
-Nikon 80-200mm/2.8

Seems to be built OK. Results of first two rolls of Velvia show excellent colour and contrast. This may soon rival my 80-200 2.8 as my favourite lens! Feels good on my F-90X with MB10.

Possibly speed, but I have a 24 2.8 and I have rarely, if ever, shot wide open. The partial stop difference shouldn't matter much.

This is a really great lens and looks to be an excellent buy. I'm sure supplies are going to be short for a while as people are going to snap these up like Playstations! I have just used it for some static scenery shots but I am guessing it will be my favourite travel lens. They really did it right here! As with all very wide abgle lenses you have to be careful of your parallels, but that is very learnable for those new to the wideangle world. Remember that apolarizer will beminimally effective on a lens this wide, due to the field of view exceeding the rangeof polarization effect, providing uneven colouring in skies. A warming filter seems to work nicely (see Moose Peterson on this usages).

Customer Service

I have never had to use Nikon service in the 10 years I have used their equipment.

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Nikon 24mm 2.8 AF-D
Nikon 50mm 1.4 AF-D
Nikon 35-70 2.8 AF-D
Nikon 80-200 2.8 AF-D

Light weight, sharp, great zoom range

Light (feels cheap at first), some softness near edges.

When I first got this lens, it felt light and cheap, but the images it produces are very nice and the edge softness is barely noticable. Some examples are available at www.PhotoEmulsion.com/1835.

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