NikonAF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8E ED VR Lens

Very, very good, but large, heavy and, obviously, very expensive.Wait for deals or buy it second hand.

I've owned two copies of the predecessor and they were okay, a bit erratic AF sometimes but they did the job and my clients were happy. But I find this lens far superior, beautiful colour rendering, edge to edge sharpness, a very accurate and extremely fast AF, pin sharp images from 24-70mm on all apertures, I've required an AF fine adjustment on my D800 of +6 to get these results. It is not cheap but I completely feel that all the improvements are worth the price. I am a professional photographer and want to offer my clients the best image quality available and this lens definitely hits the spot.

Really great lens - simply stunning results.It is large but the Vibration Reduction counters that.Top quality lens and excellent performance

It fits my Nikon D810s, price is right, delivery was quick, I'm happy! This is a fantastic lense for walking around shots, it covers so many situations. And I knew all of this before I bought it. I was just waiting for the trigger to spend the $$$$ for it.

It's big-ish, it's heavy-ish, it's definitely expensive, but this latest VR version of this Nikon lens is very good when you can't take with you a bunch of prime lenses to change your shot in an instant. If you're used to walking around with heavy lenses, this lens won't feel that heavy - the weight doesn't bother me. Focusing is very rapid, accurate, and silent. Lenses are the very few areas that really do live up to "you get what you pay for".

Having owned the previous version this one is so much better and am getting more keepers

Hunting, lazy and poor auto focus. Tried different settings and different light scenarios, a lot of pictures were a miss. Even in high shutter speeds focus was crap and it seems like not working properly. Noisy and lid does not stay closed. Arranged a return, will review after I hopefully a good one...

Excellent piece of kit but at the current price, we should expect nothing less. I have had no problems at with the lens except at 24mm there is a great deal of distortion. I have set the lens to my camera, a D610, in Lightroom but buildings and structures still lean to an unacceptable level. I have used Lightroom adjustment to attempt to rectify but you lose quite a section when cropped and as yet I still see distortion at the edges... maybe someone could advice me on this matter? I have since read that if you shoot at 28mm distortion reduces dramatically but I bought it as a 24mm not a 28mm. This is the only reason I did not give a rating of 5. Another surprise was how heavy it is.It very fast to focus and sharp. The colours and contrast are beautiful.