Great zoom range. stopped down to F8 it's more than sharp enough. Flatteringly kind for portrait and very versatile for street. This lens lives on my D610. A real bargain for a full frame wide angle lens.

A bit soft wide open. That's it.

Broad focal range. Quality elements. Fast focus. Value.

Internal focus a waste as zooming rotates the barrel. Heavy. What you gain in focal length you give up in speed.

When you can only take one lens this is the lens to take. Broad focal range allows for the wide, almost panoramic, as well as letting you get close enough for portraits. I do a lot of outdoor adventure sports and weight is a primary concern. With a light body this lens will serve most your needs without weighing you down.

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Sharp, contrasty and well constructed, practical focal lengths for everyday use.

The f3.5-5.6 lens opening range does not bother me nor should bother anyone using the lens for outdoors or studio work. The internal focus is useless when you zoom the lens since the barrel rotates. If you also have the 80-200 Nikkor lens save money by buying an adapeter ring from 72-77mm for your lens and use the 77mm filters of your big gun on it.

This is the only lens I would take when I need to travel. It is sharp, well constructed and allows the use of the most common focal lengths. It has produced excellent portraits in the studio for me and very beautiful landscape photography also. Since I do not do interiors often the f3.5 aperture does not bother me and the same goes with f5.6 outdoors. In the studio I often shoot at 85mm f8 and the images are tack sharp, comparable to those of my 105 f2.5 Nikkor. Flare is not a problem with this lens.

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My sample was a present. The person who gave it to me did something to the lens because the lens was not communicating with the camera. I sent the lens to Authorized Photo Service in Chicago. The focus needed adjustment and the lens openings had to be re-calibrated. A champ again ever since.

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Compact, great for travel.

Just wanted to make people aware that there are actually two versions of this lens which may explain some of the conflicting reviews. When I purchased this lens I couldn't believe the price until I was warned by the store that the version I was looking at was the version manufactured in Taiwan which has inferior optics and construction. I ended up spending an extra $100 for the Japan manufactured version and have not been disappointed. Both versions are Nikkor and have the identical part numbers. The easiest way to tell the difference is that the Japan version has a metal mount versus the plastic mount on the Taiwan version.

Extremely flexible Great picture quality

Small manual focus ring

I bought this lens, as well as my N80, to upgrade my equipment with hiking being a main consideration. Prior to buying both, I checked out the reviews on this site quite a bit. I noticed that many of the reviews of the 24-120 were from professionals and experts who were very happy with the lens. Though not overly scientific, the comments swayed me to the 24-120. The lens has been great. Along with a year of hiking photos, I just got done taking quite a few pictures in London. The results were super (I was shooting Ectachrome 100SW) . The lens produces pictures as good as my 50 1.8 (which I had as a backup on my London trip) and my 80-200 (both Nikkor). The lens is everything that many of the reviewers claim. It's a great lens to have, if you only want to take one along. It's very flexible and a great match to the N80. The only way I can see to improve the pictures that this lens takes would be to use a tripod (which I never do) and improve my skill as a photographer.

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Haven't needed to use it.

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Nearly idealic lens when you want to drag only one along.

Watch the f/3.5 apperture especially at longer focal lengths. The fix is: unless you INTEND a soft image (e.g., romantic candle lit portrate), sto down one from wide open.

I have a large collection of fixed focal and zoom Nikon lenses and cameras. There is nothing on the market that offers this focal length range (though 24-300 would really be something). As a physicist, its tough to rationalize the compromises needed to get such a lens (never mind the 24-300). There is ONLY one aspect of theis lens that is cautionary. I have exhaustively tested my (alas sample of one) glass and founs it to be free of pc and b distortions; noticable color aberations and the like. It is tack sharp with one exception: wide open , especially at non wide angle focal lengths.

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Older Nikon mid range zooms and mid tele zooms.

An excellent all purpose lens with trmendous versatility.

Just scared that someone steals it . . . last year I had nearly all my Nikon equipoment stolen from my car.

An outstanding lens which has served me well since I have bought it. Accompanied me on a cruise through the the South Caribbean last Christmas using Kodak 400 and the results were very impressive! Cannot under stand why so many people complain of softness at the long end; my pictures at 120 are so sharp that I could shave with them every other morning. I have used it many times for sporting events and again it has performed excellently. Its size and bulk do not bother me at all.

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Focal range. Good image quality

Slow apatures

I have taken this lens on many trips and it covers the whole range of needs. It is not as sharp as fixed focal lenth lenses but the convenience is worth it.

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Excellent optical quality especially for the very wide and usable focal range. Its my most versatile lens; I would buy the 24-120 lens again in a heartbeat if some terrible accident happened to this lens.

This is a excellent general purpose lens. If you need wide aperture, 1:1 magnification, long focal length (sports, wildlife), then you'll need to purchase additional lenses.

If I could only own one lens, this would be it. Although I have the beautiful 50 1.4 lens, the 24-120 is my favorite lens to take if I am only taking one lens on an outing. I know that it will cover most situations I will be shooting. I find the 24mm wide angle view, the reach with the 120mm, and the 4.8 magnification ratio covers a good share of my general purpose & light travel photography. When using 400 speed film, the 5.6 aperture at 120mm provides hand-holdable shutterspeeds in cloudy to dim light. If I'll be indoors, I mount my SB speedlight. I test all my lenses when I get them, using 100 ISO slide film, mounting the camera on a tripod, taking images at every major focal lenth, every aperture, and at close, medium, and infinity distances. The 24-120 performed as well as reported in Popular Photography. In my real life shooting over several years, this lens has taken a lot of rough handling and has stood the test of time. The images are still as sharp; the focus, zoom and aperture mechanisms still operate without a hitch.

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Only once 10 years ago when my tripod tipped over... lens first :-(. Camera was fine but the zoom lens needed to be cleaned of dirt and an internal cam needed to be replaced (Luckily I had a UV filt

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Great range! Excellent optics (particularly 24-85mm range)

Heavy, bulky, 72mm filter. Slow at 120mm setting.

I bought this lens just after it came to the market. Since then, I have been using it on a regular basis with my Nikon N90. About 90 percent of my photos are shot with this lens. I have compared the performance of this lens with Nikon primes including the 24mm f2.0 AIS, the 55mm f2.8 Macro, the 50 mm f1.4, and the 35-70 f2.8 zoom. In every comparison, it is impossible to see any significant difference in color balance, saturation, etc compared to the lenses noted. In fact, a comparison to the 35-70 judged by 3 experts found only a slight superiority (in resolution) for the 35-70; flare was noticeably better in the 24-120. For everday photography, it's hard to beat this lens

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I bought my first Nikon in 1960. I have never needed service on one of their products.

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