It was the best on the planet, by a large margin, until Nikon's newer 16-35mm VR raised the bar even higher. This 14-24mm AF-S G works perfectly on almost every AF film camera, although you won't get autofocus with the cheapest or oldest AF film cameras like the N55 or N2020. it will yield a similar magnification to equivalent lenses on other mounts, and will get you just as close. I feel like this review harped on things that are trivial when it comes to an ultra wide angle zoom.

That’s been done to death by others, and there are already some very very good technical reviews out there which will cover the finer details.Maybe is it not completely the case at short distance (still remains very good), but who is going to take pictures with a UWA at 2. Given that the majority of you would more than likely be shooting mostly landscapes with this lens, the speed of f4 isn’t really too much of a problem as you’d stop it down a bit to get some extra depth of field anyway, and be shooting from a tripod. Other brands will try to fight you for focus if you're in continuous AF, while this lens just does what you tell it to do. This can be used to control the lens' aperture, ISO sensitivity or exposure compensation (though it lacks detents, which some users find helpful when manipulating these types of settings). Sporting two ED and three aspherical lens elements in a complex 14-element optical design, the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.

S p h e r o c h r o m a t i s m is common in fast lenses of moderate focal length when shooting contrasty items at full aperture. If these things don't bother you personally it's your job as a consumer of the review to ignore them as irrelevancies. ED VR II Lens from Nikon is a sharp, versatile, and durable telephoto zoom lens with a fast constant maximum aperture, useful in lowlight situations. This is a very strict test; in actual shooting at typical print sizes I get acceptable sharpness at much slower speeds, but for the purposes of seeing how much improvement an IS system gives, this is the most precise method.Of course if you're just taking pictures, any of the other lenses ( 20-35mm, 17-35mm, 18-35mm) works fine, and they take filters which the 14-24mm can't. When I say I use the 14-24mm most of the time on my D3, it's because it replaces a fixed 14mm lens for me. Despite the use of a stepper motor, we were surprised to find its AF to be not just very smooth and completely silent, but also very fast.