I've been using this lens with my D200, D300, D300S, D3 and now my D850 for a total of 11 years and remain satisfied with its performance. This camera has produced some of my favorite landscape photos as well as making some photos for an interior decorator possible. It's high quality and versatile.

I got this lens because I wanted to switch to all f/2.8 lenses for my wedding photography. I had the 16-35mm f/4 VR lens, but quite frankly I don't think the VR gave me any value for shooting wedding action shots.

Consistent Output; Durable; Fast / accurate auto-focus; Rugged; Strong Construction

Pros: Fast / accurate auto-focus, Durable, Consistent Output, Strong Construction, Nice Bokeh Cons: Heavy Other thoughts: I have been looking for an all-purpose lens to go with my Nikon D300S, and this seems to be the one.

Used item described as clean almost new, in fact looks and feels like new, but there is a big pet-hair-like particle inside rear element. Too bad because it really seems to work like new.

This lens has rewritten many a rule about wide-angle photography.

Fast AF; minimal distortion; excellent resolution; excellent colour rendition; insignificant CA

Sample-to-sample variation; heavy and bulky

This lens has replaced my 18-70 DX lens (which is smaller and lighter) from my starter kit. This beast is quite big and heavy: have to search for a bigger photo bag. However, quality of image, focusing and build quality is excellent.

good product

nothing

I love this lense because I can get the whole picture. I use to try and back up but sometimes you can only back up so much then you are cropping things out of the pictures that you really want there. That wont happen any more with this lense.

Quick Focus; Rugged; Sharp Focus; Strong Construction; Wide Angle

Heavy

The center sharpness of this lens is amazing and performs well at all apertures. It is a fantastic wide angle zoom option for full frame shooters but also a popular option for wedding photographers who shoot with crop sensor cameras (with autofocus motors).

Okay so I've never had the real money to actually buy it so each time I've rented the lens. Perhaps the fact that it was a rental could have effected the outcome of my images, but at this point, lets assume that I had actually bought it.

Produces good image quality, Contrary to what other people believe, I think the weight is really nice; Gives my camera a center of mass and balance

Terrible auto focus; I don't know what 17-35 you're using because this one's auto focus is horrendous

I originally purchased the lens to use on a D2x. It was great then because I didn't get to see the edges of the image circle......fast forward to a D700 and the edges are soft. I can't stop down enough to get rid of the softness.

built well

soft corneres; CA