Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8D ED-IF AF-S Zoom Nikkor Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras by Nikon
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Digital camera reviews of Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8D ED-IF AF-S Zoom Nikkor Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras
Digital camera Review: I received a Dud!!
Summary: 2 Stars
Check the quality control of this lens when you buy. Mine had severe front focus problems. Even when i selected the auto focus sensor the lens still had focusing issues . The lens was soft to F4. At F2.8 the images were incredibly poor. In my 20+ years of photography i have never seen a lens this bad. To make sure, i borrowed a friends 18-55VR. This $200.00 lens had better color saturation, contrast and accurate auto focus. Not only that, but it was sharper. To get the 17-35 as sharp, i had to stop down to F8. I tried to get another sample but they were out of stock, so i just returned it. I know a lot of people rate this lens 5 stars, and i understand that ever now and then you get a bad sample, but this lens had multiple problems. On the positive side, it is not as big and heavy as some people claim. It balances well on my D200, and the autofocus is fast. I will be looking into the 24-70 2.8.Digital camera Review: Incredible Wide Zoom
Summary: 5 Stars
I really love this lens very very much. I used it for many years with my film camera F5 which was great. Of course that was in the full frame days which means the 17mm side of the lens looks so wide and I got very creative with the shots I was taking. Now that I uses the 1.6 magnification in the stupid digital days with my D80, the lens is not all that great anymore. It replaced my use of my other amazing lens 28-70/2.8. Really the digital age made the use of many of the lenses we love pretty much useless. I think all cameras should be full frame or forget about it.
Anyhow, back to the lens. This is an incredible and very sharp lens. I used it shooting slided which are very sensitive to the quality of the lens and it rocks.
My recommendation is buy it and you won't be sorry.
Digital camera Review: Outstanding wide angle zoom!
Summary: 5 Stars
This lens is widely held to be one of the best if not the best wide angle professional zoom lens for 35mm and Digital SLRs compatible with Nikon's lens system. I've had mine for about 6 months on a Nikon D-100 and have absolutely nothing I don't like about it. It's sharp from corner to corner at all zoom settings and any pincusion destortion is negligible even at 17mm @ f2.8. The AFS focusing motor is lightning fast and accurate. Filter size is 77mm, same as my Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR lens. Since filters this size aren't cheap, it's nice to be able to share. This lens will support 35mm, APS, and DX format film and digital sensor sizes and comes with a 5-year warranty. If you want the best, and can afford it, you won't be sorry you purchased this lens.Digital camera Review: Quallity Control Issues
Summary: 2 Stars
At $1,500, this lens should be mint straight from the factory. My copy failed to auto-focus properly and appeared to have serious backfocus issues. Although the "Silent Wave Motor" made for very quick focusing times (if the copy had been focusing properly), it made a pronounced metal-on-metal or metal-on-plastic, high-pitched scraping sound at times. I understand this is endemic in many copies. Lastly, I did not think I would miss the added focal length of a 17-55mm or 18-55mm, but that extra 36mm-55mm range really does make a difference, and makes this lens less usable for DSLRs. More importantly, when focused (by chance), the optics did not produce sharpness substantially superior to my other, less expensive, DX lenses.
On the other hand, this lens is not as heavy or large as other reviewers have noted. I would have no problem carrying the 17-35mm all day, every day. Perhaps my review would have been different if I received a different copy. But for $1,500, this should never happen. We as consumers should not be forced to return substandard equipment in order to ultimately get a copy that works.
Digital camera Review: The sharpest and fastest wide-angle Nikkor zoom for compatible film and digital cameras
Summary: 5 Stars
Of the auto-focus Nikkor lenses, I've owned the 20/2.8D, 24/2.8D, and 35-70/2.8D. My current lenses are the AF80-200/2.8D (2-ring version), and the AFS17-35/2.8D. That's all is needed for my general photography. Any distortion can be easily created in Photoshop CS.
The AFS17-35/2.8D is the sharpest lens of all the manual and auto-focus Nikkor lenses I have owned/used. Since purchasing this lens almost 3 years ago, it has become the standard lens on my Nikon F5.
I travel with the AFS17-35/2.8D and (in my opinion) it's natural companion the AF80-200/2.8D. Both zoom lenses are ranked number 1 and 2 in sharpness respectively.
The lens, mounted on an F5, was dropped 3.5 feet in a thinly cushioned bag onto a concrete walkway. The back of the F5 took the impact. According to Nikon Canada, the lens survived but the F5 needed a new $400+ autofocus assembly.