In article <55nn9q$qlh@news.nyu.edu>, sqz1909@is2.nyu.edu says...

>For what it's worth I was over at B&H yesterday and while waiting for some
>stuff to be brought up from the storeroom was talking to the sales rep
>about Nikon gear. He mentioned that he had just gotten his own 24-120
>AF-D. I asked him what he thought of it. He said, basically, that it was a
>"pretty good lens" for but not up to Nikon's usual standards;
>essentially it's targeted at the casual photographer, not the advanced
>amateur or pro.

I would not be surprised if samples of this very wide-range zoom
lens varied considerably in quality (the 35-105 MF's sure do, and
the 35-200's must, if I am to believe reports of that one being
very good, when the two I tried were terrible), but the 24-120mm
Nikkor I just bought from B & H is VERY sharp throughout (at f11,
anyway..., though it is quite good at f5.6, also). I would place
it with the best 3-4 Nikkor zooms made (and I am picky about
sharpness!). Like any zoom, it is a compromise, but used at optimum
apertures it would be hard to tell it from the best primes over
most of its range (at 24mm, mine is better than primes!). Its
one major drawback relative to general use is its slow speed
near the long end.
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