As a D700 user, I have been hanging on this lens to enter the marketplace. Looks very good wide-open on the long end according to Nikon’s MTF graphs. Just have to wait and see how the performance is at the wider-end vis-a-vis corner resolution, CA and vignetting. As an NX2 user I’m as concerned about CA or vignetting as NX2 is pretty good at auto-correcting these.
For me, if it can perform as well as the 24-85 f/2.8-4 AF-D stopped down at the wide end then I’d give some serious consideration to upgrading my old 24-120 f/4-5.6 AF-D non-VR version and selling my 24mm, 35mm & 50mm primes--although the close focus of the 24 & 35 comes in very handy some times.
