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Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED Vibration Reduction Zoom Lens with Auto Focus - AF-S FX NIKKOR for Nikon DSLR Cameras Review

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4.3
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Details

BrandNikon
Lens TypeStandard
Compatible MountingsNikon FX
Camera Lens Description120 millimetres
Maximum Focal Length120 Millimeters

Description of Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED Vibration Reduction Zoom Lens with Auto Focus - AF-S FX NIKKOR for Nikon DSLR Cameras

Compact and Versatile: The Ultimate Standard Zoom Lens

Experience the perfect blend of convenience and performance with the Nikon AF-S FX NIKKOR 24-120mm f/4G ED Vibration Reduction Zoom Lens. This compact and versatile lens offers a 5x standard zoom, allowing you to capture a wide range of subjects with ease. With its f/4 maximum aperture, you can achieve stunning depth of field and low-light capabilities, ensuring exceptional image quality in any situation.

Unparalleled Reproduction Ratio and Focal Length Range

Unlock your creativity and explore the world of photography with the Nikon 24-120mm ...

Reviews

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Type of review

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Reliable purchase, guaranteed to be a good one.

I have nothing to compare it to I have one. In general, the lens is well done, I’ve been shooting with it for 2 years already, but I don’t shoot in the evening and the same is not ice indoors without puff or additional light. In general, it is more for street photography and during daylight hours. Although I squeezed everything out of him that is possible, and hockey and ski jumping in the winter in the evening and filmed a wedding and baptism and fireworks. But a huge minus for me personally…

Pros
  • handles many tasks. well suited to reporting on the street. Good zoom lens, excellent picture, excellent back smears at 85, good watercolor, on street shooting in good lighting, just smart. Fairly fast focusing.
Cons
  • There is a very lack of aperture, in a room or in a studio without additional light, there is nothing to do with a bully of ISO 800, a lot of noise is already visible. The focus has often missed lately and the focus point rarely turns red, and I still don’t understand what it depends on. On bright photos it is good to see the vignette

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Good product, not disappointed.

Got pros: - At 24mm, it does not wash the edges, unlike 24-85 - Compromise between portrait painter and landscape painter - Essentially a working hole F / 4 Cons below: - Distortions - Compared to 24-70, the AF loss is obvious, when walking outweighs the D700

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Excellent quality, absolutely not expected for such a price.

Reading various articles and numerous reviews on this product, I don’t know, with intensive work we will see everything? Some pros: taking into account not the best conditions for testing, And this is already important, I am satisfied with the purchase, not even as a newly minted photographer, but rather as an artist and graphic artist with 43 years of creative experience. Some cons: too heavy for our colleagues from the pretty .

Revainrating 4 out of 5

I am happy with everything, the product matches the description.

A good regular lens, even without any sharpening in the photo editor, But compared to better optics, for example, with nikon 80-200 (I have a trombone, a rarity), the coolness of 24-120 and even in difficult lighting (for example, when shooting a concert in a dark room), it outperforms 24-120 24-120 is a staff member for all occasions, or you need an artistic picture for a portrait, then it’ if you are too lazy to carry additional glasses with you, And here you can compare how it shoots…

Pros
  • 1 Good, tenacious, Convenient range of focal lengths.
Cons
  • Strong vignetting, especially at wide aperture, especially against a uniform background (for example, the sky).

Revainrating 5 out of 5

The right product for me, there were no problems.

Different pros: I took for filming a child on the street and at home in addition to fixes. I really like the sharpness, it focuses well, the picture is voluminous! With its cons. Minus: heavy . Hands just fall off with the 750))) But I was ready for this

Revainrating 5 out of 5

A really necessary purchase, glad I found this product.

Its pros: Best full frame lens for travel! Relatively inexpensive for the "gold series". Hefty! Maybe one day it will save your life :) Different cons: You still have to learn how to take pictures :( There is no alternative in terms of price and range of focal lengths for a full frame.

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Everything in the product suited me, the price is generally perfect.

Great for a standard lens, very fast and accurate, VR helps a lot, Beautiful bokeh, sharpness is quite satisfactory, but I can’t call this glass crystal sharp. I didn’t notice any sense from nano technologies. I shoot on the D90. Perhaps it will show itself even better at full frame. In general, the purchase is satisfied. Got pros: Versatile focal length range, constant aperture, fast precise and quiet focusing, stabilizer with two modes. Quality build and materials. Draws beautifully. Cons…

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Fits the description completely, very satisfying.

Has some pros 1. Universal zoom for "every day" for reporting and travel. On the crop we get a convenient focal range of 36-180 2. Very sharp at all focal lengths at f/4. Calmly resolves a 24 mpix matrix even on crop. 3. Excellent stabilizer - you can shoot at 1/30 at the long end of 120 mm 4. At the long end of 120 mm at f / 4, you can "conditionally" shoot portraits - if you move the background away from the person by a meter or more. Bokeh is normal. 5. Adequate price when buying as part

Revainrating 4 out of 5

The right product for me, the price suited me.

Weight is good. Weight is reliability! I don’t know what about the reporter, in my opinion it’s not quite the right option, but the landscape painter is definitely excellent. Very good focus, sharpness across the entire field of the frame. There is no lock for the outgoing trunk, a vacuum cleaner. You need to be careful when choosing a filter, vignetting may appear at 24 mm. A bit dark, when processed in LR, it almost always puts +2 stops. For those who do not earn a photo - I recommend.

Pros
  • Focal range, focus itself, bokeh, stub
Cons
  • Darkish, Taiwan, no lock for the outgoing trunk, vacuum cleaner

Revainrating 1 out of 5

The product is worse than ever, disappointed with the purchase.

don’t take it, nikon flew with him very much. I used it for a month, I couldn’t stand a lot of marriage, I sold it. Maybe it’s just me, but vr2 often couldn’t cope ((whatever marketers say, but the top junk of the 90s is a cut above not only in bokeh to the picture but also resolution due to the quality of the element base of the photo park ( 28-70 f 2.8, 80-200 f2.8 , 300f4 , 20-35 f2.8, 50 1.4g)

Pros
  • focal coverage
Cons
  • not sharp at f4, extremely loose picture, focus sometimes blurs, does not resolve d610. he is optically correct - you can forget about any artistry. he has an extreme price of 20-25 thousand IMHO

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Think twice before you buy-the product is disgusting.

Chose in the store from three. I immediately felt the work of the stabilizer, in a dimly lit store it gave a stable picture. Then there were only disappointments. Perhaps it should only be used on FF. I took it to the D90, with the aim of a phased transition to FF. I don’t know yet whether this lens can be rehabilitated on the D800, but on the D90 it’s not very sharp, the picture is uninteresting. With 24-70 2.8 - on the same D90 it simply cannot be compared, these are different lenses, both in

Pros
  • VR Stabilizer
Cons
  • Not sharp! Sluggish picture. Slow autofocus. Heavy. The price is very high.

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Full compliance with the manufacturer's assurances, high quality.

I am writing as a rabid fan of fixed optics. A little history so that you can better understand my opinion and perhaps draw important conclusions for yourself. I've been shooting with D300s for a long time. Today I use it mainly as a travel camera for all occasions with 10-24 f/3.5-4.5, 35 f/1.8. Once upon a time I had the opportunity to purchase the D810. I've been shooting with it for over 2 years now with 50 f/1.8, and 85mm f/1.8. I got used to getting by with one fifty dollars. What is the

Pros
  • + Stabilizer. It's some kind of magic! When shooting, for example, on a D810 + 85 f / 1.8 bundle, you have to set the shutter speed to at least 1/125 - 1/160, otherwise it will be guaranteed to be blurry. 24-120 f/4 allows you to safely shoot at 120mm at shutter speeds of 1/30 and slower. If depth of field is not important to you, the stabilizer perfectly compensates for high ISO values ​​with possible shutter speeds. + Range of focal lengths. Probably one of the main criteria that led me to this lens. You can shoot anything without unnecessary juggling with two or more lenses. 120mm - everything is clear here. You can shoot far enough, and 24 is moderately wide. If something does not fit, you can make a simple one-row panorama. + Unexpectedly nice picture and color reproduction. No complaints. Once upon a time, I shot on a non-contrast color-absorbing 18-105. Thought it was zoom disease. Nothing like this! Color rendition and contrast are closer to fixes. At the long end, it is possible to get a quite suitable portrait with a blurry soft background, for whom this is important. To draw an analogy, 120mm f/4 looks almost the same as 85mm f/2.2-2.5. + Resolution. It copes well with the resolution of the D810 already at the minimum aperture value. + Balance. The size and weight goes very well with a SLR camera. Comfortable to hold. I will not write it down as a minus, I will mention it here: the lens is heavy, the bundle is heavy. Carrying such a bandura all day long on a trip is something else. But without compromise in quality. + Assembly. The lens block does not play, everything is assembled firmly, reliably. Do not listen to those who write "plastic". If such optics were metal, it would weigh over 3 kg and the lenses would shatter with minor falls. Plastic makes up for it all.
Cons
  • - Wild vacuum cleaner! Not expected. In one short shoot, I sucked so much dust onto the focusing screen that I can’t describe it with a decent word. And this is in winter in frost, in calm weather. What will happen in travel, I'm afraid to imagine. I constantly change fixed optics. For 5-6 years of work with SLR cameras, I probably collected less dust than in one shooting with a subject. A little confused. - The travel of the zoom ring depends on the position of the lens. If the camera is directed downwards, the trunk moves out very easily, if upwards, it easily retracts to the 24mm position. In a horizontal position, it rotates quite tightly. - The obvious conclusion from the first minus is the lack of a zoom lock. It would not be superfluous when such a run-up for focal lengths. - Optical distortion. Lightroom certainly copes with them, but vignetting and distortion at 24mm are wild. The corners are more black than darkened at f/4.0.

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Everything in the product suited me, the price is generally perfect.

I had a choice of what to take with me on my upcoming skiing trip. I settled on this 24-120 mm f/4 G ED VR AF-S Nikkor lens as my main all-round lens. I used it in conjunction with a Nikkor AF-S 70-300 f / 4.5-5.6 VR telezoom lens for specialized shooting of skiers from a remote distance. The AF-S Nikkor 24-70 f / 2.8 G ED lens is less convenient on a trip, as it does not overlap the telezoom lens with a margin in focal lengths, plus it is even larger and heavier, although the image quality…

Pros
  • A very convenient zoom lens in the range of focal lengths when using it on trips as an all-purpose lens. At full frame, FX spans from wide-angle to mid-range telephoto. VR works well for image stabilization. Excellent picture over the entire range of focal lengths (works softer in the tele-range). If you try to make very large magnifications, then you need to use not a universal zoom lens, but professional lenses with fixed focal lengths. On DX cameras with a 1.5 crop matrix, it can also be successfully used, for example, for sports photography of skiers passing at a short distance, when some approximation of the subject is needed. When used on the Nikon D800, you can switch to shooting in DX format, thereby increasing the range of focal lengths with the equivalent of up to 180 mm. It quickly focuses on sharpness, I don’t know how others have complaints about autofocus. I used it to shoot landscape views from a train car in the Swiss Alps, moving at a speed of 120 - 130 km / h. Plus, the glass in the car was not very clean, but the pictures turned out good.
Cons
  • I would like to have a lighter and more compact universal lens when traveling, this one is a bit heavy and has a filter diameter of 77 mm and is quite large. But with a constant aperture of 4, it will be the best option, in relation to other zoom lenses with a drop in aperture in the tele range. Perhaps the price is a bit expensive, but here you can not get a good lens for little money. I thought about purchasing an alternative version of the Nikkor AF-S 24-85 mm f / 3.5-4.5 lens, smaller in size and much better in price, but I came to the conclusion that a more expensive lens with extension of the range of focal lengths up to 120 mm. I also didn’t really like the pale one during filming, it protects at a focus of 24 mm, and is of little use in the TV range. It is inconvenient to put the lens in a wardrobe trunk along with the installed pale one. Therefore, it has to be constantly put on and off. When shooting quickly in extreme winter weather conditions (on mountain skis), this manipulation is annoying, so I often shot without a lens hood at all, although I used it regularly when shooting leisurely in the park and on the streets of the city. Without a professional chest case with a shoulder suspension through the back, it is not convenient to carry the lens around the neck, it is burdensome. Therefore, for beginners, hanging one camera on a belt without a wardrobe trunk will not be the best option, especially on a leisurely walk while driving to the shooting location. In a word, a more professional approach to carrying the camera is needed to use this lens.

Revainrating 5 out of 5

The best price for such a product, I will buy more!

I took it for testing and was pleasantly surprised by the result. I shot with this glass in conjunction with the D750 a couple of events in rooms without natural light and with the D810 in the gym. The lens proved to be very good: sufficient sharpness, convenient focal lengths, decent color reproduction. Thanks to excellent matrices, raised ISO did not affect image quality. When shooting sports, it showed itself at an average level: it worked perfectly for medium-dynamic scenes, and with…

Pros
  • Sharpness, "solid" construct, color rendition, versatility of focal lengths.
Cons
  • Weight: heavy after fixes.

Revainrating 4 out of 5

No complaints, I recommend to buy.

I fell in love with this lens! It suits my reportage style of shooting. Before that, I used fixes series 1.8 (28; 50; 85) naturally I won’t refuse fixes, they have their own charm and comparing 24-120 with a set of fixes is not correct, their task is different. But the task 24-120 is a reportage and he copes with it by 70% (if the aperture was 2.8, it would be 100%), he chose between 24-70 (without VR) and 24-120 but still settled on the latter. The focal length is 24 and 120 on my workers…

Pros
  • Accurate, fast focus, good range of focal lengths. The colors after processing in Lightroom and Photoshop are worthy (this is my personal opinion about colors, it may not suit someone)
Cons
  • If f4 does not scare, then there are no disadvantages