• Close Range correction (CRC) system provides high performance at both near and far focusing distances
• Compact and lightweight design
• Ideal for candids and landscape photography
• Nikon Super Integrated Coating for minimized flare and ghost providing good color balance.

The Nikon AF NIKKOR 24mm f/2.8D is a compact and lightweight fast f/2.8 lens that is ideal for landscapes or candid portraits and general photography.

An ideal wideangle lens with excellent optical performance. Autofocus operation is fast and accurate, and the lens’ light weight and compactness make it highly versatile.

Close-Range Correction System ensures high resolution down to 15 inches. Accepts 52mm filters; HN-1 lens hood.

Reviews

Nikkor AF 24mm f/2.8D – Review by photozone.com

The Nikkor AF 24mm f/2.8D didn’t really convince during the tests due to various shortcomings. The resolution figures were generally very decent and there’s only a slight degree of barrel distortions. However, the lens shows very high vignetting at f/2.8 and very pronounced CAs. Spherical aberrations (focus shifts when stopping down) on top don’t make things any better. So despite the relatively ambitious design (floating elements) the lens doesn’t seem to be overly attractive anymore. This doesn’t mean that the AF 24mm f/2.8D is a bad lens, it’s not, but fix-focals should perform better than good zoom lenses.

Nikon 24mm f/2.8 review by KenRockwell.com

The Nikon 24mm f/2.8 AF-D is an excellent performer, and a fraction of the size, weight and price of any zoom. It can replace both the 14-24mm and 24-70mm zooms, saving you over $3,000 (and almost four pounds of baggage) with improved performance.

It is worlds better than the seemingly similar 28mm f/2.8 AF-D.

This compact 24mm lens could be the only wide lens you ever need. I’m very serious: the more decades I do photography, the more I realize that my pictures today would be so much better if I would have shot with just the lens or two like this that I had decades ago, and spent my concentration and research time on learning how to take better pictures. Instead, like most of you, I also wasted most of the past couple of decades researching and buying more gear that I didn’t really need and didn’t do anything different than my gear did back in the 1970s.