Expensive but Essential

If you lose one of these then as expensive as they are, you're going to need another one. It's cheaper than replacing your entire lens when it gets scratched to death from being unprotected in your bag!

These are also good for replacing the old style Sigma lens caps if you have them as the old style Sigma lens caps are near impossible to get on or off with a lens hood fitted. These are much better!

Nikon's Creative Lighting System is AMAZING

I've been a keen amateur photographer for 35 years and have always been uncomfortable using flash light. Until now.
Flash often meant hit-and-miss results, poor exposure, ghost-like flesh tones, horrid colours, stark shadows, not to mention red-eye. But this changed when I started using a Speedlight SB-800 on my D200... consistent balanced exposure and great colour. But that's just the start of it. Using the D200 as controller of multiple Speedlights opens up a whole new world in photographic lighting. Admittedly the apparent complexity of using multiple Speedlights is, at first, rather daunting! Here Simon Stafford's Magic Lantern Guide"Nikon AF Speedlight Flash System" is helpful. I've added 2 SB-600s to my Speedlight system. I set each Speedlight to"remote", use the SB-800 as key light, one SB-600 as fill, and one SB-600 to light the background. Then all the control is from the camera. In the D200 menu the exposure value of the Speedlights can be dialled up/down in 1/3 ev steps. All TTL-metering and, of course, wireless. After one practise shot it's easy to dial-in the required values and then it's plain sailing... shot-after-shot perfectly exposed with great shadows and wonderful flesh tones. Use bounced light, different positioning/configuration of Speedlights, diffusion dome, coloured gel filters ... all is factored-in by the system to give astonishing results. A veritable portable studio!
Note: I found that while Nikon's user manuals explain the use of each component of the CLS, I had to search around to find a clear & simple explanation of how to use multiple Speedlights! Nikonians.org has an article entitled"Nikon D200 and Nikon's Creative Lighting System" which is most helpful.

Fun accesory to use

Great fun to use on 50mm f1.4 AF-D lens @1.4.
Only wish i had a tripod and macro focusing rail to try sharp well focused image. So due to the lack of DOF and subject sharpness colour abstracts are the result. Perhaps not everyones idea of good photograph but i like it.

Perfect prime lens

This is the only prime lens I own on my Nikon D50 and I've always been very happy with it. Small, light, well built and very sharp.

It's great for portrait pics. With the crop factor of digital SLRs of 1.5, it works out the equivalent of being around 53mm in old 35mm terms - a great length for portraits. That's also why I favoured this over the (admittedly much cheaper) 50mm f1.8 lens (the crop factor for which makes it more like a 75mm lens - a bit too much of a telephoto, especially indoors).

I'm happy shooting this wide open at f2. Contrast goes down when using it wide open but for me, that is offset by the lovely shallow depth of field and the ability to use in low light.

Probably also useful to know that as of a few months ago, there is now a new Nikon prime (the Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S) that comes with AFS (meaning it will auto-focus on Nikon cameras that don't have the internal screw drive, i.e. D40, D40X, D60, D5000).

This lens model here, however, does not have AFS and will not auto-focus on the above mentioned cams, but will on other Nikon dSLRs that have the screw mechanism in the body (like my old D50).

All in all a great prime and no downsides I can think of.

The Lens Isn't in perfect condition

I brought this lens for myself after selling the same lens with my old camera. The lens is stiff to use and when focusing makes alot of noise. I know its not supposed to be like this from previously owning the same lens before its also quite slow to focus but no one seems to want to help me.

The Nifty Fifty!

In my view every Nikon DSLR owner should have either this or the f1.4 in his/her camera bag. The f1.8 is small,light and inexpensive and gives super image quality as well as the ability to shoot in low light without flash or other forms of studio or off camera lighting. It is ideal for portraits although some may consider it too sharp. It is a very sharp lens and some ladies may not like to have their little skin flaws exposed. I find a little Gaussian blur in Photoshop fixes that. A very nice lens well recommended.

Great standard lens

I bought this lens in a hurry after my trusty old Nikkor 35-70mm packed up. I was looking for a good all round lens that I could leave on the camera 85% of the time that would be a complement to my D3. I wasn't disappointed.
The 24-85 is quite a fat lens and not amazingly light but it balances well on bigger bodies like the D3.
There is some distortion noticeable at the 24mm end resulting in bendy vertical lines and the like, but I haven't noticed any problems at the 85mm end.
I used the lens extensively during a two week holiday in Thailand and found it to be very useful - wide enough to use for most landscape shots and enought telephoto to grab quick long-range or candid shots.
Overall, a great lens, and a useful addition to my kit

Good lens

I'm pretty positive about this lens; good build quality, good range and good quality optics. It is, perhaps, just a tad slow at focussing, which can be a pain.

Well worth buying if you need a medium range telephoto.

Smll and light. Reasonable optical quality.

Advantages are it's small and light. There's little distortion but ultimate sharpness is not up to the new Nikon lenses such as 24-70, 14-24, or even 16-35. Useful to keep in the bag, though.

Great to do business with...

The item was dispatched really quickly, it was exactly as described and a pleasure to do business with!
Nikon Hb-23 Lens Hood For Af-S 17-35/18-35

OK general purpose wide

Could really do with a few more stops as its not great as the light dips, but general great clarity and image quality. Much better than lugging round a big old wide zoom.

Nikon HB-25 Bayonet hood

Needed it for my Nikon 24-84 f/2.8-4 lens. Better than a screw hood, easier to reverse and pack away with camera.

25yrs and going strong

I bought this rubber eveycup with my FM over a quarter of a century ago. It drastically improves the contrast of the viewfinder. Its very comfortable. Its very cheap. It obviously lasts forever.

the only genuine nikon solution for ultrawide on a DX camera

excellent lens and indeed more pro-like than amateur-like in price but also in specs. The new 14-24 promises to be one helluva lens for the full frame D3, but its premium price is no match for the 12-24 wich is DX only. If you're buying a D3 and don't already have the 17-35 2.8, the 14-24 will be the better solution since it also is decent on DX; otherwise, if you don't go pro with a D3, the 12-24 is excellent (and still can be used on the D3 although with obly half of the pixels). You obviously don't have the extreme distorsion you get with the 10.5 DX fiseye.

Ultra clear and saved my lens from being damaged

This lens filter is fanatastic!

It doesn't add anything to the current lens on my Nikon D40 SLR.
But it provides the best protection for the lens, keeping dust and other particles from affecting the lens.

It saved my lens recently on my last trip, as my camera bag took a tumble, with the SLR inside.
The lens filter cracked, but my lens was safe and sound.
The only problem was trying to finding a camera store, which was able to remove the damaged filter.
You definitely need a filter wrench to get the filter off.
In the end I was able to find a nikon repair store, who were able to remove my smashed filter.

I would definitely recommend this product and will be purchasing another one, to replace the one I lost.