Nikon Br-3 Adaptor ring.

Nikon Br-3 Adapter Ring This is almost an essential piece of kit if you reverse a lens for macro work. It fits onto any Nikon lens and provides rudimentary lens protection to the mechanism but also allows you to fit a filter to stop the ingress of dust; it has a 52mm filter thread. Usual Nikon high quality.

Sublime Glass!

I would like to wholeheartedly concur with the other reviewers here on Amazon... this is a quite sublime lens.

The only thing I, and many others, would perhaps criticise, is the 14-24's inability to take a typical screw-fit filter ...and regardless what I and others would say about protecting it via the protruding shade etc, there will be environmental occasions when a filter's level of protection from the elements would be beneficial.

Having said that... it never deterred me from buying an example and I've been thrilled with the shots I've managed to capture with this glass behemoth!

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Impressive!

This lens is really rather nice to use. The build quality is superior to my Nikon 18-135mm kit lens. The image stabilisation is fantastic since sharp pictures can be obtained at 1/20 sec which reduces the need to increase the ISO setting.
Calumet are to be congratulated with the speed of packing and posting this lens. It was with me the day after placing the order.

Do NOT buy this product if you care about your lenses!

As a keen Nikon enthusiast I thought I was doing my Nikon lenses a favour by purchasing Nikon's own lens cleaning fluid to look after them. How wrong I was. Nothwithstanding careful use with good quality lens tissue (Kodak) it always left all my lenses somewhat smeared. I just bought a 14-24mm f2.8, which I had to clean, recently, after use at the coast (it won't take filters). I thought that my expensive new acquisition was ruined, when it got smeared so badly with the hazy sworls and white residue left by this fluid. Thanks to the internet, I came across the Eclipse cleaning system, which has removed all the offending smears and all my lenses are thankfully, now, like new again.

Need a hood ?

Need a lens hood, then get the real thing from Nikon - well made and not too expensive if you shop around !

The perfect travelling lens for a digital SLR

There are even more reasons to keep dust out of a digital camera than a regular film camera, so if you can find one lens that will do ninety percent of everything it's a real bonus: your SLR becomes a sealed box that you almost never open to the elements. I use this lens on my Nikon D70 (where it's the equivalent of about 40 - 300mm) and have very rarely wanted to swap it for a wider or longer lens.

Ultra-wide range zooms generally suffer from more distortion than their less ambitious stablemates, but this is to be found at the periphery of the field of vision: on a D70, the distortion is only to be found off the edge of the sensor, so you'll never know it's there. It's a light and compact lens, with fast and relatively quiet auto-focus and beautifully smooth zooming considering the way the glass elements are moving around in there.

The lens seems more solid than Sigma or Tamron's equivalent lenses, and there's an intangible quality feel to it. Overall I would have no hesitation in recommending it.

Fantastic lens - yes even on FX!

I've had this lens since last Autumn, purchased specifically for wedding photography. Sorry to be boring in description but it really is one of the holy three for me (along with the 24-70 and 14-24 lenses). It's absolutely unreal, a beautiful, beautiful lens and well worth the hefty asking price. I've read about a few issues some photographers have been having with soft corners and vignetting on full-frame cameras. This seems to affect shooting wide open for landscapes the most (or at least that's where the majority of criticism comes from) Personally I would never shoot landscapes at f2.8 and I'd prefer to use one of the aforementioned lenses instead. Even in the instances where vignetting occurs, I can crop or - in some instances - leave the vignetting in, I'd only add one later in post-production! For super-shooters who demand edge-to-edge sharpness, regardless, maybe it's worth hanging on for the rumoured upgrade to this lens but to be honest with you, I wouldn't bother. For the majority of shooters 70-200 on either DX or FX is simply sublime.

Useful for some

Some angles and conditions do call for this on the lens, when you can't really use your hand, especially if operating remote. It's well made from metal and can offer some protection to the lens from attack, but ideally use a clear/uv filter, as well, when working with hostile subjects. Nikon should incorporate this into the lens as a slide out hood, just like they've done on other lenses like the 80-200mm f2.8.
The lens it goes on, the 200mm f4 micro, is an exceptionally good lens and if you can get one do so while they're still available.

Not for beginners!!

Sorry to do this but i feel it's very bad this TC gets a 1 star rating because people are too stupid to check their lenses compatibility with it. Please please please check Nikon's website before buying this piece of equipment. It is not made for beginners and amateurs with D40's, D60's and D3000's and run of the mill lenses to turn their 70-300mm into a 140-600mm, this would give you a ludicrous 210-900mm f8.5 on a DX body, i know id have bought one straight away if that was the case! This is a professional accessory to use with professional lenses. Nikon make it very clear on their website and lens catalogue what is compatible with this teleconverter.

That aside this is an excellent piece of equipment and adds double the focal length to most PROFESSIONAL lenses at the cost of 2 f-stops. Some image quality is lost slightly but when used with my D300 and 70-200mm VR in good light it is superbly tack sharp. Well worth it to bridge the gap while we wait for Nikon to improve the now dated 80-400mm VR.