Purchased this lens and it arrived a couple of days ago. Just did a lens test this morning with a target and I am very impressed. A touch soft around the edges at 2.8 but this is still a usable f/stop. Clears up nicely by 5.6. f/22 not a hot f/stop but f/16 is very nice.

The principal design of the Nikkor AF 28mm f/2.8D is obviously closely related to the AF 24mm f/2.8D so it shares some of its characteristics. The resolution figures are very good but otherwise the lens left something to be desired for a fix-focal.

Although this is relatively cheap, it's light and offers the traditional Nikon metal build quality, producing warm, saturated images of old. I briefly owned a new 20mm 1.8/G which I bought earlier this year from Amazon and returned it due to dreadful lack of sharpness, lack of contrast and plasticky...

Perfect balance of price, wide angle, and speed.

Consistent Output; Easily Interchangeable; Fast / accurate auto-focus; Lightweight

I am trying to be esoteric with the "Review Title." The lens is inexpensive, so in essence this lens doesn't have a 'fat price tag.' I came up with an idea, which I called, the "Fixed-Focal-Length Weekend." The plan was to shoot with only using fixed-focal lenses over the Fourth of July Weekend.

Has great depth of field and is fast. Focuser works smoothly. Great for landscapes and astronomy. The lens is much better than the poor reviews indicate. It is sharp if you use it properly. Colors are well saturated.

Has great depth of field and is fast; Focuser works smoothly; Great for landscapes and astronomy; The lens is much better than the poor reviews indicate; It is sharp if you use it properly; Colors are well saturated

It has no vibration reduction and on a DX camera will require manual focus; But it will work; It requires more skill to use it than your newer lens that has vibration reduction; There is less room for operator error; The focus is critical; And shutter speed must be fast enough to avoid camera shake

A great value wide angle lens which is designed for full frame Nikon DSLRs but can also be used on any crop sensor Nikon that has a focusing motor in the body (D90, D7000, D7100, D7200).

This lens is a bit of a sleeper as its quite cheap but does give quite good image quality once past F4. I recently decided to go with primes for all lenses under 100 mm - why carry around a 24-70 that weighs 1.4 kilos when I can get a 50mm, a 28 and a 20 that weigh just about 0.6 kilos between them...

small; light; very sharp centre resolution

some distortion; not particularly robust

To my surprise, this lens works very well on FX. My lens dates from 1989 and it does not focus instantly, but the quality is good and the images are surprisingly sharp. The lens is very small and unobtrusive, so it does not call attention to the camera and does not take up much room in the bag, but...

Basically the same construction as the other lenses in the prime AF-D line--no better, no worse, but not nearly as sharp, crisp, or saturated. The one lens in the line that I think I made a mistake buying.

Small by AF standards; cheap

Not really that sharp in comparison with other primes in the Nikon line