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Well the second lens I bought for my D1 was the 18-35 f3.5-4.5. Back in about 2006? It has been a stalwart member of my lens collection, finally being completely unleashed on the D3.
It's quite light and I find the images it produces are perfectly acceptable. It even has AF, which is quite a novelty for me! I don't believe there is a great deal of difference between the 17-35 f2.8 and the 18-35 f3.5-4.5, except weight and a stop or so. With the current modern cameras one stop isn't an issue, but lighter might be good for you?
I am agreement with you regarding the 18-35 comparison with the 17-35.
Before buying the latter I too had the former. In fact I had to exchange the lens 3 times before I got one that was better than my 18-35. The difference was colour fringing. The 17-35 had far less CA...at 17mm and f5.6.These were the settings I used most often for machinery shots and I used to get a lot of edge effects off stainless panels, with the 18-35.
Sold it to my mate Carl and he used it on his D700 with no complaints for his wedding groups for a number of years.
Last edited on Sun Oct 8th, 2017 18:55 by Eric
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