It’s a sweet lens. In the right hands, it will no doubt make an album (or any body of work) sing.

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WooHoo.

In a crowded place, you CANNOT use a telephoto, so hence the need for a fast wide-angle lens.
Some like 24mm lens and then also NEED a 24mm for cramped locations while sometimes you can get away with a 28 or even a 35.
There are places where you cannot use an 85mm, as you don’t have the distance to backup.
When properly or even creatively used, a 24mm is GREAT.
I have used zooms for quick shots plus primes for specific shots and then I move around to get the shot I want.
SPACE plus distance from subject often determines what lens you use.
Creativity is often NOT a zoom lens, but the creative use of a lens and you MOVE yourself to the location that best expresses YOUR point of view as in being different and better.
This is a brilliant lens from Nikon, indeed.

I don’t think that many here have ever seen or done an outdoor Fashion shoot at say New York City!
Some people shoot with 300mm F2.0 or 2.8 and even 500mm F4.0 for their subject isolation qualities.
Most of the wedding shots that I see on the web have a problem of NOT isolating the subject from the background as frankly, they do not know how to use focal lengths properly, in my opinion.
Too many shooters have not learnt the proper use of focal length and selective focus, hence everything looks so much alike on the Internet.

Look at what Nikon presented when they introduced the D-3X for a CLUE !!!
Zooms keep you in a fixed location as you move the focal length to compensate, while a prime often CHANGES your point of view.
Big difference!