After selling a bunch of my lenses I broke down and bought this beast. It is one awesome lens. All of these pictures have not been modified, and all I did was convert from nef to jpeg. The in camera sharpening was set to normal, which is low on a D200. The first 17 pictures, the saturation is set at enhanced and the remaining pictures, saturation was set to normal. This lens is extremely sharp and the bokeh ( the out of focus are) is absolutely beautiful. Like butter.