It is easy to handle and the lens barrel has nice grip on it for comfortable manual focus or zooming in and out

Whether you are in Grand Canyon, Alaska glaciers, or any other wide-sweeping landscapes this is a perfect zoom lens without the bulk or the weight of a f2.8 lens

Zoom is smooth

The zoom is very nice to also give yourself a 16mm lens or a 35mm lens.

Good:- good zoom range, covers practical range below 50mm-

The bokeh wide open could be better, certainly not as good as a 2.8 prime or zoom

The 16-85mm VR has a tremendously versatile zoom range, an equally good VR implementation, and is to my eyes just as snappy and contrasty in terms of color rendition as this lens.

so just beautiful and exactly what I wanted in a wide-angle zoom.

It's not enormous like the 14-24/2.8 and 17.35/2.8 (actually not that much bigger, but so much larger in diameter that it FEELS huge), it is very sharp, it is stunningly contrasty, and it spans a very useful zoom range from an almost-ridiculous (until you need it

The 16-85mm VR has a tremendously versatile zoom range, an equally good VR implementation, and is to my eyes just as snappy and contrasty in terms of color rendition as this lens.