What Lens Do You Have On Your D700 Right Now?

the only wide to normal zoom lens I can afford...OR want to carry..hehe, a Tamron 28-75mm f2.8...it stays on most of the time, next is the 70-300VR, last are specific use prime lenses, mf or af depending on what they are...on rare occasion is an 80-200mm afd Nikon f2.8...10 yrs ago, it would have been used much more but now only for sports stuff. I use the kit mostly for travel or walkabout..sorry can't comment about the 17-55mm don't own one anymore...

I may not be typical... With my D700, 105mm 2.8 VR macro is on right now and the most frequent one. I take my watches often. Sorry, this is not "walkabout".
On weekends walkabout, like you, 24-70 is the obvious choice, but I am thinking I may need 85mm 1.4 or 1.8 because I sometimes don't want to carry 70-200, or even 70-300. 105mm is a great lense, but a bit too long for (relatively) many-purpose carry walkabout lense, to me.
I am looking forward to the advices in this thread, too.

Currently my D700 has a 50mm f1.8 AIS mounted. Saturday morning I will mount the Nikkor 500mm f4 P. In June I will go to Arizona with a 20mm, 28mm, 50mm and 75-150mm zomm or 105mm all AIS. At a July event I will have a 28-105 or 180mm AF-D to use. It all depends on what I am shooting.

Donald, why did you lose the 17-55mm?

My D700 has the 24-70mm, f/2.8 on it 90% of the time. It's a great lens for general "walking about" activities. For wide angle, I have the 14-24mm, f/2.8 and my only telephoto is the 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6VR. I keep my 50mm f/1.4 for sentimental reasons, I guess, because it's seldom used.

Absolutely I used my Tamron 17-35mm 2.8-4 zoom lens on my D700 the majority of the time. I like to shoot wide, and the 35mm focal length worked well for me too. The Nikon 50mm f1.8 AF-D was also a common lens I used, and the Nikon 105mm f2.5 as well. I wanted a normal zoom, and was considering the Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 before I decided to sell the D700 and go back to the DX format in a new $599 D200. I now use that and the Nikon 16-85mm VR zoom.

Sigma 15-30, but normally it is a Tamron 28-75 and this couple was meant as a temp solution, but I'm so satified that they will stay there much longer. The first to replace will be the Sigma and it will be a Sigma 12-24. Another much used lens is the 70-200 VR and for special things I have a 80-400 VR, but I don't use it that much.

90% of the time i use 24-70 2,8. also use 14-24 and seldom the 70-200. After havnig got the batteri pack mb-d10 there is a better balance carrying it arround.

The 17-55 is a DX lens, I hope he was referring to the 17-35 lens.

As a full-time news photog, I carry an old 20-35 f/2.8, 28-70 f/2.8, 70-200 f/2.8 VR and a handful of primes.