Joe,
I guess I should have followed on with my current lens stable and some comments. I shot them ALL yesterday just to confirm AF offsets. Anyway, they are:
14 Samyang -- very good performer for a relatively inexpensive hyperwide. I rarely use it, but like having it for when it's needed.
17-35/2.8 Nikkor AF-D -- this is my main wide and for that reason is almost always in the bag. I use it mostly for the 17 end, though as most know with a wide, a little tweak in focal length can make a big difference, so zoom is a nice feature here. It is very sharp centrally, however cannot hold the extreme corners at any aperture or focal. But since it does very well at frame edge, I live with bad corners, since rarely is extreme corner performance mandatory for my imaging.
24-120/4 Nikkor Zoom -- it's just decent enough at 24 to be useful, and surprisingly very good at the 120 end, and in-betwen those in the middle. Corner performance on mine is good enough at all focals, so it sees a lot of use as a walk-around/convenience/travel/casual lens. Actually it sees a surprising amount of use considering its being essentially the worst lens I own.
24 PC-E -- I have a decent copy and find it useful for certain applications, so I keep it. I do not use it a lot, and as good as it is optically for a tilt-shift lens, it is barely up to the sensor centrally at optimal apertures. But that performance holds to corners through a significant range of the shift. Given the tilt and shift options, it offers unique imaging characteristics and all said and done makes very good images.
28/1.4 Nikkor -- Lens #1 in my triad. It isn't exceptional optically at 1.4, but the aberrations make for gorgeous rendering. It sharpens up nicely at f2, and is excellent by 4. Lower contrast than more modern, slower 28's, but has a look I'll never tire of. Its actual focal length is probably closer to 30, which for me is about ideal. So it is my favorite wide and so much so, I do not bother with a 35 anymore (and if I need 35, I have the 17-35).
50 Sigma ART -- Lens #2 in my triad. Smashingly excellent at all apertures and only drops slightly at the extreme corners wide open. (By f4 it is essentially the optical equal of the outstanding 85/1.4G.) Great bokeh both ahead and behind POF. It's a little large for a 50/1.4, but the overall rendering is outstanding. I knew after getting this lens that I'd never look back at my 50/1.2 D manual focus, so I sold it to a friend who wanted it.
85/1.4 Nikkor AF G -- Lens #3 in my triad. Simply outstanding, one of the best lenses I own optically with great character and bokeh. A little large, but renders so beautifully, it is almost always in my bag.
85 Nikkor PC-E -- very good optically, even fully shifted at the corners. Better optically than the 24 by a wide margin, and the usefulness features for tilt-shift lenses hold. It has very good macro capability and my 1.4x Nikon converter adds some versatility.
85 Petzval -- I bought it on a whim, but it renders so classically old-time large format look, I definitely keep it for certain creative applications. It's also just a blast to shoot with.
105/2 Nikkor AF-DC -- very good optically corner to corner wide open, and sharpens up to excellent by f2.8. You can move the POF with the DC ring to tune look for portraits. I hardly ever both shooting it anywhere but with the DC zeroed, but it's a nice feature to have when shooting portraits of more mature women
Sigma 120-300/2.8 OS DG HSM zoom -- this lens is surprisingly good optically at 120, and stays that way all the way to 300! While perhaps not quite up to the Nikkor 300/2.8 prime, it's still quite excellent optically, a lot cheaper and more versatile. It hardly suffers with either the Sigma 1.4 or 2x converter attached, making it a versatile long tele for the times I need one. It is a beast, so gets left in its own trunk case with the Sigma converters at the car until needed.
180 Nikkor AF-D, late model -- just picked this lens up and couldn't be happier. It will likely replace the 105DC at being one found in my bag most of the time. Other copies I've seen were perhaps older versions and did not render great in the corners. But this one is very good centrally and holds well across the frame. Much like my 28/1.4, this lens shows its age of optical design with some aberrations, lower overall contrast, slightly more yellow hue and a teeny bit of CA in the final image, but these latter are easily correctable. In the end, it has a great look by my standards and is a relative bargain in this focal for my needs. As a side note, Nikon or Sigma teleconverters will NOT mount on this lens even if they've had their mounts modified -- the lens throat while deep enough is too thick at one point to accept the front element of the converters.
I have owned, sold and won't be repurchasing: 70-200/2.8 current and previous generations; 80-400 current and previous generations; 24-120 previous generation; 50/1.4G; 85/1.8G; 28/1.8G; 35/1.4G; 14-24; 45 PC-E and a handful of manual focus Nikkor and Zeiss ZF lenses. My eyes are getting older and current AF is so good, I prefer to use it when possible.
Hope this helps.