Nikon 105mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras
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Features
- 105mm
- F/2.8
- D-Series
- Micro
- Auto focus
Product Description
Nikon is a precision optical company with worldwide manufacturing, research and marketing capabilities. The Nikon name is equated with extraordinary photographic performance, innovation, precision and optical quality.PRODUCT FEATURES:Medium telephoto Micro lens for portrait and other high magnification close-up applications;Provides extra working distance for elusive subjects or ones requiring supplemental illumination;Continuous focusing from infinity to life-size (1:1).Customer reviews
Truly wonderful Micro lens 
by .. S. A Adcock (Virginia, USA)
This is a very well designed performer in the Micro photography world within the Nikon family. This is definitely one of my favorite lenses to photograph nature with, as you can see from my sample shots on this page. The build quality is nice. The lens is light. The images it produces are clean and sharp.
Focusing, as another reviewer hit on, isn't the fastest. But, focusing speed isn't what micro lenses were built to excel at. This is a micro lens, designed to get up close and personal with subjects of all kinds. I find myself manually focusing when the camera has trouble finding the subject. This lens works great for what it was built to do.
A legend by .. J. Bert ()
In every manufacturer's linup of lenses there are always a few that achieve "legendary" status among devotees of the brand. For Nikon users lenses like the 80-200 f4.5 MF or 80-200 f2.8 MF or AF come immediately to mind. The AF105mm f2.8 is such a lens.
This was a new design from the older MF version, optically designed to produce a flat field and focus to 1:1 without extension tubes or other lens attachments. Superior to the well thought of 60mm Micro by allowing a longer working distance (approx 6 inches at 1:1)
Mechanically well built of metal - hence marking it as one of Nikon's "pro" lenses - this is a hefty package,weighing in at almost the same as most of the mid range zooms currently being produced.
Optically it is superb.
Among the best macro lenses in its focal length by .. John Kwok (New York, NY USA)
The only lenses which are optically better than this lens are the recently discontinued Contax Carl Zeiss 100mm f 2.8 Makro Planar which I own and the Leica 100mm f2.8 APO Elmarit-R lens, which is regarded not only as the best 100mm macro telephoto lens, but also among the best in the Leica R 35mm SLR lens system. Like its sibling, the 60mm f2.8 Micro Nikkor, the 105mm f2.8 Micro Nikkor offers close focusing down to a 1:1 life size reproduction ratio. In plain English, this is the perfect lens to use to get close to insects, frogs or anything else which is small, living and liable to move quickly if it is disturbed by the photographer. The 105mm lens will give you more space to work with, so you don't have to stand literally on top of the object you're photographing. I relied on the manual focusing version of this lens - which didn't have a 1:1 reproduction ratio - for photographing small invertebrate fossils years ago. I was impressed by the superb contrast and resolution, which has only been bettered by the Zeiss lens I own currently. I have no doubt that this autofocusing version of the 105mm Micro Nikkor is a superb performer in its own right.
