Nikkor 85mm f:1.8 AF-D

It is an excellent prime lens that in DX format becomes in a 127 mm f:1.8, what transforms into a medium tele ideal for portraits. It has 6 elements in 6 groups with a front diameter of 62 mm, a metallic hood, and a 9 leaves diaphragm, what gives, together a good brightness, a really beautiful bokeh.

It can focus until a minimum of 0,85 m (The one that I have I focus until a little bit less, about 76 cm.) which is better we forget the macro with this lens. The autofocus is conventional, screw, and is very quick in the D50 and D200 where it has been tested, although lightly noisy for due to lately Nikon has us accustomed with the systems SWM. The focus is excellent.

The images quality is very very good. It is clear in any aperture, especially in f1.8, where it will provide us a nice dream blur of the bottom. The difference in price that has the 85mm f1.8 (450 Euros) in front of the 1300 Euros that 85mm f1.4 costs, and that fstop fraction in the practice is not anything, it would really be necessary to be thought the acquisition of the most expensive. You can shoot in interiors with total tranquillity without the help of flash. Moreover, if you want to shoot external, constructions even, because their distortion is almost null, and you close it until f 8, you will obtain some images of an impressive sharpness. The chromatic aberrations can consider them as non-existent.

Nikon 85mm f 1.8 AF-D is the medium perfect quick tele for somebody that wants speed and really clear images to a price that won't make that you make postponed payments with the visa. The image quality difference with the zooms all in one of third party marks is noted from the first picture. Well, it is not a wide angle, doesn't have macro, it is not a long tele, but what makes, makes it better than you have never seen.

E.g. Data of the picture: Hand held, 1/750 of speed, aperture f2.8, a little bit closed to not to do so critical focus, and even this way, the left eye is already unfocused. Matrix metering. The greenish bottom that one guesses behind is a "Pompadour" tree a meter and half, more or less

 

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