Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens Imported

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

This is mt first Macro lens. So, I was very excited to try this out! I use this lens to take potraits, flowers and landscape photography.
The potraits are very sharp and crisp, with a nice bokeh!!!
The flowers and insects that I photographed came out as I expected, and as per the book I was following !
Well, I would be hard pressed to find too many faults in this lens..

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I am a beginner but had the money so I bought this lens. I was impressed what it did! I used it right out of the box so I could take closeups of my daughter coloring Easter eggs. The colors were vibrant!

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I've only had this lens for a few weeks but so far it's a really nice lens. This lens had been on my wish list for my Nikon D7000 for a while now, and I purchased it immediately when I noticed it was on sale. The included UV and circular polarizer filters were a welcome plus.I've done a lot of testing and am very pleased with the performance of this lens. The 85mm focal length (127mm equivalent) gives a very nice working distance for very close objects. And although I haven't really tested this lens for portrait work, it should be a good focal length for head and shoulders portraits. The VR works very well at distances, but doesn't gain you as much at very close distances.For very close work, I recommend turning the VR off and using a tripod and a remote release. I've set my remote release to raise and lock the mirror on the first click of the remote and to fire the shutter on the second click of the remote. This gives the mirror plenty of time to lock and settle before the exposure is made. I've also found that I get slightly better and more repeatable results if I use live view and focus manually. This also gives me the opportunity to take four or five exposures at very slightly different focus distances and then do focus stacking in Photoshop.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Really like this lens! I have the 40mm 2.8 Micro Nikkor but you really have to get close with it in macro, not so with the 85mm Nikkor. Great image quality and a great B&H price as well. Feels good on my D7000, not too front heavy.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I didn't have time to really give this lens a full workout yet but from what I can see from a couple of test sessions it is a great addition to have for close up and portrait work. The B&H sale price was too good to pass up.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I use my lens for shooting close up on flowers and insects. It produces sharp images with out having to get in the bushes with the flowers!
Cannot think of anything I do not like about it! It does what is supposed to do and I am VERY happy...love NIKKOR lenses....they are such high quality!

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

The lens included both a UV and circular polarizing filter, as well as a lens shade and a cleaning cloth. I use the lens for both close up and landscape photography with some intermediade portrates. Some shots require a trypod. Beautiful display and metering.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Bought this lens for macro photography for my Nikon D3100. I am looking to upgrade to a better DX camera later on in the year. This lens takes very sharp photos! And it gives you great working distance for doing macro photography. If you are considering a macro lens for a DX or an APS-C size camera this is a great lens!

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Great for flowers and plants.nothing negative so far

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Good value for the price for mid-range macro, but plastic housing gives it a 'cheap' feel. Optical performance is really better than price would suggest.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Most useful in Portrait and easily Focus.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

This is my first macro and I love it. I haven't used it for protraits yet, but it is super for flowers and anything close up. The focusing takes a little getting used to, but reading the lens manual is very helpful. I would definitely recommend it to anyone.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I spent many hours researching macro lenses. I only had about $ to spend and decided this was my best choice. All I can say is wow. On my D7000 this lens exceeds what I thought I was getting. It takes amazing close up macro shots and I have even been using for a few portraits!!

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I bought this lens for intra-oral photography. Due to the demanding nature of this environment, this seemed the best choice and I was right. Great clarity and adaptability. Combined with the ring flash I'm getting great results.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Nice lens, light, smooth, fast focusing, clear & sharp. Works great with R1C1 and Sigma EM 140. Has internal focus.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

The lens will be an important part of my quiver.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I'm a semi-professional photographer of 35+ years experience with close-up photography. I've used every technique, including reversal rings, extension tubes, close-up lenses and darkroom fixes with normal lenses in the engineering field to take 'technical' photos. I use this lens to photograph coins, and I'm having to re-learn how to be a photographer using this lens on the 26 Mp D3200!
I purchased the 85mm, rather than the 40mm Micro because I wanted some distance between lens and subject and this lens takes a full frame picture of a quarter at about 7-8 inches. Coins are a particular challenge due to being flat and all one color. This lens is easy to work with and I'm getting excellent results with the auto-focus and the auto-exposure and am using the built in flash, a pleasant surprise. Usually, the lens is so close that lighting is difficult, and a camera mounted flash is blocked by the lens itself. It's what's missing that makes this lens/camera combo stand out.
When adding close-up lenses to a normal lens, first off, they don't help that much for extreme close-up work and they add two lens surfaces per, degrading the image with increasing amounts of diffraction and chromatic aberration. Likewise, they are not mechanically aligned with the lens elements and I don't use them anymore. They soften and blur the close-up image. The 85mm gives a crisp image at it's maximum with no detectable corona or blurring.
Extension tubes, while giving a better image than close-up lenses, move the lens out of its 'comfort zone', and chromatic aberration increases with each extension, and the amount of light on the sensor falls off with the square of the distance. It also moves the front of the lens closer to the subject and decreases depth of field. Eventually, the lens is too close and shading the subject, with the lens wide open. The 85mm lets you work at a comfortable distance, use a high lighting angle, back the lights away, and stop the lens down to increase the depth of field.
Depth of field is always an issue, and in my case, a real problem because coins are essentially flat. A shallow depth of field is no problem, but the center of the coin and the edge of the coin are at different distances from the lens, and the center can be in focus while the edge is out of focus. The 85mm does not show any such distortion across the full frame.
The first sets of pictures I took looked fine, until I moved them into photoshop and looked at them at pixel resolution. I noticed two things, that I thought were lens problems, but were actually mistakes I made. First, the silver quarter looked 'rough'. Zooming in, I saw that adjacent pixels were of widely different colors, averaging out to grey at a distance. This was due to camera motion. It is essential to use liveview so that the mirror is up well before the shutter is released, AND to use a remote shutter release. I have developed a soft touch over the years to release the shutter, and this was adequate with film and lower resolution digital cameras. Not so with this camera, when you consider that the sensor elements are microscopic, and this lens provides a precisely focused image that will pick-up microscopic camera movement. It goes without saying that the camera must be firmly mounted on a tripod. The improvement was noticeable at a distance, and zooming in reveals surface details such as fine scratches that are lost in lower resolution digitals, and cannot be seen under 10x magnification with the naked eye. Adjacent pixels are nearly the same color, which speaks to the quality of the image produced by this lens. If anything, these pictures are too good, showing details that the naked eye never sees.
The second problem was a slightly out of focus edge on the coin. This was due to two mistakes. 1) The camera MUST be parallel to the surface. The slightest tilt, in this case about 2-3 mm, will cause a corresponding tilt in the planar field of view, and 2), the coin must be flat and parallel to the camera. I place coins on a smaller piece of foam rubber so they appear to float. The slightest tipping of the coin to one side or the other will throw the edge out of focus since I use the auto-focus on the center of the coin. This lens will not allow you to be sloppy or imprecise.
One other thing, lint, dust or any other bit of debris shows up quite nicely. I now have to dust the coins before photographing them, and occasionally re-photograph them when a microscopically large dust mote shows up.
To sum up, the 85mm gives a flat field, crisp image at a comfortable working distance, and produces excellent close-up images that are easy to light, but you have to work for it. This lens is not for the casual point and shoot, but will give great results to the serious photographer tired of fighting the limitations of the wrong lens for the job.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I'm a portrait photographer, and this lens is just perfection for portraits. There's no distortion, it's sharp as a tack, and worth every penny. It's spoiled me for other lenses, nothing else can compare now. If you don't have this lens already, buy it. You won't regret it.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Bought the lens for an existing digital camera. Takes great closeup shots with good detail.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

light weight, great focus either for distant or close up work

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

This is mt first Macro lens. So, I was very excited to try this out! I use this lens to take potraits, flowers and landscape photography.
The potraits are very sharp and crisp, with a nice bokeh!!!
The flowers and insects that I photographed came out as I expected, and as per the book I was following !
Well, I would be hard pressed to find too many faults in this lens..

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I am a beginner but had the money so I bought this lens. I was impressed what it did! I used it right out of the box so I could take closeups of my daughter coloring Easter eggs. The colors were vibrant!

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I've only had this lens for a few weeks but so far it's a really nice lens. This lens had been on my wish list for my Nikon D7000 for a while now, and I purchased it immediately when I noticed it was on sale. The included UV and circular polarizer filters were a welcome plus.I've done a lot of testing and am very pleased with the performance of this lens. The 85mm focal length (127mm equivalent) gives a very nice working distance for very close objects. And although I haven't really tested this lens for portrait work, it should be a good focal length for head and shoulders portraits. The VR works very well at distances, but doesn't gain you as much at very close distances.For very close work, I recommend turning the VR off and using a tripod and a remote release. I've set my remote release to raise and lock the mirror on the first click of the remote and to fire the shutter on the second click of the remote. This gives the mirror plenty of time to lock and settle before the exposure is made. I've also found that I get slightly better and more repeatable results if I use live view and focus manually. This also gives me the opportunity to take four or five exposures at very slightly different focus distances and then do focus stacking in Photoshop.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Really like this lens! I have the 40mm 2.8 Micro Nikkor but you really have to get close with it in macro, not so with the 85mm Nikkor. Great image quality and a great B&H price as well. Feels good on my D7000, not too front heavy.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I didn't have time to really give this lens a full workout yet but from what I can see from a couple of test sessions it is a great addition to have for close up and portrait work. The B&H sale price was too good to pass up.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I use my lens for shooting close up on flowers and insects. It produces sharp images with out having to get in the bushes with the flowers!
Cannot think of anything I do not like about it! It does what is supposed to do and I am VERY happy...love NIKKOR lenses....they are such high quality!

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

The lens included both a UV and circular polarizing filter, as well as a lens shade and a cleaning cloth. I use the lens for both close up and landscape photography with some intermediade portrates. Some shots require a trypod. Beautiful display and metering.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Bought this lens for macro photography for my Nikon D3100. I am looking to upgrade to a better DX camera later on in the year. This lens takes very sharp photos! And it gives you great working distance for doing macro photography. If you are considering a macro lens for a DX or an APS-C size camera this is a great lens!

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Great for flowers and plants.nothing negative so far

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Good value for the price for mid-range macro, but plastic housing gives it a 'cheap' feel. Optical performance is really better than price would suggest.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Most useful in Portrait and easily Focus.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

This is my first macro and I love it. I haven't used it for protraits yet, but it is super for flowers and anything close up. The focusing takes a little getting used to, but reading the lens manual is very helpful. I would definitely recommend it to anyone.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I spent many hours researching macro lenses. I only had about $ to spend and decided this was my best choice. All I can say is wow. On my D7000 this lens exceeds what I thought I was getting. It takes amazing close up macro shots and I have even been using for a few portraits!!

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I bought this lens for intra-oral photography. Due to the demanding nature of this environment, this seemed the best choice and I was right. Great clarity and adaptability. Combined with the ring flash I'm getting great results.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Nice lens, light, smooth, fast focusing, clear & sharp. Works great with R1C1 and Sigma EM 140. Has internal focus.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

The lens will be an important part of my quiver.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I'm a semi-professional photographer of 35+ years experience with close-up photography. I've used every technique, including reversal rings, extension tubes, close-up lenses and darkroom fixes with normal lenses in the engineering field to take 'technical' photos. I use this lens to photograph coins, and I'm having to re-learn how to be a photographer using this lens on the 26 Mp D3200!
I purchased the 85mm, rather than the 40mm Micro because I wanted some distance between lens and subject and this lens takes a full frame picture of a quarter at about 7-8 inches. Coins are a particular challenge due to being flat and all one color. This lens is easy to work with and I'm getting excellent results with the auto-focus and the auto-exposure and am using the built in flash, a pleasant surprise. Usually, the lens is so close that lighting is difficult, and a camera mounted flash is blocked by the lens itself. It's what's missing that makes this lens/camera combo stand out.
When adding close-up lenses to a normal lens, first off, they don't help that much for extreme close-up work and they add two lens surfaces per, degrading the image with increasing amounts of diffraction and chromatic aberration. Likewise, they are not mechanically aligned with the lens elements and I don't use them anymore. They soften and blur the close-up image. The 85mm gives a crisp image at it's maximum with no detectable corona or blurring.
Extension tubes, while giving a better image than close-up lenses, move the lens out of its 'comfort zone', and chromatic aberration increases with each extension, and the amount of light on the sensor falls off with the square of the distance. It also moves the front of the lens closer to the subject and decreases depth of field. Eventually, the lens is too close and shading the subject, with the lens wide open. The 85mm lets you work at a comfortable distance, use a high lighting angle, back the lights away, and stop the lens down to increase the depth of field.
Depth of field is always an issue, and in my case, a real problem because coins are essentially flat. A shallow depth of field is no problem, but the center of the coin and the edge of the coin are at different distances from the lens, and the center can be in focus while the edge is out of focus. The 85mm does not show any such distortion across the full frame.
The first sets of pictures I took looked fine, until I moved them into photoshop and looked at them at pixel resolution. I noticed two things, that I thought were lens problems, but were actually mistakes I made. First, the silver quarter looked 'rough'. Zooming in, I saw that adjacent pixels were of widely different colors, averaging out to grey at a distance. This was due to camera motion. It is essential to use liveview so that the mirror is up well before the shutter is released, AND to use a remote shutter release. I have developed a soft touch over the years to release the shutter, and this was adequate with film and lower resolution digital cameras. Not so with this camera, when you consider that the sensor elements are microscopic, and this lens provides a precisely focused image that will pick-up microscopic camera movement. It goes without saying that the camera must be firmly mounted on a tripod. The improvement was noticeable at a distance, and zooming in reveals surface details such as fine scratches that are lost in lower resolution digitals, and cannot be seen under 10x magnification with the naked eye. Adjacent pixels are nearly the same color, which speaks to the quality of the image produced by this lens. If anything, these pictures are too good, showing details that the naked eye never sees.
The second problem was a slightly out of focus edge on the coin. This was due to two mistakes. 1) The camera MUST be parallel to the surface. The slightest tilt, in this case about 2-3 mm, will cause a corresponding tilt in the planar field of view, and 2), the coin must be flat and parallel to the camera. I place coins on a smaller piece of foam rubber so they appear to float. The slightest tipping of the coin to one side or the other will throw the edge out of focus since I use the auto-focus on the center of the coin. This lens will not allow you to be sloppy or imprecise.
One other thing, lint, dust or any other bit of debris shows up quite nicely. I now have to dust the coins before photographing them, and occasionally re-photograph them when a microscopically large dust mote shows up.
To sum up, the 85mm gives a flat field, crisp image at a comfortable working distance, and produces excellent close-up images that are easy to light, but you have to work for it. This lens is not for the casual point and shoot, but will give great results to the serious photographer tired of fighting the limitations of the wrong lens for the job.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

I'm a portrait photographer, and this lens is just perfection for portraits. There's no distortion, it's sharp as a tack, and worth every penny. It's spoiled me for other lenses, nothing else can compare now. If you don't have this lens already, buy it. You won't regret it.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

Bought the lens for an existing digital camera. Takes great closeup shots with good detail.

Comments about Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR Lens:

light weight, great focus either for distant or close up work