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Overall lens rating:
Nikkor 105mm F2.5
User Reviews and Specs | Submitted by the swede, Oct 05 2013 08:37 AM | Last updated Oct 13 2013 04:20 PM
An excellent manual focus short-tele lens.
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| Lens Category: | Short Tele |
| GENERAL: | |
| In Production: | No |
| OPTICS: | |
| Format: | FX (Full-Frame) |
| Optical Construction: | 5 elements in 4 groups |
| Min. Focusing Distance (cm): | 100 |
| Reproduction Ratio: | 1:7.7 |
| Coating Type: | Nikon Integrated |
| APERTURE: | |
| Max. Aperture: | F2.5 |
| Min. Aperture: | F22 |
| Number of Aperture Blades: | 7 |
| Rounded Aperture Blades: | No |
| Aperture Ring: | Yes |
| FOCUSING: | |
| Focus Type: | Manual Focus |
| Internal Focusing: | No |
| Distance Scale: | Yes |
| Macro: | No |
| FEATURES: | |
| Stabilization: | No |
| Weather Sealing: | No |
| Tripod Collar: | No |
| Other Features: | Built-in Hood |
| DIMENSIONS: | |
| Filter Size (mm): | 52 |
| Max. Barrel Diameter (mm): | 64 |
| Collapsed Length (mm): | 78 |
| Weight (g): | 435 |
| ACCESSORIES: |
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5 Reviews
This lens is a true classic in all it's versions. It is a bit soft wide open, but sharpens up already at f/2.8. The softness gives a dreamy quality to wide open portraits. Nikon somehow managed to keep the way the 105/2.5 Sonnar drew, but the redesign made it sharp in the corners too in this Gauss design.
The AIS lens with the built-in hood is a bit more difficult to focus precisely than the P black, P.C, K and AI versions because the focus throw is reduced to 140° from 1 m to infinity instead of the earlier 170° throw. It is still not hard to focus, just not quite as easy.
I have had all versions of the 105/2.5 and by far my favourite is the AI. It has the same multicoating as the AIS, but the HS-8 hood is deeper and the longer focus throw is easier to use.
The throw was shortened on most AIS lenses to make them faster to use for PJ work, but I feel the 105/1.8 is a much better PJ lens anyway.