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Nikon lens is best for shooting miniature things and another lens for shooting natural landscapes


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Hi ! 

 

I am a beginner and would like to hear about which Nikon lens is best for shooting miniature things and another lens for shooting natural landscapes.

 

Thanks in advice.



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few question need to be ask. are you DX aka crop body or Full Frame. to if Crop body you have DX 85mm macro. or have 60mm or 105mm macro for for full frame. not sure if Sigma still has 105mm macro lens on sell i got and will be one my three main lenses to use. also budget will help out too. 



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No current MicroNikkor is ideal for shooting macro (Close to 1:1 reproduction scale). The 40 and 60 give a too short working distance when you need lighting of some kind. The 105 is a good all-round short tele, but at macro scale, it is the softest 105 Nikon have made. The 200 is a very old design and the long macro Sigmas have left it behind quality-wise.

 

You can't go much wrong with a Tamron, Tokina or Sigma in the 90-105 focal length range.

 

To give advice about a landscape lens, we need more information.



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here few picture from Z6 with FTZ mount and sigma 105mm macro sorry computer files to large to share 

 

 

close up for christmas ornaments

DSC_4627 | chris dellinger | Flickr

 

 

really close up 

DSC_4628 | chris dellinger | Flickr



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few question need to be ask. are you DX aka crop body or Full Frame. to if Crop body you have DX 85mm macro. or have 60mm or 105mm macro for for full frame. not sure if Sigma still has 105mm macro lens on sell i got and will be one my three main lenses to use. also budget will help out too. 

 

Hi I have a D7200 Crop. Thx for your support.


No current MicroNikkor is ideal for shooting macro (Close to 1:1 reproduction scale). The 40 and 60 give a too short working distance when you need lighting of some kind. The 105 is a good all-round short tele, but at macro scale, it is the softest 105 Nikon have made. The 200 is a very old design and the long macro Sigmas have left it behind quality-wise.

 

You can't go much wrong with a Tamron, Tokina or Sigma in the 90-105 focal length range.

 

To give advice about a landscape lens, we need more information.

 

 

Hi ! I have a D7200 crop... thx for your support, too.



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The AF Micro-Nikkor 200/4 ED-IF may be an old design, but is one of the sharpest Nikon lenses ever made.

The AF-D Micro-Nikkor 105/2.8 is better than the newer AF-S Micro-Nikkor, and sells for much less.

The AF-D 60/2.8 gives 1:1 macro, is also very sharp.

These lenses were all designed in the era of film, meaning the lens designer did not rely on digital post-processing to correct the image. I was very disappointed by the AF-S 105/2.8, was not near as good as my AF-D lens.

 

The Nikon D7200 supports these older AF lenses.



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The AF Micro-Nikkor 200/4 ED-IF may be an old design, but is one of the sharpest Nikon lenses ever made.

The AF-D Micro-Nikkor 105/2.8 is better than the newer AF-S Micro-Nikkor, and sells for much less.

The AF-D 60/2.8 gives 1:1 macro, is also very sharp.

These lenses were all designed in the era of film, meaning the lens designer did not rely on digital post-processing to correct the image. I was very disappointed by the AF-S 105/2.8, was not near as good as my AF-D lens.

 

The Nikon D7200 supports these older AF lenses.

The 200 is definitely the best MicroNikkor, but compared to the Sigma 180/2.8 it comes a poor second. The Sigma is one of the few primes from that maker I like as they are usually overcorrected for my taste. It seems to be out of production, as is the 150, but some dealers still have stock.



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DX0 did a review of the Sigma 150/2.8, but not the 180/2.8. The 150/2.8 had much more Chromatic Aberration than the Nikkor. I found one review of the 180/2.8 which mentioned CA with it, and that it was auto-corrected by Adobe software using opcodes stored in the Raw file. I believe that a number of "modern lenses" have optimized the optics to fold in digital post-processing. I have one lens that is an "Ultra-Achromat", a Calcium Fluorite lens- one step further than an APO lens.



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Brian, Merco_61, thanks for your support.

 

But, what are the lens models to miniatures and what are to landscape ?

 

The AF Micro-Nikkor 200/4 ED-IF may be an old design, but is one of the sharpest Nikon lenses ever made.

The AF-D Micro-Nikkor 105/2.8 is better than the newer AF-S Micro-Nikkor, and sells for much less.

The AF-D 60/2.8 gives 1:1 macro, is also very sharp.

 

Sorry, I m beginner, many doubts.

 

Best regards.,



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We are only talking about macro lenses so far as we need more information about what types of landscape shooting you want to do.



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For landscape- people use everything from an ultra-wide angle lens to telephoto. I tend to prefer a short telephoto lens. Depending on how critical ypu are with geometry- a "Perspective Control" lens allows in-camera adjustments. These days- the same effect can be achieved using digital post-processing.

 

Flickr: The Landscape photography Pool

 

The above Flickr group is for Landscape images, has an active Admin. You might look at some of the information for photographs that you like to see what lenses are used. Again- everything from wide to telephoto. Most shots seem to be taken with zooms. Landscape images do not have a lot of straight/parallel lines that tend to show distortion, ie are more forgiving.

 

If you want one lens for both- Nikon made a Micro-Nikkor-Zoom, AF-D series. This lens goes in the $750 range on the used market, for one advertised as "Like New". These prices are 1/2 of what they went for a few years ago.

 

Nikon 70-180mm f4.5-5.6 D Micro 

 

https://www.amazon.c...77549221&sr=8-1

 

On the Sigma 150/2.8 "APO"- optically, the Chromatic Aberration is about the same as Nikon's regular "achromat" prime lenses. 

 

Sigma 150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro Nikon - DXOMARK

 

"APOchromat" means the lens is corrected for three wavelength crossings, but depending on the wavelengths selected and slope at the crossings: technically, a lens can be called "APO" but have performance that is worse than a good achromat, which is corrected for two wavelengths. In film days, especially with B&W film- optical correction is important. It's hard to see how Sigma calls their lens "APO" when it has about the same Chromatic Aberration as Nikon's 50/1.8 AF-S.