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Nikon doesn't make them like this any more... Built like a tank, focusing is buttery smooth, and the pictures are usably sharp even wide open. Stop down a bit for super sharpness. Bokeh is excellent.
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Good: built like a tank, sharp from f2 on, great light gathering, smooth focus Bad: heavy. Value: expensive for a 85mm, but reasonable for a high quality fast 85mm. I would buy again and recommend.
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OK yes it costs 2x-3x as much as the 85/2 AI-S, and yes it weighs twice as much, and yes, it's only about one stop better at any given aperture up to f/4 where they're basically the same, and yes you can't accurately focus a manual-focus lens at apertures faster than f/2 anyway because the focusing screen can't show you the DoF accurately, but... wait why did I buy this lens again? Oh right, it has f/1.4, that's why. Whew, I almost had cognitive dissonance there for a second.
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If you dont mind using a manual focus lens. This lens compares favorably with its modern Zeiss cousin.
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I was a little nervous spending so much on an old, used lens that I couldn't inspect before hand but WOW am I ever surprised. It's hard to say if it's as tack sharp as a Sigma 85mm 1.4, but the quality of image is something the sterile, digital era lenses can't touch. Believe what you read on this lens, worth the buy!
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