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  | sent on 08 Giugno 2021 Pros: sharpness, bokeh, size, weight, handling, construction, price, robustness... Cons: absolutely nothing... well, minimum focus distance could have been a bit shorter maybe. Opinion: This lens consistently yields good to excellent pics, if I may say so. Of course, photographers make good pics (or not), but this lens sure helps a lot. I have three version (105/2.5 AI, 105/2.5 AIS and the very similar, but obviously bigger 105/1.8 AIS). They are +/- equally excellent, with following nuances: - 105/1.8 has a flatter field and is best against bright lights, but full aperture is rather weak (sharpness and bokeh) so it is in reality a f/2.5 - 105/2.5 AI has a slightly better bokeh (rounded blades) - 105/2.5 AIS is most convenient for street/travel (sliding hood) All three are quite sharp at f/2.5, so handheld shooting in low light is an option (e.g. details inside churches). Top sharpness is provided from f4 already, until f/11 (included). Very nice range. The version I do not have is the earlier sonnar version (the above all have a 5-lens xenotar formula, AI and AIS sharing exactly the same); the sonnar has a good reputation for portraits but is less of an allrounder. Of all manual focus lenses, this one is maybe easiest to focus on modern camera bodies. Nikonians, and especially Df huggers, complain that those Nikkor 105/2.5 never come off their cameras. |
 | sent on 08 Giugno 2021 Pros: Parfait,netteté,bokeh magnifique, solidité,on sent a peine son poids.il est dans ligné des best de nikon Cons: Rien à dire..... Opinion: Un vrai bijoux pour les portraits.c'est de l'auteur de la fameuse photo de la jeune fille afghane de Steve mac curry.je le recommande fortement pour les portraits.il est superbe sur mon Nikon d700,un super couple.agreable au toucher,du verres et du metal... Je l'utilise pour les shooting portraits ,parfait. Mais il se débrouille très bien aussi en paysage. Un vrai bonheur... |
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  | sent on 25 Marzo 2025 Pros: Sharp, small, built-in lens hood and wide-aperture bokeh, color fidelity, vignetting. Cons: Chromatic aberrations, backlit reflections Opinion: After more than 20 years I bought it again finding an excellent specimen: fluid mechanics, immaculate lenses, centered diaphragm blades, snappy and clean. Sharing almost all the comments of those who preceded me, I will briefly comment on the impressions that this perspective has (re)aroused in me. For the record, I specify that my lens has the 7 diaphragm blades already straight but not yet the SIC anti-reflective treatment that will then be used starting from the serial number 103XXX. To the touch, with its mass in a small volume, it immediately gives a feeling of robust and balanced construction. The mechanics are fantastic, fluid and precise with the focus ring that with its 140° rotation allows precise (but also merciless...) measurements. In the shots, the extreme sharpness over the entire frame even at f2.5 and the same even at infinity (which is not obvious for a lens devoted to portraits and therefore with prevalent use at short-medium distances) and the lack of vignetting immediately jump out at the eye. The colors are very natural, never exaggerated as unfortunately more and more often happens in modern optics. In my opinion, given its good relative brightness, its optimal use is from the maximum aperture up to f 4.5: the result is a considerable detachment of the planes and a blur in my opinion beautiful, almost dreamy. Only when it is used for landscaping or architecture will it be convenient to close it just a little more for a greater p.d.c. and a slight increase in contrast. From f 5.6 onwards, the geometric shape of the diaphragm begins to be distinctly noticed in out-of-focus bright spots. Despite the very comfortable built-in lens hood, it is necessary to avoid inserting light sources into the frame under penalty of a marked arc reflection and a consequent drop in contrast. Speaking of the latter, it is present in the form of micro-contrast especially in fine details and contributes greatly to the sharpness of images. At the most open apertures, in the small out-of-focus details that stand out clearly on homogeneous backgrounds, chromatic aberrations-fraying of spherochromatism may appear. Let's now leave the word to the images: as usual, in line with the other tests I have published, I have not intervened on any parameter (sharpness, saturation, contrast etc...) limiting myself only to the conversion from RAW to Jpeg with the proprietary Nikon NX-D program. The lens was used with a Nikon D610 at the full resolution of 24 Mpx and 14 bit. |
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 | sent on 14 Dicembre 2024 Pros: Fairly bright optics, with no apparent viggent even at full aperture, metal, excellent focus range and relative fluidity, filter diameter in line with the entire AI series, i.e. 52mm Cons: Sharpness and backfocus with sensors above 24MP, ghost and flare if shooting backlit Opinion: The review is for the AI version, deliberately sought for the fact that the diaphragm blades are rounded and return a blur in my opinion more pleasant. I find the lens hood uncomfortable (I would have preferred the AI-S one but you can't have everything). As it happens, the Nikkor 105mm is quite famous in its own right, having been the lens that shot the famous cover of "Afghan Girl" for National Geographic in the 80s. Some lenses have become famous because they are rare and/or expensive. Nor is this the case with the Nikon Nikkor 105mm 2.5 Ai. In fact, from the early 70s to the mid-80s, Nikon made a lot of them, it was by far their best-selling short prime teles. Because? And are there still good reasons to use this lens today? There have been a plethora of versions of Nikon's 105mm 2.5 lens. The first pre-Ai lenses used a Sonnar design, while the latest pre-Ai versions, as well as this Ai and also the latest Ai-s version, use a Xenotar design. But if you want to know more about the development and history of this lens, you should first check out Nikkor – The Thousand and One Nights – No. 5: Nikon 105mm 2.5. Nowadays no one makes new 105mm f2.5 lenses anymore, because now it is possible to make more "open" portrait lenses with high image quality at affordable prices. So today no one really gets excited when they see a 105mm f2.5 lens. The huge advantage of these fairly moderate specs: in the 70s it was actually possible to produce a high-performance lens with these specs. But here the donkey falls a bit, on the acuteness. There's a bit of focus shift with this lens, but probably not enough to worry about when using a camera at a resolution within 24Mp or even film. If you are using a higher resolution camera (I did some tests with the 36 and 45Mp), it might be a good idea to double-check the focus at the working aperture in the range of f/2.8 to f/4.0 with liveview, if possible; But even so, zooming in on the shots on the screen you will notice that the focus is always a little further back than where you focused. That you should not trust the indications in the viewfinder " >or< "? In any case, if pointed slightly against the light, it flattens the images, which is well known; the soft color of the old AI and AI-S lenses, on the other hand, is wonderful. A lens to have if you love manual focus but also as an "iconic" lens, one of those that has made Nikon's history (and which still maintains a good value on the second-hand market). |
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| sent on 21 Febbraio 2023 Pros: Takes amazing photos Cons: The price (you have to look for the right offer, wait a few weeks/months) Opinion: Intrigued by the reviews about Juza I waited some time and finally found it on the bay at a more "human" price than average. Someone here said that it is among the best lenses ever produced by Nikon and after a few weeks of testing I can only confirm, it really has an amazing yield. I use it in landscaping and astrophotography and in both fields it has given me great satisfaction ... It also mounts 52mm filters. Try |
 | sent on 11 Dicembre 2020 Pros: Metal and glass... And what glass! Great for portraits, the blurry is Impressionist. Cons: He's a certain age so he doesn't have vr, but they're the cons that you obviously know you're going to meet. Opinion: I start that I own the Ai version, it differs from the ais only because of the lack of the built-in lampshon (the latest ais models also have a SIC coating, while all ai and many ais are NIC coating), and to have a better focus (personal opinion). It's really a gem. The blurry is extremely pictorial. For the figures he is in (I paid him 60 euros in good condition) it makes sense to buy it. |
  | sent on 26 Aprile 2020 Pros: Optical quality, weight and size, mechanical construction, versatility Cons: Nobody Opinion: Great goal, his reputation to be one of the best goals achieved by Nikon is in my opinion deserved. Very sharp and also solvent on dense sensors, excellent colors, contrast and blurry. Very valid for both portraits and landscapes, ta and closed. You can also choose between the AIS version that has 7 straight slats (best for the more defined stars of light points in focus) or the optically identical versions Ai, K and PC that have 7 curved slats (better for blurring out-of-focus light points), what more can you ask for? |
 | sent on 18 Ottobre 2018 Pros: Excellent sharpness, construction of other times, light, compact and equipped with built-in hood Cons: I do not see, except of course the lack of autofocus Opinion: I use it on Nikon Df, with which it marries perfectly also from an aesthetic point of view. Very sharp, with a rendition of the excellent color and with a pleasant blur has nothing to envy to the most modern optics. It lends itself excellently to both the portrait and the street, although it requires a little attention in the focus. It is at great price on the market of the used (I took it from a nice user of the forum that I thank again). |
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| sent on 30 Novembre 2016 Pros: Sharp already af / 2.5 and if closed by one stop becomes a knife. Blurred creamy and progressive, pastel colors and soft, soft ring, building "Old style". Cons: Nobody. Opinion: I have the version AI.rnLo was looking for a lot 'of time and I finally arrived home from a couple of hours. Tried immediately on D3 ... "love at first sight" superlative .rnLente, no difficulty in manual focusing thanks to the rangefinder D3.rnA f / 2.5 is incredible, closed scares. rnConsigliato to those who want a lens from portrait cheaply. |
 | sent on 30 Ottobre 2016 Pros: wonderful lens, perhaps one of the best medium-telephoto produced by Nikon optics, crisp, incidentally, microcontrast top, colors ultrafedeli Cons: For me no, for those not accustomed to the MAF, if not forgive mistakes. Opinion: I have this lens for 35 years now, and despite being switched to digital, I do not think will never part. absolute reference optics, all glass and metal, always returns true colors, sharpness at the top already wide open, etching and fantastic micro-contrast and blurred by fear. The MAF is a real pleasure, always fluid and precise in all conditions ... a must integrated removable lens hood. Optical born to portrait, gets along very well in every field of photography, I personally use it for macro and landscapes and is irreplaceable for me. If you find it used, do not let him escape, you bring it home to figures really negligible and will not regret it absolutely |
 | sent on 28 Ottobre 2016 Pros: A Series A lens, not only in a Nikon kit but also in a Mirrorless kit Cons: In some shots you notice the UV permeability Opinion: These 105 2.5 are still professional tools. The AIs and the first AISs are the most sophisticated (very high resolution and most closely controlled LCAs) and the MC treatment is already excellent and perhaps more neutral as the new color (from 1985 onwards introduced the SIC treatment) but which is a bit 'More saturated. Well I fell in love with this lens, I finally found a goal that TA is already very generous and I do not have to worry about diaphragm ... then ok, af / 2.8 there is a leap of quality, the resolution increases by at least 1.5 x To TA and maximum for this optic. At f / 4 the resolution begins to fall, the optimum should be between 3.2 and 3.5 overall. RnIn expert network, they consider it to be one of the best targets with Nikon, if not the best, Schneider Gauss optical design, with the Zeiss ZF and ZM, Leica Summicron 90 ASPH, Elmarit 90 2.8, Summarit 90 and Zeiss ZF 100 -Xenotar, with only 5 perfWell-treated to break down the flare, very high resolution (already at TA fixes over 60 lp / mm eaf / 2.8 passes the abundant hundred making it perfect for astronomical use) Great contrast macro, perhaps the best media half 1.5 m media brightness , And the only "esoteric" Nikkor canvas in European school. Great for portraits where the progressive transition between the focus plane and the blur part is masterful (the bokeh of this lens reaches the maximum between f / 2.8 ef / 4.5, where aberrations are now infinitesima and the PDC is still Reduced), but also in landscapes and astronomy, where it also returns point points to the edges of the frame (at f2.8 it has no coma). The fact is that the 105 / 2.5 primates together as a solution, macrocontrasto, flare / transparency, distortion and side CA and has coma and astigmatism susceptible to ALL Nikon, benefiting from lower brightness than 1.8, symmetry and German design Schneider style / Leica, it's oneOf the most perfect lenses ever built in history, along with the Micro 55 / 2.8 AIS, Elmarit / Summarit 90, and the ZF 100.rn The modern alternative is the Zeiss ZF.2 100/2, but you know what it costs. This lens is also great to match Sony's or Olympus-powered mirror adapters (which cost 10 euros on amazon) and are great for super-pixel-type D810, A7R machines that need super-resolved lenses, in fact, on a dense sensor Is even sharper than on a seldom (on NEx 5n goes in full aliasing). The same happens with the 55 / 2.8 Micro Nikkor. This is QUALITY.rn |
 | sent on 27 Aprile 2015 Pros: construction, optical quality absolute comfort in specialmodoro hood integrated ... Cons: It for anyone, MAF manual excluded ... Opinion: What, rndopo have had and resold the Sigma 105 macro and took 85 1,4g, I realized that I was missing lunchezza focal 105! RnAllora after evaluating all the 100/105 in trade I decided to dare (also convinced by Cost really excellent) with qs historical lens! RNLA first impression is excellent, as all the old optical cortruite with parameters now abandoned, all metal, very solid and surprise, rnil built-in hood, amazingly comfortable !!! rnAlla practice test is astonishing open for portraiture is the top but also as lens pesaggio nn be underestimated! rnPer me, having started taking pictures with digital and then with the autofocus, the MAF manual is a bit difficult (I hope soon abiturmi) especially Ta or close to it, but when he gets the exact MAF is a real lust .... if you want to take pictures of children (as in my case) is recommended a massive dose ddi drugs or wait until you get sick;); ) .... chiaremente joke, nnYou never know;) |
 | sent on 09 Aprile 2015 Pros: flawless crystal yield. Price flea content (if you can find it!). Integrated lens hood. Solidity 'constructive. soft focus ring. Cons: Difficult to focus when focus in low light and with spot mode. Opinion: Like all AIS lenses behave in an exemplary manner on my two D300 and D700. For portraits or photos of detail and 'superb: always crisp and realistic, with faithful color reproduction and vivid, blurred caramel and bright as the photos once. The only drawback, in my opinion, and 'focus is not always easy to guess, which inevitably makes' fade' some shots, especially in dim light, and when the subject is poorly standing out. When using the setup 'spot' fire, then, things get even more complicated. But when it hits, is unrivaled (if like the glassy effect and clear). For the rest it is incredible: it is 'only' a f2.5 and a diameter 52, yet it is very bright! It has a double standard within f4 kind and poetic, and f4 up, it hardens emphasizing any form in detail. Compared to the more modern 105 it is more cozy, romantic. The minimum distance meter to focuse Talvolta is annoying, but never a drama, unless you want to 'get' in the wrinkles of a face, but for this kind of uses the macro exist, and it is not my case (for now). The contours and colors of the portraits seem engraved in the crystal, for clarity and vividness, and the scene is always fresh and brilliant. The eplodono colors in all their vivacity, no aberration, no tack, perhaps about the focal 2.5 which is light but resistant to high lights and reflections. I think I'll keep 'with me all my life, and as' a lens with personality' and that excels in terms of construction, as well as historians. |
 | sent on 02 Dicembre 2014 Pros: Optical portrait (and not only) just outstanding! Lose the test and the various graphics of resolution, sharpness, etc .... Photos to the hand, which matter most at the end of the whole, the 105 2.5 AIS is astounding, believe me, and so to give an example in terms of yield Overall it clearly breaks the good 85 1.8 AFD (also used by me): it is far more incisive the first all-opening than the 85 1.8 closed at 2.5. I also have the 80-200 2.8 (first version), also very good in the portraits, but we are always inexorably behind the 105! And then it is lightweight, comfortable with its removable, discreet, dimensional, massive and "precious" lenses in mechanical construction. UPDATED on Aug. 28, 2017: now I use it (almost only) on a full size D700. It only confirms the excellent abilities already listed. In full size the af 2.5 field depth is already very much reduced (if my baby is not front of the camera, & egravis; It's easy to get the effect "one eye on fire and the other no" (which I do not like)): you do not feel the need for greater brightness or "detachment capacity" of the planes, already marked on a FF compared to Format DX.rnNON DISTORTION .... NO! As you approach the subject .... it will never be returned to the photo that annoying and despicable feeling of "I went too close", which often give me, for example, 85 mm. (Yes, okay, the focal length is shorter in that case, but with 105 I can really "exploit" to the bottom the minimum distance of MAF) Cons: Well, the only new one is manual focus, which inevitably "loses" a few clicks ... but those who "take" with the right MAF, pay back for everything! On the D700's bright viewfinder, the manual MAF is also "relatively" simple: a bit of a hand, the "availability" to take a few more clicks than would be done with a self-focused focus, and something (very) good He always brings home !!!! rn Opinion: Exceptional in everything: except for the case of a passionate who a priori discards the optics with the manual MAF, for all the others a goal to be absolutely! RnBut, as I rightly and properly read in some reviews, the blur of 105 is not One of those "burnt earth" behind the subject in focus, this characteristic, which in an ordinary goal would be seen (or at least it is seen to me) as a "limit", in this 105 paradoxically becomes a bonus: the bokeh To say, is so creamy, "pastel", pleasing and enjoyable, which represents, compared to all the nikon goals I own or used, an absolute "unicum"! Maybe a bright 85, or a 135 f.2 or even an 80 200 2.8 will be able to "detach" the subject in the foreground from the background rather than the background, but they will not succeed, believe me, to return that yield worthy of a razor for The subject on fire and with the oil painting tracts for the out of focus (front and back of the subject) of thisI'm tele. In FF, an old D700, it confirms its excellent talents. However, at a first "discharge" of the photos, some of them may seem a bit "lacking in contrast", so to speak: but just act with two or three clik posts (stuff for a while, eh ....) And all the qualities of the glass are exalted! |
 | sent on 03 Marzo 2013 Pros: Optical perfection from all points of view, vignetting and aberrations contained even at full aperture. Impressive sharpness even af/2.5, f / 4 a real blade across the frame. Fuzzy gradual and profound, always pleasant. Color rendering faithful a true observer unmoved. It 'great on all distances maf, but the best medium and long distance (to be precise, that short distance is still a monster). Focus smooth and precise if you have a good eye and a maybe a fullframe. Built-in hood. Small and light. Very low price in the used market. Cons: Few and indeed are not even real "flaws" ..... It is only used. It 'a manual focus. Loses all automatic on entry level machines. The minimum maf is very short, Part 1 meter. Opinion: I bought this lens attracted by its legendary reputation and I must say that from the first tests with my d700 I realized that this reputation was absolutely far more than deserved. Just think of the portrait of the Afghan girl of S. McCurry, perhaps one of the most famous photos and profitable in the world, that was just done with this lens. It 's definitely a lens timeless with emotions with every shot, the focal length makes it ideal for portraits designed for extreme close-ups (you do not have the perspective distortion that has a 85mm for example), but also and especially for the streetphotography landscape where I think everyone pulls out his claws giving color fidelity and sharpness of class, really microcontrastato! The blur is the best thing, is not the classic sfocatore crazy making scorched earth behind and in front of the point of focus, but instead gradually and then gives depth to the picture. In short, is a lens for very fine palates from this point of view. It 'a manual focus but the manual focus is that ofand the old ais nikkor, in short, a real pleasure, precise and fluid enough to make feel an almost physical pleasure! E 'a tank round glass and metal plus the gem has to have the built-in hood and removable unlike the version Ai that instead has it screw. I would say that I'm madly in love, and when I think it is the lens that cost me less absolute, well, I get a stupid grin on his face ... |
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