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Old 12-09-2005   #1
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The 85mm f/1.4 is regarded as the best portrait lens in Nikon's lineup.* I just received mine on Wednesday.* It will take some time to figure it out, but here's a few test shots.







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Great shots. What clarity!
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Great shots. What clarity!
Thanks, Lauriet! It does a wonderful job on backgrounds, too. I call it my Cream Machine!
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Here's another test shot.* The first 3 samples were taken at very wide apertures (f/1.6 and f/1.8 ).* This one is at f/2.5... a test to see if the lens would still puree the background.
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Wonderful depth of field with big apertures don't you think ?

On picture one try to manual focus on the eyes, glasses will sometimes through of your AF and with large apertures that is very small anyway.

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Wonderful depth of field with big apertures don't you think ?
It's a treat to work with. It makes accurate focus placement extremely critical, but the challenge of working with paper thin DOFs is fun.

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On picture one try to manual focus on the eyes, glasses will sometimes through of your AF and with large apertures that is very small anyway.
That would be a difficult with the small viewfinder on the d70, but I'm looking forward to trying MF when my d200 arrives.

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