First Nikon 85 1.8G Review - Seems very very good!

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I just thought I'd post that despite all this D800 talk. There is still a release of a very exciting portrait lens from Nikon on the way..I have always felt the Canon 85 1.8 was a better lens in some respects than the Nikon 85 1.8 equivalent. For a start, I bought this lens and quickly returned it due to the choppy 'bokeh' it was producing.

I hoped this new lens would address these issues and it would seem maybe it has.. I will be getting one when I get a D700 as a portrait lens potentially. I'm thinking it may be a good rival to the Sigma 85 1.4 and Nikon 85 1.4 AFS-G, I will look forward to seeing how it stands against these two lenses, it only has 7 aperture blades compared to 9, but as we all know the number of aperture blades is not the only factor in producing great bokeh. The samples look quite hot!
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Those are horribly irrelevant test shots, to say the least! But, as everyone suspects, the lens should prove to be quite a kick-ass lens, as with the 50/1.8G. I can't wait to see the 18/1.8G! :D

Mark
 
Those are horribly irrelevant test shots, to say the least! But, as everyone suspects, the lens should prove to be quite a kick-ass lens, as with the 50/1.8G. I can't wait to see the 18/1.8G! :D

Mark

I agree.. why alot of these test shots have to be of such boring and irrelevant subjects I don't know. But I think the bokeh looks pretty cool from the shots!
 

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