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Seeking advice: New lens: Nikon 105 f2 DC or Fuji 90 f2

Started Feb 22, 2018 | Questions thread
Westmill
Westmill Senior Member • Posts: 2,279
Re: Seeking advice: New lens: Nikon 105 f2 DC or Fuji 90 f2

A strange choice really. Both are too long for portrait lenses when used in DX mode although that is clearly my personal opinion. The Fuji 58mm F1.2 vs the Nikon 58mm F1.4 would be more interesting on DX. Then I just realised you mentioned the metabones.... OK  I see where your going on this

The Nikon 105 dc is regarded as the best portrait lens of all time by many. The reason is simple.... its bloody superb lol.  To offset that... it is also regarded as a one trick pony, in that portraits is all it is good for. I disagree with that myself as it is a good performing lens in general. The 105 DC just lives and breathes character with superb fall off. Given the Fuji X trans itself does a similar thing for sensors... well that's a combo I would love to see myself.

If you are certain that manual focus is just not a problem I would absolutely go for it !

The one and only thing that i did not like with the 105 DC is its close focus performance was poor. However... used in conjunction with a metabones... that should act as a sort of extension tube which will certainly solve that problem. Love the idea myself lol

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Fujifilm X-Pro1 Nikon D4S Nikon D500 Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 16-80mm F2.8-4E ED VR +5 more
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