gunpreet singh Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Hi friends, i am having a Nikon D-80 Camera with 28x105 AF 3.5 Lense. i just want to know more about lense, i am working on still life, studio photography would you suggest me the sharpest lense for still & studio photography, currently i am using close up filer kit for my lense for taking closer shorts, micro feature is also very good in this lense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_hooper1 Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Asking for the sharpest lens in the Nikon lineup is going to generate enough responses to make your head spin. Personally, I think you might be happy with the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D AF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronald_moravec1 Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 60 mm macro. No distortion and sharp into the corners and made for macro work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marek_fogiel Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 I think you should look up www.photozone.de. From what I remember the sharpest Nikkor is the 105 2.8 micro VR, but the sharpest lenses overall are from Zeiss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liljuddakalilknyttphotogra Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 So far I'd say that the sharpest lens I've run into is the 105mm f/2.8 Kiron Macro lens for a Nikon. OK, it's a manual lens so no AF. But sharp it is. But what do I know...... Lil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juan_parm_nides Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Hi, please see this link. Very useful and truly information about lenses and performance. Cheers http://www.photozone.de/8Reviews/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oskar_ojala Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 50/1.8, 60/2.8 micro, 105/2.8 micro VR are quite stellar in their resolving capability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanjo_viagran Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 60, 105 or whatever, if you want the sharpest I'd go with a Nikon Micro lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonas_yip1 Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 There's also the 85mm 2.8 PC Micro Nikkor Tilt/Shift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asharma Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Nikon has so many sharp lenses, and for a starter, I would suggest 50mm 1.8 (less than $100), or 60 mm 2.8 macro. 105mm 2.8 macro is razor sharp. By definition, most of the macro lenses are sharp. What do you want to photograph with sharp lens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony_bez Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Nikon's 55mm f3.5 micro-nikkor is sharper than a razer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umut_arslan Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 all are soft, buy leica lenses!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 500mm f/4 and 200mm f/2 AI-S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormchaser Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 For still-life and studio, you won't really need zoom, so probably just a straight 50mm 1.8 lens. Those, I've heard, are about as sharp as you can get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_lofquist Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 If you are after the sharpest photos, you should be thinking of formats larger than APS digital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Ingold Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 For still and studio photography - the devil's in the details. No one lens is suitable for all applications. The Nikkor 85/2.8 shift-tilt lens is nearly ideal for studio stills and table-tops. With time to fool around, the tilt/shift function allows you to overcome the nemesis of table-top photography - depth of field. By all accounts (q.v., http://www.naturfotograf.com) is is one of Nikon's sharpest lenses, and free of chromatic aberation. Other outstanding lenses would be the 55/2.8 AIS Micro and the 200/4 AF-D Micro. For more general photography, the f/2.8 zooms are hard to beat - 17-35/2.8 AFS, 28-70/2.8 AFS and 70-200/2.8 AFS/VR. These are as good as most primes except for resistance to flare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilly_w Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Care to share your budget in the interest of garnering germane replies? If the sky's the limit and 'sharpest' is what's needed in an absolute sense, one of the Ultra Micro Nikkors will fit the bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjørn rørslett Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 "Sharpest lens [by Nikon]" is a meaningless statement on its own. You need to include at least *one* additional criterion, for example, "sharpest wide-angle lens" or "sharpest medium telephoto lens" or "sharpest lens for close-ups" or something similar. Plus specify the image format the lens should cover adequately. Otherwise, the proper answer would be a diffraction-limited f/1.2 29.5mm Ultra-Micro-Nikkor. True, it has an image circle of a few millimetres and is optimised for just a single wavelength of illumination and a single magnification ratio, but it *is* diffraction-limited over most if not all of its few aperture settings (I believe it might go to f/8). But even with their limitations from the design parameters, any Ultra-Micro-Nikkor or similar will blow away even the fantastic 200/2 AFS-VR (which, incidentally, on its own blows away the 200/2 AIS it replaced). I own some of the Ultra-Micro and Repro-Nikkors and their image quality is mind-blowing. Suffice it to say that there are a host of "ordinary" Nikkors that at their optimum aperture settings resolve much more detail than can be handled by a D2X camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photo5 Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 I always heard the Nikon 105mm f2.5 was one of the sharpest lenses Nikon ever made. It certainly seems so. That, the 28mm f2.8 AIS and the 55mm f2.8 AIS are a great triple play. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanjo_viagran Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Don't know if the 105m 2.5 is the sharpest lens but is DEFINITELY a lens to have...I had few of them and they are lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crowe Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 The Nikon 200/2 AI is the sharpest lens I have ever owned, and by a fair margin over such lenses, from both Canon and Nikon, as the 300/2.8 and 400/2.8. I have not tested it against my Zeiss 85/1.4 yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walterh Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 "Sharpness" is overvalued anyway :-P To a large part "sharpness" is an illusion of our visual system and hardly ever well defined in technical terms so its impossible to answer the way you asked you question. If you asked for the heaviest lens you might get more precise answers to the point :-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim_knight Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 If you looked at cost versus sharpness for a brand new AF Nikon lens there is no lens that can match the Nikon 50mm/1.8 lens. Tim Knight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsd230 Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 I own the Nikkor 60mm 2.8 Micro and it's very sharp and the overall image quality is excellent. The 60mm is considered by many to be one of the sharper lenses in the Nikkor line up. As long as your not photographing things where working distance is an issue (i.e. bugs), you'll find more uses for the 60mm. I think it would be an excellent studio lens as well. The 105 would be a great lens too but a bit more limiting due to the focal length. I use the 60 for Macro work mainly flowers, but it's a very solid portrait lens and in some cases can be used as a walk around lens. I find myself leaving it on my camera all the time my 18-200 is feeling neglected. I had a 100mm Macro with my old Canon and it didn't get used that much due to the length. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunpreet singh Posted April 22, 2007 Author Share Posted April 22, 2007 Thanks to all af you for sharing, comments. regards Gunpreet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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