Vivitar 85mm f/1.8 for D2x

[salman_ali]

<p>Hello,<br /> I was interested in getting the Vivitar 85mm f/1.8 portrait lens for my D2x but wasn't sure if it was compatible. I'm a new convert to Nikon from Canon and not up on my mounts. Any advice would be greatly <br />appreciated.<br /> http://www.amazon.com/Vivitar-85mm-Portrait-Nikon-Cameras/dp/B00IC5EEKW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450935824&sr=8-1&keywords=vivitar+nikon+dslr+lens</p>

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[john tonai]

<p>That is a manual focus lens</p>

[rodeo_joe1]

<p>The company now trading as Vivitar isn't the same as the original Vivitar company that went into liquidation in 2008, and it's name transferred to Sakar International (Who? No I don't know them either).</p>

<p>Goodness knows who makes this lens that's sold under the Vivitar name, but you can bet it'll be nowhere near to the quality standard of the original Vivitar Series 1 lenses. At the price, I wouldn't expect much. I found a reported review of it here: http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/53903852</p>

<p>If you're in the market for a good-quality manual focus lens of 85mm focal length then a used 85mm f/2 Ai-s Nikkor would be a better bet. As would the excellent Samyang 85mm f/1.4. The Samyang has the advantage that it would be automatically recognised by the camera and offer body control of aperture.</p>

[ShunCheung]

<p>The D2X is compatible with pretty much all Nikon F mount lenses since the AI era (1977), with a few rare exceptions such as the two F3-AF lenses that are for the Nikon F3-AF only and a few APS-C lenses for Nikon Pronea APS film SLRs.</p>

<p>However, the 85mm lens to get in these days is the very affordable 85mm/f1.8 AF-S, which I reviewed for photo.net: http://www.photo.net/equipment/nikon/lenses/85mm-f1.8-g-af-s/review/<br>

It costs a few times as much as the really cheap Vivita but you benefit from modern optics and auto focus. If that price is still too high, I would look into used Nikkor 85mm lenses from AF-D to manual focus.</p>

[salman_ali]

<p>Thanks everyone for all your responses. Now I have a bit more information.</p>