Kerry Pierce Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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FWIW, I'd tend to agree with aspirebooth. I have owned both the 105 and 135 for years and they are among my most favorite portrait lenses.
But, they can be a real problem if they don't play well with your specific camera, plus camera shake can be more of an issue than many seem to realize. You need to AF fine tune the lens to the camera, at the distances that you want to shoot. I think that's more important with these lenses than with most of my other Nikons. If the AF motor and the linkage in the lens aren't in harmony, that's not good for critical focus.
I don't often mess with them too much these days. I tend to like the way the lenses draw the scene and especially the subject isolation and bokeh. Only my 200 f/2 is better, but the price tag differences should ensure that the 200 is better, much better.
Whether or not your particular copy is a problem, is hard to say, without knowing what you've done for AF fine tune at the distances you want to use it and whether or not these shots were handheld, etc.
Kerry
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