serge07 wrote:
The 105/2.5 is simply a fantastic piece of glass, one of Nikon's finest designs. It is an excellent portrait lens but it is equally excellent at capturing just about anything under the sun. The AIs has a built in hood which is very convenient but the Ai has better build with slightly rounder aperture blades.
Collecting these lenses is fun and for unexplainable reasons, they seem to multiply as time goes on.
Tell me about it! I now have four Nikkor 105's (five if you count the 100/2.8 Series-E, which I do). I actually ran out of 52mm filters, so have to leave a couple of them "naked". As you say, collecting is fun, especially as I didn't have to pay very much for any of my 105's (even the 105/2 AF-DC was pretty cheap), though the late serial-number (SIC version) 105/2.5 was a little more than chump-change..
