I\'ve recently returned to Nikon and those of you familiar with my posts on the Canon forum know that I call it the way I see it regardless of my investment. After a day of testing the 85 f1.4 on a D700 I\'ve found that while its decent for closeups and head and shoulder portraits, its unacceptably soft at distance. IMO $1k straight 85mm lens should shoot perfect images wide open and this doesn\'t cut it, especially coming from the Canon 85L. My Nikon 24-70 totally blows it out of the water in every way except for focal length.
I\'m now thinking about the 85 f1.8, 105VR, or a 70-200 VR. The thing is that the 85 f1.8 is getting old and looks like the same lens technology as the f1.4, the 105VR is still just f2.8, and the 70-200VR is a bit of a generic, everybody-does-it lens, plus its a lot of coin for what everyone says isn\'t as sharp as the Canon version. Normally I\'d do my own testing but time doesn\'t allow...I need this figured out by the weekend.
Anyone have experience with all of these and can advise which is best on FX?
-m
Oct 04, 2008 at 03:59 PM
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