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Pictures taken with Nikon 60mm
Micro 1:1 F/2.8 Macro Lens.
Welcome to
the macro world photography! We recently acquired an used copy of the
Nikon 60mm F/2.8 1:1 macro lens at a price we couldn't resist.
Compared to our Tamron 90mm Macro lens, the lens is slightly smaller
without the hood but a little heavier than the Tamron's counterpart.
Although this lens has a perfect focal lenght for portraits when used
on a DSLR, we found a brutal harsh contrast on skin tones. Pictures
(not shown here) of distance subjects (i.e. infinity) were not as
good but in our opinion, this is to be expected from most macro
lenses. Wide open at F/2.8 the lens proved to be tack sharp on
subjects 8-10' feet away. Although this lens is AF (auto focus), in
real world macro photography, it shout be focused manually. We found
its focusing ring sturdy enough to focus manually, a real pleasure to
focus and a must when focusing at its maximum magnification; we know
from other users differing from this feature and perhaps from our
personal opinion. It has a nice Tokina's ''clutch feel''. At 1:1 the
lens gets to a nice 8.75'' distance from the lens to the subject.
While on a full 24x36mm film camera 60mm is not good enough for small
insects, this can slightly change and improve on a 1.5x crop factor
found on Nikon DSLRs cameras as it becomes a 90mm lens.
Due to the
shallow DOF (depth-of-field) when
shooting small subjects, this lens in many cases will be used in
small apertures ranging from F16 to F/32. Due to diffraction, the
lens will loose apparent resolution when used with small appertures.
In our test shots using a Nikon D200 we were expecting this
loss of resolution, however, we found out that our shots (below)
taken at F/29, were surprisingly sharp thanks to Nikon's CRC design (Close
Range Correction).
-Great
lens
for table top-product photography and copy-
Approx street
price for Nikon's 60mm
Micro 1:1 F/2.8 Macro Lens:
$399.99 USD.
Note:
We found this lens to be modestly sharper when used at F/2.8 compared
to our loyal 4 years old Tamron 90mm F/2.8 (non-Di). More images will
be posted soon.
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