All these DX lenses do an admirable job under rough conditions, especially during fieldwork where disaster hovers over one’s shoulder…. Anyway, I have now replaced both with the Nikkor 18-200mm DX VR II ED, the more versatile lens by far. The plastic-bodied Nikkor 18-55mm DX II ED is a great lens for this job, but I found the Nikkor 55-200mm VR ED less impressive. I find zooms ideal to frame fieldwork shots, with the many photos needed of our sampling sites, especially to record geomorphological data. Today I use them on a D60 (manual focus only). I found the 35-105mm Nikkor f3.5-4.5 AF-D and 28-70mm Nikkor f /3.5-4.5 AF-D work really well on the F90x, especially for bursts of aerial shots. This prime lens is superseded (nearly) by my Zoom Nikkors, and latterly a 105 mm Micro Nikkor f2.8 ED VR-II turns out superb portraits but it’s one hefty lens to lug around on the off chance.įor many years zooms were a taboo item, even the Nikkor zooms. Ideally, one hankers to replace such a lens in the calibre of this classic, portable 105mm, but it’s harder than ever to justify as the years slip past. Although its loss got me beyond a lean month, it was big, sad mistake. This short telephoto – superb for portraits – is also uniquely suited to single out and crop salient details of those fleeting events in landscapes, when, from time to time, the photographer is handed a special opportunity these events are encapsulated in the words and images of Jay Maisel: Light, Gesture and Colour blend uniquely ! I sold this 105mm lens when a postgrad student. My original inventory included the legendary 105mm Nikkor f2.5 AIS, which did much to establish Nikon’s lead with professionals using this lens on their F2s and F3s. Back in 1985, the 200mm took a plunge in a river in the Matobo Hills, but it underwent a full recovery after a new diaphragm and pro-clean! Somehow, almost all my equipment has survived: precipitous descents and ascents up inselbergs and trees wading flooded rivers up-turned canoes in the odd Zambezi dunking the humid heat of the Congo basin crawling among the crawlies through caves, ranging from stinking infernos to flooded near the roof and a few escapades where buffalo and elephant had a go at pulverising me. They have been bounced around in LandRovers, and I have carried them back and forth, close to hand, to and fro across the Zambezi valley, and throughout the Matobo Hills so I have no idea how far this outfit has covered in backpacks, but the protective foam inserts collapsed in at least three ensembles. True to Nikon’s classical reputation, they continue to deliver over three decades on. I have worked my principal telephotos and old film SLRs hard in the bush since 1984, especially a Nikkor 200mm f4 AI and a 400mm Nikkor IF-ED f5.6 AIS.
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