Nikon 85mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras

Nikon 85mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras
85mm lens for Nikon SLR cameras

Customer Review: Great bokeh from a great lens!

This is a great lens for the price you are paying. The 85mm f/1.4 is about 3 times the price (I don't own it so I cannot compare apart from the specifications), and gives you about 2/3 more stops of light. This lens has 9 aperture blades, which gives a very nice bokeh. On a crop factor camera (except the D3 at the time of this review), this lens is about 127.5mm, which becomes a tele portrait lens. This is one lens you would not regret buying!

Customer Review: Great prime lens for portraits and indoor sports

I bought this to shoot some indoor basketball for a friend where flash isn't allowed. The 1.8 allowed me to shoot at 1/125 freezing all but the fastest action.
As mentioned by others, the bokeh is not exceptional, but it is adequate. The metal hood with screw threads makes it more time consuming to put on and off, but that's the only complaint I have against an otherwise great lens.