Customer Ratings & Reviews

A very nice lens. It fills the gap in my lens bag well.

This lense is not for beginners. It does take some knowledge of exposure and aperture to use it properly. It is a great lense that is built to last. It is a metal body lense so it has some weight to it, and I like that. I love taking macro shots of bugs and flowers and stuff, so this lense is my go to lense. You are able to see the hairs on bugs you didn't even know they had!

I've really enjoyed using this lens. It takes a bit of time to learn to set the aperture, ISO and distance from the subject to produce the image you want. But, it's a lot of fun.

Truly a superb high quality product producing incredible macro shots. Bought this for wife's D7000 and she is super happy about the lens. The only downside is that you lose the ability to zoom in or zoom out with the lens and have to achieve it old school way by moving closer or farther away from the product, but that's how macro lens are made and is not a flaw of the product by any means.

I thought I would only be using this lens for shooting extreme close-ups but find it is a great all around lens. It has this great auto focus that somehow figures out things extremely close up or far away. It is an incredibly intuitive lens design and has become my favorite of many lenses.

I shoot Food Photography and purchased this lens for this only. I have moved on from just food photography and use this lens for any other event I am at. It is a fixed lens, so there are some limits to where I can shoot, but the quickness and clarity of the lens is amazing. I have not been disappointed with this lens at all. Strangely, I purchased this lens for $829.99 in mid Feb 2019, and now I see the price is back up to $899.99, the original cost. You will not be disappointed with this lens. Stay away from the Sigma and Tamron lens and pay the extra cost for this lens if you are looking at purchasing a 105mm lens.

I purchased this lens for macro photography of Nature and Insect. The lens is sharp and has fast focusing. I use it all the time.

Here we have what appears to be a made-in-heaven lens from Nikon combining thier excellent 105 2.8 with 9 blades for better bokeh (out of focus rendering) and (gulp!) VR!!! Well, let's cut to the chase. Is this lens worth the money? It depends. If you absolutely had your heart set on a Nikon 105 2.8 Micro, then this lens makes sense. The bokeh IS better than the older 7 bladed version. And it also has the VR which will be of aid when doing normal non-macro work. There's no denying that VR works great and combined with the 2.8 speed you get a nice package here for available light work. My problem with this lens, as with the original, is that the Tamron 90 Macro 2.8 DI is still a better lens. It is sharper and continues to hold the lead in bokeh for protrait work. With the Tamron being under 450 new, people in the know can save and score. On the other hand, the Nikon is HARDLY a bad lens by any stretch. We're talking about minute differences most of the time. The Nikon's VR is of very little aid doing macro work, but it's great when shooting anything else. On top of that you get VERY fast AFS focusing. Once again I'd like to point out that a macro 105 or 90 requires close distances to subject for 1:1 work. If you want to shoot bug faces a longer focal range, such as a 150 or 180 may be better suited, though less useful for protrait work on a DSLR with a 1.5 crop ratio. So depending on your applications, the Nikon 105 VR may still be worth the money. You have to consider how and where you'll be shooting. Optically I still feel the Tamron 90 is the lens to beat for this range in macros. But the gadget factor on this new Nikon makes for a very interesting product that will please a lot of shooters and gadget photogs alike. Enjoy!