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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent lens
I own both the 45 and 85 PC-E lenses and both are excellent, sharp lenses that produce great images. Both are great for close-ups, landscapes and of course anything that benefits from tilt/shift capability, like table-top product photography. Properly used, these lenses give the user tremendous depth of field control and some very unique images. I was...
Published on July 22, 2009 by Kerry Pierce
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9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, But ---
The part that works is excellent. The problem is turning the shift to align with tilt requires a trip to the factory. So it is not as functional as I hoped. Other T/S lens can be user rotated, not Nikon. Nikon should redesign this lens to allow user rotation to align tilt and shift. Same problem for the Nikon 85mm PC-E -- designed to be limited and not user...
Published on May 30, 2009 by John N
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent lens,
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This review is from: Nikon 45mm f/2.8D ED PC-E Micro Nikkor Lens (Electronics)
I own both the 45 and 85 PC-E lenses and both are excellent, sharp lenses that produce great images. Both are great for close-ups, landscapes and of course anything that benefits from tilt/shift capability, like table-top product photography. Properly used, these lenses give the user tremendous depth of field control and some very unique images.
I was initially concerned with the high price of both lenses and the fact that they are manual focus, but their quality in all aspects is worthy of the price and manual focus turned out to be extremely easy and precise on my d300 and d700 cameras.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nikon 24mm PCE a pricey but excellent lens,
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This review is from: Nikon 45mm f/2.8D ED PC-E Micro Nikkor Lens (Electronics)
This is not your average photo lens. It is intended for some technical photography. It is an excellent choice for several types of projects, I have used it for architectural work. It is great for this. I also use it for copy work for making digital copies of historic maps. By using the shift ability I can effectively increase the resolution of the image by shooting 4 images; top left, top right, bottom left and bottom right. All are overlapping and then merged together as a panorama. I can easily almost double the resolution.
Drawbacks, yes there are some. The tilt function is set to move in the opposite axis as the shift (if the shift is set to vertical axis the tilt function is in the horizontal axis. Nikon will adjust this to be the same plane for a $135 fee. This may or may not be important to you. Also, the lens works well by making the lens set the aperture via the command dials unlike earlier PC lenses. This is NOT an AF lens.
9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, But ---,
By John N (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nikon 45mm f/2.8D ED PC-E Micro Nikkor Lens (Electronics)
The part that works is excellent. The problem is turning the shift to align with tilt requires a trip to the factory. So it is not as functional as I hoped. Other T/S lens can be user rotated, not Nikon. Nikon should redesign this lens to allow user rotation to align tilt and shift.
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