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Gear Talk => Lens Talk => Topic started by: Toby on December 30, 2018, 09:06:01

Title: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Toby on December 30, 2018, 09:06:01
I saw the 105mm discussion in another thread and thought it might be worth starting a new thread only for 105mm lens pics. Here are a couple from a Hermagis Hellor Anastigmat 10.5cm f4.5 adapted to LTM mounted on a Sony A7RII
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on December 30, 2018, 12:29:14
OK, so here some 105mm shots of mine...

Meyer Helioplan 4.5/105mm:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2841/11311721993_9e366a78d7_o.jpg)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5539/11311644776_a07078c0a6_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2861/11311725233_549c09684b_o.jpg)


Zeiss S-Orthoplanar 5.6/105mm:

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5475/11190562376_49f4859fd2_o.jpg)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7420/11190525415_3a60939485_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2883/11190557254_2523b5fd78_o.jpg)


E-Acall 4.5/105mm:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4769/39788771334_5dbe3272df_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4658/26627660638_f355cb18c5_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4701/25627855697_0a2d60db98_o.jpg)


ERA-7 2.8/105mm:

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1697/25841287996_f227324e2a_o.jpg)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1466/26052897920_3edb7cff64_o.jpg)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1631/25841289006_8316515f8a_o.jpg)


Printer Lens 4.5/105mm:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4639/24185755017_d8e352076d_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4569/38336352894_aced2ec54c_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4532/24185754897_eeb566ffd7_o.jpg)


UV-Nikkor 4.5/105mm:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/537/19464500626_3fce3aaab2_o.jpg)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3828/19490544965_5faa8f9698_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/466/19494910531_80f0385c88_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Matthew Currie on December 30, 2018, 16:23:44
Here's an old one with a "Gauss" type pre-AI 105/2.5 on a D3200.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on December 30, 2018, 17:22:19
The crying Sphinx in Paris... f/8 with the 105mm f/2.5 AI-s on the Df.


(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5778/21626020939_055679191d_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on December 30, 2018, 17:38:57
Frozen branches and flower Spartium junceum.

Df, AFS 105/1.4E + ext.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Kenneth Rich on December 30, 2018, 17:54:56
When I bought my Nikon 105 in Germany in the 'Seventies, the salesman said, "We call this the Head Hunter."  I have always thought of it in this manner, and it is refreshing to see a wonderful batch of 105 images, with not one  a Head Hunter!
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on December 30, 2018, 18:26:06
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7447/15926676213_719e819a6d_o.jpg)

Df  105mm f/2 DC
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on December 30, 2018, 19:53:17
(http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6658.0;attach=36203;image)

D850  105/2.8 AF-D
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: fish_shooter on December 30, 2018, 20:36:16
I have used the 105VR lens for a fair amount of my underwater photography. This shot is one of my more memorable successful ones with this lens. Shot a while back with a D2X. I saw this same exact fish on two dives, each on a different day, to the same dive site so had ample opportunity. I shot about 1/2 in MF and about 1/2 in AF - too bad the exif data does not indicate which. Here is one of the better keepers. This is a fish species that is only found in Hawaii. Link to image on my website with exif data-- https://www.salmonography.com/Aloha/Hawaiian-endemics/i-XfDbgZ3/A
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on December 30, 2018, 21:06:53
We believe it is preferable to post images directly on NG. Thus avoiding all the hidden traps of third-party cookie settings, tracking and unwanted ads. Nothing of that kind occurs here apart from a log-in cookie to indicate you are logged into NG.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: CS on December 30, 2018, 21:50:10
D200/105 f/2.8 Micro @f/11

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: fish_shooter on December 30, 2018, 22:41:48
We believe it is preferable to post images directly on NG. Thus avoiding all the hidden traps of third-party cookie settings, tracking and unwanted ads. Nothing of that kind occurs here apart from a log-in cookie to indicate you are logged into NG.

OK I figured it out - took a sceenshot off my webpage, maybe not as good looking. Loss of image title, etc. as well.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: ianwatson on December 31, 2018, 05:15:14
This is my daughter, Caitlin, at 6 months old, last spring. The photograph was taken with a D3 and a Nikkor-PC 105mm f/2.5, wide open.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Roland Vink on December 31, 2018, 07:32:48
AI-S 105/2.8 micro at f/11 with D600
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: MFloyd on December 31, 2018, 10:48:14
Picture for the illustration of the author of a book (already published):

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1811/43962802382_4a850e5581_b.jpg)
Nikon D850
Micro-Nikkor 105.0 mm f/2.8
ƒ/5.0  105.0 mm 1/320s  ISO 100

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/928/43111025365_a28340c1bd_b.jpg)
retained crop (the advantage of the D850 sensor)

Full resolution picture (click to enlarge):

https://mfloyd.prodibi.com/a/2x9y7yxg9w89r8/i/lzdlyvx6yqx4ll
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: ColinM on December 31, 2018, 12:57:54
There are some wonderful images here, but I have a question.

What made Nikon and the other companies choose such a specific focal length as 105mm?
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on December 31, 2018, 15:29:04
The 1.4/105E on my D850 with grip is heavy but IQ is as good as it gets...
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on December 31, 2018, 15:31:36
more of today:
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on December 31, 2018, 15:42:00
There are some wonderful images here, but I have a question.

What made Nikon and the other companies choose such a specific focal length as 105mm?

Optical considerations while optimizing lens design I guess...
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on December 31, 2018, 17:39:25
A weird green thing from another planet... ;D With the 105mm f/2.8 VR Micro Nikkor and the Df !


(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4314/35866231550_60cc8fc998_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on December 31, 2018, 17:53:04
more 1.4/105E on this day that stayed dark thoughout
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on December 31, 2018, 18:05:11
Nikon D850   105/2  DC
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: gryphon1911 on December 31, 2018, 18:18:21
On the Nikon Df as well as used on the Olympus PEN-F.

Nikon 105mm f/2.5 AIS

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on December 31, 2018, 18:53:26
Nikon D850   105/2  DC

A question for the thread: How many 105 lenses does one need?
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Seapy on December 31, 2018, 19:36:21
In my case two, the Micro f/4.0 and the pre ai f/2.5.

One example from my D1, 1/1000 sec ISO 200, probably f/2.8? Taken just below the summit of Old Man of Coniston, blowing a gale, we had just abandoned the attempt to the top.  The wind was so strong I couldn't stand up, I lay flat on my stomach with elbows dug into ground trying to keep the D1 still. It took several attempts to get a steady shot of the outcrop.

The second taken at the explorers garden Pitlochry, PH16 5DR. D3, 1/640 Sec f/5.6, ISO 1600.


Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: fish_shooter on December 31, 2018, 20:55:57
There are some wonderful images here, but I have a question.

What made Nikon and the other companies choose such a specific focal length as 105mm?

It is a standard lens focal length for the 2 1/4 x 3 1/4" (6 x 9 cm) format. Example lens: 105mm Xenar
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: pluton on December 31, 2018, 21:00:46
Optical considerations while optimizing lens design I guess...
This is my best guess also...at least for the very first 105mm from the rangefinder times, considering the short supply and great expense of computing power in those days.
If their initial calculations had hit 110mm as an unusually optimized design spec, they might have all been One-Tens for all these years!
It is equally possible in my mind that as Nikon's success mounted over the years, that the company seized upon the 'One-O-Five' as a symbol of corporate identity in the marketplace, and thereafter deliberately designed all of its 100mm-class lenses to have this identifying characteristic.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: fish_shooter on December 31, 2018, 23:09:06
It was more about lens speed according to this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photographic_lens_design
The first 105mm lens may have been the Ernemann Ernostar 10.5cm f/1.8 of 1924.
We are seeing this speed seeking tradition continue in lenses like the recent 105mm f/1.4 lenses that happen to be quite sharp as well.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: CS on January 01, 2019, 00:17:01
First is the 105 f/2.5 ais on my D200 hand held. Extremely hard to focus! Then we see the 105 f/2.8 AF Micro at work.

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: atpaula on January 01, 2019, 01:21:50
D5 & 105mm f/1.4E.
Nothing new, but I like them.
Happy New Year for you all!!!!!

(http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/af237/atpaula/aD5S_6126_zpssosphruj.jpg) (http://s1011.photobucket.com/user/atpaula/media/aD5S_6126_zpssosphruj.jpg.html)


(http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/af237/atpaula/aD5S_6187_zpszyffad5k.jpg) (http://s1011.photobucket.com/user/atpaula/media/aD5S_6187_zpszyffad5k.jpg.html)



Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 01, 2019, 02:05:45
Here's an old one with a "Gauss" type pre-AI 105/2.5 on a D3200.

wonderful. superb.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 01, 2019, 02:07:26
D5 & 105mm f/1.4E.
Nothing new, but I like them.
Happy New Year for you all!!!!!

(http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/af237/atpaula/aD5S_6126_zpssosphruj.jpg) (http://s1011.photobucket.com/user/atpaula/media/aD5S_6126_zpssosphruj.jpg.html)


(http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/af237/atpaula/aD5S_6187_zpszyffad5k.jpg) (http://s1011.photobucket.com/user/atpaula/media/aD5S_6187_zpszyffad5k.jpg.html)





wow. it feels like being there. So clear, so beautiful.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Roland Vink on January 01, 2019, 02:31:13
What made Nikon and the other companies choose such a specific focal length as 105mm?
With 8.5cm (85mm) and 13.5cm (135mm) lenses already in their rangefinder lineup, The Nikkor-P 10.5cm (105mm) was a natural fit between the two, 100mm would have been a bit close to 85mm. The same focal lengths then translated to the F mount and have continued ever since...
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Hugh_3170 on January 01, 2019, 03:54:17
Or about half the field of view of the ubiquitous 50mm "standard" lens of the era?
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 01, 2019, 19:28:21
The f1.8 version of the 105mm never caught on like the f/2.5 models. Bigger and heavier than its less wide-eyed sibling, but still an excellent performer.

Df, 105/1.8, just after sunset. "Blue is the warmest colour"
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on January 01, 2019, 19:50:23
July 12 2018

Probably a hot day like all summer

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1803/29496163908_822c4df049_o.jpg)

d500  105mm f/2
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on January 01, 2019, 21:09:15
Coastal Optics (Now JENOPTIK) f4/105mm - crosseye stereo images

(http://www.pbase.com/kds315/image/153751401/original.jpg)

(http://www.pbase.com/kds315/image/153751497/original.jpg)

(http://www.pbase.com/kds315/image/153751498/original.jpg)


Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: chambeshi on January 02, 2019, 14:30:40
Three with the 105 f2.5AIS. The top two (landscape and leopard spoor) scanned from Fujichrome - taken in 1985 on a FM2. Portrait taken with the Z7 with IBIS at 1/25
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Seapy on January 02, 2019, 15:22:53
With my new D800, Christmas present to myself!

Pre ai, converted, 105mm f/2.5 @ f/2.5 ISO 400 mixed daylight and LED.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: ianwatson on January 02, 2019, 16:05:52
A question for the thread: How many 105 lenses does one need?

This must be a trick question.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 02, 2019, 16:14:41
One needs as many 105mm lenses as necessary :D

For me, that is a pretty substantial number :D

Most of them are 105/2.5 versions (S- and F-mount), plus various f/2.8 and f/4 Micro-Nikkors, Bellows-Nikkors, the tiny 10.5cm f/4 T, the mighty 105/1.4 AFS, and of course the 105/4.5 UV-Nikkors.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 02, 2019, 16:15:48
The Df is synergetic with the 105/2.5 (AI). My girl friend Ruth in her kitchen, very low light level in winter.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 02, 2019, 16:18:33
 Mana Pools Floodplain Woodland rd.jpg

is just lovely
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Andrew on January 02, 2019, 18:32:27
Local handball, 105/1.4 with D500
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on January 02, 2019, 20:01:18
A question for the thread: How many 105 lenses does one need?
It's a great focal lenght and serves more purposes.   I use now the Nikkors 1.8 Ai-S,  2.0 DC, 2.5  Sonnar and Gauss versions,  Micro 2.8 Ai-S  and AF-D  and 4.0 Ai-S   (and the 100mm Rodenstock Heligon f/1.6  and Carl Zeiss Visionar f/1.6  come close)

This is with the Sonnar version (from 1969)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Roland Vink on January 03, 2019, 00:17:34
Or about half the field of view of the ubiquitous 50mm "standard" lens of the era?
Most "standard" lenses for 35mm format are (or were) actually 51.6mm, so doubling will give 103mm, which is very close to 105mm ...
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Hugh_3170 on January 03, 2019, 03:55:21
A great sequence here Andrew - I like the first and last - "the aerials".

Local handball, 105/1.4 with D500
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: BillO on January 03, 2019, 04:09:20
In all these posts so far I think that I only saw one image with my favorite 105, so I thought that I would contribute some from my 105/4 micro-nikkor.

First is a drop of cedar oil being forced from the tree in the hot Texas sun.  Then a grasshopper trying to hitch a ride on my car windshield and final a Texas wildflower along the roadside.  Except for the grasshopper at f5.6, the rest at f4 on either D600 or D610:
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 03, 2019, 11:55:27
Stacked 105/4 Micro + 105/4 Bellows.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 03, 2019, 12:02:20
A signature image often used by me as the opening of a slide show presentation. With or without title of show.

One of my first digital UV captures with the legendary UV-Nikkor 105/4.5 (camera: D1 -- yes, the picture is 'ancient')
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 03, 2019, 12:40:02
Another capture with the 105/1.8 Nikkor.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 03, 2019, 12:43:24
Stacked 105/4 Micro + 105/4 Bellows.

looks biological but is it edible?
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 03, 2019, 12:44:14
I was quite fond of the 105/2.8 AF in its time, despite the horrible AF operation and the A/M shift collar that could break and split the lens into two halves. These issues were solved permanently by epoxy glue and taping the collar with sturdy 'hockey stick' tape (same kind used for cycles).

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 03, 2019, 12:45:06
looks biological but is it edible?

Barnacles. Mercilessly cutting through flesh if you step on them.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 03, 2019, 13:15:56
Another early UV-Nikkor 105/4.5 picture. (F4 ie. gasp!!! film)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Asle F on January 03, 2019, 16:24:25
Stacked 105/4 Micro + 105/4 Bellows.

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on January 03, 2019, 17:57:50
A signature image often used by me as the opening of a slide show presentation. With or without title of show.

One of my first digital UV captures with the legendary UV-Nikkor 105/4.5 (camera: D1 -- yes, the picture is 'ancient')

I remember that quite well Birna, one of your nicest ones!!! Really like its Zen-like simplicity and those elegant colors!
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 03, 2019, 22:12:46
Another early UV-Nikkor 105/4.5 picture. (F4 ie. gasp!!! film)

grand piece of cinematic photography. Wow.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 03, 2019, 22:42:43
For many years, I ran the 105/2.8 Micro-Nikkors AF and AiS concurrently. This is the latter.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 03, 2019, 22:54:18
Another with the 105/2.8 Micro AIS. My little red Peugeot after rough driving on bad roads :)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: CS on January 03, 2019, 23:05:04
D200 ISO 100 AF Micro-Nikkor 105/2.8 @ f/11 1/5

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: CS on January 03, 2019, 23:12:14
D200 ISO 100 AF  Micro-Nikkor 105/2.8 @ f/11 1/15
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 04, 2019, 11:45:07
The Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/4 has been a faithful and reliable companion for decades.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 04, 2019, 14:28:44
The UV-Nikkor 105/4.5 can also do landscapes in a pinch :D

This is the entrance view of the Dørålen valley in the mountain heart of Southern Norway. A motif very well known to any die-hard Norwegian nature photographer, by the way,. However they might not see it in this 'light'.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: chambeshi on January 04, 2019, 16:19:42
Mana Pools Floodplain Woodland rd.jpg

is just lovely
Thanks Frank :-) All best for 2019 to you and everyone in this unique forum.

Across all the 105 Nikkors, it is remarkable how the designs have endured. ie that of the 105 f2.5 upgraded in the late 1970s. Both designs by Yoshiyuki Shimizu

https://imaging.nikon.com/history/story/0005/index.htm (https://imaging.nikon.com/history/story/0005/index.htm)

and the 105 f1.8AIS put out by Teru yoshi Tsunashima persisted until the 105 f2 DC was released.
https://imaging.nikon.com/history/story/0059/index.htm (https://imaging.nikon.com/history/story/0059/index.htm)

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: chris dees on January 04, 2019, 20:21:07
Nikon Z6 + Nikkor 105/2.5 P.C
ISO3600, F2.5, 1/125 at MFD
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on January 05, 2019, 19:36:18
105/1.8 Ai-S
Posted earlier in Januari 2016
http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php/topic,2411.165.html (http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php/topic,2411.165.html)

(http://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2411.0;attach=6721;image)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: ColinM on January 05, 2019, 21:04:44
105mm F2.8 AFS

(http://www.pbase.com/celidh/image/83444017/original.jpg)

and

(http://www.pbase.com/celidh/image/67016939/original.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 05, 2019, 22:40:16
I only had the 105/2.8 Micro AFS for about 3 months, before I replaced it with the superior 125 Vogtländer 125 mm f/2.5 APO-Lanthar. The only 105 Nikkor I found lacklustre in its performance, by the way.

This is one of the few remaining 105 VR images.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: tommiejeep on January 06, 2019, 12:55:25
Wow, some really super images everyone.
Nothing like what I shoot but may inspire  me to leave my box  ;)
I'm thinking of selling the Df (for Z6) so just working on some old shots.  This was done in CNX2.  Df, 105 2.5 Ai,  Road workers horsing around for the camera
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: tommiejeep on January 06, 2019, 13:22:35
At a Ricoh sales presentation at the One School, Goa
Df, 105 Ais at f2.5
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on January 06, 2019, 13:29:59
Guess if I had written (what I meant), only MANUAL FOCUS 105mm images, this list would have been much shorter  ;D
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 06, 2019, 15:57:57
Let the thread encompass all versions of the 105 lenses whether Nikkor or third-party....

Here are two examples of the AFS 105/1.4 E on the D500. that combination is surprisingly well handling and if one brings the "Erik" extension tube, can handle almost anything thrown at it.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: rosko on January 06, 2019, 18:07:18
Micro Nikkor 105mm f/4  AIP version (since 2016 !!!)


Birna and Eric (Mr lens) know what I mean... ;D

Below : Chalk burnets (Zygaena fausta). Southwest France.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 06, 2019, 23:11:07
Guess if I had written (what I meant), only MANUAL FOCUS 105mm images, this list would have been much shorter  ;D

Happy New Year, Klaus. I often focus AFS Optics manually because it is faster that way. That is why a calibrated good focussing screen is so important to me. Every prime lens has its special character, AF or MF. Jan Anne even uses his 1.2/55 Nikkor with an AF adapter on his Sony! The MF/AF border seems to be quite soft nowadays. Very interesting thread.

I think about opening a similar thread for 85mm...
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 06, 2019, 23:15:12
Here are two examples of the AFS 105/1.4 E on the D500. that combination is surprisingly well handling and if one brings the "Erik" extension tube, can handle almost anything thrown at it.

The D500 has a special way to handle colors quite differently than the D850. I love her for this. The tonality of woman carrying baby shows it very well.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on January 06, 2019, 23:34:39
Happy New Year, Klaus. I often focus AFS Optics manually because it is faster that way. That is why a calibrated good focussing screen is so important to me. Every prime lens has its special character, AF or MF. Jan Anne even uses his 1.2/55 Nikkor with an AF adapter on his Sony! The MF/AF border seems to be quite soft nowadays. Very interesting thread.

I think about opening a similar thread for 85mm...

Thanks Frank! 85mm, oh I would love that, but please also allow my Pancolar 80mm too then ;-) Superb lens it is...
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 07, 2019, 06:55:51
Suggest an 80-85 thread then.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on January 07, 2019, 14:02:06
Suggest an 80-85 thread then.

or 75-85mm which would allow to include the famous CZJ 75mm Biotar!!
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 07, 2019, 15:00:18
OK let's include 75-85-90 then.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on January 07, 2019, 15:23:29
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4856/45732643205_cbf9cf180e_o.jpg)

D850  105mm f/1.8
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 07, 2019, 18:20:24
OK let's include 75-85-90 then.

go, open it, I am very busy currently.

75-80-85-90 is a stretch
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 07, 2019, 18:58:03
On a second thought, yes it is. Thus I'll try 80-85.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on January 07, 2019, 22:33:01
To show it can: 105e 1.4 @1.4 with d5300 IR. I still have to find something this one can not do ...
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Mauricio Avila on January 09, 2019, 22:25:56
Nikkor 105mm 1:2.5 Ai @f2.5
Kodak Pro Image 100 Professional

Wonderful images in this thread.

Saludos,

Mauricio
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 09, 2019, 23:44:06
Putting the faithful 105mm f/2.5 AI to good use with my D40X (IR).

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 10, 2019, 12:45:29
Stacking the 105mm f/4 Bellows onto the 105mm f/4 Micro-Nikkor is a well-tested approach to getting higher than life-size magnification images in the field.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 10, 2019, 13:32:11
Spoils of road warriors :D

Arca-Swiss F-Line 4x5", 105 mm f/5.6 W-Nikkor.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on January 10, 2019, 13:36:50
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1979/44910494441_2abe1ab8ce_o.jpg)

d850  105mm f/2dc
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Bent Hjarbo on January 10, 2019, 15:58:46
This one is taken with the bellows 105mm f4.0, D800
One from a stack.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Asle F on January 10, 2019, 21:57:22
AF 105mm/2.8 micro on D1X

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/647/21740113654_d09ab6286a_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/z86LnL)
Svalbardvalmue (https://flic.kr/p/z86LnL) by Asle Feten (https://www.flickr.com/photos/afoton/), on Flickr

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/751/21872983593_1bc22c9fc5_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zjQKYM)
Liefdefjorden (https://flic.kr/p/zjQKYM) by Asle Feten (https://www.flickr.com/photos/afoton/), on Flickr

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/339/18897938508_942ff3b174_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/uMWSJ1)
MS Stockholm (https://flic.kr/p/uMWSJ1) by Asle Feten (https://www.flickr.com/photos/afoton/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on January 11, 2019, 06:50:37
Helioplan 4.5/105mm

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3688/11311587765_94fa0b635d_o.jpg)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3766/11311597845_bbaf00b5c3_o.jpg)

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3801/11311708263_5cc0ef5804_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on January 11, 2019, 06:56:28
UV-Nikkor 4.5/105mm

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/307/18869933903_871205833e_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/446/19484168372_1d7dfc1106_o.jpg)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/545/18868059694_d1a61d3949_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on January 11, 2019, 09:22:36
September 10, 2018

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1891/30726234438_9f022183d2_o.jpg)

D800  tokina 100mm f/2.8 makro
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: atpaula on January 11, 2019, 11:10:27
105mm f/1.4E

(http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/af237/atpaula/atpaula026/aaaD5S_2915_zpsoihf8rxb.jpg) (http://s1011.photobucket.com/user/atpaula/media/atpaula026/aaaD5S_2915_zpsoihf8rxb.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 12, 2019, 00:17:08
The venerable 105mm f/2.5 can, if pressed to the service, do close-ups. Erik's pass-through extension ring was used on this one taken with my trusty Df.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 12, 2019, 01:24:44
The AFS 105mm f/1.4E can do IR and false-colour EIR ('Aerochrome') simulation too. Captured with my broad-spectrum Nikon D600.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Akira on January 12, 2019, 02:19:38
The AFS 105mm f/1.4E can do IR and false-colour EIR ('Aerochrome') simulation too. Captured with my broad-spectrum Nikon D600.

This landscape looks very familiar, reminding me of your test shots of UV capability of old Nikon DSLRs...
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on January 12, 2019, 08:30:00
'Kruikenzeiker'  historical name for 'Tilburgers' and a symbol with 'Carnaval'

D800E   105/1.8
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 12, 2019, 09:28:06
This landscape looks very familiar, reminding me of your test shots of UV capability of old Nikon DSLRs...

This is Maridalsvann north of Oslo, my neighbourhood and testing grounds before I moved out of the capital nearly a year ago. So you are correct.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 12, 2019, 09:50:10
The old 105mm f/4 Micro-Nikkor still provides faithful service on my Df.

Strawberry fields forever
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Olivier on January 12, 2019, 10:31:33
Nikkor 105mm f/2.5 with Lens Turbo 2, on Fuji X-T1. Still a 105mm lens...
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Øivind Tøien on January 12, 2019, 11:32:17
Lots of nice images here. During my first ever stacked tracking session (on the handle of Big Dipper) with the 105mm f/2.5 AIS a ghost of a seemingly habitable planet from a far away galaxy showed up.

(https://otoien.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-3/p2151102029.jpg)

Even using flats could not get rid of the ghost, and stars unfortunately shows a considerable amount of purple fringing even at f/3.2, although there is nothing to complain about with respect to coma/astigmatism in the corners. So I will probably avoid this lens for this kind of deep space imaging where strong stretching is involved.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 12, 2019, 12:37:24
Perhaps the UV-nikkor 105 mm f/4.5 would be better for that purpose, Øivind?

UV-Nikkor 105 and Df.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 12, 2019, 13:06:24
Lest it being forgotten: the 105mm f/2 Nikkor DC.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Øivind Tøien on January 12, 2019, 14:22:00
Perhaps the UV-nikkor 105 mm f/4.5 would be better for that purpose, Øivind?

UV-Nikkor 105 and Df.
That fresh looking image certainly looks like it comes from a habitable planet. Mind you though that astro imaging stacks like the one I presented above involves extreme stretching to bring out the dark parts. That ghost was not visible in the unprocessed individual frames. Might have come from a light pollution source. The purple fringing is another matter though that many lenses have in common, but presumably not the UV nikkor, nor the 300 PF.

Edit: On second thought is there could have been some slight buildup of tiny ice crystals on the front element (no filter used) that has created the ghost.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: atpaula on January 13, 2019, 16:52:33
105mm f/1.8 Ais

(http://i1011.photobucket.com/albums/af237/atpaula/atpaula023/aD3S_1483_zpsr0rjn5d9.jpg) (http://s1011.photobucket.com/user/atpaula/media/atpaula023/aD3S_1483_zpsr0rjn5d9.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on January 13, 2019, 17:08:26
Same lens ;)

Nikon Df  105/1.8 Ai-S
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 13, 2019, 21:21:43
The elusive 105mm f/4 Nikkor-T is not often seen these days and was a rarity in its time as well. I use it mainly for IR at present.

First is the lens mounted on my Nikon D5300 IR camera. It is really tiny.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 14, 2019, 11:07:53
Echo of the past, brought back by the UV-Nikkor 105mm f/4.5. (UV capture)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on January 14, 2019, 17:56:18
Echo of the past, brought back by the UV-Nikkor 105mm f/4.5. (UV capture)

can you not see the svastika with your bare eyes?
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on January 14, 2019, 18:12:43
Very indistinctly.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on January 14, 2019, 18:19:19
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7451/11669673064_f5356a9e05_o.jpg)

December 28, 2013

Hoge Veluwe

D800  105mm f/2.5
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: rosko on January 15, 2019, 22:12:08
!05mm f/2.5 + Df.

Frank trying some glasses in Scotland now almost 3 years ago.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: atpaula on January 15, 2019, 23:26:34
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7451/11669673064_f5356a9e05_o.jpg)

December 28, 2013

Hoge Veluwe

D800  105mm f/2.5

This is one of the best pictures I’ve seen here in NG.
Congrats Fons.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on January 16, 2019, 09:19:20
Thank you Aguinaldo!
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Mauricio Avila on January 16, 2019, 18:02:10
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7451/11669673064_f5356a9e05_o.jpg)


December 28, 2013

Hoge Veluwe

D800  105mm f/2.5

Very nice Fons!
Awesome composition and place of the light in the frame.
Congratulations,

Mauricio
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: CS on January 17, 2019, 02:14:07
D200 105 f/2.8 micro and a yellow something?

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on January 17, 2019, 09:29:55
Very nice Fons!
Awesome composition and place of the light in the frame.
Congratulations,

Mauricio

Thank you Mauricio.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on April 23, 2019, 16:42:10
105mm 2.5 @f4 doing candid on the street  ;)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on April 23, 2019, 17:24:55
The lens is too sharp, Paco  ;)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on April 23, 2019, 20:54:55
 :) :) ;)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on April 23, 2019, 20:56:35
It is the EVF for me. Has completely change the manual focus. Now I can enjoy those lenses way more and mostly worry free. 
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: tommiejeep on April 24, 2019, 05:49:54
Interesting conversation,
He was German and spoke fluent Hindi so our conversation was a mix of my bad German , a bit of my even worse Hindi, some English, a few bits of Spanish, French and Italian.   We did just fine  ;) .  He had been in Varanasi for a few years.   I told a German Tourist/Photographer (photo posted earlier) about him and later saw them in deep, animated conversation.    The last couple of trips I took, Df, 58 1.4, DC105 f2D and 35 f2D along with Sony a7xx and Olympus Pen F.   This was DC105 at f2.5 set to 0 and AF.  Just what I shoot when traveling .  Minimal PP.   Looks as if I will have to shoot the lens MF , as Birna recommends, when I get the Z6  :) .  Will keep Df until I've worked out the Z6  ;)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on April 24, 2019, 11:41:01
Beautiful composition of a strong character. Timing and pose works well too. I´ll like to spoke to him  :)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: armando_m on April 24, 2019, 16:18:04
It is the EVF for me. Has completely change the manual focus. Now I can enjoy those lenses way more and mostly worry free.
Similar experience with the x-t3 EVF when shooting the adapted nikon lenses
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on April 24, 2019, 17:08:22
I have only use the xt2 for a brief time and with a couple native lenses. Is the aid for focusing similar: focus peaking, magnification on viewfinder, something else?
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on April 24, 2019, 17:11:42
Peaony flower

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/33810286898_8e57223a06_o.jpg)

d850  105/2,5 ai

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Imagelover on June 02, 2019, 13:25:00
Hello! The image is shot late October 2018 during a short freezing period. I really love the AI-S Micro-Nikkor 105mm f4, which I also use for distant subjects. This image was with the lens on my D3X at f11 on a tripod. Thanks for looking!
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on May 18, 2020, 00:21:00
105mm 2.5 ai, cpu, fully open on a Z6 with FTZ adapter. Every time I get this lens out I enjoy it. Specially now with the Z6
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Petr sheepeck Jůza on May 18, 2020, 00:34:03
I like this portrait. :-)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on May 18, 2020, 07:17:37
I like this portrait. :-)
Yes, excellent, Paco.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on May 18, 2020, 07:18:17
D3s  with Nikkor DC 105mm f/2
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Bent Hjarbo on May 18, 2020, 10:06:41
I like this portrait. :-)
+1
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on May 18, 2020, 10:17:49
Thanks Bent. It looks like the portraits of my cousin are working   ;D  That 105 is truly something

  John, you don´t make it easy for me with all those images from the D3S. Your cat keeps showing a strong personality and a...inclination to pose? Looks so relax. Or it is your patience? Love the framing colors.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on May 18, 2020, 10:34:06
John, you don´t make it easy for me with all those images from the D3S. Your cat keeps showing a strong personality and a...inclination to pose? Looks so relax. Or it is your patience? Love the framing colors.
I can recommend the D3s, quick AF, Great high ISO performance,  fast *but a bit heavy* with high class NEF's that contain lots of post-processing options.  Nothing obsolete about this camera.

It's a wild kitty, you need to know her 'relaxing' moments and act swiftly ;)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Zang on May 18, 2020, 18:57:13
Nikon 105 f2.5 AIS.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Akira on May 18, 2020, 19:34:45
Nikon 105 f2.5 AIS.

I like it.  The lighting is pleasant.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on May 18, 2020, 20:15:57
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49909855651_9b18784419_o.jpg)

Z6 - 105mm f/1.4
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Zang on May 18, 2020, 20:21:49
I like it.  The lighting is pleasant.

Thanks Akira. I think I missed the focus a bit. Nothing too bad, I hope.

Cheers,
Zang
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Matthew Currie on May 18, 2020, 23:26:23
I haven't used the old 105 much, but not too long ago got my wife's old 105/2.8D back from the fungus doctor, and find it not bad for bug chasing.  The focus is a little slow, but it works.  Still pretty early here for interesting flowers and insects.  At least there are dandelions.

On the way back I ran into a robin, fiercely guarding her nest.  Every time I come by she swears at me in angry fluent tweets.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Petr sheepeck Jůza on May 19, 2020, 00:03:29
“Show your 105 images” means probably “shots taken with 105 mm lens by you” but let me post this shot of me instead. :-)
Quite unexpected outcome as this shot was taken by schoolmate of my daughter who is fifth grader. Somehow she managed get me into focus with Nikkor 105 1.8. Excuse me for being unshaven and kind of scruffy.  :-D
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Petr sheepeck Jůza on May 19, 2020, 00:06:05
Nice pear shot, Zang. Looks serene.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Zang on May 19, 2020, 00:39:12
Nice pear shot, Zang. Looks serene.

Thanks Petr!

Cheers,
Zang
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Imagelover on May 22, 2020, 12:34:45
Some months ago. Nikon Df and Nikkor 105mm f/2.5 AI, aperture f/5.6.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: longzoom on May 24, 2020, 02:05:41
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49928363292_34e90d0151_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2j4ZUVS)20121029-085 (https://flic.kr/p/2j4ZUVS) by [url=https://flic.kr/p/2j4VFM6](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49927538603_cd3a6c6632_k.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/longzoom/)20121029-085-3 (2) (https://flic.kr/p/2j4VFM6) by longzoom (https://www.flickr.com/photos/longzoom/), on Flickrlongzoom[/url], on Flickr.    D800, Nikkor 105/2.8 Micro, F8.0, 1/125, ISO 1600. Crop.  THX!  LZ
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Imagelover on May 24, 2020, 12:40:15
Saturday evening 22.30 seen from outside of my kitchen window (Kristiansund N., Norway). Df with Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/4, aperture f/11.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Petr sheepeck Jůza on August 19, 2020, 16:01:27
Frog hunting
Nikkor 105 1.8
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on August 19, 2020, 19:24:09
Frog hunting
Nikkor 105 1.8
Great shot.  Perfect subject isolation.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: ColinM on August 19, 2020, 21:49:15
Quote from: Petr sheepeck Jůza
let me post this shot of me instead. :-)
... this shot was taken by schoolmate of my daughter who is fifth grader.

and

Frog hunting

I like both of these Petr - good use of the 105's
Is there an image of the frog too (or did it escape and slip away?!)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Petr sheepeck Jůza on August 19, 2020, 23:24:28
Thank you, guys.
No frog photo though. Only this green swimsuit kid.  :-)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Petr sheepeck Jůza on August 22, 2020, 14:22:15
Portrait of my friend, skilful kenjutsuka.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Petr sheepeck Jůza on August 26, 2020, 20:46:05
105/1.8, D700
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Tristin on September 02, 2020, 10:00:21
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7451/11669673064_f5356a9e05_o.jpg)

December 28, 2013

Hoge Veluwe

D800  105mm f/2.5

If this hasn't made it to print, I hope you are prosecuted for a crime against humanity.  Stunning Fons.  Stunning.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Airy on September 02, 2020, 12:05:57
agreed !
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on September 02, 2020, 12:08:43
I will remove the signature ;D thanks :)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on September 02, 2020, 12:38:39
If this hasn't made it to print, I hope you are prosecuted for a crime against humanity.  Stunning Fons.  Stunning.

   ;D ;D ;D I'll also gently sugest a printed version may be in order.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Jim Covello on September 06, 2020, 05:14:13
Hello, everyone! I apologize for not posting since December. I haven't really visited the site much all year until a week ago. I saw this fun post, and I decided there was no better way to demonstrate my repentance by posting this photograph with the 105mm f/2.5 AI that I bought and had chipped a couple years ago. The first camera and lens I bought were an FM2 with a 105 f/2.5 AI-s. I loved the camera and especially the lens. I unwisely sold the lens about 12 years ago, but now I have a nice chipped version. I shot this on a D850, but I have since switched to a Z7, which is so much easier use manual focus, in my opinion. My preferred technique now is to set the AF-ON button to ZOOM (I have been using the lowest zoom setting). Since I am used to using AF-ON to focus anyway, I hit that and it zooms in so I can see and focus peaking kicks in, too. Personally, I also find it much easier to focus in low light with the electronic viewfinder, too. Live View works as well, but I really prefer the viewfinder when I can use it: no competition with sun glare, my aging eyes can focus at infinity, and it is easier to keep the camera stable pressed against my face.

The Z7 makes this lens stabilized, too. Can't beat that.

So, while I took this with the D850, I am looking forward to doing a lot more manual focus with it and other lenses on the Z7. (I just got a Z-mount Lomography Petzval 55mm f/1.7 Mk II...now that's an interesting lens I will post more about soon...)

These are blooming palo verde trees in my neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona, from two and a half years ago. Every spring they go crazy and yellow blossoms are everywhere. (They are native, by the way.)

Palo Verde Curtains, Tucson, Arizona. Nikon D850 with Nikon 105mm f/2.5 AI (chipped), 1/500 sec at f/2.5, ISO 64.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: wolan on September 07, 2020, 23:36:45
Nikkor 105mm f1.8
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Frank Fremerey on September 07, 2020, 23:53:43
105E
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Erik Lund on September 08, 2020, 09:37:28
Hello, everyone! I apologize for not posting since December. I haven't really visited the site much all year until a week ago. I saw this fun post, and I decided there was no better way to demonstrate my repentance by posting this photograph with the 105mm f/2.5 AI that I bought and had chipped a couple years ago. The first camera and lens I bought were an FM2 with a 105 f/2.5 AI-s. I loved the camera and especially the lens. I unwisely sold the lens about 12 years ago, but now I have a nice chipped version. I shot this on a D850, but I have since switched to a Z7, which is so much easier use manual focus, in my opinion. My preferred technique now is to set the AF-ON button to ZOOM (I have been using the lowest zoom setting). Since I am used to using AF-ON to focus anyway, I hit that and it zooms in so I can see and focus peaking kicks in, too. Personally, I also find it much easier to focus in low light with the electronic viewfinder, too. Live View works as well, but I really prefer the viewfinder when I can use it: no competition with sun glare, my aging eyes can focus at infinity, and it is easier to keep the camera stable pressed against my face.

The Z7 makes this lens stabilized, too. Can't beat that.

So, while I took this with the D850, I am looking forward to doing a lot more manual focus with it and other lenses on the Z7. (I just got a Z-mount Lomography Petzval 55mm f/1.7 Mk II...now that's an interesting lens I will post more about soon...)

These are blooming palo verde trees in my neighborhood in Tucson, Arizona, from two and a half years ago. Every spring they go crazy and yellow blossoms are everywhere. (They are native, by the way.)

Palo Verde Curtains, Tucson, Arizona. Nikon D850 with Nikon 105mm f/2.5 AI (chipped), 1/500 sec at f/2.5, ISO 64.


So nicely captured! Thanks for sharing
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on September 13, 2020, 15:08:16
(https://a4.pbase.com/o12/08/747708/1/171033701.GNstfpko.Lichen20200913135820_c.jpg)

Lichen shot with UV-Nikkor 105mm, visible light, reflected UV, 2x UV induced visible fluorescence (UVIVF)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: PeterN on September 13, 2020, 18:46:26
Very colourful and a pleasure to look at!
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Michael Erlewine on September 14, 2020, 03:26:26
The Carl Zeiss S-Orthoplanar105mm f/5.6 is not an APO lens, so it has some chromatic aberration. So does the original Noct Nikkor 58mm, which this lens reminds me of. And that is because it is clear that this lens has a special character that few lenses have, IMO. I don’t care for the CA, and this is not the sharpest lens either, although some say it is, but I can see myself using it just for its character.  I just received copy my copy and am learning how to best use it, so my view on all this may change in time.

Taken with the Carl Zeiss S-Orthoplanar 105mm f/5.6 v
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on September 14, 2020, 11:14:26
The lighting is very interesting, so controlled it feels paint-like and coming from inside the flower.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on September 14, 2020, 12:17:59
D850  105/1.4E
@f/2.2 1/5000
extreme crop

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Nasos Kosmas on September 14, 2020, 13:18:13
Extreme crop but excellent capture!
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on September 14, 2020, 13:31:38
Extreme crop but excellent capture!

Indeed i was quite surprised about the accurate focus thank you Nasos.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on March 25, 2021, 08:52:56
the f/1.4 on Nikon D4s
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: rosko on March 25, 2021, 10:54:39
 Exquisite capture, John ! :)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on March 25, 2021, 13:48:44
Thanks Francis. 
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on March 25, 2021, 14:03:55
The f/1.4 is perfect for Portraits.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on March 25, 2021, 16:58:51
Flowers or portrais

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on March 25, 2021, 18:48:05
March 21
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on March 25, 2021, 19:30:45
Beautiful, Fons.

Yes.  the f/1.4 is also very suitable for flowers  ;)

Here with the White Magnolia (Stellata) (also posted in March 2021)

(https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=9880.0;attach=48673;image)

And another version
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Luc on March 25, 2021, 22:43:01
Audi 2.8E

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 105mm f2.5 AIs

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/9047920067_d67616ece7_h.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on March 25, 2021, 23:20:54
Great contrast all around, light, color, textures...
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Imagelover on March 25, 2021, 23:42:43
Best there is, Luc, best there is... Great combination of "vintage" camera and lens!
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Luc on March 26, 2021, 14:51:55
Great contrast all around, light, color, textures...
Thanks Paco
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Luc on March 26, 2021, 14:53:22
Best there is, Luc, best there is... Great combination of "vintage" camera and lens!
Oh so true. I don't own the D700 anymore but I have great memories (and images) from that camera and camera/lens combo.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on March 26, 2021, 18:50:17
Beautiful, Fons.

Yes.  the f/1.4 is also very suitable for flowers  ;)

Here with the White Magnolia (Stellata) (also posted in May 2021)

(https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=9880.0;attach=48673;image)

And another version

thank you John
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: longzoom on March 26, 2021, 20:37:52
March 21
Everything is here, Fons - model, light, more than acceptable softness for such the object! Well done!
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: longzoom on March 26, 2021, 20:42:37


Yes.  the f/1.4 is also very suitable for flowers  ;)

Here with the White Magnolia (Stellata) (also posted in March 2021)

[img width=1172 height=800]https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=9880.0;attach=48673;image[
I like it very much, John!
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Dr Klaus Schmitt on March 27, 2021, 08:04:04
UV-Nikkor 105mm

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51058837576_8e6e9a1a55_o.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51058837641_1fb6fd701b_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on November 14, 2021, 22:41:21
Walkaround with the 105mm 1.4e
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: John Geerts on November 14, 2021, 22:57:57
Great stuff, Paco, 
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Airy on November 14, 2021, 23:39:56
Third one in particular, well composed, well exposed, well posed. A graceful delight.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Akira on November 15, 2021, 04:45:28
Yes, the third one rocks (or flamencoes, in this case?)!
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Bent Hjarbo on November 15, 2021, 08:55:24
Third one in particular, well composed, well exposed, well posed. A graceful delight.
+1
Great work  :)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on November 15, 2021, 10:51:23
Yes, the third one rocks (or flamencoes, in this case?)!
;D ;D ;D

  Thank you all for the encouragement. Olga + D5+ 105mm.1.4 is a dream team  :)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on November 15, 2021, 17:23:56
Walkaround with the 105mm 1.4e

Wonderful esp #3
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: golunvolo on November 15, 2021, 17:48:41
Thank you Fons.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Petr sheepeck Jůza on December 08, 2021, 15:03:27
105 1.8 ai-s on D700
Some nice wine from my friend´s winery with pre-Christmas sparkling lights.  :-)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Michael Erlewine on December 08, 2021, 15:16:01
the Z 105mm Macro S
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Nasos Kosmas on December 08, 2021, 21:58:08
Excellent captures! 105mm  in f1.4 /1.8/ 2.5/2.8S is great :)
You just remind me I’ve got an 105/2.5
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Bruno Schroder on December 08, 2021, 22:42:10
Michael, Michael, Michael !!!
If I may say so :)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Petr sheepeck Jůza on December 09, 2021, 10:25:33
Nasos - you should definitely pull that out. Great lens. I shall use that one again soon as well.  :-)



Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Robert Camfield on December 11, 2021, 17:14:35
the Z 105mm Macro S

Michael,

What are your impressions: is the new Macro 105mm 2.8 S as good as expected? Expectations are very high as, so far, the S series Nikkors seem to be uniform superb. Just curious...Thanks, Robert 
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Michael Erlewine on December 11, 2021, 18:38:31
Michael,

What are your impressions: is the new Macro 105mm 2.8 S as good as expected? Expectations are very high as, so far, the S series Nikkors seem to be uniform superb. Just curious...Thanks, Robert

Better than expected, up there with the best of fine lenses. I use it all the time and the automatic focus allows me to focus stack with the lens and the Z7 II. Here is an example of that lens.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Robert Camfield on December 12, 2021, 00:29:28
Better than expected, up there with the best of fine lenses. I use it all the time and the automatic focus allows me to focus stack with the lens and the Z7 II. Here is an example of that lens.

Thanks for the confirmation...as evidenced by your close up photo of the flowering Day Lilly - hope I have it right.  A couple of reviews on the web provide similar assessments.

Thanks again...Robert   
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Michael Erlewine on December 12, 2021, 01:03:56
Better than expected, up there with the best of fine lenses. I use it all the time and the automatic focus allows me to focus stack with the lens and the Z7 II. Here is an example of that lens.

The exotic Night Blooming Cereus.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Gil Aegerter on December 12, 2021, 05:03:15
I still love my old Nikkor 105mm f2.5 AiS. This is on an FM2n with Fujichrome 200.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48988622447_bef23aa917_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hCXuHv)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Hauge on December 15, 2021, 22:03:46
Winther knocking on the door...

D200 with AI converted 105mm f:2.5 @ ISO 640, 1/100 sec f.5.6

 
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Bruno Schroder on December 16, 2021, 13:49:42
Winther knocking on the door...

D200 with AI converted 105mm f:2.5 @ ISO 640, 1/100 sec f.5.6
Nice place, you’ve there. I’d like to pass this gate for a walk …
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Hauge on December 16, 2021, 23:59:31
Nice place, you%u2019ve there. I%u2019d like to pass this gate for a walk %u2026

It's "Bramslev bakker" at Mariager Fjord, Denmark. And indeed a very lovely place to walk.
Should You ever pass by, there's a lovely 4 to 10 km walk behind that gate...
I'd love to show You more pictures. But the weather, and my dresstyle, were incomparable yesterday (dec. 15'th).
Hope to be there soon, in better weather, though... :)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Robert Camfield on December 17, 2021, 03:17:26

"D200 with AI converted 105mm f:2.5 @ ISO 640, 1/100 sec f.5.6"

This is a nice photograph. Does a 105mm lens mounted on a DX format camera (D200) constitute a 105mm? Arguably, what is meant by 105mm is 23% angle of view.

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on December 17, 2021, 09:40:25
The lens is ignorant of the camera to which it is mounted. Thus it continues to have the properties of its inherent optical features.

On an 8x10" camera, 105mm is a wide-angle lens.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: F2F3F6 on December 17, 2021, 15:24:29
The lens is ignorant of the camera to which it is mounted. Thus it continues to have the properties of its inherent optical features. On an 8x10" camera, 105mm is a wide-angle lens.

Birna, you should say "On an 8x10" camera, 105mm is an ultra-ultra wide angle lens !"

I don't know any 105mm that covers 8x10", only Nikon Nikkor 120 SW or equivalent older Schneider or Rodenstock lenses cover (just) 8x10"... and these lenses are already 20mm or 18mm (35mm equivalent) !

So I think a 105mm for 8x10" is a dream lens but not yet (and probably never) available in real world !
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on December 17, 2021, 15:48:51
You are right and I stand corrected. Never used anything wider than 120mm on my 8x10" :) thus a slip of tongue or mix-up in the memory banks. The latter is likely as there are now many many moons since last time I used one of those behemoths. Most of the time I employed the Arca-Swiss in a 4x5" configuration. The 65mm f/4 Nikkor had trouble covering the 4x5" format if movements were used, but the 90mm Rodenstock did just fine.

However, the principle remains. The lens has inherent properties not influenced by the camera it is attached to.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Robert Camfield on December 18, 2021, 22:41:28
The lens is ignorant of the camera to which it is mounted. Thus it continues to have the properties of its inherent optical features.

On an 8x10" camera, 105mm is a wide-angle lens.

Absolutely...however, I hazard to guess that most participants in the Nikon Gear forum anticipate the thread "Show your 105 images" anticipate photos obtained with 105 Nikkors which, as we appreciate, include many well-loved variants applicable predominantly to full frame and DX formats, and also to smaller formats via adopters. And indeed, most photos presented within the thread hone closely to this expectation: a portrait-length 23 degree rendering, but also well suited to macro photography (reference Michael's contribution of a few days ago), and general use.

In any case, I think this is a non-issue...Personally, I would interested to see, in this thread, images taken by near-105mm lenses such as contemporary macro lenses of other manufacturers...in particular, either of the two Zeiss 100mm F2.0s.

Robert   
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Petr sheepeck Jůza on December 21, 2021, 09:30:31
To Gil:
I like that sax player photo. :-)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Bob Foster on December 21, 2021, 13:47:49
Birna, you should say "On an 8x10" camera, 105mm is an ultra-ultra wide angle lens !"

I don't know any 105mm that covers 8x10", only Nikon Nikkor 120 SW or equivalent older Schneider or Rodenstock lenses cover (just) 8x10"... and these lenses are already 20mm or 18mm (35mm equivalent) !

So I think a 105mm for 8x10" is a dream lens but not yet (and probably never) available in real world !

I happened to visit https://www.glennview.com/index.htm in searching for a Cambo part. I noted this photo on the top of  the home page and thought of this thread. The 90mm Goerz Hypergon will cover 8X10 (and according to the link 11X14). I've done business with Glenn Evans in the past and have no reason to doubt that the photo was made as he states.

Bob
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: F2F3F6 on December 21, 2021, 14:57:36
You're right, Bob, didn't know that the old Hypergon was such a unique, modern lens !

I had a look and found even a 75mm Goerz Hypergon and the author says: "One of the greatest and coolest lenses ever made, It’s the widest angle lens ever made that covers 8×10 with movements." !

source: Goerz Hypergon 75mm Extreme Wide Angle Lenshttps://accessaerospace.com › product (3950 US $ !)

My apologies, Birna !
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Birna Rørslett on December 21, 2021, 18:35:39
Accepted :)
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Fons Baerken on December 22, 2021, 12:35:09
December 22

Amaryllis

D850, Zf 100mm f/2

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Imagelover on December 26, 2021, 12:49:39
Picture taken this autumn in my hometown. Nikon Df with the AI Nikkor 105mm f/2.5, f/11 on a tripod.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: David H. Hartman on December 27, 2021, 04:13:51
In case it wasn't posted before here is a link to the NIKKOR - The Thousand and One Nights, No. 5, Best-selling mid-range telescopic lens...

https://imaging.nikon.com/history/story/0005/index.htm

I did some very careful test on three 105/2.5 Nikkors, an AI(ed) Nikkor P*C, AI and AIS. The sharpest image at 2 meters was at f/5.6. The creamiest bokeh and greatest blur would be at a portrait distance and naturally at f/2.8. The lens was purpose designed this way according to the article linked above. For the sharpest images at any distance I would avoid stopping down blow f/8.0.

Dave

Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Hugh_3170 on December 27, 2021, 04:36:35
Dave, did you see much difference between the three versions?  (Sample variation not withstanding.)

In case it wasn't posted before here is a link to the NIKKOR - The Thousand and One Nights, No. 5, Best-selling mid-range telescopic lens...

https://imaging.nikon.com/history/story/0005/index.htm

I did some very careful test on three 105/2.5 Nikkors, an AI(ed) Nikkor P*C, AI and AIS. The sharpest image at 2 meters was at f/5.6. The creamiest bokeh and greatest blur would be at a portrait distance and naturally at f/2.8. The lens was purpose designed this way according to the article linked above. For the sharpest images at any distance I would avoid stopping down blow f/8.0.

Dave
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: David H. Hartman on December 27, 2021, 05:56:28
Dave, did you see much difference between the three versions?  (Sample variation not withstanding.)

It turned out that the AIS was the best and the AI(ed) N*P was least but the difference was not pronounced. I focused with a DW-2 (6x)finder. The exposure was made with flash with the camera set to B and locked up. I allowed the tripod to settle for a full minute. The film was Kodak Tech Pan developed as a continuous tone film. I viewed the results at 80x (an early form of pixel peeping). I viewed both center and edge. I did everything I knew to test only the lens and not the camera also.

If I had to guess why the AIS was best it might be better contrast due to the newest coating. Anyway sample variation was not pronounced. I kept the AIS and sold the others. I didn't want to sell the AI but needed to pay a debt. I should have paid over a period of months since I knew the performance of the AI.

I recommend using a Nikon HS-8 or HS-14 (late versions) rather than the built in hoods for both the 105/2.5(s) and later 135/2.8(s). If the sun is included in the extreme corner of the image I got a single small green ghost. This might have been with the 105/2.5 AIS or 135/2.8 AIS or both.

My sharpest lenses were a 50/1.8 AI and 55/2.8 AIS.

Dave
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Hugh_3170 on December 27, 2021, 07:30:49
Thanks.
It turned out that the AIS was the best and the AI(ed) N*P was least but the difference was not pronounced. I focused with a DW-2 (6x)finder. The exposure was made with flash with the camera set to B and locked up. I allowed the tripod to settle for a full minute. The film was Kodak Tech Pan developed as a continuous tone film. I viewed the results at 80x (an early form of pixel peeping). I viewed both center and edge. I did everything I knew to test only the lens and not the camera also.

If I had to guess why the AIS was best it might be better contrast due to the newest coating. Anyway sample variation was not pronounced. I kept the AIS and sold the others. I didn't want to sell the AI but needed to pay a debt. I should have paid over a period of months since I knew the performance of the AI.

I recommend using a Nikon HS-8 or HS-14 (late versions) rather than the built in hoods for both the 105/2.5(s) and later 135/2.8(s). If the sun is included in the extreme corner of the image I got a single small green ghost. This might have been with the 105/2.5 AIS or 135/2.8 AIS or both.

My sharpest lenses were a 50/1.8 AI and 55/2.8 AIS.

Dave
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Michael Erlewine on December 27, 2021, 11:06:25
APO El Nikkor 105mm f/5.6 lens
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Gil Aegerter on January 04, 2022, 18:45:08
To Gil:
I like that sax player photo. :-)

Thank you very much!
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Airy on January 05, 2022, 22:09:02
APO El Nikkor 105mm f/5.6 lens

Quite impressive. So is its price level, by the way.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Michael Erlewine on January 05, 2022, 22:39:12
Quite impressive. So is its price level, by the way.

Yes, but in this case, we get what we pay for, IMO.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Airy on January 05, 2022, 22:52:15
Indeed, and thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Dogman on January 06, 2022, 15:42:54
My photography seldom requires anything longer than a 50mm, however, I found a nice 105/2.5 Nikkor-P-C online.  It came yesterday evening and I only shot the one photo.  It's enough for me to see that I will like this lens.



Title: Re: Show your 105mm images
Post by: Michael Erlewine on January 08, 2022, 19:38:07
Here are two stacked 105mm lenses, one hand-stacked, the APO El Nikkor 105mm f/5.6 and another stacked by Nikon Z7II with the new Z 105 Macro S f/2.8. I did not try to retouch them much, but just wanted to roughly see how they compare.

The APO El Nikkon 105 is one of the finest lenses I own. And I feel the new Z 105 Macro S lens is also very good and a lot less expensive and it has autofocus.