Nikon AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.8D. I'd get mine at Adorama or Amazon. It helps me keep adding to this site when you use these links, thanks!

Introduction

This is a popular AF lens and rightfully so. It's inexpensive and very good.

Specifications

It has six elements in six groups.

It focusses as close as 0.85m or three feet.

It is 2.8" (71mm) around by 3.1" (78mm) long. It weighs 13 oz. or 415g.

It takes 62mm filters and comes with a nice metal HN-23 hood.

It has a lovely 9 bladed diaphragm stopping down to f/16

Nikon Product Number: 1931, in catalog as of spring 2008.

Performance

It has no distortion.

The samples I've seen have nice metal filter threads.

A screw-in metal hood is included with the lens.

Its sharp at every aperture, and especially at f/1.8.

AF speed is super fast on the F100 and F5.

It tends to autofocus a tad closer than it should on my F100. This shouldn't be much of an issue in practical photography.

From the little I've used this lens, the Bokeh is fairly poor.

Recommendations

This is a lens to get if you don't have an 80-200/2.8 zoom. The zoom tends to be as sharp and almost as fast, so they tend to overlap in capability.

At only $400 or less brand-new this is a magnificent lens on all fronts. It sold for only about $320 in 2004.