Nikon Ai-S Nikkor 85mm F1.4

The Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 AIS is a top of the line short telephoto lens for Nikon 35mm film SLR and higher end digital SLR cameras. It`s a legendary professional lens that takes incredible images. With a relatively narrow field of view the 85mm is in the portrait focal length range ...The Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 AIS is a top of the line short telephoto lens for Nikon 35mm film SLR and higher end digital SLR cameras.

It`s a legendary professional lens that takes incredible images. With a relatively narrow field of view the 85mm is in the portrait focal length range well suited for framing head and shoulders photography at a distance that yields flattering perspective. The 85mm f/1.4 AIS uses a tremendous amount of high quality glass to provide an incredibly large f/1.4 maximum aperture making it both bright and able to produce very shallow depth of field putting backgrounds and foregrounds largely out of focus.

This beautiful selective focus at maximum aperture makes this lens ideal for people pictures. It`s a very sharp contrasty lens but the ultra shallow depth of field can produce something more, an additional impression of sharp focus simply from the dramatic difference between in and out of focus areas, which works even when using soft focus filters.