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<blockquote data-quote="Mike D90" data-source="post: 308531" data-attributes="member: 17556">It is not as sharp as the prime macro lenses such as the 90mm or 105mm macro, but it has impressed me as to what it can do.&nbsp; Yes, it would be manual focus only on your camera as it is the older &quot;D&quot; lens that requires the camera focus motor.What I like about it is it will focus as close as down to .5 inch in macro mode at 105mm length and still very close even when in standard mode.&nbsp; It is actually sharper when used in macro mode.&nbsp; It is a slow focus lens though and a little noisy with auto focus. In manual focus it is very fast to focus and turning the focus ring is touchy as it is a high ratio.&nbsp; It is not particularly fast at f/3.5 but I rarely shoot in low light.&nbsp; I do not do a lot of really close macro stuff so this lens does exactly what I need it to do.I do recommend it if the budget does not allow for a really fine true prime macro lens and even recommend it over a macro if you don't need to do very close up micro work.&nbsp; I think I gave about $130 USD for mine but I did get an exquisitely clean lens.Here are a couple shots with this lens in macro mode.&nbsp;<img src="http://gallery.nikonites.com/gallery/files/1/7/5/5/6/dsc_5537_cropped.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> &nbsp;<img src="http://gallery.nikonites.com/gallery/files/1/7/5/5/6/money_macro_05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mike D90, post: 308531, member: 17556"] It is not as sharp as the prime macro lenses such as the 90mm or 105mm macro, but it has impressed me as to what it can do. Yes, it would be manual focus only on your camera as it is the older "D" lens that requires the camera focus motor. What I like about it is it will focus as close as down to .5 inch in macro mode at 105mm length and still very close even when in standard mode. It is actually sharper when used in macro mode. It is a slow focus lens though and a little noisy with auto focus. In manual focus it is very fast to focus and turning the focus ring is touchy as it is a high ratio. It is not particularly fast at f/3.5 but I rarely shoot in low light. I do not do a lot of really close macro stuff so this lens does exactly what I need it to do. I do recommend it if the budget does not allow for a really fine true prime macro lens and even recommend it over a macro if you don't need to do very close up micro work. I think I gave about $130 USD for mine but I did get an exquisitely clean lens. Here are a couple shots with this lens in macro mode. [IMG]http://gallery.nikonites.com/gallery/files/1/7/5/5/6/dsc_5537_cropped.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://gallery.nikonites.com/gallery/files/1/7/5/5/6/money_macro_05.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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