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<blockquote data-quote="kasperbergholt" data-source="post: 806068" data-attributes="member: 52126">Clever people,Last week I received a fine vintage <a href="https://bergholt.net/nikon" target="_blank">Nikon D3</a> aquired at a good price. My current camera is a Pentax K5 with a 35mm 2.8 macro lens, which has slowly broken down through the last year.I'm researching which macro lens to get for the D3 - its primary job will be some archival work for Wikipedia &amp; <a href="https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubecollection/kasper_bergholt.html" target="_blank">Radiomuseum </a>with images of a range of vacuum tubes for <a href="https://bergholt.net/tubes" target="_blank">Leben tube amplifiers</a>.The AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8G is cheap, but as I understand it won't function fully well on a full-frame camera as the D3 (leading to a lower number of megapixels).Then there's the 60mm 2.8, which there seems to be two versions of - AF-D and AF-s respectively. What's the difference between the two?And, lastly, some lenses are market Thailand and some Japan. Would going for the Japanese versions be recommended in general if all other parameters are close to equal?Thanks in advance,Kasper</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kasperbergholt, post: 806068, member: 52126"] Clever people, Last week I received a fine vintage [URL='https://bergholt.net/nikon']Nikon D3[/URL] aquired at a good price. My current camera is a Pentax K5 with a 35mm 2.8 macro lens, which has slowly broken down through the last year. I'm researching which macro lens to get for the D3 - its primary job will be some archival work for Wikipedia & [URL='https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubecollection/kasper_bergholt.html']Radiomuseum [/URL]with images of a range of vacuum tubes for [URL='https://bergholt.net/tubes']Leben tube amplifiers[/URL]. The AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8G is cheap, but as I understand it won't function fully well on a full-frame camera as the D3 (leading to a lower number of megapixels). Then there's the 60mm 2.8, which there seems to be two versions of - AF-D and AF-s respectively. What's the difference between the two? And, lastly, some lenses are market Thailand and some Japan. Would going for the Japanese versions be recommended in general if all other parameters are close to equal? Thanks in advance, Kasper [/QUOTE]

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