85mm F1.8 Portrait Lens – Medium Telephoto Manual Focus for Nikon F Mount DSLR Cameras

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A quick rundown of this product’s key features:

[Professional Manual Focus Experience] – Tailored for photographers who pursue the ultimate, the 85mm F1.8 lens adopts a fully manual focus design, requiring photographers to carefully adjust parameters such as shutter speed, ISO and aperture before shooting. This process not only exercises photographic skills, but also inspires unlimited artistic creativity, helping you to transcend conventions and explore the infinite possibilities of photography.
[Superb Image Quality & Charming Bokeh] – The 85mm F1.8 lens is equipped with 6 rounded aperture blades, a smooth large focus ring design, and an internal focus (IF) mechanism to ensure fast and quiet focusing. The fusion of hybrid aspherical lens (H-ASP) and ultra multi-coating (UMC) technology effectively reduces aberrations and glare, presenting unparalleled clear image quality and dreamy background blur effects, making every shot of yours full of artistic atmosphere.
[Wide Compatibility with Nikon DSLRs] – Lightdow 85mm F1.8 Portrait Lens is perfectly compatible with the Nikon D850 D810 D810A D800 D800E D780 D750 D700 D610 D600 D500 D300 D300S D200 D100;D7500 D7200 D7100 D7000 D5600 D5500 D5300 D5200 D5100 D5000 D3500 D3400 D3300 D3200 D3100 D3000 D90 D80 D70 D70S D60 D40X D40;D6 D5 D4S D4 D3S D3X D3 D2XS D2X D2H D1X D1H D1 etc., providing a versatile lens for a variety of shooting scenarios.
[Easy-to-Use Warm Tips] – Fully manual focus lens, no electronic contacts. If you see the error message “No lens installed” during installation, please set the camera mode to manual (M) Please set it to M mode and the error will disappear. The advantages of full manual focus are precise focus control, creative shooting space, strong adaptability, durability and reliability, and learning value, making the lens the photographer’s first choice tool in specific shooting scenarios.
[Professional After-Sales Support] – We provide comprehensive after -sales service, including lens maintenance and replacement during the warranty period, so that you can use 85mm F1.8 Manual Focus Portrait Lens.If you have any questions please feel free to contact us, we will provide friendly service within 24 hours.

Our Top Reviews

Reviewer: Jessika
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: We’ll definitely buy again
Review: My husband absolutely loves this lens. Sharpness is absolutely amazing. Works well fits perfectly without no problems. Image quality is amazing. What’s when you understand how to use it? And the weight of it is very light and very manageable, to hold for longer periods of time

Reviewer: Stoklee Devin Ann Miller
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Picture quality top notch
Review: Image quality is great and is a good investment for amateur photographers.

Reviewer: T
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Will not focus on anything further than 5ft away unless I stop it down all the way to f22.
Review: Jokingly bad lens. Even at infinity, when trying to focus on stars at anything other than f22, the image comes out unusably blurry. Unironically the most abysmal lens I’ve had to displeasure of wasting 80 dollars on. It’ll focus on stars just fine at f22, but at that point it’s beyond useless. Also, it’s smaller in diameter than the EF mount so you end up with light leak due to the gap between the lens and body. The focus ring is stiff, the aperture ring feels cheap and plasticy, it’s all around just not a good lens. Not sure if I just got a dud, guess we’ll see when my replacement arrives. As of right now, however, I can NOT recommend this lens to ANYONE who isn’t trying to take portraits of people standing exactly ~4-5ft away. FWIW, if nothing else, this lens is mostly metal and feels substantial, just a shame it doesn’t perform to that level (or at all really).

Reviewer: Tony
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Don’t listen to the negative reviews
Review: Absolutely amazing, far surpassed my expectations, it is a little tight on the focus at first, but it loosens up, for a manual lens the ISO is perfect

Reviewer: Daniel Chinchilla
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Muy buen lente, pero no es el mejor.
Review: La lente es buena, la ensayé en mi cámara Canon EOS 3000D y se acopla perfectamente. Tomé varias fotos y tiene buena imagen las fotos para alguien que es muy nuevo en el mundo de la fotografía y tuvo que hacer los enfoques desde el modo manual. Sin embargo la lente tiene partes en metal lo cual lo hacen MUY pesado para un lente.En resumen, el lente es bueno si vas a iniciar en la fotografía profesional con un presupuesto bajo o limitado y lo considero como este lente netamente de APRENDIZAJE.

Reviewer: MAC
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Some Manufacturing and Design Irregularities
Review: Generally, my initial impressions of this lens was reasonably favorable, considering the very low price. Most everything is made of metal, including the nice lens hood.One thing I immediately noticed is there is some wiggle when the lens is attached to my Canon. The lens itself is very secure, so that is not an issue. But the slot in the lens that captures the locking pin on the camera is a bit too large. This wiggle appears to have only one negative effect, which is during focusing. This lens is very sensitive on focus distance, so when you change focus the entire lens will rotate a slight amount until the focus ring starts working. With most lenses, this really would not be much of an issue, but due to the small depth of field with this lens, small focus adjustments are common. So, this slight movement before a change in focus is a little irritating. I am not sure if it causes a light leak as well.There is another slight mis-description in the Amazon listing, which seems to suggest a filter thread of 72mm. That is referring to the thread used by the hood, which fits on the outside of the lens, not the inside. The front of the lens has both internal and external threads. The external thread is 72mm and the internal filter thread diameter is 55mm. I did attach an older 55mm filter I had laying around and it allowed me to attach the larger 72mm hood over it at the same time, which is handy. I’m not sure all 55mm filters will work. If they are too large of a shoulder, it might interfere with the hood.Update: I have a second problem. The 3 screws on the back of the lens are loose (see picture), which also causes some of the jiggling of the lens as these screws hold the Canon EOS interface mount to the body of the lens. When I tighten these screws to remove the slack, it makes it almost impossible to turn the f-stop ring. If I left these screws untightened, I think they would eventually loosen completely and fall out. If I were unlucky, it might happen when I was removing the lens, and a small screw could fall into the body of the camera. I contacted Lightdow about both of these problems, including sending pictures, and the only response I got was this was something that was within normal engineering tolerances. I could live with the slot problem, but not the 3 loose screws and unusable f-stop ring.Second Update: I put the lens on a bench and loosened the screws on the mount and then gently tightened them to ensure the mount was sitting evenly on the lens. After that, I rotated the f-stop ring about 50 times. It eventually started to move more freely. After that, I finished tightening the screws and did about 50 more rotations of the f-stop ring. It can now by rotated freely. I am guessing there was some kind of edge or loose piece of plastic flashing of the f-stop ring. I note that the detents on the f-stop ring are sloppy. I still have the problem of the lens not having a tight fit on the camera which is not fixable. You can tell the lens will not be tight on the camera because the plastic rear lens cap fits loosely. On all my other Canon and Canon-compatible lenses, the rear lens cap has a close fit and is not loose. I have had additional communications with Lightdow, so they are at least responsive. It seems they have some basic QC or design issues on the mechanical side of things.Final Update: Lightdow was pretty good about responding to my issues. They offered a partial refund, which I accepted. As a result, I decided to keep the lens as I kind of liked the optics. I think with a little bit of QC and re-engineering, they could easily fix these problems.P.S. Most users probably realize this, but the 85mm focal length is with respect to a full-frame sensor. On a cropped sensor camera that uses a APS-C sensor, such as a Canon Rebel camera, this lens behaves more like a 135mm lens. To get the same field of view that you would expect with a 85mm portrait lens on a full-frame camera, you have to move farther away from the subject. This also affects depth of field (it increases depth of field, which means less Bokeh with cropped sensor camera compared to a full-frame sensor).

Reviewer: John D. Erickson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good for what it is
Review: This is a good lens in the image. Quality is fantastic. The build will maybe it could use some work because mine was stuck and needed Force to get it to adjust at first. Now is very smooth and works good but it snapped inside when I first tried freeing it from it s stuck position when I first got it. It’s easy to use if you know how to use a manual focus lens. It fits any EF Mount. The pictures are clear.I spoke with the manufacturer about this and they gave me a discount because of that problem with that lens. So it’s all good.

Reviewer: Sade E
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I am submitting photos because I wish I saw more photos
Review: Sharing photos in my review because when I was deciding I wish I saw better photos of the lens so I hope this helps someone else make their decision. I am in love with this lens. I’ve owned the Canon 70-200mm (three times), Tamron 70-200mm (twice) and they all had to be returned because they were just too heavy. I wanted a lens that was incredibly light weight (since I were heels everyday) and a lens that gave the same quality (bokeh, sharpness, effects). I love the manual setting because I have 100% full control. It fits perfectly with my canon 6D. The clarity is great once you edit the photos for enhancement. The sharpness is also great when you edit. I hope this was helpful. Take care.

Reviewer: mourin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Super merci

Reviewer: Pasquale
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Lente totalmente manuale, fa il suo lavoro, non adatta ai scatti ravvicinati

Reviewer: Ronah Warren
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I actually like the quality not sure why it has to many bad reviews. I own a Canon 90D and bought this to practice portraits. I already own the 50mm lens from Canon but only wanting to try this. Superb delivery arrived the next day.

Reviewer: ﾄﾓｻﾝ
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: ニコンの古いカメラが遊んでましたので、前後ボケや玉ボケを楽しむに面白いレンズでした。マニュアルモードで距離、シャッタースピード、ISO調整等、自分のボケ防止に役立ってます(笑)

Reviewer: edgardo romo muñoz
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: El lente me llegó sin funda.

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