This innovative lens has become a favorite among portrait photographers due to its excellent image quality, pleasing 105mm angle-of-view, fast f/2 maxium aperture and exclusive Defocus Image Control feature, which lets you selectively soften the focus in background or foreground elements. Expand your creativity with this remarkable prime lens.
Nikon's exclusive Defocus Image Control (DC) feature allows you to control the degree of soft focus in the foreground or background of a composition. Use this creative control to make your subjects stand out from their background to softly blur elements in the foreground.
With a medium-telephoto 105mm angle-of-view and a fast f/2 maximum aperture, the AF DC-NIKKOR 105mm f/2 is an ideal portrait lens. Its fast maximum aperture delivers beautiful natural background blur (bokeh) and enables dramatic low-light shooting. And because it's a NIKKOR, you can expect consistently stunning images in nearly any setting.
A-M stands for Auto-Manual Mode. Thanks to a mechanism incorporated in the lens barrel, smooth focusing operation in Manual focus mode is realized in the same way as users have become accustomed to with conventional manual-focus lenses by adding an appropriate torque to the focus ring.
A system in which only the rear lens group moves during focusing, thus eliminating changes in the physical length of the lens during focusing and enabling faster focusing. Such lenses are designated with RF on the lens barrel.