The 85mm 1.8g is a lens with many strengths and few weaknesses.
Let's start with the positive aspects.
The lens makes outwardly a very high-quality impression. Although the outer part made of plastic, but has the distinct advantages. On the one hand it makes the lens very easy to continue to protect the internal components may better plastic. (Unlike metal deformations are here not permanently, falls without too much pain.)
The lens is easy to hold and the focus ring runs very precise and perfectly.
Now for the optical properties. I have the lens each used a few months on the D7000 and the D600. The performance characteristics were confirmed in both formats, so that I summarize below.
The image quality of 85mm 1.8g is consistently exceptional.
Colors, contrasts and dynamics are at a very high level, there is no distortion and chromatic aberration indeed occurs, but can be subsequently very easily and cleanly removed. I have already clearly seen worse.
The sharpness is excellent. Even at full aperture already. At f / 2.8 the lens clearly has once again increased - On the D600 I use it so prefers and from f / 4 is the sharpness almost unnecessarily high.
The bokeh is considered soft and beautiful, otherwise comes only equal much more expensive 85mm 1.4g with, third party have no chance. (I was able to test all the alternatives)
But we turn again to possible weaknesses.
On the one hand there are the aforementioned CA (color bleeding), which then become unfavorable in the open aperture, if the images are to be used without post processing, but only in large print formats.
For small and medium-sized print formats are however to neglect entirely.
A second problem is the auto focus. There is indeed much slower models, but for the sports sector, the 85mm 1.8g is almost useless. Although the focus sits precisely when he met once, but he is looking too much and simply does not access fast enough, especially when the iris of 1.8-2.5.
For portraits it is more than sufficient in every situation, but action photography is not the power of the lens.
Finally, I would like to touch on how the lens actually makes in the field.
I myself use the lens giving priority for portraits, but it is (on FX) not too long to be used as "Always top". In the Street- / people photography in landscapes, nature and wildlife photography, the lens makes always excellent, so I could not fault it, even if I wanted to.
In portrait field course the lens on top form runs on and delivered the best results to date, I can show, so I can call them without a doubt one of the best optics, with whom I've ever worked with.
Despite the two mentioned minuses I give the lens five stars and recommend it almost without restriction, not least because of the breathtaking price for the performance offered simply should sweep away all doubts. Unless you're a sports photographer - Then they attack probably already rather high quality telephoto zoom.
