On Mon, 09 Nov 1998 20:56:28 +0000, RD wrote:

>If you presently own this lens, I would appreciate any feedback and
>reaction you have as to its capacity as a close up lens and as a quasi
>portrait lens.
>
>I've notice that there is no ED or Aspherical elements in it and wonder
>if that absence hurts it, especially in close up work.

There have been a few different versions...
"ED" and "aspheric-elements" are best left to good
lens designers, not ad-copy writers... (ED glass
isn't needed with short, slow lenses, and aspherics
help only to reduce the number of elements needed for
a given level of image quality). As to the Nikkor
105mm macro lenses, I think you will find them all
fine for your purposes. (BTW, you can find a Nikkor
evaluation list on my web page, under "I babble"...)