In article <502na4$kkb@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, smcti@aol.com says...

>Any advice on the best price/perfomance portrait lense from Nikon. Past or
>present auto or manual focus 85 or 105mm. Thanks!

It would be hard to go wrong with any Nikkor in the 85-105mm range.
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