Nikon AF-S 40mm f2.8G DX Micro

A Compact DX-Format Macro lens – Nikon AF-S 40mm f2.8G DX Micro

Suitable for use on your Nikon DX-Format DSLR, this Nikon macro lens is excellent for detailed, close-up images. Offering a 35mm equivalent focal length of 60mm, this lens is great for insects, flowers and food photography, but can also be used to photograph subjects that are further in the distance, making it excellent for portraits.

16cm Close focus, 1.0X Magnification & bright f2.8 aperture
The Nikon AF-s 40mm f2.8 microlens is a real joy to carry around your garden and photograph close-up images of flowers and insects. With a 1x magnification ratio and 16cm closest focus, this lens awards you with the ability to capture detailed images of small objects that you encounter, exploring a whole new miniature world that lives around you.
With a bright f2.8 aperture and construction featuring a rounded 7-blade diaphragm, the 40mm Micro can blur out the backgrounds of your photos for dramatic effects and these out of focus areas are rendered with a beautiful and natural appearance. This quality is vital for dramatic macro photography, but also a much-loved tool of portrait photographers.

Smooth and quiet autofocus for stills & video
With its built-in Silent Wave Motor the autofocus of the 40mm f2.8 microlens is smooth, fast and exceptionally quiet. If you wish to photograph objects that are on the move, the lens can achieve focus before they wriggle off and there will not be any ‘focus sounds’ to draw attention to you and your camera. This quiet feature along with the smoothness of the focus motor is extremely handy when shooting videos with your Nikon DSLR and this Nikon 40mm f2.8G DX microlens.