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A collection of my portraits (from late Nov ’24 to Apr ’25) created with the Nikon 200mm f\/2 VR.\u00a0 This lens was designed for sports photography, but seriously, it’s one of the best portrait lenses due to its clarity and rendering of backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikon 200mm f\/2 VR and D40 and D600 | One of the best portrait lenses ever created<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A collection of my portraits (from late Nov ’24 to Apr ’25) created with the Nikon 200mm f\/2 VR.\u00a0 This lens was designed for sports photography, but seriously, it’s one of the best portrait lenses due to its clarity and rendering of backgrounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[363,173,37,170],"class_list":{"0":"post-102705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-photos","8":"tag-200mm-f-2","9":"tag-color","10":"tag-nikon","11":"tag-portraits","13":"post-with-thumbnail","14":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Nikon-200mm-f2-Portraits-2025-05-03-001-Boon-Vong.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelE0-qIx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":101559,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/nikon-200mm-f-2g-vr-spring-blossoms-and-portraits\/","url_meta":{"origin":102705,"position":0},"title":"Nikon 200mm f\/2G VR – Spring Blossoms and Portraits","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"April 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"What an outrageous combo the D700 and 200mm f\/2 is! 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It\u2019s a heavy relic from the early days of DSLR imaging, announced in May of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Gear and Resources"","block_context":{"text":"Gear and Resources","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/category\/gear\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Nikon-200mm-f2-VR-Review-2024-010_b-vong.com_Boon-Vong.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Nikon-200mm-f2-VR-Review-2024-010_b-vong.com_Boon-Vong.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Nikon-200mm-f2-VR-Review-2024-010_b-vong.com_Boon-Vong.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":98519,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/canon-r8-nikon-105mm-f-1-4-vs-nikon-d700-200mm-f-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":102705,"position":2},"title":"Canon R8 + Nikon 105mm f\/1.4E vs Nikon D700 + 200mm f\/2G","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"February 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I have enough material from work level stuff to post this quick comparison.\u00a0 Not to show which one is \"better,\" but to just simply show the image rendering and bokeh that one can get with these two setups. 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