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There is a whole book that can be written about it. The short version is that the main effect is to change the magnification in a non-linear manner as you focus. Nearly all lenses have this effect (the lack of it is one of the things that make really expensive lenses cost several £k), and the...

Exactly! I tend to shoot macro with 5.6 and up anyway - experiment with f32 - you can get great macro shots - honestly. I think they stopped making the zoom in about 2004, so it'd have to be second hand; my local Nikon dealer often have a refurbished one in stock, and, unless you can stretch to...

If you can find the 70-180 f4.5-5.6 AF-D, I'd go with that. It should be only very slightly more expensive than the 105 if you shop around. It's much older of course, but there's no focus breathing and the 180 length means you can get true macro from a lot further away from your subject, meaning...

I tried this lens, and while it's great as a general purpose lens, I wouldn't recommend it for purely macro use - there's a lot of focus breathing, which is a real pita if your subject moves (even a little bit). There's a lot that's positive, but since the size of the image changes as you pull...