[Don Hoey]

Alex,

Ha.ha. Googling for info and I saw your post on APUG.
This may help. The lens has a minimum focus of 2.5mtrs. I have just tried my Nikon 200 on a full frame camera and at that minimum distance against a tape measure you will get 46 inches wide in frame.

I have no idea how that lens performs at minimum distance. May be good, maybe not. I'll example that with my Nikkor 105mm f2.5. Stunning beyond 18ft but not so closer, and that has a minimum focussing distance of 1mtr.

In your position I would be looking at the 85mm f2. I would expect that to be well corrected for near use and useable at f2 for nicely blown background.

Of course there is also the 135mm f2.8 or f3.5 that may be worth checking out as they have closer focussing distance than the 200mm.
135mm at min distance against a tape measure will get 38 inches wide in frame.

Don