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The lens you have chosen will work perfectly fine, without autofocus. Many of nikon's best lenses do not feature AF-S drive motors, the one's that do are too expensive, IMO. You will not have to use manual settings other than focusing manually, which isn't a big deal. The lens will still couple and meter with the camera with no problem. AF lenses without a focus limiter can be tedious in low light conditions, if you had the ability to autofocus them with your camera. I use AF lenses all the time with my D80, and even though I have the in body AF drive, I use manual focus instead. I don't care for how some AF lenses hunt from infinity to close, nor the sound it makes when it does. The 85mm f/1.8 has great, if not the best optics for its price and size, you should be more concerned with that aspect than autofocus, IMO.
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A word of advice also, keep your aperture ring set to f/16 and locked, otherwise your camera will go nuts, then error out [fee]. The lock will only engage if set to f/16 and the camera will automatically set it, so leave it set to f/16 (for the camera's sake)
(personal experience with a 50mm f/1.8)
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