ByNikonina N.I've always wanted to own an f1.2 lens and I don't mind if it's manual focus for the sole purpose of shooting candid portraits in low light situation without the option of speedlights. I've spent days trying to mine this lens and finally after all the searching, I finally found a very mint one. The build quality is superb. It is rock solid and sure it's gonna last for years. It looks like the crystal clear glass and high grade metal body are both machined out from Nikon's factory to be a clas.
Shallow depth of field? It seems everyone wants and often gets fixated on achieving that amazing look when shooting wide open. Distinguished by its speed, the NIKKOR 50mm f/1.2 from Nikon is a manual focus prime featuring a versatile normal focal length. Well-suited to portraiture, among other subjects, the impressive f/1.2 maximum aperture excels in low-light conditions and also offers greater control over depth of field for using selective focus.
Sic masterpiece lens. Shooting portraits at its widest aperture of f1.2 produces stunning, dreamy, soft, heavenly and ethereal looking photos I've seen so far. That is what the flavour of the lens offers. One of my friends said that my portraits look classic as the one she saw in Time and Life magazines.=) what a nice compliment. I don't really recommend using this lens on a bright and sunny condition since modern DSLR's CMOS & CCD sensors are highly reflective and sensitive to light and to this bright lens leaving you overexpose images.
Use this lens indoors, on overcast days, early morning and late afternoon shots and you'll be astounded by its capabilities. Highly recommended for normal lens shooting. It's not intimidating on streets photography as well thus subjects will appear calm and relax. ByBenjaminRI purchased this lens back in March because I 'needed' an f/1.2 lens. I've been eyeing this one for a while.
I found it used for a price I could not pass up.If you're used to shooting AF, it will take a while to get used to this lens. The in-focus indicator (found on modern cameras) does work with this lens and you have to almost totally rely on it. When shooting wide upen, the DoF is so shallow that it is nearly impossible to just eyeball the focus-which is ok. Contrary to one of the prev. Ious reviews, I shoot this lens with a D300 and I have had no noticable chromatic aberration but that is probably because it is a newer DSLR with better image processing.I'm currently taking a portrait/fashion photography class and this is the lens I use 95% of the time as is perfect for what we do.
My instructor has even commented about the quality of images coming from this glass. The bokeh (wide-open), contrast and sharpness of this lens (stopped-down) are fantastic. The ONLY other thing I could ask for is AF, but that's only because I've only ever shot AF up until I bought this lens and I've been spoiled.As for the handling, this appears to be a very solid lens. It's a little heavy for 50mm but that's only because it's got a lot of serious glass inside. The focus ring feels great and is very smooth. I wish the AF lenses felt this good when operating manually. The aperture ring is ok.
Since this is an all-manual lens, with aperture increments in 1 stop, it makes it a little difficult to precisely stop down at 1/3 stop increments. I'm sure this isn't an issue for those who are used to shooting with older, all manual lenses, however.In conclusion, if I had to give up all but one of my lenses, I would probably keep this one. If you could only have one prime, this should be it. Ethereal LensI've always wanted to own an f1.2 lens and I don't mind if it's manual focus for the sole purpose of shooting candid portraits in low light situation without the option of speedlights. I've spent days trying to mine this lens and finally after all the searching, I finally found a very mint one. The build quality is superb. It is rock solid and sure it's gonna last for years.
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It looks like the crystal clear glass and high grade metal body are both machined out from Nikon's factory to be a clas. Sic masterpiece lens. Shooting portraits at its widest aperture of f1.2 produces stunning, dreamy, soft, heavenly and ethereal looking photos I've seen so far. That is what the flavour of the lens offers. One of my friends said that my portraits look classic as the one she saw in Time and Life magazines.=) what a nice compliment.
I don't really recommend using this lens on a bright and sunny condition since modern DSLR's CMOS & CCD sensors are highly reflective and sensitive to light and to this bright lens leaving you overexpose images. Use this lens indoors, on overcast days, early morning and late afternoon shots and you'll be astounded by its capabilities. Highly recommended for normal lens shooting. It's not intimidating on streets photography as well thus subjects will appear calm and relax.
ByNikonina N.I've always wanted to own an f1.2 lens and I don't mind if it's manual focus for the sole purpose of shooting candid portraits in low light situation without the option of speedlights. I've spent days trying to mine this lens and finally after all the searching, I finally found a very mint one. The build quality is superb. It is rock solid and sure it's gonna last for years. It looks like the crystal clear glass and high grade metal body are both machined out from Nikon's factory to be a clas. Sic masterpiece lens. Shooting portraits at its widest aperture of f1.2 produces stunning, dreamy, soft, heavenly and ethereal looking photos I've seen so far.
That is what the flavour of the lens offers. One of my friends said that my portraits look classic as the one she saw in Time and Life magazines.=) what a nice compliment.
I don't really recommend using this lens on a bright and sunny condition since modern DSLR's CMOS & CCD sensors are highly reflective and sensitive to light and to this bright lens leaving you overexpose images. Use this lens indoors, on overcast days, early morning and late afternoon shots and you'll be astounded by its capabilities.
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Highly recommended for normal lens shooting. It's not intimidating on streets photography as well thus subjects will appear calm and relax. ByBenjaminRI purchased this lens back in March because I 'needed' an f/1.2 lens. I've been eyeing this one for a while. I found it used for a price I could not pass up.If you're used to shooting AF, it will take a while to get used to this lens. The in-focus indicator (found on modern cameras) does work with this lens and you have to almost totally rely on it. When shooting wide upen, the DoF is so shallow that it is nearly impossible to just eyeball the focus-which is ok.
Contrary to one of the prev. Ious reviews, I shoot this lens with a D300 and I have had no noticable chromatic aberration but that is probably because it is a newer DSLR with better image processing.I'm currently taking a portrait/fashion photography class and this is the lens I use 95% of the time as is perfect for what we do. My instructor has even commented about the quality of images coming from this glass. The bokeh (wide-open), contrast and sharpness of this lens (stopped-down) are fantastic. The ONLY other thing I could ask for is AF, but that's only because I've only ever shot AF up until I bought this lens and I've been spoiled.As for the handling, this appears to be a very solid lens.
It's a little heavy for 50mm but that's only because it's got a lot of serious glass inside. The focus ring feels great and is very smooth. I wish the AF lenses felt this good when operating manually. The aperture ring is ok. Since this is an all-manual lens, with aperture increments in 1 stop, it makes it a little difficult to precisely stop down at 1/3 stop increments. I'm sure this isn't an issue for those who are used to shooting with older, all manual lenses, however.In conclusion, if I had to give up all but one of my lenses, I would probably keep this one. If you could only have one prime, this should be it.
Ethereal LensI've always wanted to own an f1.2 lens and I don't mind if it's manual focus for the sole purpose of shooting candid portraits in low light situation without the option of speedlights. I've spent days trying to mine this lens and finally after all the searching, I finally found a very mint one. The build quality is superb.
It is rock solid and sure it's gonna last for years. It looks like the crystal clear glass and high grade metal body are both machined out from Nikon's factory to be a clas. Sic masterpiece lens. Shooting portraits at its widest aperture of f1.2 produces stunning, dreamy, soft, heavenly and ethereal looking photos I've seen so far. That is what the flavour of the lens offers. One of my friends said that my portraits look classic as the one she saw in Time and Life magazines.=) what a nice compliment. I don't really recommend using this lens on a bright and sunny condition since modern DSLR's CMOS & CCD sensors are highly reflective and sensitive to light and to this bright lens leaving you overexpose images.
Use this lens indoors, on overcast days, early morning and late afternoon shots and you'll be astounded by its capabilities. Highly recommended for normal lens shooting. It's not intimidating on streets photography as well thus subjects will appear calm and relax.