Call me a curmudgeon but I view my lenses like I view my shoes (boots); once I find a comfy pair I stay in them for years. One of my absolute favorite lens’s is an old Nikkor 135mm 1.8, it’s a manual from the early 1960′s but its sharp as a knife so I see no reason to get rid of it just yet.
Today I tried on a new pair of shoes and I like ‘em. My new Nikkor 50mm F/1.4 D AF arrived. Let me tell you that this fast fixed standard is worth every penny. Unless I am in the studio you will usually find some sort of telephoto lens on my camera as I hate being locked into one focal length. However with a kid on the move and many of my subjects in dimly lit locations, this 1.4 is killer for capturing properly exposed images low light situations. I was also impressed with how fast this lens finds its focus. With a minimum focus distance of 16″ you wont get any macro action with this but thats not what its all about.
Nikkor 50mm F/1.4 D AF Test Shot
Unfortunately I don’t have scads of time tonight to do test shoots with this baby. So I took a few pics around the house. This one really shows off what you can do in a low light hand held situation. It was shot at ISO 400 f/1.4 at 1/25 sec. The sharpness of this lens and the minimal depth of field is exploited in this shot.
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