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Nikon 50mm f/1.4D AF Nikkor
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Date of last review
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4095
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Thu May 24, 2007
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Recommended By
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Average Price
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Average Rating
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No recommendations
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$240.00
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6.0
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Description:
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From Nikon's website description:
"Fast enough for shooting in just about any type of light. Distortion-free images with superb resolution and color rendition. An ideal first lens, perfect for full-length portraits, travel photography or any type of available-light shooting. Accepts 52mm filters."
For additional information, follow this link:
http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php...productNr=1902
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Keywords:
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CA problems with Nikon's fast standard AF lens
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Author
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Richard_Coyle
Premium Lifetime Member
Registered: November 2001
Location: Lake County, Illinois
Posts: 548
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Review Date: Thu May 24, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: $240.00
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Pros:
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Small, light-weight lens that's sharp and fast , with excellent contrast and color rendering.
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Cons:
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Excessive CA from f1.4 to f5.6 in tested sample gives it a "qualified" recommendation.
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Since this lens has been reviewed extensively elsewhere by many experts over the years, my comments will be confined to the issue of "CA" or chromatic aberration. Recently, I have found considerable variability in the quality of Nikkor lenses, mainly regarding excessive CA. In some cases this is due to the designs inherent in the lens. However, in my experience, it seems to occur only in recently manufactured lenses I've sampled in the last 1 1/2 years, and is more likely attributed to poor production quality control. This is supported by my testing of identical lenses where recent serial number samples showed excessive CA, and prior production samples showed none. The sample of this lens being reviewed is a "prime" example.
When testing this lens, it was compared with other similar focal length lenses, both prime and zoom, at the lowest (maximum) aperture each could obtain. Then they were tested at the same lowest(maximum) aperture for a true comparison. Other lenses used included the 60mm f2.8 micro, the 18-70 DX zoom, and the 28-70 f2.8 zoom. While the 50mm f1.4D AF showed excessive CA from f1.4 to f5.6, the only other lens to show any CA in these tests was the 60mm at f2.8, which was only slight, and this was essentially gone by f4.0. The 50mm continued to show CA at f4.0 to f5.6. Supersize the above stained glass image to see the excessive CA.
While the CA wasn't a factor beyond f5.6, from my perspective, the principle reason to purchase this lens is for the fast, maximum aperture of f1.4. And while the CA at wider apertures could be removed by software in many cases, in others, it was too extreme to obtain proper post processing results. From my experience in these comparisons, anyone considering this lens should test several samples to determine whether or not any of them provide acceptable performance, particularly regarding the presence of CA.
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