For various reasons, 4 copies of this lens passed through me. Experience in total - more than 5 years. The carcasses on which he worked for me: d90, d300s (two copies), d7000, d800. Yes, I have it on staff. And I'm the same person who can "zoom with his feet", and I also have enough of its width in the room. He does not have a hood, but there is no need for it either. So this is not a plus, not a minus, just a fact. With non-crooked hands, you can learn to catch their focus in the back on a…

everyone compares it with 1.4, which constantly wins, but in fact, sometimes 1.8 wins it (in terms of speed and some backlight conditions)! before, the choice was obvious = 1,8, but today they are very close to 1,4 in price, so it might really be worth taking 1,4 as the first lens, but if you already have 1,8, you should not change the awl for soap and shoot at 50 f1.8

The lens was bought, I will not hide it, for its price - 4K money in total. Competitor 1.4D cost 2.5 times more, and the new 1.4G cost 4 times more. Lives on D700. I tried it "for starters" to decide on further needs and . perhaps I won't change it. Maybe - on the older 1.4D, but only because of the better design (less plastic). Comparing them directly gives reason to believe that they are equivalent in terms of image quality: equally low distortion and aberration, equally low "hares", the…

I bought a new one for 3700r, for such an amount the lens is gorgeous, it focuses quickly, a good picture for this money, nice bokeh, but up to 2.8 it lathers a lot, but since it costs a penny, it’s forgivable. Due to its structure, 1.8D on cropped cameras with large contrast in the frame gives out a blue circle in the middle of the frame, the more the aperture is closed, the better this circle becomes visible, it becomes denser, but smaller. It becomes well noticeable with F \ 8, but this is…

The lens is "friendly" with any Nikon digital SLR camera with a nikon F mount, that is, on both younger and older DX cameras, in any case, you get both exposure metering and other semi- and automatic shooting modes, but you need to focus on younger cameras handles. I don't consider this a disadvantage. 1.8 working, I would say that a lens with a search is sharp for a fifty dollars, or maybe I'm exaggerating a little, but it's quite possible to catch something in focus in LV from a monitor, and

I bought it for myself 2 months after buying the camera. As a beginner who has previously shot only with ultrasonics and soap dishes, I will say that the lens is magnificent! In skillful hands, you can get great shots, and a beginner will be able to learn well from it, and, perhaps, even continue to shoot with it, if there is no urgent desire to get an even faster fix.) Having bought it and put it on the camera, the whale 18-55 was practically not used further (only if when autofocus is…

To the full, very much even to myself such a FIX from NIKKOR ! which you need to have in your arsenal, especially for those who need money)). Makes you see the "photo" in all its glory and remember the b/w film in "SMENE-6(8M)"! It will immediately become clear what aperture (f) and shutter speed (ISO) are. Cramped in the Soviet "Khrushchev" (this is not a drawback, this is a feature of its FR). When buying, I strongly recommend checking for B / F focus and all sorts of perspective distortions.

I bought to shoot a baby, without a flash. From the flash, they have a clouding of the lens and other troubles. So, in order not to write too much: I also thought that his sharpness starts from aperture 4, etc. Nothing like that. It was just necessary to adjust the back focus in the fotik. The fact is that at aperture 1.8 there is a very shallow depth of field, and the slightest mistake leads to blurring. Now everything is fine at 1.8. So, before scolding, check your camera + lens combination…

An excellent lens, I think that all beginners should have it. Allows you to feel the difference between a dark whale lens (18-55). It is convenient to take with you, does not lead to dark rooms, allows you to set ISO 800 without particularly noticeable noise. almost as good as its older brother af-s nikkor 50 / 1.4, and the difference in money is decent. Gives the most beautiful bokeh with low depth of field.

It makes no sense to buy on a crop - an inconvenient focal length. The picture is nicer at full frame, but the AF50 f/1.4 is still better. On younger carcasses, by the way, autofocus will not work. True, the low price allows you to buy and try it yourself. In the end, fast glass in the economy will not be superfluous. Oh yes, another advantage - the lens does not need a hood, the front lens sits very deep.

I bought to shoot a child, before that the d60 didn’t shoot much, I liked the pictures, I got involved. Of course, there are more expensive ones and with a motor, but it’s better to aim manually, because. firstly, there is a rangefinder and eyes, and secondly, you choose the focus point yourself. I tried to shoot them on the d90 with autofocus - I like the result less. IMHO it is with such a lens that it becomes clear what a DSLR is capable of. Excellent purchase!

A great way to look at the world of photography with different eyes for little money. $150 is a normal price, excellent value for money. Worth every penny invested. After the whale 18-105, you have to reconsider the capabilities of the camera for the better. Works on a screwdriver (D7000) quickly, clearly and silently. The purchase is completely satisfied.

According to statistics, this lens is overwhelmingly the first on the camera after the whale, and I am no exception! In comparison with the "whale", this lens, with skillful use, allows you to make portraits on the street of a sufficiently high quality, incomparable with the "whale". Due to the stronger blurring of the background, it gives the photo a volume, which is more important in the "street" portrait, even the light is inferior to it in importance (in the studio, on the contrary). A…

This is the second "fifty dollars" that passed through my hands. the first was a "Chinese" . I almost got disappointed . I spat and swore at what the world was worth . no sharpness, no focus . all dangling, although it was still new (less than 2 years old). In the ads I came across the same, advanced age, but "Japanese". The very first five or ten test shots and I fell in love with it . I didn’t notice a big difference in image sharpness compared to 18-105. Just beautiful bokeh in portrait…

Everyone writes about ugly chopped bokeh. I don't know, I really like bokeh. If you do not engage in photo-onanism and do not examine the pictures pixel by pixel, then you will never notice the so-called "nuts" in your photos. I don’t understand those people who attribute the lack of a built-in focus motor to the disadvantages. This is a technical feature of this lens. The same thing, if we attribute the disadvantage of a manual gearbox of a car, instead of an automatic one. Carefully read the

Didn't like the lens. Maybe he gives a good picture when he hits the target (and this does not always happen even on the top-end Nikon D750), but working with him is simply unpleasant. Firstly, when focusing, the lens makes a very nasty and loud noise, constantly idling the focus back and forth, while slowing down in extreme positions with some kind of bumps and pops. Focus is slow and often misses - somewhere in 1 case out of 10 (whale 24-120 F4 probably misses 1 out of 200). Thus, as a light…

It was bought by a second lens for a whale 18-105, on D90 for a specific purpose - macro photography. An additional set of macro rings without lenses was purchased, that is, focusing in the full manual. I must say, my expectations were fully justified! The background is blurred to a wadded uniform state, I saw this only on expensive macro lenses with a cost that is not compatible with such a ridiculous price - 3900 glass is new in the store and a set of rings for 900. If you get into focus…