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When Nikon announced its Nikkor 50mm F1.4 lens earlier this year, the company implied that it and its 35mm sibling prioritized character over absolute sharpness, unlike Nikon’s ‘S’ series lenses.
To get a sense of what that means, we’ve shot a sample gallery with it, including a few series of images that illustrate its vignetting and longitudinal chromatic aberration performance at different apertures.
This isn’t a lens review by any means, but it’s clear that wide open, the 50mm F1.4 has a lot of vignetting and longitudinal chromatic aberration. Whether that’s a good or a bad thing likely depends on whether you view those as character or flaws. However, its price is less subjective: the 50mm F1.4 retails for $496, around $130 less than Nikon’s slower 50mm F1.8 S model.
If you want to see how it compares to Nikon’s 50mm F1.4 from the DSLR age, we’ve done a comparison article, which you can read here.
Click here to see the sample gallery
Our DPREVIEW Tribute:
After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview closed on 10 April 2023. This difficult decision was part of the annual operating plan review that parent company, Amazon, shared earlier this year.
Over the course of 25 years, DP Review built up a reputation as being one of the most informative places to go for information about that new camera or lens you’re after. DP Review began as an independent reviews site based in the UK in 1998, the brainchild of Philip and Joanna Askey, but it was eventually purchased by Amazon in 2007 and relocated over to Seattle in the USA in 2010.
Cheers DPReview – thanks for the great work and content that guided photographers, videographers and techno junkies the world over!