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Nikon 50mm f/1.4 Ai-s : Specifications and Opinions

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The Nikon 50mm f/1.4 Ai-s is a standard lens for FF and APS-C, manufactured from 1981 (discontinued). The focus is done by Manual Focus, it does not have image stabilization. The average price, when it has been added to the JuzaPhoto database, is €;

27 users have given it an average vote of 9.8 out of 10.

Specifications
Focal lenght	50 mm
Angle of view	46.8°
Format	FF, APS-C
Max. aperture	f/1.4
Aperture blades
Lenses/Groups	7 elements in 6 groups
Min. focus distance	0.45 meters
Reproduction ratio
Features
Stabilization	No
Focus	Manual Focus
Internal AF	No
Full Time MF	Yes
Built and notes
Tripod ring	No
Extenders	No
Filters	52 mm
Lens hood	Yes (not supplied)
Weather sealing	No
Weight	249 g
Dimensions	50 x 63 mm
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The following opinions have been automatically translated with Google Translate.

Il Santo

sent on May 22, 2021

Pros: Metal and glass - Optical quality (stopped a bit)

Cons: Don't have it.

Opinion: What I can do with it: 50mm is my passion. I own three and I use all three. Nikkor Ai 50mm1.4, Nikkor Afd 50mm1.8 and Olympus OM 50mm1.4. The Nikkor 50mm1.4 has good optical performance if stopped a little. At the end of the opening the vignetting becomes evident, has a discreet coma and the contrast drops a lot. Between f.2 and f.4 it improves suddenly and at f.5.6 reaches its maximum. It is a pleasure to use it, especially on mirrorless and especially in B/N. Built as a tank, as they used to be built, it does not clutter the bag for excursions where lightness becomes fundamental. It always returns well-balanced images such as colors and contrast and great tonal passages in B/N. It has a very pleasant blurry and the sharpness is as satisfying as the feeling of use. Bought on the baya at a price that screamed buy me, in conditions as new. I still have to whip him well but the warnings of the first shots promise well. Happy to own it even more than to use it.

Gian Carlo F

sent on March 04, 2021

Pros: beautiful, like all AI-AIS, crisp, beautiful blurry, compact and light

Cons: what more could be expected?

Opinion: Optics just taken. I'm using it on Sony A7rII A nice 50mm very bright, manual focus hard to fault. Certainly an ART (which I had and appreciated very much, the best optics I have ever had) does better, especially at t.a. but this behaves very well and at 1.4 it is still very usable, let's consider then that it weighs 1/2 kg less and clutters half..... Its strength, at least for me, in addition to the mechanical and optical quality, is the charm it exerts, as well as all the Nikkors of the golden age ..... that I always regret a lot. For me they are real "creatures"

Massimogreco

sent on March 23, 2020

Pros: Light, small, blurred by fear, iron and glass, opening, minimum distance

Cons: Nothing

Opinion: Taken for my Nikon FE2, the lens is great for portraits with a fantastic pdc also due to the very small minimum distance. To the touch gives excellent sensations thanks to the materials used. 50mm higher than version 1.8 ais and version 1.8 D, the latter newer but with a lot of plastic and a lower yield. Very recommended.

Natino

sent on February 22, 2020

Pros: Old-fashioned optics, sturdy, beautiful. Solid. Great from f/2 up

Cons: A f/1.4 I find it inuable !

Opinion: What about... Had. Sold. Bought back. Resold. Personal opinion: Unfortunately at TA I find it too soft and with a bokeh a little kneaded and nervous. almost swirly. From f/2 up it gets great. But then it would be worth taking the 50/1.8. Unfortunately I was not excited about digital (I used it on Fuji XH1 and various other fuji bodies). I'm going to take it back to try it on Sony A7 III. But if I were to cast my vote for my own experience (unless my specimen was defective) it would not exceed 7. Both the first and second lenses tested. I will update the review as soon as I find it and try it on A7.

Giulianophoto

sent on August 29, 2018

Pros: Quality, construction of other times, blurred, price.

Cons: Nothing

Opinion: I'm using it on D800 and on XT2 and I find it fantastic with a construction of other times... at F/2 is already ultra sharp even on dense modern sensors with shadows very open, fully usable even TA correcting some aberrations in post. Thanks to the focus peak of the XT2 focusing is easy, while on the D800 is a bit ' harder to get it at 1.4. For the price to which it is located is a great purchase, especially for the mirrorless world which facilitates so much on manual focus. Too bad the presence of only 7 blades in the diaphragm, but the blur is excellent the same.

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