You can watch the video review here (on my new YouTube channel) or in the window above. Many thanks to Vladimir Morgunov for helping create the video review.
The text version of the review Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm 1: 1.4G SWM has long been here.
This time Volodya shot using a three-axis electronic stabilizer, a Sony a7s camera (ILCE-7S), a Samyang 35mm T1.5 VDSLR AS UMC lens (with a Nikon F - Sony E adapter) and a Sennheiser EW 122P G3 radio system with additional tricky goodies: ).
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Thank you for attention. Arkady Shapoval.
A review of a person who has long been disappointed in Nikon, but continues to shoot on Nikon due to the complexity of changing the system, cannot be considered completely honest. ;) If you read other old reviews, it turns out that some of the old autofocus okolopoltinniks even cause the author much more enthusiasm than this 1.8G. For those unfamiliar with the psychological state of Arkady, this may be misunderstood, for myself, I just introduced a correction in my mind. :)
Sometimes I am amazed how many people can decrypt themselves :)
There are worse cases. :) Arkady, well, this is a good lens for your money. After your review, I looked at the prices for 58mm and Sigma Poltos Art (like not giving up 1.4G) and decided well it tries, dubious advantages at a much higher price. Focusing is slow, I agree. But for the dynamics, you can put another one, f / 1.4 is not needed for it, a normal zoom is enough. I’m not talking about Nikon’s making it all, but about what you can love and what you have, and in the hands of others, the “root crop” is thicker. I hope you understand me, and this does not only apply to the photo. No offense.
We ourselves have repeatedly been reminded that in the pursuit of excellence we forget about the main thing. I have learned this covenant for myself, but now what? Teach us better to shoot well on what is, even on a pinhole cheap, and I will be very grateful to you for that.
I shoot with the ancient d700, I don't really chase the d5 :) It's just that there is talk about photographic equipment and photography. And, as practice shows, photography and photographic equipment are absolutely unrelated things. Photography teaches you how to shoot beautifully (shoot anything). Photographic equipment is just a piece of iron that is being improved.
There is a pretentious photographer Oleg Ivanovich in the city of Kiev, who shoots with a pretentious Canon 5D. But his pictures are pretty scary. You can rate it on his website and on the page in contact. So this pretentious photographer Oleg Ivanovich claims that LIGHTED OUR EVERYTHING! Photographic equipment manufacturers and photo shops are giving us the same idea. For example Sigma has released a portrait lens 50-100 F1.8. I sat down and, having nothing to do, calculated the depth of field for such aperture at 50 mm focal length. At the focusing distance, we got 2 meters of depth of field before the focusing point 1.7 centimeters, after the focusing point also 1.7 centimeters. At a focusing distance of 3 meters, the depth of field is 3.9 centimeters before the focusing point and 4 centimeters behind the focusing point. At a distance of 5 meters, DOF is 10.7 centimeters in front of the focal point and 11.2 centimeters behind the focal point. This means that when shooting a wedding couple in a church, standing at an angle to this couple, even from 5 meters, only the face of one person gets into the depth of field. The second face will be out of focus. In practice, lenses with aperture of 1.2-1.4 have no practical application. First, they chromate wildly on an open diaphragm, and frigging (longitudinal chromatic aberrations), as you know, cannot be treated in a RAW converter, only by clamping the diaphragm. Secondly, high-aperture fixtures are usually soapy on the open, especially Canon. Photographic equipment manufacturers are well aware that they are deceiving amateurs and even professionals, so in order to cheat on money, on cheap fixes like f 1.8 they put few aperture blades to turn us off with a terrible nut-shaped bokeh, and on fixes 1.4 they add several blades to improve the quality of bokeh. High-aperture fixes and such high-aperture zooms as the Sigma 50-100 F 1.4 - this is purely a bribe for us. Arkady gave the right advice in the review. Buy a fifty dollar 1.8 is better and do not waste your money. Aperture ratio is not our everything. Oleg Ivanovich is greatly mistaken. For portraits, as it turns out, you need a decent depth of field. Especially for group portraits.
The main issue here is resolution and image quality in general. And manufacturers do not make high-quality dark glasses, who will buy high-aperture? Plus, the aperture needed for sports between shutter speeds of 1/1000 and 1/2000 is a big difference. There will also be a difference in astro photography. For statics, portraits, of course, do not care. I'm on crop and 1.8 is enough.
The sigma you are talking about is under the crop. For a crop, this diaphragm is quite appropriate and pleasant. Better to have it available than not.
Arkady, good afternoon! Thanks for your review. There are several points with which I am ready to argue: for example, about the absence of 50mm with an autofocus motor for a long time and the impossibility of using it on a crop, so 50mm is not particularly needed there for a crop of a 35mm camera, the second is about slow autofocus - this lens is not at all for reportage or street , there are other glasses for this. It seems to me there is no reason to blame Nikon for anything)
Nikon 35 1.8G AF-S DX was released in March 2009. What should the owners of d40, d40x, d60, d5000 have to do? Since the release of the D40, I had to wait more than three years for the release of this lens. This is also a stone in the Nikon garden.
As for autofocus, even if you think that it is not for reporting, it is very disappointing that 1.4D focuses many times faster than 1.4g. That is, with the addition of a focusing motor, Nikon's fifty dollars became slower. This is very bad. After all, new technologies should improve the readings, not worsen, so I rightly run into this drawback. Moreover, have you seen the focusing speed of the canon 1.4 ycm?
Arkady, agrees with the speed of 1.4 for kenon and many more positive factors in the kenon system.
Great review, thanks!
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The videographer is also well done, but, imho, sometimes slightly goes too far with the dynamics of shooting. This is still not shooting skaters or a youth video)))
For example, on 07.15-07.25 the video I was already dizzy, this distracts the attention of the audience from the bottom.
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You have a beautiful city)
be sure to consider in the next shoot, it is just around the corner
If I’m not mistaken, the review said that the lens is not included in the NPS. Included as cute as the 1.8G FF fix line. http://nikonpro.ru/nps
And really, great! It turns out that having three halftos 1.4d, 1.4g and 1.8g you can already enter the NPS with a pair of d700.
Why 3 poltos? You can zoom 24-85 with a stub which, and 85 1.8g. An excellent set of 3 glasses for little money.
Poltosy seem to come out cheaper))) And yes, you can zoom in with 85.
Fine. Interestingly, the D610 is turned on, but the D600 is not :).
Still, the oil on the shutter is not a professional segment :))
and d800 is a professional segment? the oil on the matrix appeared with enviable regularity
Most did not appear, and no one excluded marriage, I sympathize.
fortunately, the camera is sold, now I enjoy Sony A7s, the best video camera in this price segment
Hello Arkady, what do you say about the focus, I also have 50-1.4, but the focus constantly misses on 1.4 1.8 2.0 2.8 only on the closed aperture it’s clear that 3.5.4.5 will get into focus, but as you have with this thing throughout the diaphragm gets into focus ?, on the forums I read that 50.14 doesn’t get into focus, that this fifty dollars defective came out, is this or is it a lens marriage? (I tried on different cameras d700 d5100 d7000 so everything remains out of focus) when checking for front-back focus all the norms on the entire aperture in sharpness what can it be ?????
At 1.4, it is not easy to shoot and achieve accurate focus. What exactly is with your lens is difficult to say.
What beautiful women flash in the review. So what was it about lenses? :)
Thanks for sharing your experience.
And I have 50mm 1,4 D and I am completely satisfied with it. It looks good. Questions with focus did not arise. In sharpness, d and f did not personally compare. After reading a bunch of reviews, I chose the q version. And I switched from kenon to nikon. And I bought a compact in general. Each brand has its own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages. This is a matter of preference. And yes, I love Nikon!
and what did not work for canon ???