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Nikon 50mm f 1 4D AF Nikkor Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras

Fast enough for shooting in just about any type of light, this is an ideal first lens; perfect for full-length portraits, travel photography or any type of available-light shooting. The Nikon 50mm f/1.4D AF Nikkor lens delivers distortion-free images with superb resolution and color rendition. Accepts 52mm filters.

The AF-Nikkor 50mm 1:1.4D is Nikon’s current version of their fast ’standard’ prime lens, and while this specific model was introduced in 1995, the basic optical design dates back to the manual focus 50mm 1:1.4 AI of 1977. It features a traditional layout of 7 elements in 6 groups utilizing spherical surfaces only, which Nikon claims will deliver distortion-free images with superb resolution and color accuracy, plus high contrast even at maximum aperture. The 50mm focal length is considered a ’standard’ lens on the FX format, with none of the ‘perspective distortion’ characteristic of wideangle or telephoto lenses, whilst on the vastly more popular and widespread DX format it behaves like a short telephoto, ideal for portraiture.

The 50mm 1:1.4 is one of the older lenses in Nikon’s lineup, and this is reflected in several aspects of its design. The lens features a traditional aperture ring, which will be appreciated by photographers who grew up with mechanical manual-focus 35mm SLRs; however autofocus is ’screw-drive’ from the camera body.

Headline features

• 50mm focal length
• Fast F1.4 maximum aperture

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Awesome
The is the best lens I own, if your into photography buy this one, it take fast and tack sharp pictures.

3 Stars little disappointed
The lens itself works good, but until you can use them…

To connect it to the camera (Nikon D300) it needs some work because the connection points are poorly fabricated, the thread is sluggish.

Also the cap itself is a mess. No Nikon cap, only a white plastic thing that hardly covers the sensitive connecting points, nothing to screw, only to plug.

If you are somewhere dusty or your camera bag is not 100% dust free – you will get no protection.

So I have to buy a real Nikon cap to protect my new NIKON lens. That is pretty crazy.

When I had a look onto the lens, it was completely clear: made in China.

This has been a lesson to me.

Before I buy lens, I definitely will ask where they had been made,

I do not want to have poor fabricated cheap things for that costs.

4 Stars Excellent all-purpose lens
I got this 50mm 1.4 lens to take low light pictures of our upcoming baby on my D90. I needed a fast lens to keep flash from going off my newborn’s face. Test shots with this lens are amazing. Opened up to 1.4 you can nearly take pictures in the dark. The shallow depth of field you get at 1.4 allows you easily select a focus point and blur out the background and foreground.

I could have purchased the cheaper 50mm 1.8 but I wanted the extra stop and since it’s a full frame lens it will work when I upgrade to an FX camera bodies. Get the best glass you can afford don’t abuse it and you will save money in the long run.

3 Stars This is not my old Nikon 50mm F/1.4
When I purchased this lens I was looking for a low light lens with the solid construction and exceptional performance I enjoyed with the 50mm F/1.8 lens I used 20 years ago with my Nikon F series. What I got instead was a mediocre made in China lens that hunts and is noisy when focusing. Very disappointed.

I already have a the 18-200mm AF VRII lens from Nikon which is an exceptional lens.

I was looking to use the 50mm in lower light situations but the lens is not worth the $350 so I’ll be returning this one to Amazon.

5 Stars This lens meets expectations
I expected a tack sharp, fast lens with excellent autofocusing…and guess what? It does all those things very well indeed. It also makes for very clean shots straight into the sun. Almost no reflections are present in the end photos. Geometry is the best of all the lenses I own.

This is the fastest lens I own. Playing with a shot at f1.4 is tight depth of field on a whole new level. I shot a pic of my daughter at f1.4 at a distance of about 24′. She appeared to be facing me almost directly. One eye was in focus and one was out. All the rest of her face was out as well. I have found that portraits where you want the background as out of focus as possible at best shot at about f2.8

This lens will meet or exceed all of your expectations.

Buy/More Info

Also included in its key features are Incredible, Bright 2.7-inch High Resolution LCD that makes it easy to compose and share your pictures with an anti-glare coating and brightness adjustment and a scene auto selector automatically recognizes the scene in your picture and adjusts camera setting. Nikon Coolpix S1000pj’s smart portrait system has a new skin softening that smoothens skin tone at three different levels for optimal portraits, in-camera red-eye fix, face-priority AF, smile timer, blink proof and blink warning, plus a D-lighting that rescues dark or backlit images by improving brightness and detail where it is needed.

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4 STARS

The S1000PJ is a pretty decent camera. It zooms and focuses quickly. It has no distortion: straight lines stay straight at any zoom setting. This is the first pocket camera I’ve ever used that does this.

4 STARS

Is the Nikon Coolpix S1000pj worth the money? Well, it’s an okay camera with a unique feature that will either leave you chortling with delight or utterly unimpressed. It’s definitely something to try before you buy. Just remember that you can get the same basic picture quality and features for half the price, so you’re paying plenty for that dinky little projector.

3.5 STARS

Generally, shots turned out well in daylight. While the image stabilization is great for daytime shots, the story is altogether different when we’re indoors.

4 STARS

Nikon Coolpix S1000pj delivers average to good image quality at low ISOs for a digital camera in this category. … Pictures taken at high ISOs to small prints and for Web display only. Best results are obtained when the S1000pj is used as a sunny outdoors camera at ISO 80 with the lens set at wide-angle.

Compact and powerful, the D5000 is a remarkable blend of simplicity and advanced D-SLR capabilities with breathtaking 12.3-megapixel image quality. Some of its key features are:

1. D-Movie Mode with sound which records 720p HD movie clips enhanced by NIKKOR interchangeable lens quality and versatility.
2. Vari-angle color LCD monitor that positions the 2.7-inch monitor freely for fresh shooting perspectives. Screen also flips inward for safe keeping.
3. 19 Auto-exposure Scene Modes that captures stunning photos in challenging picture-taking situations including Sunsets, Candlelight, Silhouette, Portrait, Landscape, Beach/Snow, and more.
4. One-button Live View which gives you easy Live View access and offers 4 autofocus modes, including Face-priority AF.

Performance wise, the D5000 features several function improvements over the D60 that make the D5000 closer to the mid-level D90. So can Nikon D5000 significantly challenge a “prosumer” camera like the D90? Well, if it’s in the right hands the answer is yes. The D5000 has most of the features seen in the D90, and if you’re willing to use only AF-S lenses and can handle 4 fps burst shooting instead of 4.5 fps then the D5000 is essentially just a cheaper D90, yet performs in the same sense. For a fact, the D5000 may be limited to only 4 fps in continuous/burst mode, but it can capture up to 63 JPEG images or 11 RAW files compare to that of the D90 which is only limited to just 25 JPEGs or 7 RAW files.