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Todays Backstage Pic

Beautiful Margot, waiting for the Art department to set up their stuff, taken with a D700 and a very old prime lens, the 35mm f2 AF lens.

Nikon D700 + 50mm f1.4G and the Nikon D7000 + 35mm f1.8G

This is my upcoming project, recently for a strange reason I found my self working on assignment with this two cameras and inadvertently I started to feel and compare the two, personally I love full frame cameras, but the D7000 with the 35mm f1.8G (which is a DX format equivalent to 52.5mm lens) pleased me and surprised me with the results. Even though the full frame sensor on the D700 provided images with amazing detail and very nice separation between the planes, the D7000 stood its ground and the new 16.2 MP DX sensor on the D7000 simply is beautiful, so this calls for an interesting ¨In my experience review¨ I hope you will like it. (coming soon, this is going to be a long one, so please bare with me) until then!

my D3x on Camera-Wiki.org (link).

CONCLUSION (high res image):

This an image taken with a Nikon D700 with the Nikon 50mm f1.2, at f2.0 which in my opinion delivers pretty good sharpness on the subject, and a very nice blurred background, in my opinion the Bokeh transition on this lens is a bit rough, while it delivers a very nice creamy Bokeh while wide open, then sharpness fails to be perfect, I think sharpness at f2.0 is very good but then the problem becomes that instead of having a perfect circle in the blurred bubbles in the background , it now becomes a geometric figure, even though this lens has 9 blades, they don’t seem to be rounded like newer lenses. If you are looking for great Bokeh I would still go for the Nikon f1.4G or the Nikon f1.4D (that I recently sold) , these lens demands a very good eye on the user in order to focus perfectly and still, its better to stop down a few stops for better sharpness results.

I hope Nikon will update this lens in the future, adding an AFS motor and it would be fantastic with some nano crystal coating.

Thank you for stopping at my blog, hope you enjoyed it, and that it may be of some use for you.

Notice how the Ai lens does have the smallest aperture marked in blue unlike the 50mm F1.2 which is marked in orange, this usually means that the lens is a Ais one.

These are the Nikon 50mm lenses I used for my review, the 50mm f1.4G, the 50mm f1.4 Ai, and the 50mm f1.2 Ais

Depth of field Transition

Bokeh comparison:

This image was shot using the 50mm f1.4G, wide open at f1.4 at 1/800 sec ISO 200 with a Nikon D700, shot a raw file without changing any settings in Photoshop, what surprised me is how much richer is the color, and I think this lens (since its a new design) renders more true to reality colors over the f1.2 Ais and the F1.4 Ai lenses, It feels like the older lenses have some color shifting shot wide open, the older lenses may need some color correction via Photoshop or Lightroom warming up the scene a bit.

Bokeh comparison:

This image was shot using the 50mm f1.4 Ai, wide open at f1.4 at 1/800 sec ISO 200 with a Nikon D700, shot a raw file without changing any settings in Photoshop

Bokeh comparison:

This image was shot using the 50mm f1.2 Ais, wide open at f1.2 at 1/1000 sec ISO 200 with a Nikon D700, shot a raw file without changing any settings in Photoshop