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Title should be "The Forgotten Lens" though as a fan of the 50mm just "The" Lens works for me :) The 50mm f/1.8 Z lens for Nikon is really magical, I love any

• muro 4y ago
  Same here, have a bunch of lenses, but this one is almost always on the camera. I'm tempted by the 50mm 1.2, but its price gives me pause and I'm worried about its weight.
  • _ph_ 4y ago
    One shouldn't get too crazy about aperture. On a modern 35mm camera you rarely need the f/1.4. Certainly not for gathering enough light and usually the DOF is small enough at f/2 already. So you can get a much lighter and cheaper lens by not going for the fastest aperture. A nice alternative are the Voigtländer lenses, which are available or adaptable to modern mirrorless cameras. They tend to be less pricy and quite compact. I personally love my Voigtländer 50/3.5. It isn't the fastest lens, obviously, but lovely, compact and has a great image quality. Steve Huff had a glowing review of it some time ago.
    • trap_goes_hot 4y ago
      In general I agree, but as you probably know, the answer almost always is - it depends :) So it depends on the focal length. I use both 24 and 35mm at 1.4 pretty much every-time I use them. At those focal lengths, and normal subject distances, they don't have crazy shallow depth-of-field where only one eye-lash is in focus. I can get great environmental portraits where the subject pops a bit more than 1.8/2.0 etc.