bravo to Nikon for still making this lens, what a beauty, fully manual, and the pleasure of the brightness of the viewfinder with this lens on, really a joy to use,
The focus is so smooth, focus ring plenty large, with the right viscuous feel. I shot at 1.2 and got a nice sharp image with that fade away one would expect.
Yes, you can get the latest G lens, and have AF, but throw a couple of this generation of manaual lens into the mix, you might be surprised how much you enjoy taking pictures with these manual AIS lens.
I have been comparing some of the older lens also, today tried out the 105 2.5 gausian design lens, and wow, on the D800, this lens shines.
back on the 1.2, one of the amazing things of this lens is that even though 1.2,,, it is still 52 mm! love that, I tend to carry Hoya polarizer, and some neutral density filters and so nice that one small packet of filters covers my whole range from 20mm to 200 mm! Nice that a lot of the old D series auto focus still ownered that cover that range, the exception being the 20 mm afsD.
yup, you can tell I love the manual glass. sure, af love that too, but when I am out just having fun, I almost always use the old glass manual focus primes over my newer autofocus version, just seems more natural. compose/focus, aperture, exposure, (iso adjust if needed), focus adjust if needed, shoot..
recompose, repeat.
manual focus AIS -> D200,D300,D1,D2,D3,Detc, D7000, D700,D800, and others have fun.
on 40,40,80,90,3x,5X,, Nikon cannot meter,, so you can still use, but you have to use your historygram on test shots, a real pain, so,, best to pass the old school glass.
The focus is so smooth, focus ring plenty large, with the right viscuous feel. I shot at 1.2 and got a nice sharp image with that fade away one would expect.
Yes, you can get the latest G lens, and have AF, but throw a couple of this generation of manaual lens into the mix, you might be surprised how much you enjoy taking pictures with these manual AIS lens.
I have been comparing some of the older lens also, today tried out the 105 2.5 gausian design lens, and wow, on the D800, this lens shines.
back on the 1.2, one of the amazing things of this lens is that even though 1.2,,, it is still 52 mm! love that, I tend to carry Hoya polarizer, and some neutral density filters and so nice that one small packet of filters covers my whole range from 20mm to 200 mm! Nice that a lot of the old D series auto focus still ownered that cover that range, the exception being the 20 mm afsD.
yup, you can tell I love the manual glass. sure, af love that too, but when I am out just having fun, I almost always use the old glass manual focus primes over my newer autofocus version, just seems more natural. compose/focus, aperture, exposure, (iso adjust if needed), focus adjust if needed, shoot..
recompose, repeat.
manual focus AIS -> D200,D300,D1,D2,D3,Detc, D7000, D700,D800, and others have fun.
on 40,40,80,90,3x,5X,, Nikon cannot meter,, so you can still use, but you have to use your historygram on test shots, a real pain, so,, best to pass the old school glass.
