It is awesome for portraits and has inspired me to play with bokeh and the multitude of settings that the D80 can offer in ways that zoom lenses tend to discourage due to their fire and forget inherent nature - not to mention the variable aperture as focal length changes
it is one of my favorite lenses .or rather, its the BEST
Great lense, I now understand why they say nifty fifty for these lenses
One of my favorite lenses, really a nice portrait lens to have
I don't think I need to write a lot about this lens because this is known to be one of the best lenses of Nikon
The results are photos with great color, contrast and velvety-smooth background when you choose to blur
Very sharp, has great color saturation and contrast, and the fixed aperture removes the extra step of finding the right focal length.
Older Nikon 50mm f/1.8d ( 1.4 as well ) lens is sharp, and great color, but bokeh is rough
Now I'm reluctant to replace it with any other lens from my collection - very fast, high quality images with great colors, excellent for low-light and night photography
This is a great portrait lens, great colors, love the a/m focus override.
Lastly, I believe the f 1.8 G is a truely excellent product, but given the AF problems I encountered which led me to return the lens, I only gave it one star.
Product works really well and had caused me to learn aloy about how to get sharp images in terms of what settings to use
The D is about $80 cheaper, is smaller, lighter, has less distortion, and has manual aperture control.
I would recommend this seller to anyone who was a good product but best price.
I would consider this as an inferior product compared to the 50mm 1.8D.
The bokeh (blurred backgrounds) is much better than the 18-55 kit lens that came with my camera
It is my first prime lens and produces beautiful bokeh.
It has 9 rounded aperture blades for a smother bokeh and is 2/3 stop faster but has significant distortion.
It's the only lens I use because it's perfect, sharp and has great bokeh
, the performance in terms of focus is very pleasing and the aperture is the one I need, so unless you need to go one step further for the f/1.4 for a shallower depth of field and a little bit creamier bokeh, then go for it
Bokeh is the background blurring while the subject is in focus.
Focus precision between these two lenses are about the same but the 50mm f/1.8G focuses quieter than the 50mm f/1.4D.The primary advantage of the 50mm f/1.4D over this lens is primarily in it being 2/3 of a stop faster and it having an aperture ring.
f/1.8G has better optical performance (sharper, better bokeh, improvement on color and contrast), has an included hood, lens pouch, plus the flexibility of being able to use this lens with all of Nikon's dSLR, I strongly recommend anyone looking for a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens to choose this Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G over the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D.AGAINST THE NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4DThe Nikkor 50
I highly Recommend this one. absolutely beautiful background Blur.
Nikon promotes in this way, "great for producing images with beautiful background blur (Bokeh)".This new g lens certainly has "beautiful background blur (Bokeh
Love this almost always focused lens. and when not so quick and quite to focustakes great l Bokeh photos.
I let a coworker borrow this on her dx, she and I were both amazed at how incredible her images turned out being despite her newness to photography.f/2.0-2.2 are my favorite for portraits; within a few minutes its simple to get down the depth of field, as distance in front as well as behind the subject really makes the shot
Returned it and bought the 100 dollar AF version (which has less barrel distortion)
I love his lens as I this is very light and good for portrait with DX camera
inherent disadvantage of "prime" lens vs. 24-70 f/2.8 pro lens.- Found some barrel distortion in my laboratory tests...worse than previous model.- Loss of