Nikon announces AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.4G lens

[aleksanderpolo]

http://dpreview.com/news/1009/10091511nikon35mm.asp

Anyone know if the design was from the old Ais 35/1.4?

Suddenly the Zx 35/1.4 seems like a bargain.

[Orio]

I remember to have read sometime somewhere, a comment by a photographer in a forum thread where the Contax Distagon 1.4/35 was discussed and compared with other similar wides. Regarding the Canon L 35/1.4, he wrote: "The Canon lens has the autofocus; the Distagon has the rest".

[Esox lucius]

The new, auto-focus 35/1.4G AF-S



The older, manual focus 35/1.4 Ai-S



It's safe to say, the G-series with only Nikon-body aperture control likely will not have appeal to manual focus shooters who can enjoy many great manual focus designs already.

The Nikkor 35/1.4 Ai-S gives outstanding results at f/4 to f/5.6, outperforming even 24mpix sensors. Wide open it is modest, a weird lens that the performance is within a very narrow aperture range. I hope the new version has fixed this and made it more "diverse", but those samples will not convince me (yet).

I am getting the 35/1.4G AF-S for try-out very soon, and personally am much more interested in it than the 24/1.4G AF-S Nikkor due to a more useable focal length to me.

EDIT: Don't ask me why I didn't flip the lower image

[Scheimpflug]

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[Esox lucius]

[aleksanderpolo]

(: .desrever si ESLE enoyreve dnalnokiN nI

[Esox lucius]

I got my hands on a pre-production unit today, no sample photos unfortunately.



Optical construction and MTF plus the Nikon provided samples indicate it to be safely useable for professional quality already wide open, let's see what it turns out to be when I get my hands on a production version.

[Orio]

The new AF version seems to have a compeltely different optical design than the MF version, so much that in fact it can be considered a different lens with no relation with the predecessor.

EDIT: I add that it also is completely different from the Zeiss Distagon, confirming what I wrote a few days ago in another thread: while 50mm lenses are all more or less the same design, in other focal lenghts you begin to see larger differences.