Nikon AI-S FX NIKKOR 50mm f/1.2 Fixed Zoom Manual Focus Lens for Nikon DSLR Cameras
The Nikon Nikkor 50mm f1.2 AIS Manual Focus Lens is a manual focus lens and is not for use with digital SLR cameras. Fastest normal manually focusing Nikkor lens. Professional photographers make Nikkor lenses their lenses of choice. Nikon is committed to every aspect of lens manufacturing, maintaining clarity, sharpness, focusing accuracy, range and reliability.This
The Nikon Nikkor 50mm f1.2 AIS Manual Focus Lens is a manual focus lens and is not for use with digital SLR cameras. Fastest normal manually focusing Nikkor lens. Professional photographers make Nikkor lenses their lenses of choice. Nikon is committed to every aspect of lens manufacturing, maintaining clarity, sharpness, focusing accuracy, range and reliability.This product is designed for the use with Nikon AIS.
Product Features
- 52mm Front Cap
- LF-1 Rear Lens Cap for F Mount Lenses
- 1-Year Limited Warranty
- Compatible with the following SLR/DSLR formats: FX, DX, FX in DX Crop Mode, 35mm Film.
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Wow, this is one unbelievably fast sharp bright manual lens! UPDATE: Now that I have been shooting with this lens for two years, I can update my review to say it is still the favorite lens I own. I agree with others who say that sharpness at the widest f1.2 is less than at 1.4 & 1.8, but when you are running that wide open, artistic effects are sort of what you are looking for and so it is not a big issue. And some of the issue is user focusing errors – wide open, this is very unforgiving of focusing mistakes – the focal plane is so shallow that if you…
A Very Interesting Lens This is a bit of a quirky lens, in a good way…in that if you learn to get a feel for what it does (and doesn’t do), you will get some great results. It’s absolutely NOT a lens that produces consistent results through its aperture range. One shot at f/1.2 and you’ll see what I mean. When shooting wide open with this lens, you get heavy vignetting, soft shapes and outlines, and very soft corners. These issues dissipate quickly, and by f/2 they are practically unnoticeable to the average…
Thinking this will be a great addition to my collection of manual focus Nikon lenses. No idea what “fixed zoom” means. It’s a 50mm lens. No zoom. Period. That said, I received it today and did some test shots that lead me to believe I’ll be as happy with this 50mm manual focus Nikon as I am with my AI-S manual focus 28mm. Great glass, metal not plastic so it’s old school Nikon design and build. I have a Nikon 50mm f/1.8G that was much cheaper but it never impressed me so I never use it. As the reviewers warn, this is a quirky lens. Very shallow depth of field (although I…