Nikon has two new full-frame lenses for you, and both are pretty exciting. Upon reading that there is now a 24mm ƒ1.4G ED prime, you will first shout “ƒ1.4? Holy hell! I want one!” Then, after calming down slightly, you will murmur “Wait, ƒ1.4? That thing’s gonna be big. And expensive. And I still want one.”
You would, of course, be correct. The lens is indeed chunky, at around three-and-a-half inches in all directions (and 22 oz in weight), and expensive, at $2,200. But imagine the pictures you could take in almost darkness, with that super-wide aperture coupled with a wide-angle (which makes camera shake less of a problem) fixed onto a see-in-the-dark Nikon full-frame body.
The 24mm also has a built-in AF (Silent Wave) motor, a choice of mixed auto/manual or just plain manual focussing, a nine-blade aperture diaphragm for smooth out-of-focus highlights and a bevy of coatings to keep the [...]
Excerpt from original post by Charlie Sorrel and software by Elliott
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