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Archive 2014 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

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p.2 #1 · p.2 #1 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

Nice read and love the model with the pink

I hate to be the guy to call out the elephant in the room. But I find the images a tad bit soft. granted it is good for the style of photography you demonstrated in the review but for the price of the lens, I would expect nice razor sharp images. This criticism goes to most of the 58mm shots I have seen and not just yours. I believe the bokeh rendering is lovely but the lens seems on par with the 1.4G if not a tad bit softer. This is one reason I hardly owned any Nikon glass and was so invested into the Zeiss. But overall I enjoyed the read and definitely the models

Thanks for sharing.

Mar 06, 2014 at 12:09 PM

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p.2 #2 · p.2 #2 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

Jorge Torralba wrote:
Nice read and love the model with the pink

I hate to be the guy to call out the elephant in the room. But I find the images a tad bit soft. granted it is good for the style of photography you demonstrated in the review but for the price of the lens, I would expect nice razor sharp images. This criticism goes to most of the 58mm shots I have seen and not just yours. I believe the bokeh rendering is lovely but the lens seems on par with the 1.4G if not a tad bit softer....Show more →

Compared to reasonable competition*, the Zeiss 1.4/50 is the last lens I'd own- I'd much rather have the 58G for the far lower vignetting and the extremely well corrected CA.

*50/1.2L on 5D III, 1.4/50 ZF.2 and 58G on D600, all selected for their 'rendering'

Mar 06, 2014 at 04:11 PM

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Jorge Torralba wrote:
Nice read and love the model with the pink

I hate to be the guy to call out the elephant in the room. But I find the images a tad bit soft. granted it is good for the style of photography you demonstrated in the review but for the price of the lens, I would expect nice razor sharp images. This criticism goes to most of the 58mm shots I have seen and not just yours. I believe the bokeh rendering is lovely but the lens seems on par with the 1.4G if not a tad bit softer....Show more →

a tad bit expensive... coming from the Otus guy... that's funny

The softness issue has been beaten to death... wide open... it is not as razor sharp as some would want. I felt the same way when I first started looking at images produced by the lens. I bought here on FM, for a decent discount, to see what the hype was all about. I have fallen in love with it... I took it to Nikon right after I got it to have it checked for AF accuracy, and now find it sharp enough even wide open. The allure of the lens is the "look"... not clinical sharpness, at least that's what I think.

Here is an example... @ 1.4

http://donzo98.easycgi.com/TestImages/G2.JPG

Mar 06, 2014 at 04:35 PM

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p.2 #4 · p.2 #4 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

You'll read this a lot, people telling you about how they fell in love with the lens. It's so true. It's hard not to love such soft beatiful bokeh

Mar 06, 2014 at 05:32 PM

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p.2 #5 · p.2 #5 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

I really like the Nikon 58 mm lens, it is a fantastic lens and shooting it wide-open is really nice. However I don't use it nearly as much as I do my 85 mm F/1.4 G because I like the focal length of the 85 mm much better. I guess if I was going to do some street photography or some landscape photography, then I would go for the 58 mm, but for general shooting I prefer the 85... Plus I really enjoy and love looking at all that glass in the front of the 85. So much resolution can be obtained from that lens. However they are both extremely nice and I am longing for the opportunity to photograph some portraits with the 58 mm. Similar to what was seen on this post, waist up and environmental portraits.

Mar 06, 2014 at 07:32 PM

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p.2 #6 · p.2 #6 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

@Jorge Torralba: Thanks for the feedback! I agree what was said earlier by the others...you don't buy this lens for sharpness...you buy it for its look, for how it renders the world

@Todd: I used to the love the 85mm focal length a lot, but have since shifted over to the 58mm because it allows me to draw in closer for images that connect to me better. Regardless, both the 85 and 58 are indeed fantastic pieces of glass! :

Mar 07, 2014 at 02:28 AM

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p.2 #7 · p.2 #7 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

Awesome pics. Great review. Thanks

Mar 07, 2014 at 04:09 PM

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p.2 #8 · p.2 #8 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

@SoccerTees: Thank you!

Mar 15, 2014 at 03:21 PM

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p.2 #9 · p.2 #9 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

Has anyone done any serious head-to-head tests of this Nikkor 58mm and the Otus 55mm? I know they are priced significantly different and all that. I'm just wondering how close they compare? Anyone know of such a test?

Mar 16, 2014 at 07:24 PM

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p.2 #10 · p.2 #10 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

Damianshaw wrote:
Has anyone done any serious head-to-head tests of this Nikkor 58mm and the Otus 55mm? I know they are priced significantly different and all that. I'm just wondering how close they compare? Anyone know of such a test?

The Otus is sharp and perfectly corrected wide-open except for vignetting, and the 58G is sharp enough and has AF?

Mar 16, 2014 at 08:36 PM

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p.2 #11 · p.2 #11 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

Here are two quick snaps from tonight... @ 1.4 on the D4S. Slightly cropped. Not razor sharp... but really melts the background incredibly well for a 50ish MM lens.

http://donzo98.easycgi.com/TestImages/City1.JPG

http://donzo98.easycgi.com/TestImages/City2.JPG

Edited on Mar 16, 2014 at 10:11 PM · View previous versions

Mar 16, 2014 at 09:37 PM

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p.2 #12 · p.2 #12 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

The 58 reminds me off a softer 200 f2 wide open

Mar 16, 2014 at 09:46 PM

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p.2 #13 · p.2 #13 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

ohsnaphappy wrote:
The 58 reminds me off a softer 200 f2 wide open

Kind of reminds me of a soft 50mm wide open

Mar 17, 2014 at 04:15 PM

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p.2 #14 · p.2 #14 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

Hardcore wrote:
Kind of reminds me of a soft 50mm wide open

But without all the low contrast and LoCA nastiness

Mar 17, 2014 at 04:54 PM

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p.2 #15 · p.2 #15 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

Awesome review. Loved the shots so much I missed a few paragraphs and had to go back.

I've always lusted after the NOCT, so this is likely my next lens. I'm very content with my current kit and already have ~50 well covered with the 50 1.4G, 50 1.2AIS and 24-70, so there is no rush. I'm going to wait a bit so I have a few used copies as an option. Hopefully a few looking for "critical" sharpness will miss the memo and end up dumping them in the next year.

Mar 17, 2014 at 05:21 PM

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p.2 #16 · p.2 #16 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

Nice review and quality pictures. Thank you!

Mar 28, 2014 at 02:52 PM

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p.2 #17 · p.2 #17 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

johnctharp wrote:
But without all the low contrast and LoCA nastiness

and without the nasty bokeh

Mar 28, 2014 at 02:54 PM

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p.2 #18 · p.2 #18 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

Very good review. Your pictures are awesome

Apr 16, 2014 at 08:51 PM

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p.2 #19 · p.2 #19 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

Thanks for your post! I like the sample pictures you shot with this lens.

Apr 16, 2014 at 08:59 PM

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p.2 #20 · p.2 #20 · Nikon 58mm 1.4G lens review

Nice Review, i already ordered mine. I took two last week with a borrowed one and i immediately felt in love with it.
Waiting for it.

Apr 17, 2014 at 09:35 AM

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