I am looking forward to getting the 28E but for now it is the 24 Art. I have virtually the same AF settings with my D810 similar issues. As you mentioned it is the wide angle that is the issue. I am having great success with using d9 or d21 points with AFC.
mifoto wrote:
I have got this lens and it is absolutely amazing in regards of image quality. I am only using it with the aperture wide open, mainly for environmental portraits and but I do find that the autofocus is hunting quite a bit sometimes, especially if the subject is further away, maybe full or three/quarter body shots and that there are more images that are not in focus than with lenses that are less wide (there are still plenty though which are pin sharp). The results were much worse with the 24mm 1.4ED. I do understand that it is harder for this lens to lock the focus accurately as the subject is obviously much smaller due to the wide angle and that this might be the reason. I have the D810 body set to AF-C S (Matrix metering set to face recognition). Is that the right setting in your view? It works very well with all my other lenses. Any suggestions and advice are very welcome, thanks....Show more →
you inspired me to shoot the flowers in my backyard!
as you can see here you can focus pretty close with this lens
these are hand held. don't recall getting these sorts of shots (with this sharpness / this close) with any other 1.4 nikon lenses - am I crazy?
you inspired me to shoot the flowers in my backyard!
as you can see here you can focus pretty close with this lens
these are hand held. don't recall getting these sorts of shots (with this sharpness / this close) with any other 1.4 nikon lenses - am I crazy?
I tried out my buddy's 28E today. It performs brilliantly, but what a red-headed stepchild of a focal length it is. It's either "too *insert complaint here*" or it's "not *insert complaint here* enough."
I'll try to pry it from his hands for a wedding day and see what I can make sense of it.
So what do you reckon? A 28E now and D850 end of next year.
Or D850 this year but that'll be my budget gone for 2 yrs.
Still shooting a D700 btw and I have no lens below 58mm at the moment.
swifty168 wrote:
So what do you reckon? A 28E now and D850 end of next year.
Or D850 this year but that'll be my budget gone for 2 yrs.
Still shooting a D700 btw and I have no lens below 58mm at the moment.
What about 28mm f1.8 and D810 now? Gets you 90% of both the D850 and 28mm f1.4, and maybe in a year or two you can replace them with the D850 and 28mm f1.4. Unless you need at least as much fps as the D700 provides.
Lauchlan Toal wrote:
What about 28mm f1.8 and D810 now? Gets you 90% of both the D850 and 28mm f1.4, and maybe in a year or two you can replace them with the D850 and 28mm f1.4. Unless you need at least as much fps as the D700 provides.
Thanks. I'm not keen on changing bodies often but don't mind it with lenses.
D810 prices have hardly dropped where I live and for bodies I'd rather buy non-gray. Seeing as I'd keep the same body for the next 5+ years I'd probably prefer the D850. Definitely don't need high fps for what I shoot but the new AF system and improved silent shooting are big pluses in my books.
I had the 28/1.8G on loan from a friend a few years back. For some reason I didn't get along with the images. It's a 'feel' thing.
Leaning towards 28/1.4E first. That way I can take a peek at Nikon mirrorless and D750 update next year and gives me more time to save for a laptop too since my current one is 5 years old too and might struggle with 46mp RAWs.
Solved the issue of the focus hunting, it's actually a no brainer. I spoke to NPS and all it needed for my rather static portraits was to use AF-S instead of AF-C... single point priority. Now it performs brilliant and it's such a nice focal length, love it on my Leica and now on the Nikon, you have to get used to it, but once you do you won't look back, and the image quality is just amazing....
I would vote 28/1.4 followed by a body later. Bodies come and go but lenses are forever (well maybe not AF lenses, but they likely will last at least 10-20 years if handled well.)
I am looking long and hard at saving for a 28/1.4 once I replace my drowned D700. 28 is my favorite FPJ focal length and the rendering out of this lens is beautiful. I had the 28/1.8G and it was a nice lens with some expected modern improvements over the 28/2 MF lenses, but the rendering wasn't special enough for me to keep it glued to a camera
