I was expecting for a lens to arrive in my local store this morning,
but how I was surprised to get an email that the lens is already arrived and is ready for collection yesterday afternoon!
Even more we planned a little party out, and I though it's such a shame I won't be able to try my new baby in a "real fight". I was so lucky to get it just a couple of hours before going out!!
Sharpness and DOF tests are still to come, but what I can tell straight away, I am absolutely Excited with what lens produces in a low light, wide open at 1.4 with its DOF (which is so much wider than my 50mm 1.4G!)
Just want to share with you a few photos from night out. Please don't judge me a lot on composition or focusing, I had no any chance to play with this baby lens before making these shots at all!
If you ever been to english pubs you know how poor the light is there!
Shots taken hand-held with no flash, on D700 + Nikkor 24mm 1.4g @ f1.4 @ ISO 800/1600,
RAW + Basic. In-camera JPEGs with no post-processing.
It was needless too Ryan, I had the auto-iso shutter speed pegged a bit. Normally I can hand-hold safely around 1/60-1/80 but I getting used to some new contacts and when I get the viewfinder up to my eye I sometimes start to sway with my depth perception wavering. Still pretty clean though....
VladiD... It's a shame to hear about problem with the focus.
Any chance it is the problem on the body? did you try any other lens under the same light conditions and same distance?..
I must admit, the sharpness is really stellar @1.4. all these shots made @ ISO 5000 !!
jekab83 wrote:
VladiD... It's a shame to hear about problem with the focus.
Any chance it is the problem on the body? did you try any other lens under the same light conditions and same distance?..
I tried it both on the D7000 and my D3s and noticed the same problems. The focus is just very unreliable in distances from say 6ft to infinity. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Returning it for sure. Bummer since it's such a sharp performer WHEN the focus is accurate.
VladiD: seems like you had the same problem i did with my first copy of 24 with my D90... obviously you had better camera bodies than me... the store had no return policy and was in fact i was very surprised that they are willing to take it back... i tried 3 lens in total with nothing working with my D90... and then they let me try it on a D300s.. and it worked wonderfully... in the end i took one with the least problem with my D90 (some af points are unusable, but strangely some others are quite accurate)... the moment d7000 is available i sold my d90 and took 1 of D7000.. now there's no af problems and very satisfied with my copy... hopefully you dont need to change bodies and that other copies of the lens works for you... it's an amazing lens.. and the only one i actually went through a lot of trouble to make it usable since it is 1 of a kind... good luck...
. It is quite amazing what this lens can do 
