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MBWAMG
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Review Date: Jul 25, 2020
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Price paid: $600.00
| Rating: 10
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Fast & sharp!
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Size & weight
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I have always wanted a Nikkor 35mm 1.4 in my bag...all the way back to my photojournalism days in the mid 80's:)
I found a great deal on one local, so I took the plunge.
I wasn't really expecting significantly better performance than my 24-70 VR. Wow was I wrong. I was pleasantly surprised when this lens blew my socks off! After one assignment (which I did one hour after buying this glass) I was hooked.
Picked up a 24mm 1.4 as it's side kick and the 24-70 VR lens will be for sale shortly on this site.
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 Jul 25, 2020
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tandshughes
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Location: United States
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Review Date: Feb 5, 2014
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $1,200.00
| Rating: 9
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sharp, depth of field, awesome quality.
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can be slow focusing...
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this lens changed the quality of the images we were putting out there. the depth of field you can accomplish with such a wide focal length is amazing. shoot this in 2.8 or lower, get close to your subject, and you're going to love it.
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Feb 5, 2014
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recordproducti
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Location: United Kingdom
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Review Date: Sep 23, 2012
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Super sharp, lovely 'tones' it produces, silent, fast and consistently accurate focusing (I think so, others seem to disagree) well made, not too heavy. A benchmark lens.
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Apart from the price maybe a tad of purple fringing wide open in some situations but nothing to get worried about.
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Having switched to Nikon from Canon I really missed my 35L. I was though finding it hard to justify the spend so soon as I was finding my 24-70 zoom to be so good I wondered what little extra I could gain quality wise over that other than the speed and weight, of course.
Anyway, following a huge disappointment with a 135 f/2 purchase the retailer kindly refunded my money and I thought 'what the heck' and got the 35 f/1.4. I wasn't expecting as big a jump in quality as I found and quickly spent time testing it out heavily and was amazed at how much sharper the D800e and 35 f/1.4 combo was over my previous 5DmkII and 35L. I'm in no way knocking the 35L, that's still a super lens but this is very much sharper and more accurate. I used to take lots more photos than I needed with the Canon to be sure of nailing the focus between f/1.4 and f/2.0 but with this I am finding a very high hit rate.
This lens is sharp in the centre from f/1.4. It focuses fast. Some people have complained about it's AF speed but maybe on the D800 it's not as slow? Anyway, the one I have is as fast to focus as the 24-70.
I really like the 'tones' it produces. It seems a little like a cross between the Canon 50L f/1.2 and, and... I'm not exactly sure what but it renders skin tones very nicely and the OOF areas don't get as contrasty and 'busy' as the 35L. I'm finding the lens to be so good I kick myself for not getting it sooner. Don't be put off by some previous mediocre reports, this is a fabulous lens and gets a 10 from me.
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Sep 23, 2012
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ivofreriks
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Location: Netherlands
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Review Date: Jun 8, 2012
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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Large aperture
High resolution (tested @ Nikon D800E)
Low distortion and chromatic aberration
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Weight
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The Nikon 35 mm 1.4G is in combination with the Nikon D800E a perfect lens, in terms of optical and mechanical properties. What is left to wish for?
See full review at:
http://camerastuffreview.com/nikon-lenstest/review-nikon-35-mm-14g
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Jun 8, 2012
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robert829
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Review Date: Apr 15, 2012
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $1,750.00
| Rating: 10
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Sharp and smooth focusing
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None
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This lens replaced my 50mm as a walkaround lens.Balance well on my d700 and the image it produce is superb.I can shoot this at 1.4 all day for me it's sharp enough at this aperture.highly recommend u will not disappoint with this one I know it's bit pricey but you will be amaze at the result that you will get on this lens it's fantastic.
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Apr 15, 2012
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subidiom
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Registered: Nov 24, 2009
Location: United States
Posts: 266
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Review Date: Feb 15, 2012
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $1,700.00
| Rating: 10
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Super bokeh, build quality and very sharp.
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Big, heavy and expensive
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This lens is very sharp at f/1.4 and amazingly so from f/2.0 and on. It paints beautifully and the bokeh is very smooth as well for a 35. Like the other new AF-S fast Nikkors recently released, a little on the big and heavy side, but the build quality is great and seems very durable.
A little slow on the autofocus, but fast enough. Expected for a f/1.4 - lots of glass and I'll take acuracy over speed.
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Feb 15, 2012
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Gunnar Sigmars
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Location: Iceland
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Review Date: Jul 6, 2011
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Sharp. Great bokeh. Awesome from F2.0.
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None
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I just love this lens that's it 
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Jul 6, 2011
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abam
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Review Date: Apr 11, 2011
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Recommend? yes |
Price paid: $1,800.00
| Rating: 8
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finally a 35/1.4 nikkor with AF (!); sharp wide open; superb from f2.0 onward; nice bokeh
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prominent CAs/no ED elements; slow focusing; strange-sounding AF {'zoink-ssshhhh'}; expensive
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the ability to have an autofocusing 35/1.4 in F-mount is - probably in part due to nikon's long-standing neglect of this focal length - simply provocative for those of us who love the 35mm FOV and razor-thin DOF. in time, sigma et al might jump on this trending focal length - but for now, this is it if you want AF with your fast, sharp, nikon-mount 35mm prime.
to be purely objective, i feel like julie andrews doing pinwheels in a field in salzburg. sans dirndl. this lens offers (mostly) very fine optics. center sharpness matches that of (and the edges surpass those of) my beloved canon 35L. the build is reassuring; the lens is weather-sealed, and i've experienced no problems after taking my D700 + 35/1.4G out in several (freezing) chicago drizzles.
that said, the lens isn't without its shortcomings. (please take into account when reading the following bullets that, having tried and owned only one example of this lens, my observations are more or less specific to the combination of my* 35/1.4G on my* D700. additionally, my main point of reference when judging the 35/1.4G is the only other fast, sharp, professional-grade, autofocusing 35/1.4 that i have used extensively - the 35L.) ...
-- AF is slow. significantly slower than the 35L; but to be fair, significantly faster than the 35/1.4 AI-S 
-- AF on my copy isn't as erratic it has been portrayed by some online reviewers, but i do notice that it clearly misses the intended plane of focus more often that i would prefer, and more often than i would honestly attribute to operator error.
-- when autofocusing, the lens makes what i can only describe as a scratchy 'zoink-ssshhhh' sort of noise. though i have been informed by other owners that this is normal for the 35/1.4G, this constellation of somewhat unnerving AF sounds was not present on my AF-S 50/1.4G. fwiw.
-- green/purple fringing is significant. to each his own concerning the extent to which this will be bothersome (and to be fair, all fast wides will exhibit CAs), but i find myself often taking the extra step of converting RAW>TIFF with view nx2 (instead of doing everything with an adobe product), simply because only the nikon software seems to be able to 'handle' it. (did nikon specifically leave out the ED elements because their software could tame the fringing? not being an engineer, i can only guess at why the 24G got ED elements and the 35/1.4G didn't.)
-- for $1800USD, i would like to have seen (again) some ED glass in this lens, as well as a quicker/quieter implementation of AF-S.
that said, as an enthusiast, i'm very satisfied with my 35/1.4's performance, and am thrilled to have a nikon-mount answer to the canon 35L.
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Apr 11, 2011
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