The workhorse lens in my collection is also the least expensive and the one I've had the longest. It's the Nikon 50mm f/1.8 prime lens. It retails now somewhere ...
When Nikon announced its Nikkor 50mm F1.4 lens earlier this year, the company implied that it and its 35mm sibling prioritized character over absolute sharpness, unlike Nikon's 'S' series lenses. To ...
Bokeh is relaxed and pleasing to the eye, and 50mm lenses, certainly fast ones, do benefit from the ability to throw backgrounds out of focus. This is especially useful with portraiture.
The Sigma SD1 is sold body-only, or bundled with one of three Sigma lenses: the 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC OS zoom, 30mm f/1.4mm EX DG HSM prime, or 85mm EX DG HSM prime. The test results below are ...