Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 Lens

First of all I would like to say that I purchased this lens because of its excellent sharpness. Of course the cost can't be beat on e-bay. I bought from an excellent and fast shipping seller! I fully recommend this lens to any one that is on a tight budget. I do a lot of portraits and group pictures for school kids and it works great! I have tried other lenses and I don't see that much of a differece. This is from a non-professional photographer's point of view. Even though its manual I don't miss the auto. Go out and bid on one! Cheap too!!

Manual Focus with this lens is easy. Using aperture ring is also easy.
Good glass for cheap. Liked the 1 stop advantage over 50/F1.8

Lens is in very nice condition as advertised in the listing. I bought this lens to go with a vintage Nikon SLR that I purchased for my daughter on Ebay. There is nothing to "dislike" about this lens. It is simply a very good lens in great condition. I have seen this type lens listed by others on Ebay that went for much more money than this one did. Shipping was fast and reasonable.

The lens appeared to be in like new condition, and was a type that I had been looking for for a while. It was very carefully packed and arrived in perfect condition. I am very pleased with this purchase and would not hesitate to do business with this seller again.

I like everything about it. It was exactly as described, and served the purpose for which I made the purchace.
To whom it may concern: When making a purchase on e-bay, my highest priorities are; detailed description and the sellers rating.
To date I have made three purchaces on e-bay, all three have been excellent transactions.

I have to wonder why Ebay keeps auto-requesting that I write an opinion on this lens that Ebay organization believes that I bought thru Ebay? Didn't happen. But this sort of tom-foolery is what happens when you remove even the current level of personal attention from a process and turn it over entirely to automated processes...shall we call them 'robots'?

This, Nikkor 50mm 1.4AIS lens is an excellent lens, tho I didn't buy one thru Ebay. I did buy the 50mm1.4D AF at B+H photovideo, and can recommend them. I bought a lot of new gear there, in my own changeover to a digital Nikon kit, and I can recommend them pretty highly. While their website is a touch slow in response, it's pageload time is even or better than 17phot.com, whom I also heartily recommend, and a little faster than Adorama, who does not show good marks on resellerratings.com, alas. I have dealt with both of the former, B+H & 17photo for large purchases, and they displayed no drama or hijinks. What more do you want from a vendor than that besides:
o reasonable shipping costs, and prompt shipping (B+H is just a tad slow)
o large selection of products in stock, ready to ship, AS ADVERTISED!!
o good product information (gotta come from somewhere, and Mfr's seldom have it)
o reasonable prices!! (Don't have to be the most killer prices, e.g. better by
22 cents like Abe's of Maine (actually part of the Brooklyn photo mob: you've
been warned!)

So, the 50mm 1.4d AF Nikkor lens does kick butt, though it's not as fast as my Olympus Zuiko 50mm 1.2 (perfect, no oil or fungus!) I do like this lens and would buy it again in a heartbeat. It has the advantage of good optics, light weight, strong construction (better plastic and product design than some cheaper Nikkors, and most off-brands, e.g. Sigma, Tokina, Tamron, et al....) I really like the ability to focus the 50mm 1.4d AF Nikkor in almost any light; I appreciate that it's now really a short telephoto (75mm equiv. for 35mm format) on APS-C format digital (D-200.) This makes it a near ideal focal length prime for candid, casual and formal portraiture. Of course with a prime you sacrifice framing by zooming, and instead have to move forward and back to change it, this is technique that should be developed anyway for most aspects of professional photography. Plus a prime lens weighs much less and costs less, while providing less geometric distortion and much less aberration is inherent in the implementation, especially chromatic aberration. CA can be corrected, but it's never as good to FIX it as it is to have it right in the first place!

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