Now the objective - to my two Nikon lenses 18-105 VR and 55-300 VR, both of which have an input aperture of F 3.5, I was looking for a high-intensity supplements. I also wanted to have a lens that more creative freedom with the depths (un) sharpness offers when my 18-105er Zoom. Because this offers as a result of the input aperture of 3.5 (or at 50mm is already at F 5) not much creative freedom.
The Nikkor 50mm 1.8G is a lightweight. Although it is mainly made of plastic, but a metal bayonet has, it makes a well-grade quality impression. The distance ring is nicely taut and shows while turning a pleasant resistance, which allows a very accurate manual focusing - if one wants because times. Since it is an AF-S lens, it has an A / M - M switch. This means that you can manually intervene in the AF operation in the focusing. This is a great thing that is also very useful, if you take the films "abused" the camera. I run it on the D90, and in video mode has no automatic tracking AF. In this lens I can therefore adjust the sharpness manually then, even if I forget again, before switch the lens to M.
The lens comes with sun visor. In addition to the actual purpose so that the scattered light to avoid the sun visor gives the actually quite small lens and a small visual enhancement.
The most important thing is the BQ. I had earlier times the Nikkor 1.8 D and have even the two abovementioned objectives, so also cover the 50mm / 55mm range. So I was able to compare three lenses together. With regard to the light intensity, the 1.8 G's already great. Aperture 1.8 is in the evening light and / or room lighting a good thing for available-light shooting - on the other hand, of course, due to the extremely low depth of field also of limited use. However, the aperture range of 2-2.8 is still excellent for shooting under difficult lighting conditions. And in Aperture 2.8 has also been a very useful depth of field. Sharp is the lens from input aperture - where the photographer in the aperture range of 1.8, 2 and 2.2 already needs to know exactly what he is doing and know well the autofocus or manual focus if necessary, must deal with it. It requires in these areas aperture a bit of practice to the recordings to the point to get sharp as you would imagine. But that's for this aperture areas and with exercise also should get perfectly normal fairly quickly. I for one love playing with these aperture areas, because you get so wonderfully isolated the motives and the background is blurred so beautifully.
Compared with my two other lenses, the 50mm 1.8 G is in the range 18-105er VR in the BQ at all apertures far superior (although the 18-105er a thoroughly decent zoom, and delivers certainly not bad pictures). Even at aperture 8, 11 and 16 is clearly a difference in quality in favor of 1.8G determine. Amazingly, the BQ is in the 55-300 VR from aperture stop 5 nearly equal to 1.8 G. Also the 55-300 makes background blur quite a nice bokeh, but not quite that comes close to the Bokeh of 1.8G. The bokeh in my previous 1.8 D Personally, I found not so great - it seemed a little edgy and restless. The Bokeh of 1.8 G, however, is wonderfully soft and brings peace in the background. But with the bokeh that is also so a matter of taste.
In short - I am in terms of build quality and especially of the image quality of the lens absolutely thrilled and have a lot of fun to make new creative experimentation with it. Who clearly comes not necessarily a 1.4er (twice as expensive) or even 1.2er (three times as expensive) required luminous intensity and who with the fixed focal length (sneaker zoom), obtained with the Nikkor 50mm 1.8 G, a lens that has an unbeatable price-performance ratio ,
Since I can not find anything derogatory to the objective, despite intensive search, there is of mine, the full 5 stars. And - No, I'm not an employee of the company Nikon.
