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I have chosen for my white Nikon 1 V 2 the silver-colored lens that is doing very well at the nifty little camera.
From its exterior ago the lens gives a result of its low-gloss metal finish a high value. The nanocrystal-coated lens shimmers promising in chanchierenden brown-green-orange tones. You immediately feel: here you have a really solid piece lens in front of you.
Now to the "inner values":
The maximum aperture of 1.2 can be used fully. Even at the largest aperture the lens fully illuminated images provides no obvious vignetting (vignetting). So it is possible for me indoors without using the flash to take pictures with a very high shutter speed (so-called. Ambient Light photography).
In the theater I could take without a flash in very good image quality from the audience from the action on the stage with the largest aperture of 1.2 and the best ISO value of 160 with shutter speeds of 1 / 125sec to 1 / 250sec. And: When I took a picture in the dark corner of a church yesterday, I discovered to my surprise that the lens looks better than I with the naked eye.
The autofocus of the lens provides fast and precise focusing. In addition, when will focus on a specific point in the image exactly, you can use the focus ring on the lens. If you turn the ring, an enlarged section, in which you can set the desired focal plane, so to speak millimeter and then trigger the recording appears in the viewfinder of the camera.
This is among other things important in portraits, where one was supposed to focus on one eye. Autofocus is possible in the most obvious - the tip of the nose - sharp. Or even with flowers where Autofocus may sharply puts on a petal and not on the center of the flower. All this can be corrected by slightly rotating the focus ring.
I'm using at the V2 1 but not mechanical, but electronic (silent) triggering. The lens exposed so very accurately - and it can also be heard no more clicks. The electronic release also enables incredibly high shutter speeds up to 1 / 16000sec, which overexposure is prevented when in full sunlight photographed with Aperture 1.2.
Due to this extremely short shutter speeds I can do without taking along a tripod, for example in plants shots.
The lens gives rise to the subject pictures, which are in the central motive extraordinarily sharp, but in the background out of focus (bokeh called) at open aperture and near approach. The background blur is very soft and lovely, and I can use them well, for example, in portraits or flower pictures. The lens allows me to 45cm to approach the object (measured from the sensor plane).
Well suited is the extremely powerful lens but also for street photography in low light, what with the increasing rainy weather in our region quite often the case is likely to be (unfortunately!) Or after sunrise or at sunset.
Landscapes are to be made at f 4.5 to 5.0 in excellent quality. These diaphragms the resolution is particularly high and the depth of field is optimal.
To protect the valuable lens I screwed following Neutral Density Filters: B + W Neutral Clear Protection Filter 52mm MRC Nano XS-Pro Digital.
A UV filter I do not use, because it could potentially affect the sharpness of the lens.
The lens hood I always leave on the lens - because here you can take the camera with your left hand so that the focus ring does not accidentally touched and moved - especially important for photo-beginners who are not yet a lot of practice in dealing with camera and Lens have.
At full aperture weak color variations can occur depending on the shooting situation, but these are automatically eliminated when editing RAW images with Nikon Capture NX2. For example fringing at objects that are in front of a very bright background.
That does of course not mean that the small Nikon an adequate substitute for the big DSLR would, even with the new tip lens. But with the new lens, the picture quality of my D700 is already sometimes very close and the photos are sometimes even more sharply.
To illustrate the image quality of 32 mm lens, I have set up two identical shots: the first with the Nikkor 32mm f / 1: 1.2, the second with the AF Nikkor 85mm 1.8D and the third with the Zeiss Macro-Planar T * 100mm f / 1: 2.0 ZF.2. Compared with this very good lenses the small 32er scores very good!
One problem is still small by the sensor or the 14 million small pixel-related vulnerability of the Nikon 1 V2 for image noise in low-key areas, but this has improved through the high-intensity 32mm lens because I thus usually with the best ISO can work setting of 160 and dark areas of the image can be exposed even brighter when recording.
However, the avoidance of sensor-related image noise remains an exciting challenge with the new bright lens.
Nikon can be justifiably proud of the diagram of the MTF values, which is displayed on the input side. It is namely that the new 32-lens for the Nikon 1 has similar excellent values as the graph of the outstanding lens AF-S 85mm f / 1.4G for FX cameras. Better is not!
When I again stand before my Nikon cameras and am undecided whether I the "great" Nikon D700 with battery grip and the three Nikkor or even the massive Zeiss lenses in Tamrac Photo backpack - or the Nikon 1V2 with three easy objective is to take the small bag Photo - then I'll probably more often reach for small solution.
Conclusion: just buy it if you have a Nikon 1 has been and wants to make unimaginably good photos with you!
Supplement December 22, 2014:
The problem raised by me the image noise in low light conditions has been largely completed with the appearance of 1V3 and 1J4, which have the same sensor and the same image processor.
I've bought the "small" 1J4, with which I can now take pictures with even better image quality than with the V2.
