The Best Value 50mm Lens: Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 D Test & Review

I need a 50mm for my Nikon F5 so I can use it easily in the studio. So Why not get a retro awesome one. The AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 D

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Content:
00:00 Why This Lens?
00:44 Unboxing & Inspection
03:01 Basic Tests
04:58 Manual Focus Notes
06:13 Test Images
12:16 The Cost of This Lens Revealed

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[jrundfollestad]

Nice one! A note regarding the aperture-blades: It has 7 straight blades, and the upside for artistic purposes is the awesome sunstars. Try this lens stopped down and you can create some beautiful and artistic pictures with fantastic looking 14 pointing sunstars of the sun / street lights and so on. I've used this lens for this purpose, and also used the old 28-70 f/3.5-4.5D For the same reason with its even more impressive 18 pointed sunstars (9 straight blades)

[Ton-xr]

This is the third lens I bought for my D200 back then. Still have and use it. It is so light and fits in your pocket easily.

[muturikanini]

I still use this lens ... from Nairobi, Kenya.😊

[kamurray]

This is the version of the 50mm that I have, pleasantly surprised by how decent the image quality is.

[thedrunkweddingphotographer]

1:38 MY FRIEND! DO NOT rotate the focus ring manually while it's set to AF. It will damage the focusing motor in your F5. You can only do that with AF-S lenses, and even with those lenses, I still don't and wouldn't do it.

[OriginalWatchcow]

Character is a flaw we chose to embrace.
You talk about this lens as if it's 100 years old. That is a product of the 90's, so it's only about 30 years old. I do like this era of lower cost nikkors. Plastic that does not give plastic a bad name, still quite sharp in a usable way and offering a subtle softness wide open to be flattering to skin textures.

One of the interesting zooms of that era was the 28-105/3.5-4.5. remarkably sharp and offers a quirky close focus mode that was not a real macro but still very useful. This era also delivered my favorite 85/1.8 and the first edition of the 60mm macro you like.

[johnfromconnecticut]

I've bought a ton of used Nikon stuff from KEH and they have never disappointed. I have found that in general, their lenses arrive better than they are graded but that their film cameras are accurately described. Have gotten some real gems from them. And as you proved with this nifty fifty, cheap does not translate to bad!

[Scooter__abc]

What you are feeling at the focus ring is typical for the Budget AF-Nikkors and that 50mm f1.8 is probably the least expensive Nikon lens offered. If you want the sharpest 50mm Nikon offered in the F mount you need to go back to the 50mm f2 Nikkor-H, first released in 1965 within 3 weeks of the 50mm f2 Summicron and rumored to be a cooperative design by Leitz and Nikon. Because these two lenses featured an identical design diagram and were optically twins. Around the multicoated 50mm Nikkor-HC was released and the H designation was dropped around 1976 but the lens production was continued until the much less expensive 50mm f1.8 was released in 1978. While a bit hard to find if you can locate one of the later multicoated versions it's a real gem. As for image quality, mine dates to 1967 and the contrast is a touch lacking at f2 but stop it down to f2.8 or smaller and it produces S line Quality. In simple terms it's a match for my Z 24-120 S set at 50mm.

[roybixby]

Love the video - But you cant have too many lenses
The 60mm AFD macro is even better (and more useful)
That lens should be smoother - may have been dropped.
Because of contacts you may not have AF on Z but you do have focus confirmation.
I'm often amazed how well some old tech works... 🦘