AF-S Nikkor 105/1.4E to be announced

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Nikon promised the 105/1.4 will be present at PhotoKina, to which event some of us plan to go. Thus in about 3 weeks' time, we'll know what all the fuss is about.

[Erik Lund]

Tristin, That is not how I read it,,,

[Andy]

My copy arrived on thursday.

a few & quick impressions:
1) As it is a f1.4 lens. AF accuracy is good on my D5 (center AF field and AF fields at the edge work properly). Needed no adjustment
2) Different than the AFS 58mm/1.4 at open aperture - more sharpness
3) lens is not only for portraits, nice 3-d pop effect at larger distances
4) less LoCA at open aperture than the AFS 85mm/1.4

Will take more shots over the weekend. Enclosed a few initial images. all at f1.4. Just resized, no pp.

rgds, Andy

[richardHaw]

just look at how it dwarfed the Df

it has more mass then my FE

maybe we should change he title of the topic?

[richardHaw]

1) As it is a f1.4 lens. AF accuracy is good on my D5 (center AF field and AF fields at the edge work properly). Needed no adjustment

on the pitiful AF module of my Df:

AF is not 24-70 fast BUT accurate. maybe closer to the 85mm f/1.8? i am actually impressed to be honest

[richardHaw]

nice separation even if it's 5m<

[richardHaw]

focus was fast enough for me to take a picture of her before she got shy and ran away

[Tristin]

How is the focus ring?

[richardHaw]

Very typical, not as damped or greasy as manual lenses. Dof field is useless. It felt light but adequate,the tamrons felt better to be honest lol

[Jakov Minić]

Thank you Andy and Richard!
The images are phenomenal, but that might be because of the photographers, not just the lens

[richardHaw]

Thank you Andy and Richard!
The images are phenomenal, but that might be because of the photographers, not just the lens

thats only true for Andy's images hahaha. i have some more images but their of books and useless stuff because I just wanted to see the bokeh
this is a BIG and HEAVY lens

[Akira]

Saw the real thing at a large retailer.  Not for me! 

[Frank Fremerey]

I like what I see in Andy's Lory shot!

3D pop out effect. Yes.

[Andy]

A few images from the weekend. Water, sand and mud included :-)

Images in full resolution (out-of-cam JPEGs) can be found here:
https://onedrive.live.com/?id=C59FEF9F04ED4A3A%212051&cid=C59FEF9F04ED4A3A

All shots taken handheld and at f1.4.
3 images are taken with the D500, all the others with the D5.

rgds, Andy

[Harald]

Hi Andy,

3684 is excellent to demonstrate the possibilities. Like the rendering of the lens.

Harald