AF-S Nikkor 105/1.4E to be announced

[Tristin]

   I am a sucker for giant front elements.

[MILLIREHM]

  I am a sucker for giant front elements.

Then you'd need to acquire a 600/4 ;-)

[chris dees]

As a big fan of fast lenses I can't wait to try this beast at the Photokina.

And yes "beast" is the appropriate term when comparing it to it's 1.4's siblings, got to love that impressive front lens

It's available at the end of August, so with a little luck Bjørn has his review copy with him or one of the others.

[David H. Hartman]

Entrance Pupil Envy(tm)

Dave

EPE: modern medicine confirms it can only be treated with cash.

[Roland Vink]

A while ago NikonRumor reported a Nikon patent for a 135mm 1:1.8 lens. By coincidence or design 135/1.8 = 75mm, exactly the same entrance pupil as the 105/1.4. I wonder if there will be a companion for the 105/1.4 with 135mm focal length?

[richardHaw]

looks like Nikon is updating some of it's classics

[Airy]

Then you'd need to acquire a 600/4 ;-)

If size matters, go get a Samyang 500/6.3, which costs next to nothing and makes decent pictures.

[Andy]

Here are 4 images in full resolution to download (2x D810 and 2x D5)
>Click here<
rgds, Andy

[Bjørn Rørslett]

I am worried about the tendency for swirly bokeh and cat's eyes. Not what I'd expected from the Nikon blurb presented to me.

[stenrasmussen]

Personally I actually love cats eyes towards the perimetres. Swirly bokeh too for that matter.

[simsurace]

Does anyone know of any Nikon tele lens that is very fast and does not have cat's eyes towards the periphery of the image? As far as I can see, all of the usual suspects have it to some degree, i.e. 85/1.4, 105 and 135/2, 200/2, and now this 105/1.4.

I suspect that in order for that type of vignetting to be completely absent, the front elements would have to be of excessive size.

[Frank Fremerey]

Back to 105/1.4, it is so big that it makes D5 look like D5500...

That is a BIGGIE!

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Does anyone know of any Nikon tele lens that is very fast and does not have cat's eyes towards the periphery of the image? As far as I can see, all of the usual suspects have it to some degree, i.e. 85/1.4, 105 and 135/2, 200/2, and now this 105/1.4.

I suspect that in order for that type of vignetting to be completely absent, the front elements would have to be of excessive size.

The problem of cat's eyes with the 200/2 is minor.

In order for this kind of vignetting to be totally eliminated not only the front element but everything including the girth of the lens casing has to be larger. Alternative, lens speed must drop and/or the physical length of the optics assembly must be shortened. There is a balance to be struck here somewhere.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Two examples pulled from my archive files to show cat's eyes not always occur. Taken with the Nikkor 1200/11 and 300/2.8.

[Akira]

Bjørn, if I understand correctly, the mechanism of how the bokeh circles appear in the latter example is different from that of the cat's eye bokeh in the background.