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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #195 on: March 06, 2021, 17:44:18 »
Can get a mint Neo for the equivalent of 850 USD.

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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #196 on: March 06, 2021, 17:58:10 »
That is cheap......my guess would have been close to double up.......

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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #197 on: March 06, 2021, 19:16:13 »
Can get a mint Neo for the equivalent of 850 USD.
An offer you can't refuse ;)

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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #198 on: March 06, 2021, 20:00:47 »
Impressive results in the evening/night

Close to a new Hotel-Restaurant and the Lochal Library. Very little visitors due to the lockdown

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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #199 on: March 06, 2021, 20:39:23 »
Impressive results in the evening/night

Close to a new Hotel-Restaurant and the Lochal Library. Very little visitors due to the lockdown

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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #200 on: March 06, 2021, 21:13:48 »
Precisely...
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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #201 on: March 06, 2021, 22:06:12 »

The  50mm f/1.8 Z-lens is very gery different to the Nikkor 58mm AF-S f/1.4

The 50mm f/1.8 Z is sharp and APO corrected to a much higher level on a Z7 it's just super sharp and contrasty

The 58mm AF-S f/1.4 is well rounded, painting and pleasing and smooth Bokeh


Great portrait Paco.

And great lens.  What are the advantages/differences  if you compare it with the AF-S 50/1.4 ?

   Even if talking about the Z incarnation, Erik summarize it nicely. The AF-S 50/1.4 was a lens I used a lot...until i got the 58mm.  The 50mm works very well, it is affordable, small, and has produce a few successful images for me. Works well with the Z bodies. What more can you ask for? But with the 58 is a love affair. It is almost always in my bag, even if I don´t plan on using it :) The images it produces are just gorgeous. I love it specially with little kids. There is just the right amount of softness and detail, it is delicate. Stop it to f2 of f2.8 and it works also for portraits; up to f4 for street photography. Those are my main uses. It is also at hand when I look for something special in a show or a rehearsal. Video? no problem. It has a very, very nice  rendering around f2-f2.8. I just shot a little sequence like that and I´m very pleased. Out of all my gear, Olga likes 58mm  the most (also the rodenstocks, go figure). She likes to borrow "the light one", as she calls it. Here a link for one video shoot with the 58mm, very much open: https://youtu.be/ItepFdMX00w and a couple of older photos, printed and published, both with natural unmodified light, taken with the 50mm af-s, to compensate :)

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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #202 on: March 06, 2021, 22:12:52 »
Thanks Akira and Airy.

And thank you for your explanation Paco. Very nice results with the video !   


I understand completely, since  I have the 58/1.4, a few days ago, it's a kind of magic.


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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #203 on: March 06, 2021, 22:46:37 »
Yes, you do!

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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #204 on: March 06, 2021, 22:48:36 »
I would say that the two AFS 50/1.4 images are quite good.........I wonder what the 58/1.4 could have done better......especially with a white bagground?

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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #205 on: March 06, 2021, 22:56:55 »
Here it is USD 2000 as new......

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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #206 on: March 06, 2021, 22:57:32 »
Wonderful images John and Paco, i havent been using this one 58 that much, so busy with other matters lately ;)

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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #207 on: March 06, 2021, 23:29:44 »
.....but why did Nikon make it so big so it uses 72mm filter?
When I look at the diamater of the lens elements it could have been in about same "housing" as the AFS 50/1.4 with 58mm filter thread?
Then it would be cheaper also......

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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #208 on: March 07, 2021, 00:05:48 »
I found this one at German ebay advertised as "mint" at 900 Euros.....but look at the inner barrel....seems like some tiny bit of plastic is broken off?
How can this happen.....and this it not mint?

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Re: Nikkor 58mm f/1.4 AFS The New Noct-Nikkor
« Reply #209 on: March 07, 2021, 11:03:56 »
.....but why did Nikon make it so big so it uses 72mm filter?
When I look at the diamater of the lens elements it could have been in about same "housing" as the AFS 50/1.4 with 58mm filter thread?
Then it would be cheaper also......
The F/1.4 AF-S Series of lenses has the AFS motor and gearbox located on the side, they are not ring motor designs, so either a hump on the side or large diameter mostly hollow
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