Read The Helpful Nikon 50mm 1.8 Evaluation And Learn Why This Lens Is Such A Pleasure To Work With
No Nikon 50mm 1.8 review will be detailed without stating the extremely clear photographs that this lens creates, all for a very cheap price.
The focal length of 50mm is considered to be the closest in range and intensity to what the human eye interprets, and as such it has experienced many years in the spotlight as a good general purpose lens, doubling as a 75mm portraiture lens on an APS-C DSLR body.
Along with great image quality and reasonable price, this lens is fairly light weight and little enough that it will simply live in your jeans, making it an ideal mobile lens for no extra effort.
Optically, the Nikon 50mm 1.8 lens consists of 6 elements set in 5 sets (with the aperture system having 7 diaphragm blades). The lowest length of focusing is 0.45m and the filter size is 52mm.
As was mentioned above, this lens is extremely small at only 64x39mm plus light at only 155g.
You might assume that since this lens is so cheap, that its picture feature must be substandard as well. However, the quality of this lens is pretty good with a mixture of metal and polycarbonate as the key elements.
The relatively little rubber focus ring has a highly smooth operation and the front section does not revolve with a polarizer connected so this is another positive too - we all know how frustrating a rotating front portion with a polarizer can be.
All in all the Nikon 50mm 1.8 does not enjoy the same popularity that a lot of the flagship Nikon lenses do, but it is still a quiet and very competent performer in its own right.
It does not come up short badly in any particular area, maybe the only bad point would be that it is soft on the borders wide open and perhaps includes a slight contrast deficiency too.
Of course for the price, these minor details can easily be ignored when buying this wonderful Nikkor 50mm 1.8.
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