It personally feels nicely balanced on my D800E and seems to be the perfect fit for my Df, which is where it has spent 90% of its time. It’s lightweight and feels like I could crush it in my hand if I tried. It’s built very similarly to the other AF-S prime lenses, like the Nikon 50mm f/1.8G and 85mm f/1.4G. Is it worth the $1700 price tag for me? I’ll save that for the end.Īs much as I do like the feel of the new Sigma line of lenses, that are metal and have a little weight to them, I don’t mind this lighter plastic body of the new 58mm. After several paid shoots, one wedding, and close to 3000 photos taken with it, I find myself falling in love with this lens more and more. Luckily for me, I trusted Nikon and kept shooting with it.
It’s not meant to be an all around good performer, this is definitely a specialty lens and needs to be used as one. No, it’s not crazy sharp wide open, but I’m willing to give that up for it’s extremely shallow depth of field, subject separation, and awesome bokeh. It fits my style of shooting, and when shot wide open, gives some of the creamiest and smoothest bokeh I have ever seen. It took me time to learn its strengths and weaknesses before I could truly understand how good of a lens this was for me. What I didn’t realize at the time was that this lens is a very unique lens, just like the previous version of this focal length, the Noct Nikkor 58mm f/1.2.
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