Nikkor 50mm 1.8 Examples?

[manaheim]

Hey guys... I didn't want to hijack the other thread somewhat related to this, so I made a new one...

This lens looks really attractive to me, but I find myself thinking "What kind of pictures am I going to get from a 50mm prime lens on a partial-frame camera?"

I would be really very curious to see some examples if any of you guys wouldn't mind posting them, I would really appreciate it.

Any thoughts you have for/against the lens would be appreciated as well... what your experiences have been, things you might do differently, etc.

 

[Dutchboy]

You get the same pictures as with a full-size sensor or 35mm film camera...just take a few steps back...

 

[Kanikula]

Shot with D200

 

[Rhys]

My Nikon f1.8 AIS lens is wonderfully crisp. It's a shame I just don't have it with me in the US.

 

[rmh159]

I'll try to post some shots later but that lens is awesome for portraits. It's very crisp and the DOF control works well for that type of photo.

Plus it's ~$100 which is a great value for the quality you get.

 

[Mav]

f/5.6

f/6.3

f/2.8

Fantastic little lens.

 

[JimmyO]

Check my pretty stuff flickr. I think all the recent ones are from my nifty fifty. I would post them but flickr is blocked here so i cant =(

 

[osirus]

Heres a few 50mm f1.8 pics i had hosted on photobucket

 

[Snap Happy]

 

[Senor Hound]

You get the same pictures as with a full-size sensor or 35mm film camera...just take a few steps back...

Not to call you out or pick on you, but the depth of field that f/1.8 has on a film camera will be different than that same lens on a 1.5 sensor digital camera. The digital camera SHOULD render a photo with less depth of field than the same lens at 1.8 on a film camera. Because you're actually shooting at 75mm with the 50mm on a digital. The difference may be negligible, though, I'm not sure.

 

[Mav]

Actually you've got that reversed. The full-frame / film camera will have a tighter depth of field than a crop body to produce the same exact photo, because you have to get closer to the subject on the FF / film body for the same exact view.

 

[Senor Hound]

Actually you've got that reversed. The full-frame / film camera will have a tighter depth of field than a crop body to produce the same exact photo, because you have to get closer to the subject on the FF / film body for the same exact view.

If you were comparing a 75mm film lens to a 50mm digital lens, then yes, the film lens would have a smaller depth of field, but this isn't the case. Any two given lenses side by side, the digital one will have a narrower depth of field. It will be tighter cropped (1.5), and have roughly only 2/3rds of the same depth of field. Check it out for yourself...

http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

Put in a nifty fifty, set it to 1.8, and switch it between film and a digital. You'll see the depth of field goes down, because the lens on a digital body is acting like a 75mm.

 

[TamiyaGuy]

I have the old, OLD Nikkor AI 50mm, and I love it. Just the way it is so crisp when focused right, and the DOF and compressed view make a photo really look great. Purple fringing can be a bit of a problem, but I'm sure the AF-D version fixes that. And, of course, the F/1.8 means you can get insane shutter speeds!

F/1.8, 1/3200 sec, ISO 200:

 

[djacobox372]

Not to call you out or pick on you, but the depth of field that f/1.8 has on a film camera will be different than that same lens on a 1.5 sensor digital camera. The digital camera SHOULD render a photo with less depth of field than the same lens at 1.8 on a film camera. Because you're actually shooting at 75mm with the 50mm on a digital. The difference may be negligible, though, I'm not sure.

I don't think so, the dof will be identical, there's nothing a camera body can do to affect DOF.

With a digital the photos are cropped, that's it... everything else is optically identical.

 

[manaheim]

Thanks for the example shots, guys. Very nice. Definitely will be picking one of these up... esp at ~$100... I didn't realize how cheap they were. Crazy.