{"id":4510,"date":"2012-01-21T17:52:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2012-01-22T02:57:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T02:57:13","slug":"fast-glass-when-do-you-need-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=4510","title":{"rendered":"Fast Glass – When do you need it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nikon has released several fast, single focal length lenses, last year. \u00a0After some time to shoot them I’m in love! \u00a0 All are f 1.4 maximum aperture. \u00a085 f 1.4<\/span> – 35 f 1.4<\/span> \u00a0and the 24 f 1.4<\/span>. \u00a0They are spectacularly sharp, and very well corrected. \u00a0As you would imagine they cost more than $199. \u00a0 All are just sub $2,000. each!!! \u00a0 So why would you invest in such expensive glass? \u00a0Actually you might if you had to shoot in dismal light, or needed as bright an image as possible for viewing. \u00a0If you worked in reasonably good light and had a camera that can shoot in High ISO (6400 and higher) \u00a0You can work perfectly well with f 2.8 lenses. \u00a0 the 24-70 AF-S f 2.8<\/span> is a perfect example. \u00a0It is razor sharp and reasonably fast. I even find the 24-120 AF-S VR II f 4<\/span> to work good in “most” situations. \u00a0“Most” is a big word when you are being paid to shoot. \u00a0If you have to work in miserable light, you’re gonna want these lenses in your bag.<\/p>\n

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Another reason you may want such fast lenses is to get very shallow depth-of-field. \u00a0Nothing is prettier than a soft, out of focus, background when you want to eliminate distractions. \u00a0The faster the lens, the easier it is to get that effect. \u00a0One other reason to think about this trio is the exclusive Nikon “N” coatings. \u00a0The Nano coatings are the ultimate weapon in the battle against reduced contrast due to \u00a0flare.<\/p>\n

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All in all, if you have the right reason to buy them, these three great lenses look less and less expensive!<\/p>\n

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Is there anyway to save some money and still enjoy the fast glass??? \u00a0Sort of, if you own both DX and FX bodies buy the 24 f 1.4 which on your DX body would be a 36 f1.4 and then add the 85 f 1.8 which is costs almost 1\/4 the 85 f 1.4. \u00a0 You would get 95% of the performance at substantially less than half the cost. \u00a0So I have a D4 and a D7000 if I own the 24 mm f 1.4 it will be a 24 f 1.4 on the D4, and 36 f 1.4 on the D7000. \u00a0The 85 mm f 1.8 is an 85 mm f1.8 on the FX, a 127.5 mm f 1.8 on the D7000. \u00a0Pretty cool………………<\/span><\/p>\n

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  Nikon has released several fast, single focal length lenses, last year. \u00a0After some time to shoot them I’m in love! \u00a0 All are f 1.4 maximum aperture. \u00a085 f 1.4 – 35 f 1.4 \u00a0and the 24 f 1.4. \u00a0They are spectacularly sharp, and very well corrected. \u00a0As you would imagine they cost more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}