Out of focus highlights are rendered smoothly, most likely due to the lens’ rounded aperture blade design. It’s still compact even when mounted to the Nikon 1 J4, it makes for a great “standard-lens” equivalent. I’m a photographer who makes 100% of my living at photography, not a lab technician of a test chart shooter.

is a nice prime lens that delivers very high sharpness, at least in the aperture range that is not penalized by diffraction (f/1. The VFA target should give you a good idea of sharpness in the center and corners, as well as some idea of the extent of barrel or pincushion distortion and chromatic aberration, while the Still Life subject may help in judging contrast and color. I’ve been an Apple user since the mid 80’s, and I can say that for decades I had to take the constant abuse of Apple haters.I’ve seen iPhone photos from skilled pro’s and amateurs that would blow away many of the images I’ve seen from a newbie with a D800 or D4 on some forum sites. Hi, if Steve or someone else can help me I would be much greatful (sorry for my English in advance). I’m sure you can think of a thousand reasons why this shouldn’t work, and in my limited messing around with it I haven’t found much that would refute you. Yeah while the larger sensor cameras have an advantage at these higher iso, but at 400 iso not much so. This lens is not exotic, but more of a utility lens that can be used in almost every situation, everyday and especially in low light.

The good news is that it is a very straightforward barreling, and not a more complex type of distortion as we sometimes find these days with lenses that have aspherical elements, so easily removed. The strange thing is that this lens is probably the one piece of Nikon 1 kit that really delivers most on the promise of Nikon 1: small, light, highly competent, doesn’t get the in way, and affordable.your photos and videos have extremely shallow depth of field—your subject will be in perfect focus, but its background will be softly blurred. This lens, designed for the Nikon CX-format sensor has an angle of view roughly equivalent to a 50mm lens on a 35mm camera body.