I have put this lens on my camera and not taken it off. I find this lens easy to use and it produces fantastic photos. I recommend this lens to everyone.

Picked this up as the next lens after the kit lenses. Love the wide aperture and crystal clear pictures. On a DX camera it works out to about 75mm equivalent which is great for everyday shooting. If I´m looking to travel light this goes on the camera and I bring nothing else.
A must have if there ever was one.

The AF function does not work with D40. Otherwise, great lense if you are creating a portrait of one person or two persons standing close. Great job of blurring backgrounds.

I love this lens! Which is why it makes me sad that I can´t keep it. I have a D3000 and bought this lens thinking it would work for it. Where it does work as a manual focus lens, it does not auto focus with the D3000. What a bummer! I plan on taking it back and trading it for the 35, but I have really enjoyed it while I´ve had it. I´ve been able to learn to take photos with a manual focus, and even the pictures of my moving six-month-old look good. The images come out needing very minimal edits and have the blurry background. It is a great portrait lens, and I´m so sad it doesn´t work on my camera! I highly recommend this lens if your camera will work with it. And if you have a camera that it doesn´t auto focus with but you don´t mind the manual focus, you´ve found yourself a winner lens!

I bought the 50 f1.8 lens as a prime lens for my D3000 as I wanted a faster lens with a slightly longer focal length for portraits. I´d found that I was using the kit lens at 55mm most of the time anyway.

When I got it I realized that it would not autofocus with the D3000 as there is no focus motor in the camera.

I decided to keep it anyway and manually focus. I´m glad I did since it is a good sharp lens and gives nice compression for portraits. It reminds me of an 85mm lens in 35mm format. At 1.8 it is good in low light, but I find the lens is even better outdoors for portraits wide open with a fast shutter speed.

Good optics at a low price.

This is go to lens many times.
In Low light this is a savior.
Pictures are outstanding in clarity and color.
The price is the best part.
Can we make others in this price range?

A must have lens. I wouldn´t understand any photographer who does have this one in his bag.

My sample is somewhat soft until f/4 and images seem washed out or over-exposed. Could be that a sluggish diaphragm is the cause. My old 50mm, 1.4, AIS Nikkor has better IQ.

You should never leave home without this lens. Good for everything. And its price? What price? Its almost a free lens due its quality!

There is absolutely no reason you shouldn´t own this fast 50mm lens, unless of course you have the 1.4D/G already. I use this on my D100 and D300s all the time. AF is fast, low light performance is great as well. It is nice to be able to shoot at 2.8 and not be wide open, the extra sharpness from being stopped down is very welcomed.