AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

After spending just a few hours, this lens has left me spell bound. Have been looking around for a prime for a long time and am glad I got this as my first. Highly recommend this to everyone.

I was really wanting a lens that would allow me to just focus on focusing. I was never really all that into taking portraits and then I got this. I really love how well you can play with lighting and it still does an amazing job. It´s a great lens and I have a blast with it.

I love everything about it. But when I put it on and try to take a picture, the auto-focus doesn´t work! And I cannot figure out from the manual how to fix it! I have to focus manually, which I really hate because I can´t always see on the camera screen that I didn´t focus on what I wanted to until I see the pictures on my computer, then its too late to go back. Maybe mine is the one bad egg out of the bunch, but that´s something that I really don´t like about it. But other than that I do love it!

I had this lense on my Nikon D3100. I had to use the manual focus which I didn´t really like but the lense was great and it took nice and sharp images. Now that I have the Nikon D7000 I don´t have the manual focus problem anymore. I can take very nice portrait pictures with this extremely cheap lense.

Just received this lens last week - my first prime lens purchase. My cat was the only one available to pose and the shots I took were awesome. Incredibly sharp, light, fast and the price cannot be beat. I ran the image through Nik Software´s Define 2.0 program and there was hardly any noise, something that cannot be said for the 18-105 that came with my D90 kit. I purchased mine for $129 from Amazon and am thrilled.

This lens is about as close to perfection as you can get. It´s an incredibly simple piece of machinery that is immensely fun to shoot with. Full frame or crop sensor this lens is marvelous to use. I love using the 50 1.8d on DX as a portrait lens. The overall design is compact and light; so light that I often forget I have it on the body. This lens is tack sharp almost all the time; shooting f/4-f/8 is a dream. Understandably there is some moderate color-fringing when shooting wide open, but the utter lack of distortion and crisp, contrasty images more than makes up for a few minor quirks. Bokeh at 1.8 can be a little chunky, but most of the time it delivers an acceptably smooth depth of field. Simple, thoughtfully executed ergonomics are really a highlight of this lens. Shooting manually with the 50 1.8d is tremendously rewarding, the focus is silky smooth and faultless. The scaling is well marked and easier to read than the window style of other lenses. My only suggestion to Nikon would be to use a slightly higher quality of plastic for the body, though for the price there is little room to complain considering the performance you can get out of it.

For less than 1/10th the price of many professional lenses the 50 1.8d delivers professional images with simple no-nonsense optics. This is a must have lens for your bag.

I can easily say that this is the best way I have ever spent $120. I have a Nikon D7000, and after coming from an 18-105mm kit lens, I´d trade this lens ANY day, despite the zoom in the kit lens. Because for $120 you just can´t beat it. I haven´t had ONE blurry picture, because there isn´t one scenario in which it can´t succeed. The bokeh is amazing, it has a a circular effect to it unlike Canon´s.
If you are wondering if this is the lens for you, IT IS. Because I have used it in every situation, and it´s been great. The only thing I would suggest is getting this len´s little brother, the 35mm f/1.8. The 50mm of this lens can be a little too far in focal length at some times. But EITHER lens is a great choice, and I´m very happy with it.

You will discover for the first time that money or ( price ) doesn´t mean everything. I love this lens and never expected it to be that much quality. thanks Nikon for that amazing Lens.

produces great images and photos have beautiful colors