very light weight, bright with natural color, sharp pictures,recommended to beginners and experts

Love this lens the 1.4 has been my favorite lens for 30 years

A ´´must have´´ lens...light, reliable, excellent quality...a great lens and very fair price...

This is a great lens for low light no flash small depth of field shots (such as babies, inside where you do not want to use a flash...). It´s also very small and lightweight. Excellent for travel if you can give up the zoom / telephoto flexibility.

This lense is great in so many applications. Great in low light conditions, sharp pictures, without VR you have to hold it steady or use a tripod. One of my favorite lenses for portraits.

I still consider myself a novice in terms of photography, with this being the first fast prime lens I have bought. With a D90, it is possible to obtain very sharp images with manual focus or focusing using Live View. When it is wide open, the lens has a very shallow depth of field, which I like. I took a picture of my tie rack (angled at 45º with respect to the camera), focusing on the middle tie at f/1.4. The middle tie is sharp, with the surrounding ties (near and far) out of focus. The depth of field is only a couple of centimeters! (Yes, I´m a scientist.) I haven´t had the chance to evaluate bokeh yet.
I have found the lens sluggish in autofocus, although it is reasonably quick in bright light. Forget about using Dynamic area in poor light, however. I have experienced a lot of hunting, even at higher ASA. Maybe other users have suggestions that I haven´t tried, however.
The sharpness is fantastic, which was a pleasant surprise considering this isn´t a pro lens.

If you want a prime lens in your pack for a FX camera, this is it. Nothing else.

This was my first AF-S prime lens and I like it almost as much as the price. This lens renders beautiful shallow depth of field images and it is very small and light. It is so portable that I find myself taking it with me almost everywhere.

When used at f/2, this lens becomes extremelly sharp. I enjoy using it with full frame cameras a lot. However, it is also wonderful for portraits in cropped frame bodies because it is similar to an 85mm field of view wise.

I´m using this lens in combination with a Nikon D3, and use it for everything from weddings, family events to a general walk-around lens. I find it razor sharp at all apertures. I do wish the AF was faster and sometimes I find it ´´searching´´ in very low-light conditions...