Any photographer knows what this prime lens is all about and it won't disappoint. This is a good quality, fast lens and it never leaves my bag of essentials.

Handling and features This standard 50mm prime lens is a popular used buy, but still available new for a reasonable discount over Nikon's latest 50mm f/1.4G. New it can be picked up for around ￡240, or ￡150 or less if buying used.

50mm f/1.4 D Nikkor Lens. I have had this lens for some time now and it is very sharp and fast. Fabulous for low light shooting. A must for every photographer.

Sharp and very fast; great for low light shooting

None

I bought this lens for my Nikon d7000, excellent lens, very sharp, auto focus is fast but sounds like a choking donkey,very noisy. Still, for the price, you get a great lens, well worth it.

I primarily use this lens for portrait photography and would reccomend it to anyone from the photo enthusiast to the professional photographer. It produces very sharp images with a fast zoom.

Durable; Easily Interchangeable; Quick Focus; Sharp Focus; Strong Construction

While I hope to create a full Nikon 50mm f/1.4D AF Lens evaluation, my first priority is to include results from this lens in the lens comparison tools. This page currently exists because it is required by the database and content management systems for the posting of those standard test results.

In addition to backwards compatibility with AI models of the past, what else does this fast yet affordable prime offer? Find out in the AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 D review

Bargain price

Non-IF focusing

The Nikon 50mm f/1.4 D is an entry-level prime lens that offers with AI cameras of yesteryear. It even features Nikon's once-standard 52mm filter thread. Yet despite all this, its D-series specification indicates that it will transfer distance information to a suitably interfaced camera body in...

Bargain price

Non-IF focusing

Despite using a 15-year-old optical formula, the lens still stands up to scrutiny: while it's not tack-sharp when used wide-open, it's still quite good, and stopped down to ƒ/2.8 image quality is excellent. At ƒ/8, it's as sharp as sharp gets.

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D is one of two 50mm primes that Nikon currently offers in its modern lineup. The second 50mm prime is the slightly slower Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D. The current version of the 50mm f/1.4D was first released in 1995, replacing the fully manual version of Nikon Nikkor 50mm...