#Nikon bokeh lens manual
#Nikon bokeh lens plus

#Nikon bokeh lens plus

Here is the 50mm f/1.2 wide open:Д«okeh test image, shot with the D700 plus Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 at F1.2 and at a focus distance of 2 metres.Д«elow a 100% crop of the transition zone. I: Comparison of the three standard lensesД®very 50mm Nikon standard lens I have tried so far (around 10 different lenses/versions) produces an ugly bokeh wide open (maybe, the new and expensive 58mm f/1.4 is an exception, but I have not tried it yet). Then two Micro-Nikkor lenses, the 55mm f/2.8 from the middle of the 80s and the 60mm f/2.8 AF-S of Nikon's current lens line. Three 50mm Nikkor standard lenses, the f/1.2 from the early 80s, an f/1.4 AF from the middle of the 80s and the modern f/1.8 AF-S Ken Rockwell, ignore the transition zone completely! Nonetheless, shows us the important transition zone - the area close to the focus plane, especially behind. But often lenses - especially modern zoom designs with their lots of wildly moving lens elements - do not show the same bokeh behaviour at every focus distance. Secondly, many of the comparisons I found are not complete in my point of view. My favourite is, they shoot a bokeh test image for each of their lens reviews. You may ask 'why another bokeh comparison'? Firstly, I found only very few on the Web. I'm also planning bokeh comparisons for other focal lengths, so stay tuned. With this article I will try to make a step in that direction. But such feelings can be wrong and I have never really analysed the bokeh systematically.

in my lens reviews - it is more a feeling, originated from sample images I have in mind. If I speak about the bokeh of a lens - e.g. The bokeh is equally important but it is not measureable.

#Nikon bokeh lens manual

Your really old 50mm will probably mount and work with the FTZ adapter, but it will likely be manual focus.Sharpness, contrast, vignetting, CA and distorsion are important and measurable characteristics of a lens. At f/1.8 (a much cheaper lens), it's 4.15 feet and at f/2.8 (if you had the 24-70 f/2.8 lens), it's 6.65 feet.ДЄ faster lens makes it easier to defocus a background.

a 50mm f/1.2 lens, at f/4 you have 9.75 feet considered in focus. Now, this requires you to change your composition and positioning.ДЄs a point of reference, shooting the 24-70 at 50mm f/4 vs. Ironically, 70mm f/4 25 feet is almost identical DOF to 35mm f/1.0 25 feet. Move your subject closer to you and/or move them further away from the background. With the 24-70 f/4 lens, to minimize the DOF, shoot it at 70mm f/4. The 35mm lens has over 9.5 feet of DOF in the same circumstance. I can shoot a 500mm lens at f/5.6 and have less depth of field than a 35mm lens at f/1.0 and a subject at 25 feet. The further the subject is away from the background, the faster the background will blur.

Subject to background distance: The closer the subject is to the background the harder it is to separate them because the DOF encroaches on the background. The further the subject is from the camera, the more DOF. The smaller the f-stop number/larger the lens opening, the shallower the DOF.Д¬amera to Subject distance: The closer the camera is to the subject, the less DOF.

The more wide-angle, the deeper the DOF.ДЄperture: The larger the f-stop number (smaller lens opening), the deeper the DOF. There are four controls in DOF:ДЇocal length: The more telephoto, the shallower the DOF. Defocused backgrounds are a function of depth of field.