Or should I say, ‘collection’ ? I’ve just splashed out on this little beauty.
This is one of the series of f/1.8 prime lenses that Nikon produce for the Z series cameras.
It is astonishingly sharp, across the frame, even wide open – there will always be people who complain about the quality of the ‘bokeh’ but frankly, I’m more concerned about the sharp bits rather than the blobs that are out-of-focus.
I stumbled across this on the site ‘Leboncoin’ (a site where people sell off all they don’t want, can’t use etc.) and the man selling it seemed a bit odd….he had purchased the lens a few weeks ago, had never used it, and was now selling it at 2/3 the price. I had to take a closer look.
So I drove over to Libourne, near Bordeaux, and met the chap in a carpark (very secure!) – turns out he’s one of the breed who believe EVERYTHING written in photo magazines, and as such, had decided that he prefered zoom lenses and that this lens wasn’t for him., without even bothering to actually put the lens on the camera and try it…
Anyway, everything checked out – he had the bill, I saw his ID card and the name was the same on the bill…
Now all I have to do is try it out! This shot is hardly a definitive test, but it does show the lens is VERY sharp!
