Portrait photographers will often drop significant amounts of money on top-level lenses, but even by those standards, the Nikon NIKKOR Z 58mm f/0.95 S Noct is particularly expensive. At $8,000, can its performance and image quality justify that stratospheric cost? This great video review takes a look at everything you can expect from the lens.
Coming to you from DPReview TV, this great video review takes a look at the Nikon NIKKOR Z 58mm f/0.95 S Noct lens. Without a doubt, this is a lens of extremes. There are plenty of 50mm-ish f/0.95 lenses out there, but the vast majority of them are rather inexpensive and make no claims of good image quality at wide apertures. On the other hand, the 58mm f/0.95 is designed to be tack-sharp even at that absurd aperture, which, for those are interested, is about 1.1 stops faster than the already-wide and more standard f/1.4 aperture. Of course, at $8,000, you would expect it to deliver stunning results whether shot at f/16 or f/0.95. It is not a lens for the majority of photographers, but for those who want absolutely superlative image quality, it sure delivers. The rest of us will drool from the sidelines. Check out the video above for the full rundown.
Cannot imagine purchasing this- but it makes me happy that it exists.
How practical is this lens really? It’s huge, heavy, very expensive and manual only, all just to fuel the obsession with bokeh. Will people viewing the photographs really notice how unique this lens is supposed to be?
You could get a TTArtisan or 7Artisans 50mm f/0.95 and Topaz AI Sharpen for 1/20th or less of the Nikon's cost. Is it really worth the cost when you have to work hard to nail the focus? Would a pro want to work that hard just to open the files and find he/she does not have one decent shot? What would the client think? You would likely need to also use a fast autofocus lens just to make sure you don't come away empty-handed. And is that extra shallow depth of field any better than the lens you can depend on?
Totally missing the point. This is a halo lens it's not supposed to be practical. If you value some cheap Chinese junk from Laowa or TTartisan that's your prerogative. I'd never buy this only because I find 58mm not pleasing as a portrait shooter. I did order the new 85 1.2 as that's much more usable for my work.
Not worth it for me.
Yeah. Uh huh, uh huh, yeah.....no. Huge, heavy, manual focus ....oh...and expensive as hell. Well, i dont care about manual focus as I do that almost all the time. Heavy? Don't care
Huge? Whatever. EXPENSIVE?? Yeah, don't need it. So many other options out there. .95 or not. Don't care.