Linsen dieser Preisklasse haben einen Charakter, der von einer Vielzahl von Parametern bestimmt wird. Das Forumsmitglied "anothermike" aus dem Dpreview Forum ist bekannt und geschätzt für seine Einschätzungen zu Zeiss und Nikonlinsen. Ich glaube seiner Analyse ist nicht mehr viel hinzuzufügen...
The Nikon 24/1.4G is one of my favorite lenses, right in a focal length range that I use quite a bit. It and the Zeiss 21 are my two primary, most used, landscape lenses.
So I like it quite a bit. However, as with most things in life, there are tradeoffs and it's important to know what the 24/1.4G was designed for and then weigh if it fits YOUR uses (as opposed to how it fits other folks uses).
In my mind, the 24/1.4G is a two-personality lens:
1) the wide open and near wide open personality
2) the stopped down landscape lens personality.
The lens was reputed to be designed with bokeh and OOF transitions as the primary objective for the wider apertures. What this means is, as dan_168 noted in his post, that there will be better choices for, say, astro work as coma correction was not high on the agenda for the 24/1.4G in the design process; wide open there is a fair bit of undercorrected SA as that generally tends to help the bokeh. However, this is a horsetrade in that while it helps the bokeh, it's not going to be an edge-to-edge sharp lens wide open, nor is it going to have the best coma characteristics wide open. All wide angles involves tradeoffs - it is not possible to "have it all", so one has to more deeply understand where the design "points" are with the lenses you are considering, particularly given they are expensive.
So that is the first personality - reasonably sharp center wide open or near wide open, but not of course amazing corners, optimized more for bokeh and OOF transition, not so much for coma correction.
The second personality is how the lens performs stopped down for landscape work. Here the lens is sharper and better corrected acorss the frame. On very demanding bodies like the D800E, like pretty much all wide angles, one must stop it down to F/7.1 or a touch more to get the corners to behave, but that's not unusual at this focal length and body combination. What you get as a landscape lens is a fairly flare resistant, fairly balanced in terms of color response lens with incredible global contrast and very rich, strong, bold colors. The lens simply has a "look" that fits really well with this task. In addition, within this personality the lens performs quite well at a wide variety of subject distances from near to moderate to far (some lenses tend to peak strongly in one subject distance zone while the 24/1.4G is more balanced).
So, at the end of the day, would it be the first choice for wide open astro work? Probably not. Street photography or environmental portraiture (where corner performance wide open isn't a concern but bokeh and rendering of OOF transitions is), wonderful lens. Landscape use, wonderful lens.
Depends on what you want to use it for. I'll never sell mine.
The Nikon 24/1.4G is one of my favorite lenses, right in a focal length range that I use quite a bit. It and the Zeiss 21 are my two primary, most used, landscape lenses.
So I like it quite a bit. However, as with most things in life, there are tradeoffs and it's important to know what the 24/1.4G was designed for and then weigh if it fits YOUR uses (as opposed to how it fits other folks uses).
In my mind, the 24/1.4G is a two-personality lens:
1) the wide open and near wide open personality
2) the stopped down landscape lens personality.
The lens was reputed to be designed with bokeh and OOF transitions as the primary objective for the wider apertures. What this means is, as dan_168 noted in his post, that there will be better choices for, say, astro work as coma correction was not high on the agenda for the 24/1.4G in the design process; wide open there is a fair bit of undercorrected SA as that generally tends to help the bokeh. However, this is a horsetrade in that while it helps the bokeh, it's not going to be an edge-to-edge sharp lens wide open, nor is it going to have the best coma characteristics wide open. All wide angles involves tradeoffs - it is not possible to "have it all", so one has to more deeply understand where the design "points" are with the lenses you are considering, particularly given they are expensive.
So that is the first personality - reasonably sharp center wide open or near wide open, but not of course amazing corners, optimized more for bokeh and OOF transition, not so much for coma correction.
The second personality is how the lens performs stopped down for landscape work. Here the lens is sharper and better corrected acorss the frame. On very demanding bodies like the D800E, like pretty much all wide angles, one must stop it down to F/7.1 or a touch more to get the corners to behave, but that's not unusual at this focal length and body combination. What you get as a landscape lens is a fairly flare resistant, fairly balanced in terms of color response lens with incredible global contrast and very rich, strong, bold colors. The lens simply has a "look" that fits really well with this task. In addition, within this personality the lens performs quite well at a wide variety of subject distances from near to moderate to far (some lenses tend to peak strongly in one subject distance zone while the 24/1.4G is more balanced).
So, at the end of the day, would it be the first choice for wide open astro work? Probably not. Street photography or environmental portraiture (where corner performance wide open isn't a concern but bokeh and rendering of OOF transitions is), wonderful lens. Landscape use, wonderful lens.
Depends on what you want to use it for. I'll never sell mine.
