Report on new lenses

By [NR] admin | Published: July 24, 2008


A reader posted this as a comment to an existing entry (in order to remain anonymous - no email reference):


"35 afs

50 something. Source isn't solid on this. Either 1.8 af-s, 1.4 IF, or 1.2 with electronic vignetting correction for d3 d700 with firmware upgrade.
I have no details on the third."


Then I asked for more details and here is the answer:

"35 afs is having qa issues
Source said 50 1.2 with electronic vignetting control will not be announced till PMA next year. Expect a 50 1.8 or 1.4 afs version."

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4 Comments

  1. Jason
    Posted July 28, 2008 at 2:59 pm | Permalink

    You have to ask, “what’s in it for Nikon?”
    I don’t see them selling these in the sort of volumes that they ship 18-55 zooms, nor to that many entry-level dSLR owners, so it makes more sense as a high-end product. Which implies 50mm/f1.2, 85mm/f1.4 . . . woohoo!

    That said, I’ve been wrong plenty of times before

  2. Steven Sow
    Posted July 28, 2008 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

    I would hope this is coming, you would think that Nikon would want to pair up high performance glass with the D3/D700 bodies, besides I think that we have enough Nikon Kit lenses. And if these lenses are coming, they don’t need to have VR, just AFS and an ED element. But I would have to ask, what took them so long to update the 35 1.4, shouldn’t that lens have been updated like 10 years ago?

  3. Steven Sow
    Posted July 30, 2008 at 7:37 pm | Permalink

    No, I know that, I’m saying that if the new 35 is in fact an autofocus version of the old manual focus 35 1.4, that’s what I would be asking why it took them so long to update that lens, not the current 35 f/2

  4. Bryce
    Posted August 7, 2008 at 12:46 pm | Permalink

    Nikon has no 35 f/1.4 only a 35 f/2. And seriously every copy of that lens I’ve ever used (about 10) has been 100% solid & sharp from edge to edge and has some of the BEST contrast and color transmission ability of any nikon lens.