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Nikon 24mm f/1.4 by kenrockwell

This Nikon 24mm f/1.4 is the world's best wide f/1.4 lens. It is exceptionally well suited to low-light hand-held photography, both film and FX digital.

Because 24mm shows hand-shake only half as much as a 50mm lens, you can shoot at one-stop slower shutter speeds for the same sharpness you'd get from a 50mm f/1.4. Since a 24mm lens has four times the depth-of-field as a 50mm lens, you can get quite a lot in focus at f/1.4, while with a 50mm f/1.4, you barely get anything in focus at f/1.4. You can get a lot more sharp in your low-light hand-held images with a 24mm f/1.4 than even with a 50mm f/0.95.

I've used its predecessor, the Nikon 28mm f/1.4 AF-D since 1999 to let me shoot anything in any light, hand-held, even on ASA 50 film. With the crazy-high ISOs of FX digital, I can shoot hand-held in full moonlight, something I can't do with a 50mm lens.

This Nikon 24mm f/1.4 is a big and heavy lens. As you can compare at Nikon wide zooms, at 618g and taking 77mm-filters, this 24mm is as big and as heavy as a professional wide zoom. You don't just throw this 24mm in your bag as a spare; the sane photographer carries it instead of a wide zoom. For instance, just grab this 24mm and a tele zoom and you're good to go for anything. I'm serious: Galen Rowell did most of his best work all around the globe with just one fixed 24mm f/2.8 and a 75-150mm zoom.

It works great on DX, but for DX, I'd much rather use the 35mm f/1.8 DX. The 35/1.8 DX weighs less than one-third and costs less than one-tenth as much as this huge 24mm f/1.4, and on DX, pretty much does the same thing. (the 35mm DX won't cover the FX frame.)

The Nikon 24mm f/1.4 AF-S is a spectacular lens for FX, DX and 35mm film. It's bright, sharp and contrasty at every aperture from edge-to-edge, with a minimum of distortion and coma, and no ghosting of which to speak. This is as close to perfect as any Nikon f/1.4 lens has ever come. It's even slightly better than the landmark 28mm f/1.4 AF-D of 1993.

This 24mm f/1.4 is super-sharp, even wide-open in the corners of FX. You just can't make it unsharp, unless something's outside of its narrow plane-of-focus at f/1.4. http://kenrockwell.com/nikon/24mm-f14.htm