{"id":1614,"date":"2010-08-25T14:53:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T05:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-08-25\/1614"},"modified":"2010-08-25T14:53:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T05:53:38","slug":"40-years-of-nikkor-50mm-f1-4-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-08-25\/1614","title":{"rendered":"40 Years of Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 Lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1614'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"037617\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_037617.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_037617_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"408\"\nalt=\"Different Eras Two Nikon 50mm f\/1.4 lenses, separated by 40 years and a lot of character -- Akron, Ohio, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i037617\"\nindexhint=\"right\"\ntitle=\"Different Eras Two Nikon 50mm f\/1.4 lenses, separated by 40 years and a lot of character -- Akron, Ohio, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 3200 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_037617.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_037617.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Different Eras<\/span>\n<br\/>Two Nikon 50mm f\/1.4 lenses, separated by 40 years and <span class='nobr'>a lot<\/span> of character\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The lens on the left is a new <b><a href=\"http:\/\/nikonusa.com\/Find-Your-Nikon\/Product\/Camera-Lenses\/2180\/AF-S-NIKKOR-50mm-f%252F1.4G.html\">AF-S Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4G<\/a><\/b> lens, and on\nthe right is <span class='nobr'>a circa<\/span>-1969 <b>Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f\/1.4<\/b>.<\/p>\n\n<p>The modern version has autofocus and <span class='nobr'>a built<\/span>-in CPU that communicates\ndetails about settings to the camera body, but is also made of plastic\nrather than the steel of the original, and comes completely devoid of\ncharacter. Foremost <span class='nobr'>a lens<\/span> is <span class='nobr'>a tool,<\/span> but <span class='nobr'>I wish<\/span> it would at least\n<i>aspire<\/i> to look good.<\/p>\n\n<p>Modern Nikon lenses may well be optically wonderful, but looks-wise,\nthey look to me now the same way that 80s hairstyles look to me now.\nUgh.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lens on the left is a new <b>AF-S Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4G<\/b> lens, and on the right is a circa-1969 <b>Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f\/1.4<\/b>.<\/p> <p>The modern version has autofocus and a built-in CPU that communicates details about settings to the camera body, but is also made of plastic rather than the steel of the original, and comes completely devoid of character. Foremost a lens is a tool, but I wish it would at least aspire to look good.<\/p> <p>Modern Nikon lenses may well be optically wonderful, but looks-wise, they look to me now the same way that 80s hairstyles look [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}