Nikon Z 50mm f/1.4 review: portraiture on a budget
Nikon Z 50mm f/1.4: two-minute review The nifty-fifty lens is a staple in many a photographer's camera bag – a typically compact lens for portraiture that offers good control over depth of field to make your subjects stand out. It's the lens that I would recommend to beginner photographers having grown out of their kit lens and looking for a second lens to elevate the quality of their photos – and if they have a Nikon camera I would recommend the new Nikkor Z 50mm f/1.4. Where mirrorless lenses can often be much pricier than DSLR equivalents – the classic 50mm f/1.8 lens for Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras is just about the cheapest lens you can buy at around $100 / £100 secondhand – Nikon is looking to buck this trend by creating affordable options for mirrorless, and the new Z 50mm f/1.4 is its cheapest Z-mount f/1.4 lens so far. This isn't Nikon's first 50mm lens for its mirrorless cameras . It follows the optically-excellent Z 50mm f/1.8, which was one of Nikon...