Stockholm, Sweden, September 10, 2024: Today, Nikon expands its range of full-frame lenses in the Z series with the NIKKOR Z 50mm f/1.4. This new 50 mm fixed focal length lens is designed to capture a natural perspective with extraordinary finesse and is truly something extraordinary. Thanks to the large aperture of f/1.4, the sharp optics, fast autofocus, and impressive rendering performance, users can let their creativity flow when photographing various types of subjects, achieving fantastic depth, clarity, and sharpness, regardless of lighting conditions.
The NIKKOR Z 50mm f/1.4 lens offers exciting flexibility to create in the light that is available, making it a perfect all-around lens for creative everyday photography with a fixed focal length. Additionally, it is an excellent lens for travel and event photography. The large maximum aperture of f/1.4 combined with the natural field of view provides great opportunities for intuitive creativity, day and night, whether you are photographing cityscapes, unique portraits of people, or want sharp close-ups of details and textures. Nikon's fast multi-focusing system locks precisely on the subject, even when shooting at f/1.4, and the lens's impressive rendering performance ensures that colors are vivid and true to life, that contrast is sharp and clear, and that brightness is smooth and fine across the entire image.
Photographers and filmmakers using the maximum aperture of f/1.4 will be able to achieve a large, beautifully soft bokeh that is perfect for portraits where you want the subject to stand out, but also for creative backlit images. Additionally, you can capture subjects in low light with outstanding detail at lower ISO settings or use shorter shutter speeds to freeze motion without sacrificing brightness. For those who want to take impactful close-ups, the short minimum focusing distance of just 0.37 m provides plenty of room to fill the frame or focus on fine details.
The NIKKOR Z 50mm f/1.4 is the second f/1.4 full-frame lens in the Nikon Z series and it has the same unlimited portability as its sibling - the NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.4. Both of these f/1.4 fixed focal length lenses are carefully sealed to provide durability you don't have to worry about, and they are light enough to remain on a Nikon Z camera while you explore.
Zurab Kiknadze, Product Manager for Nikon Europe, says: "We are excited to introduce this standard 50 mm lens to our growing range of available f/1.4 fixed focal length lenses. The lens offers unlimited creativity and portability and fits perfectly with our 35 mm lens at f/1.4 that we recently launched. Keep these compact fixed focal length lenses from the Z series next to each other in the camera bag so you can easily maintain aesthetics when switching perspectives from wide to normal."
Summary of key features: NIKKOR Z 50mm f/1.4
Versatile 50 mm fixed focal length full-frame lens: from beautiful landscapes or urban environments to lively street scenes. From authentic portraits and detailed close-ups to smooth films. Create with a focal length that is appreciated for its versatility and natural perspective without distortion.
A large f/1.4 aperture for creative flexibility: allows you to use a large and even background or foreground bokeh, and gives the user greater freedom to photograph subjects in low light. Capture more details at lower ISO settings and freeze events without compromising brightness.
Impressive rendering: whether you are photographing close or from afar, fully open or fully stopped down, subjects are captured with true depth, clarity, and sharpness.
Fast and quiet autofocus: you can confidently and discreetly capture moments that would otherwise disappear in an instant. Thanks to Nikon's precise multi-focusing system, the lens can lock onto subjects with great accuracy, even when shooting at f/1.4.
Close focusing limit of 0.37 m: provides plenty of room to fill the frame, find fine details, or film in tight spaces without any problems.
Filming with fixed focal length lenses: this lens naturally fits well with gimbals and camera cages, and the natural field of view is excellent for interviews and first-person perspectives. Wobbly focusing is countered and linear focusing can be activated for controlled and precise manual focus pulling.
Intuitive control: the click-less setting ring can be used to easily adjust, among other things, aperture, ISO, and exposure compensation.
Unlimited portability: weighs only (approximately) 420 g, and all moving parts in the lens housing are carefully sealed to provide durability you don't have to worry about.1
Global announcement: September 10, 2024
Sales start: September 2024
Recommended retail price: 6,690 SEK
FOOTNOTE:
1 We do not guarantee that the lens is dust and drip protected in all situations or under all conditions.
