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Wholly fucking shit batman, this ain’t no joke. This is the real deal. It’s official. Nikon has finally released the successor to the hall-of-famed 28mm f/1.4 $4k “holy grail” lens. Only this time, they’ve given us more width, in addition to all the new fancy lens coatings and what have you, for less. I just caught the news from the ever popular Nikon Rumors website who kindly left a link trail to Bob Krist’s blog, who first broke the news with some of the first sample photos from this all new 24mm f/1.4. Fortunately, for those of you like myself, who’ve been waiting literally YEARS for a lens like this to come out, it’s cheaper than the 28mm f/1.4 that’s been selling on EBay by about $1000.00 which brings it’s Canadian retail price to $2,349.59… bank breaking I know…

Herein lies the conundrum as it was so elegantly put by “Global Guy” who commented on the Nikon Rumors post – “Ugh. $2,700 bucks for a 24mm. I guess Nikon just assumed that if jerks pay $4,000 for 28mm, they’d pay half for a 24mm. What I don’t understand is why this couldn’t be a 1.8 and ohhh, cut a grand off that price. Why is 85/1.4 $1000. Why is 35/2 so affordable. Why is 50/1.4 $450 bucks — but 24mm/1.4 is $2000 are you freaking kidding me??” – A very justifiable response.

The thing is, unless you move completely over to Canon, which has been known to happen, Nikon doesn’t make many other fast prime lenses comparable to this one. So really you only have 2 options… you can pay $4k for the original 28mm f/1.4 OR you could pay $2500 for the new and improved $24mm f/1.4. Having two options really is better than only one ;)

Here’s the specs…

Prime Wide-angle Perspective—Ultra-fast f/1.4 Aperture
Natural wide angle of view, with extreme light gathering capability, delivers extraordinary performance, meeting a broad range of challenging assignments.

Nano Crystal Coat
Further reduces ghosting and internal flare across a wide range of wavelengths for even greater image clarity.

2 Extra-low Dispersion (ED) elements
Offers superior sharpness and color correction by effectively minimizing chromatic aberration, even at the widest aperture settings.

2 Aspherical Lens Elements
Aspherical lens elements virtually eliminate coma and other types of aberration, even when shooting at the widest available aperture.

Rear Focus (RF)
Provides smooth and fast autofocus while eliminating front barrel rotation and lens length changes.

Exclusive Nikon Silent Wave Motor (SWM)
Enables fast, accurate and quiet autofocus.

M/A Focus Mode Switch
Enables quick changes between manual and autofocus operation.

Rounded 9-Blade Diaphragm
Renders more natural appearance of out-of-focus image elements.

Minimum Focus Distance
0.82ft.(0.25m)

Filter Size
77mm

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