The double-gauss lens design represents no new thinking in the SLR lens space. These have been around, as of this video’s recording, for at least 135 years. So these are mature lens designs that have influenced almost every type of standard, telephoto, and zoom design for at least the last fifty years. So to say a double-gauss lens is good is kind of like saying “trains in Japan are reliable” – it’s pretty much established and common knowledge.

In fact, the good fast-fifty double-gauss lens is the epitome of the “me too” lens. Get all the camera and lens makers over the last 100 or so years in a room, ask one if they make a good standard double-gauss lens, and after they say “yes” most if not all the others will raise their hand and say “me, too!”

Is this the best of the double-gauss 50mm-class lenses? No, but it’s probably top 10%. And it’s likely one of the two or three best in the f/1.8-class. So that’s high praise, that yes, this is one of many and nothing inherently special, but still it’s excellent.

One of the key takeaways from this series should be that double-gauss lenses are, with few exceptions, very good and predictable. Across makers, by the time the late-sixties arrived, finding a bad, or even poor, double-gauss lens was harder than finding a very good one. By the nineties, the refinements had been minimal, though present, and the overall lens quality continued to improve.

The Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens is like an old pickup, the kind that’s engine has looped the odometer twice and still starts up quickly, even on a cold morning. You know it will work and give you either a lot of editability in post or deliver highly usable images without much work. That, in our contemporary, post-processing-obsessed photography landscape, is high praise: that a lens can create images which need very little work to bring the most out of them.

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Video Index:
0:00 - Intro
0:12 - Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 Information
1:29 - Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 Specifications
2:36 - Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 Tips & Tricks
4:03 - Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 Lens Diagram
4:26 - Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 Video Use
6:22 - Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 Strengths & Weaknesses
8:41 - Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 Narrative

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