Best Photokina ever. Nikon has a new 50mm, a length which has been out of fashion for a long time but has always been my favorite, so it’s neat to see it enjoying a bit of a resurgence (due in no small part, I imagine, to its moderate telephoto character on cropped sensors). Kind of sad to see them continuing down the path of lenses with no aperture rings, but I guess technology marches forward. Canon’s aspheric 1.2L is still the main object of my 50mm lust, however. If someone made 50mm breakfast cereal I’d eat it.
The new 50mm 1.4 has a silent wave motor, so its autofocus will work on Nikon’s baby SLRs, the D40, D40x and D60.
