And today, I received my new full frame lens to go with my camera. It’s the AF-S Nikkor 24-70mm f2.7G ED. Of course, I also got a 77mm UV filter that will forever be mounted on it just to protect the front glass of the lens.
I’m not sure what all the letters mean but the most bits of info for me are the focal range, 24-70mm and the aperture, f2.8. 24mm on a full frame camera (35mm) is going to be quite wide for the occasional landscape and architecture shots I do. The rest of the range up to 70mm will be good for group shots and individual people. And it is for individual people where the f2.8 will really shine; such a shallow depth of field should very nicely blur the background.
The focusing is so fast and so quiet, that at first I wondering if it was working at all. I pointed the camera at something close and it seemed to already be in focus, and then when I pointed the camera at something distant it also seemed to already be in focus!
Some quick test shots has shown me one problem that is new to me, especially coming from a camera with a smaller sensor size – vignetting. When the lens is at its widest 24mm, and when I have the UV filter on, a circular polarising filter and a lee graduated filter, there is vignetting. I’ll need to be take care that for such occasions that the subject doesn’t encroach too much into the corners of the frame.
However, I still don’t think that this lens will surpass and better my other, my favourite lens. The 85mm f1.4 – it is significantly slower and nosier to focus but the image produced is astoundingly sharp.
