Nikon Z 50mm F1.4 sample gallery – a lens with character?

When Nikon announced its Nikkor 50mm F1.4 lens earlier this year, the company implied that it and its 35mm sibling prioritized character over absolute sharpness, unlike Nikon's 'S' series lenses.

To get a sense of what that means, we've shot a sample gallery with it, including a few series of images that illustrate its vignetting and longitudinal chromatic aberration performance at different apertures.

This isn't a lens review by any means, but it's clear that wide open, the 50mm F1.4 has a lot of vignetting and longitudinal chromatic aberration. Whether that's a good or a bad thing likely depends on whether you view those as character or flaws. However, its price is less subjective: the 50mm F1.4 retails for $496, around $130 less than Nikon's slower 50mm F1.8 S model.

If you want to see how it compares to Nikon's 50mm F1.4 from the DSLR age, we've done a comparison article, which you can read here.

Click here to see the sample gallery