For the last few years I have been playing around with mid-range zoom lenses. I first had a crop-sensor Nikon 17-55 f/2.8 lens that I changed to a 24-70 f/2.8 lens when I upgraded to a full-frame camera. Now these are great lenses and produce outstanding images, and all was good and well ... until one day ... I decided to pull out my 50mm f/1.4 lens when I needed a faster lens and some additional bokeh. Now my 'nifty fifty' usually stayed quietly on the sidelines during a shoot while the mid-range zooms carried on doing their thing, but then I noticed something ... something about these prime images were different and I can't really put my finger on it. Like my beloved 85mm f/1.4 and my 105mm f/2.8 macro lens, I just love the look that only a prime can give. It is something intangible that you just have to see to know what I'm talking about. So I started using my 50 more and more, to the point now where the majority of the images I shoot are with my 50mm. Now this brings me to the main topic of this post, I decided that I loved the primes so much that I sold my 24-70 and decided I could replace the range with an additional wide angle prime to compliment my 50, 85, and 105 prime lenses. Enter one of Nikon's newest lenses, the 24mm f/1.4. There are a lot of reviews online about this lens and how unbelievably amazing it is - but I am not normally a landscape shooter or a wide angle lens user, so I can not say much about it except that wide open you can get some very interesting images. That's it, that's all I can say for now. I know, it's not much, but I have high hopes for this lens and hopefully it will open up my eyes to the beauty of wide angle shooting.
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