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It will be quite interesting to see how that guy performs. In the end it is an f/1.2 lens. So one might see all these longitudinal CA (Bokeh CA) and strong highly coloured fringes around high contrast edges - which often come with ultra high speed lenses. So interesting to see what Nikon has done to solve or reduce the issues - from a technical point of view.


Practically it might not blurr the background so much - but it still gathers the light. So for available light folks this might be of interest.

Always a difficult point, that light gathering. If you put a 2.7x crop sensor and a FF sensor under a 1.2x light gathering sensor, the FF sensor gathers a lot more light (7.3x more).

In the end - I have my doubts that this system needs a lens at this price point. I don't think is will sell in large numbers. I think Nikon 1 is a price point system. Professional portrait people will not look at this I expect.


In MFT you get a 45/1.8 (about the same blurr but a stop slower) for a lot less money. If you get a Nikon APS SLR a 50/1.8 ( a bit short though) goes for even less. I don't think there is a fast 60 for APS portraits.

The Nikkor lens is a 85mm f3.2 FF equivalent lens. 

The Tamron 60mm f2:

60 x 1.5 = 90mm

60 x 1.6 = 96mm

2 x 1.5 = f3

2 x 1.6 = f3.2

In the end the Tamron 60mm f2 Di II macro is easily equivalent on APS-C to that Nikkor 1 lens. It has a bit more shallow DOF wide open. 

(32mm / 1.2 = 26.7mm aperture, 60 / 2 = 30mm aperture)