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I could definitely see this happening; Nikon has seriously let their professional prime line-up slip compared to Canon.
But a 24/1.4 is a pretty bad idea, though, even though Canon has one. Just make a better-corrected, smaller, lighter, 24/2. With ISO 25,600 it should be fine. No one seems to care about gear not being obtrusive these days, with their big f/2.8 pro zooms, so they probably don't care and are just going to wave their engineering-peen around and make a 24/1.4. We seriously need some company to go and make the equivalent of a digital OM-1, a professional SLR that's ridiculously well-designed and also more compact than the competition to force other companies to pay attention to what they're making and not just the spec sheets. And make a few compact lenses for it, pancakes if possible. I'm sick of seeing camera bodies bigger than people's heads.
What makes me convinced that this could very well be true is that I noticed Nikon no longer lists the AF 50/1.4 on their website.
>all "G"
However, if this is true (no surprise if it is) I'll have to resist the urge to kick every person who made or approved the decision in their balls. There's just no reason to make a lens G at all.
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