You’re making me thing even more that Nikon has made a great decision to offer good lenses at only moderate apertures, which can then work very well even wide open. After. A lot of the film era need for fast lenses is what the name says: speed with the far more limited usable ISO speeds.
Today Stanley Kubrick could have shot that notorious candle-lit scene in “Barry Lyndon” with a perfectly normal f/2 or slower lens, and it could have far lower aberrations etc.
Exactly. Especially for wide lenses.
There are obviously exceptions, but I feel that a key motivation for manufacturers for pushing f1.4 wide lenses is to justify higher prices.
For all that matters, a 24mm f1.8 is 99% as useful as a 24mm f1.4 and in the present case, I feel that i beats most, if not all, 24mm f1.4 out there.
In combination with the Z7, it is a mind boggling combo for super high quality hand held shooting.
Cheers,
Bernard