Will Nikon ever make an AF-S version of the 50mm f1.2?

As you may know if you are familiar with the Nikon product line, Nikon has a 50mm f1.2 but it's an old, manual focus only lens, and it sells for about $725.

Nikon has already modernized its other 50mm lenses, with the f1.4G and f1.8G, and i think it's time the 50mm f1.2 makes a modern serious comeback.

What do you guys think?

I doubt it

Back in the day when we only had film and that film was Tri-X 400 ISO pushed to 1200 wen using Acufine developer, a lens that was a little faster than the 50 mm /f1.4 made some sense.

Now with cameras like the D3 being able to shoot at ISO 6400 with very little noise, we can use lenses like the 200-400 mm f/4 when shooting indoor sports at shutter speeds that exceed 1/500th second, ultra fast lenses are not really needed any more.

Cameras and lenses are just tools and since the tools we have now are doing just fine, thank you, there really is no compelling reason for an Nikkor 50 mm f/1.2 lens. It is only a 1/3rd stop faster than the fine Nikkor 50 mm f/1.4. How many $1, 700 lenses to you think would be sold? My guess that only a handful of portrait photographers would want that lens. And frankly, the portrait photographers that I know, manually focus most of the portraits they shoot at 2 stops down from wide open to take advantage of the much sharper image at f/2.8 on their f/1.4 Nikkors

I doubt it, if you need af-s it means that you have entry-medium level camera without focus motor and you wouldnt buy expensive lens like 50 1.2 af-s would be.

How would you AF at f/1.2? It won't. It just won't. At f/1.2, you focus manually. There's no other way.

The high end Nikons have decent low-light capability - a lot more than film. For that reason, I doubt you will see a new f/1.2.

We're only talking 1/3rd stop improvement over a f/1.4 anyway, so I can't see the advantage justify the cost.