New camera, old ideas, using a fixed focal length lens and your own two feet to take pictures, instead of a wide-medium telephoto. Certainly there are a few places this doesn't work, like in very close quarters where a wide angle would be better (the 35mm on a 24mm sensor is like a 50mm on a 35mm film camera). But then that zoom is always in the bag right? The quality is certainly better than with a [bundled] 28-55mm zoom, the autofocus is much faster and more accurate, and quieter. The macro capability vastly better. The aperature wider and brighter. The lens smaller and lighter (although not as small or light as you might expect). Switching from an economy 55-200mm to a full frame Nikon 70-300mm zoom it was hard to go back to the cheap bundled lenses that offered relatively poor performance. The 35mm offers the same high quality you would expect from Nikon. But if you are a sit back and zoom sort of person this lens won't work for you!Read full review
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This is a really well reviewed lens - but I wasn't impressed with it's performance. This lens is not as fast/ sharp as it's bigger brother the 50mm 1.8G. It has trouble focusing on the subject sometimes. When taking groups of people 4+, the outer people will get vignetted if you are at a low aperture. 50mm doesn't have this problem. I will get used to this lens. But not have thrilled as I was with the 50mm.
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Great basic prime lens for Nikon DX cameras - it's pin sharp & fast. The 35 equates to about 52mm on a full frame camera. In other words it is the standard focal length. If all you have is the kit lens, then I suggest that you buy one of these for your kit. It is inexpensive, and although the body is mostly plastic, it does have a metal mount. It is the basic, sharp, fast lens every photographer should have at their disposal. All in one zooms are great, but there are plenty of times that this simple, great in low light situations lens is all you will need. You will just have to zoom with you feet.
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First of all, the product came quickly and was well packaged. The first picture that I took with this lens I was blew away. So easy to get great background blur and it was tack sharp. 35 mm is a great focal length for my cropped sensor Nikon. Allows me to take great indoor photos, while taking in more field of view. if you're in to portraits, you would want to consider the 50 mm as well.
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Love using this lens, and for 140 used it's a great value I use it as my go to lens for street photography, and take it as my primary lens most places. At 1.8 - 3.5 it is slightly disappointing in terms of sharpness, but is expected from this price point. My friends sigma 35mm 1.4 blows this away even at 1.4 wide open, but there's also a 600 dollar difference. The lens gives decent bokeh and has been great for low light photography. It focuses pretty quick and quietly but struggles when there isn't strong contrast at the focus point.
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I planned to spent New year eve in Newyork, Am pretty much sure that my kit lenses will not work in low light and night photos. Kit lens need Higher ISO settings which will not give good photos . More over kit lenses are not sharp. I cant use tripod and spend more time in taking photos because all my friends will get frustrated if I do it. So I need a compact lens which will take photos on the Go and it needs to be sharp and bright . Nikon f1.8 gave me what I need. This lens is very sharp in low light conditions(almost no light). 35 mm is perfect for street photography ,and 35 mm focal length will work for almost 90% of the situations if you are using in street. I got impressive JPEG photos from RAW file.
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For the price of this lens you just can't go wrong. The 1.8 aperture is great for low light situations. It's not INSANELY sharp, but it gets the jop done in good fashion. I wish I could post photos to this review to show you how good the lens is! Again, for a lens in this price range, it produces good image quality and a very good amount of Bokeh(backround blur) in the shots you take. Just remember that at this range you'll be standing CLOSER to your object of focus if you want a portrait style photo. Good buy for the price. Two thumbs up!
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The 35mm lens helps you take fantastic images in both bright sunshine as well as low-light conditions. It allows you to use a much wider range of your camera's aperture control and help express your creativity, from portraits to landscapes to everything else. Be warned though ---- this lens has a fixed zoom point. There's no standing in place and adjusting your zoom back and forth to frame your shot. You'll quickly realize that you'll have to move your feet and body if you want to fit everything in frame, especially when photographing large objects such as buildings. That being said, if you can handle quickly moving around and being somewhat agile with your feet, then this can easily be a very powerful lens to add to your camera. The images it can help create are incredibly sharp, and working with a 35mm lens has a great "retro" feeling to it as well.Read full review
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The 35mm lens from Nikon is one of the best prime lenses I have used. The 35mm paired with a Nikon DX camera is really a 52.5mm lens. The images the 35mm produces had nice bokeh. With careful composition, one might use this for portraits. The short length of this lens makes it easy to grab and go. Highly recommend adding this lens to your must have.
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Everything I read lead to this as being the best budget buy for a third lens. I am especially pleased with the low light capability, essentially does away with flash requirement for low interior lighting, assuming you can live with the more incandescent glow of no flash vs the bright look of the flash. Outdoors evenings and nights equally pleasing for me. If my 18-55 had this aperture level, I would not have purchased this one, but for that kind of kit zoom, I would have had to pay so much more than this lens cost. As for sharpness, I don't see any difference from the kit lens, but I am not a pro. Size also is not significantly smaller than the 18-55. I did look at the 50mm 1.8 tho, and on a DX, this is the more accurate representation of the human eye vision, or the 50mm on the full size sensor. It works pretty well in an 20x20 room space for groups, would like an 18-50 or so, but not for the money. I can just back up. Portrait lens evaluation - quite pleased. Bokeh, also quite pleased. Remember, all of this is speaking from an affordability perspective. I would love one of those $1500 70-300 Nikon 2.8 lens, but hey, I have not spent that much on my whole setup which includes a sx600 hs point and shoot and a sx520 hs superzoom, plus filters, bags, batteries, misc., etc. On a side note, on my budget, what my D3300 is missing and will never get, is the range of the superzoom. Yes you get a lot more noise, but the sx520hs is superb at those distances that would cost me many $1000's of dollars to achieve on the D3300. Got it refurb from Canon for about $100 and use it all the time for wildlife and far off shots, realizing it suffers in quality perhaps, but is superb in those special circumstances of distance. It's only drawback is no viewfinder, but to get that you will spend closer to $350-$500, and for that I bought my D3300 with two lenses. So not really a compromise. So I am very pleased, but I did my research. You should think thru your particular situation and requirements before purchasing this lens, but know it is a good lens and does what it is supposed to. Lastly, the seller, (name omitted by me), provided a great deal. This $170 purchase was $225 at your local big electronics chain (name omitted by me). I purchased it at the big chain to test, returned for credit, and bought this one). If you don't know who I am talking about, you need to do some more research about your lens purchase! Hope this helps some of you looking for a good third lens for your Nikon DX.Read full review
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