Travel Gadget – Sample Photos Taken with Nikkor 35mm f1.8 fixed lense
Yes. Now you can see some of the photos taken with the fast Nikkor 35mm f1.8 DX format lense. For only RM800 (USD199), all travelers carrying a Nikon DSLR should grab it for your travel. This lense is exceptional fast to be able to capture night travel scenes with portrait with ease without carrying the heavy and bulky tripod! You can’t go wrong with it as it is the cheapest Nikkor fast lense in the market with built-in motor that will autofocus in Nikon D3000 or D60. It is almost 3 times cheaper than its sibling Nikkor 50mm f1.4 AFD lense which is RM2200! The only downside of this lense is its DX format which is not suitable for FX or full frame Nikon camera body, like D3x or D700, just in case you will be upgarding very soon.
My only complain to it is its tendency to have “purple fringing” at edges of high contrast objects, especially when you shoot something backlited. Though most of the lower ranged lenses have the same issue, I was hoping that fixed lense would have less of this issue, but it’s not actually. 🙁
Anyway, check this out: Exciting photos taken with Nikkor 35mm f1.8G AF-S DX fixed lense. – Travel Feeder.
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Cecil Lee
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Hey, I just got this lens too. Do you notice on yours that the manual focus ring is a bit loose? It wriggles a bit, and when you want to focus, you need to turn it slightly first before it catches and then lens focuses. As well, the focusing is quite noisy, isn’t it supposed to be SWM? Sigh, I really hope I didn’t buy a lemon…
- October 30, 2009>Nancy,
- October 30, 2009I do notice the manual focus ring is a bit loose and could be easily moved when I touch it after autofocus and the focus out! So what I do is to attach the lens shade provided invertedly and my fingers won’t be able to overwrite the focus ring. 🙂
However, I didn’t feel it wriggles, nor need to turn it slightly first before it catches and then focus. Also mine focusing as silent as other SWM Nikkor lenses. Perhaps you should check others in camera shops. Hope it’s not lemon… 🙁
So it turns out it is a lemon, I also found a scratch on the lens! Thank god it’s within the exchange period!
I’m curious, what kind of shutter speeds do you usually use with this lens? I tried doing some low light photos, and at an ISO of 800, wide open, only shutter speeds of around 1/2 to 1 second work, and it comes out blurry still. How are all the people around getting such great sharp photos? Tripod? But it defeats the purpose of a fast walk-around lens!
- October 31, 2009