Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S is designed and built for Nikon DX-Format digital SLR camera. This lens is built with Nikon Super Integrated Coating (SIC) to enhance light transmission efficiency and offers superior color consistency. Nikon built this lens with Exclusive Nikon Silent Wave Motor (SWM) which enables it for fast, accurate and quiet Autofocus on Nikon’s entry-level DSLR camera like D40, D40x, D60 and D5000 which lacks internal motor to Autofocus lenses.
Price of this lens is one of the key point to buy it. It comes with less than half the price of many other DX format standard prime lenses currently in the market. At the time of writing this article, it’s price on Amazon was $197.04. You can shop around little bit and get this lens for the price of your lunch.
Along with all these promising features, the lens’s performance is very impressive compared to it’s price. It produces really sharp and finely detailed images with all apertures. It focuses very quickly and accurately. It is very light weight and fits into small package. If you are traveling a lot with your camera, this lens will be big advantage for you to carry around. It is almost 4 times cheaper than Nikon AF-S 18-200mm F3.5-5.6 DX VR II lens but produces much sharper images with close focusing up to 1 foot. It is very fast and f/1.8 aperture is perfect for low-light condition.
The AF-S Nikkor 35mm F/1.8G has two focus modes, M/A (manual override Autofocus) and M (manual focus). The M/A mode enables instant manual switching during AF operation. The lens also features a rubber seal to minimize moisture ingression around the mount. And this lens accepts 52mm filter attachments.
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What is meant by recomposing a shot ? How do I do it in D5000 ?
I was recently trying to clone myself on photoshop. I clicked two snaps of myself in different positions (on a tripod) for this purpose and used them in layers to clone myself. The cloning came out well, but my second photograph of me, was out of focus and I couldnt get my camera to focus on me in the second photograph. How can I improve on this ?
I think I didn’t get your idea. I mean I am lost what you are trying to say. Can you make it more clear to me?
Let me try this again.
1. I mounted my camera on a tripod and took a snap of myself sitting on a couch on the center of the frame.
2. Then I took another snap of myself, immidiately after, without moving the camera, this time sitting on the extreme right of the frame.
3. I merged the two snaps in photoshop to get a single snap which had me in the center and also on the right of the snap.
4. The picture came out well, but there was a problem. When I was taking the second snap, I couldnt get my camera to focus on me properly, probably because I was seated on the extreme right this time.
Is there a way I can position myself in the right side of the frame and still have the camera focus on me when I am using the timer to click a snap of myself.
Does this make a little more sense ?
Sorry I forgot to mention, I was using the aperture priority mode.
Oh yeah I got you what you mean. Are you using manual focus or autofocus? And which metering are you using? Spot metering will focus in the middle. If you want to read more about metering, search about metering in my site. If you are using autofocus and you are in the right of your frame, probably your censor is focusing on your couch in the middle. Try using manual focus and put some subject in your place to focus that. If you focus couch yourself without subject and then later you go and seat there, you will be out of focus obviously because focal distance was set to focus couch instead of sitting you.
Did I explain you better this time?
What do you think about AF Nikkor 20 mm f/2.8 D? Does it fit into D90?
Thanks
Dev!!!
YES it does fit into D90. Nikon made this lens for all Nikon DX format camera.
Thank you Umesh,
Read ur reply. I guess u are right I dont remember metering for the snap.
Samir,
Do little bit experiment with your camera and settings and let us know what was going on. Thanks for your deep concern over the matter.
Cool thanks Can you help me out with aperture setting in D90? If I want to set up in F16 or F2.8 , manual rings, I got some errors like f EE .. what does that mean?
Dev,
I got this kind of message when my lens was not properly fit into my D90. Try removing lens and put back in again. But your aperture depends on lens. Your aperture can’t be too big when you fully zoom your lens. If your lens says f3.5-5.6, that means your aperture can be set 3.5 maximum at lower focal length (fully zoom out) and 5.6 to higher focal length (fully zoom in).
All in all it depends on lens specification.
Thanks ,
I did same thing happened again, on the other hand, when I use for aperture at f22mm it works and switch to P,S,A,M mode, it works in autoas well as in manual mode,But When I switched aperture in f2.8 or or less than f22mm , it doesnt work in manual or auto progamme.
p.s I looked over manual guide D90 it says, set your aperture in minimum like f22, however, I would like to do manually with low aperture f2.8 or any other aperture.
p.s and once I set aperture ring at 2.8 or lower than f22, my minimum aperture lock lever doesnt allow me to lock it. any reason ?
thanks
Dev,
Which lens are you using with D90? If you want your camera to control aperture, you must set the lens to its smallest aperture, f/22 in your case, and lock it with Aperture lock lever.
I use AF 20 mm nikkor f2.8D
Oh ok. Great lens. Did you get your answer from my previous reply or you are still confused?
I want a wide angle f1.4 lens so was thinking about the sigma 30mm f1.4
what are your thoughts on this versus the 35mm f1.8 nikkor?
Hello Nj,
It depends on what are you trying to achieve. I don’t consider 30mm as a wide angle lens but if you are trying to get some nice bokeh, 1.4 aperture gives you really soft bokeh. In any case, I try to go with the brand of Camera (Nikon or Canon or Sony) rather than third party unless you can’t afford it. You can get Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX for USD 200. But if you are trying to get really wide angle shot, like Landscape or cityscape, you have to take Sigma 10mm f/2.8 Fish-eye.
Hope it helps.
Hi
I want the bokeh effect but find the 50mm on the d90 just to close to subjects. I can’t always get enough distance to get a good shot ESP when indoors, hence wanting a wider lens but with a f1.4.
Thoughts pls?
Thanks
If are you shooting interiors and room decoration then 35mm would be fine but I am not big fan of 35mm when it comes to shoot portrait (indoor or outdoor). As you might know, using small focal length on portrait shot zoom out subject’s face giving unnatural and cartoonish look. If you are very specific about 35mm focal distance and 1.4 aperture, your choice, sigma, sounds fit to me unless you want to spend $1600 on Nikon 35mm f/1.4G.
Hello
Sorry I don’t understand what you mean about the difference between the 35&50mm for portraits?
Thanks
Please read my earlier post Why should we use longer lens for portrait.