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i have just ordered this lens for my Nikon D60 (had the 50mm but wasnt getting the best results with the manual focus)

Could anyone give me the good and bad points for the lens?

Any help / info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 
All good points from me. Before I upgraded to the D90 this lens worked like a dream on my D60, super sharp.

Nice length for portraits (though some will argue the 50mm is more flattering on a cropped body) but because it is wider it means you get more shots where you struggle for space, especially indoors.

You need to master the art of focusing when wide open which I'm sure you already know from the 50mm you had.

Enjoy
 
dan_yorkshire said:
All good points from me. Before I upgraded to the D90 this lens worked like a dream on my D60, super sharp.

Nice length for portraits (though some will argue the 50mm is more flattering on a cropped body) but because it is wider it means you get more shots where you struggle for space, especially indoors.

You need to master the art of focusing when wide open which I'm sure you already know from the 50mm you had.

Enjoy
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it's a fantastic lens and is hardly off my camera - can suffer from lens flare when shooting directly into the sun, but other than that a really great lens.
 
My 35mm f2 spends a lot of time on my D300 when I am not out chasing the birds ;)

What I really like is the nice close focus distance, opens up the possibility of some really creative shots.
 
excellent, really looking forward to getting it now and going to have a "play"
 
Good: it goes down to f/1.8, cheap, sharp, small, light, useful general purpose focal length on a crop format camera.

Less good: it's fixed focal length - foot-zoom only.

Handy walkabout lens, especially in low light or for creating shallow depth of field effects if you move close to the subject. Focusing is very critical when shooting for shallow DoF.
 
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