Nikon 35mm 1.8G Good or Bad buy?

Excellent for the money, I hardly ever take it off my D5000
Took this with it recently.
 
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It's a good buy if you need one,maybe it's just me but rarely use primes theses days perfering zooms :)
 
Its and excellent lens for the money. It is sharp in the middle even at f/1.8 and is about as sharp as it gets by f/2.8. It is never fully sharp in the corners at any aperture though. Also works well on a full frame Nikon up to about f/4 when the vignette becomes an issue.

If you want to shoot at f/1.8 its one of your best options for a cropped sensor. If you never shoot that wide you can get a much better results with something like a Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8
 
I've got one, I'm pretty happy with the photos.

I paid £146 on Amazon, they are going 2nd hand on ebay for £115-£135 inc postage. £140 is a cracking deal for a great lens.
 
Superb lens regardless of cost.
 
James r said:
Great lens wish I could keep mine, unfortunately I can't keep it as I've just upgraded to Full frame and this is a DX lens :( and I can't afford the FF version yet

Mines for sale in the classifieds section if your interested?
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I think i read somwhere you can still use this on an FX camera :)
 
simonblue said:
I think i read somwhere you can still use this on an FX camera :)
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You can, but you can't use the hood, and there's too much vignetting for my liking, especially when you start stopping down.

It's an awesome DX lens though, really wish there was an FX AF-S F/1.8 version.
 
It's a great lens. Introduced me to the joy of primes (which in turn led me to m4/3, but that's another story...)
 
redddraggon said:
You can, but you can't use the hood, and there's too much vignetting for my liking, especially when you start stopping down.

It's an awesome DX lens though, really wish there was an FX AF-S F/1.8 version.
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You certainly can use the hood. :)
 
I have got one on my Nikon D5000 and I really like it. I think paid £160 but I got it from a shop.

Great lens indoors and low light situations.
 
Used one because I didnt like the length of the 50/1.8 on my d300s. Loved it, really good lens. Sharp as anything. Now back on a 50/1.8 and D700. Definitely need these lenses in your bag!
 
redddraggon said:
Whenever I used the hood you could see it in the image :thinking:
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Weird, I've never seen that.
 
had mine about two weeks, use it on D3100, it is a good lens user freindly nice feel to it, gives good quality pics, good in low light, makes you think more about composition, and makes some good bokeh pics on the creative side, also use it with dcr 250 for macro with some decent result, all in all a good walk about lens,
 
I like it. Sometimes it looks a bit soft at f/1.8 and every now and then misses focus on both my D2x and D7000, but for what it cost, it really is a good lens. Miles better than the 50mm AF-D that it replaced and is pretty much my 'go-to' lens for video work on the D7000
 
Fantastic lens, the only one I kept in the end to keep company to my D40 after moving to Pentax. Balances so nicely and takes fantastic pics. You wont regret it as long as you can come to terms with the limitations of a fixed focal length.
 
The23rdman said:
Weird, I've never seen that.
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Ok so I borrowed a 35mm from a colleague and yes you are right about the hood not causing vignetting, not sure what I was seeing when I had my own 35mm on the D700.

I thought about repurchasing the 35mm DX but I'm really not comfortable with the amount of vignetting - there seems to be lots of examples online showing minimal vignetting but I seem to see really black corners with my old copy and the copy I am borrowing now.
 
The 35mm is a DX, designed for crop sensors, which will cause vignetting on full frame.
 
I love mine. I tend to keep it on pretty much all the time especially for anything indoors or days out with the family.

Only time i'll tend to take it off for anything else is if we're going somewhere where i'm pretty certain i'll want a different focal length, for example the farm we went to the other day, I thought i'd want a longer focal length so I put the 55-200 on.

It's as sharp as anything i'm ever going to need.
 
Has anyone tried it on say, a D800, in DX mode?
 
Got one - nice to use, easy and quiet.

However I've had to tweak the focus using the internal fine tune as it misses focus (that I want) a lot.

Its been to fixation with camera, which they charged for, but if anything seems worse now. Will be contacting them shortly about it.


Overall, worth getting as at f4 its still good, and f1.8 when it focuses where you want it, its brill!
 
Its my only lens that i truly love, next time 28mm :)
 
specialman said:
I like it. Sometimes it looks a bit soft at f/1.8 and every now and then misses focus on both my D2x and D7000, but for what it cost, it really is a good lens. Miles better than the 50mm AF-D that it replaced and is pretty much my 'go-to' lens for video work on the D7000
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That's interesting, Pat - mine sometimes misses focus as well (D90). For a longtime, I was assuming bad technique, but after performing a few tests it does indeed miss focus. Very frustrating when it does. Assumed it was the technique and just not hitting the focus point at f1.8 etc (it's the reason I got the lens, so it very rarely goes passed f3 or 4 mark for me.) - shallow depth of field isnt the issue though, it is sometimes simply missing focus (bought new as well)

Anyone else ntoice this? I'm going to have a google.....
 
Just saw your reply 'ecniv', maybe it is a more common issue then?....

It's sweet when it focuses correctly though, for 140 that I paid for it, I cant complain, but if I knew this was an issue, I would have saved for a solution that didnt do this (up to 10% of my pics can be affected i've noticed)
 
Hi, it was the first lens i brought for my 3100 and the best. outstanding value for the money.
 
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