AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G

wonderful lens that everyone should own. However if you are going to get this lens, purchase it new. I purchased mine Reconditioned. Regrettably after the warranty period has expired the lens is having focusing problems. Continual hunting and searching, and unable to maintain focus. I will repurchase this lens new when they become available. I have learned my lesson...

I have this as my primary lens on a Nikon D60. It is very good for indoor flashless photography. My 2 boys( 6 year old and 11 month old) stop what they are doing when they see the flash go off. With this lens not only during daytime but even at night time I can photograph them at play without distracting them. The lens is also able to autofocus quickly allowing me to take several shots from which from which I can choose a keeper.

Bokeh is good enough to blur out the unwanted ´´extras´´ in the background who smile or act out thinking that they will come out and spoil the shot.

For ordinary travels, it´s one of two lenses that I take, the other being Nikon´s 18-200. It´s especially fast, so it frees me from taking a flash unit. It´s light weight and packs compactly, features that become critical with airline restrictions on carry-on baggage. Going back to a ´´normal´´ fixed lens after years of only using zooms also forces me to concentrate once more on careful composition before I take the photo -- that ´´previsualization´´ so beloved by master photographers.

My old point and shoot died and rather than replace it I decided to purchase this lens to use on a D60 that I use as a backup to a D300S. This lens costs less than many point and shoots, allows me to shoot in RAW with my D60, very light weight combo is a little heavier than a point and shoot, but an acceptable trade-off for me. The lens is sharp and focuses fast. Shooting at f1.8 doesn´t provide enough depth of field for candids, so, I find that stopping down to 2.8 or 3.5 gives me just enough depth of field for good candids.

I purchased this lens over a year ago. It has served me well as a portrait lens (I had to save up for the Nikkor 2.8 70-200mm VR) This lens is sharp with nice contrast. It also worked out well for me to use in tighter spaces. Focus is sharp, fast and produces pictures with no distortion that I´m aware of. Bokeh is very pleasing also. I´m very pleased with the performance of this lens and it stays on my camera or within easy reach at all times.

I just started using this lens but already have found it to be a good, all-purpose lens; good for nature pictures, pictures of groups and, with some editing, good for portraits. I prefer to set it one f-stop away from its widest aperture for most applications, unless I need more depth of field.

This lens, AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G, is found on my camera most of the time. As a professional food photographer, I shoot at work everyday - a lot - and it´s my lens of choice.

This lens is well-suited for shooting the action in kitchens as food is being prepared and for shooting styled beauty shots or serving suggestion shots on a photo stage.

It captures light and color brilliantly and will render my subject as vivid, artistic imagery. Its capacity to show smooth but dramatic contrast is superb.

I love working with this lens in low-light conditions. It absorbs light like a sponge - a deeply colorful, vibrant sponge.

The lens hood it came with , HB-46, was not overly tight when attached correctly and so it would constantly slip off the lens when I would brush up against a chef walking by, which, in close quarters, would happen quite often. I eventually bought a new hood. Same exact model, HB-46, but this one´s nice and tight and never comes off unless I want it to. Guess the originally supplied one was a little off.

This lens, I find, is also well-suited for exterior or landscape shooting. I do this on my off time, mostly everyday and I love mt results. It´s a good focal length for shooting bands in small clubs as well.

Sharpness: This is a sharp lens. Make no mistake. However, I´ve noticed over the year and a half that I´ve been using it (everyday) that the sharp focus is a little behind my desired focal point when using larger f-stops like 1.8 - 5.6. It´s becoming annoying and I´m researching what can be done about it. But this phenomenon didn´t occur until after over a year of constant everyday use. I´ve learned to compensate for it.

Photos taken with this lens, I´m proud to say, are on products that are displayed on store shelves coast to coast nationwide and internationally. The AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G is an amazing part of any photographer´s arsenal. Especially for the incredible price.

Summary: Like I said, I use the AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G nearly always. I make a living with this lens.

The 35mm/1.8 DX is a great deal; a fast, versatile lens at a very reasonable price. Wonderful for low light situations such as indoor photography; can often shoot with just a small flash or without flash altogether. Its small size also make it a good travel companion that still has a wide range of applicability. Quality of the images is high.

Just about everyone loves this lens with good reason. It´s light, compact, and produces sharp images assuming that you focus on what you want. This prime lens will give you a couple of stops of extra light over a typical zoom lens at the cost of limited depth of field in low light conditions typlically found in museums or at indoor shows. If you want to travel light and are willing to zoom with your feet this lens might do the trick. I do, however, sometimes wish I had mounted my wideangle lens or my zoom telephoto lens but this lens has given me shots in dark places and images of rapidly moving people that I could not have gotten without much more expensive equipment.