Comments on: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX

By: Mr Mike

Mr Mike — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:41:42 +0000

AS-F DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G DX – I just picked this up TODAY in Center City Philadelphia. This puppy compliments the two kit lenses I got with the D60 body. I was looking for a 50mm but saw this an glad I made the purchase. Extremely FAST Auto Focus and so quiet. Very important with indoor shooting!

By: dave

dave — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:59:05 +0000

Apparently, dreams come true!

By: PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:28:10 +0000

Heh, where do get these stats? “They do not use primes”, “half of them carry DV cams also”. Could you provide source to these statistics, please?

What they use depends mostly on what they are covering. News situations, you´ll bet they use zooms and fast camera bodies, Wide and tele. Sports, same story.

But then there are other areas in photo journalism, such as features, reportages, enviromental portraits… In these situations, fast primes are very popular (to what extent, that I can´t prove, don´t have the statistics here…).

If you don´t understand how a fast aperture combined with a wider angle of view can help you to tell a story… Well then you just don´t.

By: Mcarl

Mcarl — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:37:54 +0000

Can’t find it yet…where can I buy this?

By: Akash Adhikari

Akash Adhikari — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:59:28 +0000

could you send me any informetion sel nikon lence for Red?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:26:53 +0000

Bet you feel like an idiot now!

By: rod

rod — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:42:11 +0000

Good God. Go to the Nikon site and press release. It`s there.

By: rjm

rjm — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:31:36 +0000

35mm F1.8 DX AF-S at $200 ….

Yeah, fun to read the comments in retrospect. So many people were so clueless.

This hits exactly the right notes for people with the kit zoom already: compact, light, clearly faster (F1.8 vs F3.5-5.6 for crying out loud!), standard lens eq., and … affordable. I think it will sell like hotcakes. Hopefully Nikon will followup with an 18mm wide and 80mm tele to complete the traditional three prime lens set.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:10:31 +0000

http://www.nikon.com/about/news/2009/0209_nikkor_01.htm

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:32:33 +0000

It’s out…. the AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G

By: Jon Paul

Jon Paul — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:45:31 +0000

I think they’re going to announce an F400 at PMA. Sweet, sweet film, baby.

By: NikonMan

NikonMan — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:05:55 +0000

why is evryone saying $200?

price it similar to the AF 50mm F1.8D or the AF-s 18-55 VR both lenses are similar price point and Nikon is making money from the sales of these lenses

the 35mm could have AF-s motor from the 18-55 and the f stop of the prime, it make an easy “sell up” lens for D40/60 sales

at $100-150 the’ll sell millions of them

By: justin

justin — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 08:10:41 +0000

didnt nikon say they would stop producing DX lenses? if im not mistaken, you reported it Mr.NR.

By: [NR] admin

[NR] admin — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:18:41 +0000

yes, your picture is shown…. are you hungry?

By: bigmouth

bigmouth — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:02:21 +0000

is my picture shown?

By: bigmouth

bigmouth — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:35:29 +0000

One thing I didn’t buy 40D or XSi(450D) is because I didn’t want to feel inferior and 2nd class in the Canon lens world.

By: bigmouth

bigmouth — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:34:24 +0000

I have no idea what you are talking about. Nikon won’t do what? If they set 35mm F1.8 AF-S DX lens at say $200, I’m sure it will be a big seller. Every D40/40x/60/60x user will want to buy one. It’s also relatively easier to design and manufacture DX lenses as I understand it. Imagine that Nikon stop making any meaningful/decent DX lenses from now on, what kind of message it’s going to send all the DX Nikon owners?

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:51:46 +0000

I hope they don’t make a lens like the Olympus pancake.. Being both an ex Pentax and Olympus user, I think Pentax do pancakes much better… The Oly 25mm prime was optically worse in every way to the zoom I used 14-54mm….

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:49:36 +0000

The ‘dirty 30′ is also in my experience a very popular lens in all mounts, including Nikon.. as you say Nikon offers no competition to this lens and it makes a lot of sense to me to offer a 1.8 version if they can undercut the Sigma price then they will I believe halt the loss of sales to Sigma of Nikon DX users wanting a near normal FOV..

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:40:47 +0000

As a D90 user if this lens is real I will buy it, unless it is way overpriced compared to the Sigma..

I have owned the Sigma in Olympus and it was OK, very sharp center not so corners, what worried me is it had bad exposure consistancy when used with a flash on my Oly E3…

It does make sense to me for Nikon to make a 50mm equivelent FOV lens for the DX users and try and keep the price down as much as possible for mass appeal, even if that means only 1.8 and not FF..