Using the 50mm 1.4 - Awesome, cant say much more. Depth of field control is excellent, great bokeh.
Nikkor 50 1.8
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Thanks trigger2007.
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I'd go for the 35mm f/1.8. Anyone here remember the test shots of the D3 - in no crop modes, and the 35mm DX? There was falloff, but It look like it may have been intended as a full-frame lens, and then redesigned as a DX lens.
My $0.02
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Id get the 35mm. It can AF on the D40 and its a normal 50mm lens after the 1.5 multiplier is applied.
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actually, since the 35 is made for DX, it's intended as a DX lens, meaning 35mm is 35mm period.
I think...
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I've actually ended up going with the 50mm. I'll let you know how it goes for me and have some photos posted up soon enough, thank's for all the advice.
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"actually, since the 35 is made for DX, it's intended as a DX lens, meaning 35mm is 35mm period."
35mm lens is actually 52.5mm on DX, as the lens focal range is always displayed according to standard frame, doesn't matter either You use DX, APS, P&S or any other format.Posted 4 years ago # -
Oh. Wow, I feel stupid. Hahah.
Thank you though.
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35mm is 52.5 because of the crop factor right?
I never understood why there was a crop factor. Sure, the sensor is smaller and all, but it doesn't make much sense to me still.
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Look at it this way, if the sensor is smaller, there is less space being covered in light from the lens' image circle. Say any given lens provides you a 45 degree angle of view, that's on a full frame of 35mm film, or an FX sensor, project that same image onto a DX sensor, the same distance from the back of the lens, only a portion of that 45 degree field of view will be used. This is the same reason why a 35mm lens in medium format is ultra-wide, equivalent to about a 17mm lens in 35mm format, or a 11mm in DX
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Ah, I see. Makes more sense now.
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Actually 35mm is always 35mm, just as 50mm is always 50mm. The picture projected at the same distance from the so called nodal plain (center of the lens) will always be the same, but the diagonal on the sensor or the film frame is different in DX, FX or else, so the angle of view from the nodal plain (which depends on focal length) will be different. If this focal length is equal to a diagonal of the image (sensor in our case) that angle is 45º. Angle of 50º to 55º is considered to be equal to human eye, and it is so considered normal angle (50mm lens on FX 43mm diagonal and 35mm lens on DX 28mm diagonal will approximately make this angle). Anything wider than this (with shorter focal length) is therefore considered wide, and anything with smaller angle of view is considered long lens. Normal lens were always considered boring and were not used by most professionals, and 35 is probably the most used all-around length (about the same as 24 on DX).
What really amazes me about this post is how much waves a little 50 f/1.8 lens (40 years old design with AF added just a couple of, well, decades or so ago) is making. And it is still sharper and optically better overall than the newest child of the most modern design such as this 35 f/1.8.Posted 4 years ago # -
Hey guys, I just got a chance to take pictures with my new lens, the Nikkor 50mm f1.8,
If you want to see more, go to http://www.flickr.com/connorbroaddusphotography
thanks for all the advice and information, it's very appreciated. :)
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Hey Connor nice shots. Go edit your post to drop the period from your link, its causing it to come up unfound. Glad you like the lens. For $100, its a no brainier. I'd still pick up the 35mm when you can get the scratch together, its a great lens.
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Thanks willis.
Alright, it should work now.
Yeah, I'm planning on that, i'm pretty much addicted to primes now.
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Just wondering, does the old 50mm 1.8 D have a plastic mount or a metal mount?
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It's a metal mount. Rockwell has a whole reveiw on it.
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All old Nikon lenses have metal mount, Nikon has gone plastic just recently.
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Alright, thanks.
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