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Compact and lightweight, this very fast f/2 wide-angle lens is perfect for scenic and landscape photography as well as environmental portraits
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- Compact, lightweight wide-angle lens for general photography- 62-degree (44-degree with Nikon DX format) picture angle for candids, portraits, and travel photographs
- Nikon Super Integrated Coating for minimized flare and ghost, providing good color balance
- Fast f2 maximum aperture make this ideal for low-light, hand-held shooting
- 0.85-foot close focusing distance
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By G. J. Huba (Culver City, CA USA)
If you use an FX camera -- I have a Nikon D700 -- this is one of the two "everyday walk around" lenses you want to keep on your camera if you see something and want to grab an immediate shot. The picture quality is excellent, it is a lightweight and small lens (bulges in a pocket but fits), rugged enough but not a tank, can hang off your neck with the camera most of the day without creating backache, and will hold almost all of its value in the auction market if you do not like it after an extended test. I titled the review "Two of Two" because most would say that the Nikon 50mm 1.4g (which I also own) would be One among the two choices as a walk around lens that stays on the camera much of the time. I might say that a lot of days also but my opinion does flip-flop on this. Since variety is a great thing, I might also say to leave this 35mm on a full frame camera if you ask me other days. It depends on what type of image you might want to "grab." If you are in dimly lit places, the 50mm f1.4g has a distinct advantage and is also great for isolating subjects and creating very good bokeh. If you have a little more light, the 35mm f2.0 has an advantage inside if you are photographing groups (you can get a half dozen or more folks in the picture without stepping back or doing the cliche everybody push together shots or you can get the whole table of folks in at a restaurant table without bumping into the table behind you). Outside during the day, it is a minor artistic choice because the pictures are not that different. The 35mm is the more "conservative" or safe choice because you can always crop away stuff at the edges with the number of megapixels in current cameras with the 35mm rather than missing or clipping them with a 50mm. If I am in a city or other place taking grab shots, I would tend toward the 35mm; if I want to do grab shots and portraits at places, I would tend toward the 50mm. One of Two or Two of Two -- it is an artistic choice among two very high quality tools (lenses).
By Sandip Chatterjee (San Francisco, CA)
Really enjoying this lens on my D80. As other reviews have pointed out, very short minimum focusing distance (~10 inches), solid (plastic) build, sharp at f/2 and even sharper beyond, and pretty decent bokeh. "Normal" (~50mm equivalent) on a DX body, and as a bonus, FX-compatible (full-frame) for the future...
Pretty much the same size lens as the 50mm/1.8.
By William (Summit, NJ)
This is a great lens if you need the speed. However, up until around f/4 it is soft, meaning it is not as sharp as other lenses. At f/2 it is very noticeable. I actually didn't notice this at first. It was only until I started using other lenses consistently, that when I finally went back to the 35mm f/2, I noticed how soft it was. For this reason, I choose not to use it over other lenses, but if I need a dedicated 35mm, this is the one I go with.
At f/8 it's particularly sharp. I uploaded a shot of some daises here on Amazon (which you can see by clicking on "Customer Images"). The crispness is spot on.
So keep that in mind. I have not used the 35mm f/1.8 so I can't give an equal comparison. Regardless, if you are shooting with a cropped sensor, I would recommend that for the speed and only this lens for full frame (if you needed a dedicated 35mm prime).
By Jake G. (New York, NY)
This lens has been around for a long time, and mine has superb optics. Unfortunately, I can't recommend it because mine eventually succumbed to the well-documented oily-aperture-blades problem (google it), causing all my pictures taken with it to be grossly over- or underexposed.
I sent it to Nikon for repair and they quoted me a repair charge of more than one hundred dollars, even though the lens is defectively designed judging from the number of similar complaints about it online. As I understand it, these problems have been worked out in later versions of the lens, but there is no way to tell if you are getting a lens from before or after the fix.
So, the lens gets 5 stars for image quality, but for faulty design and for Nikon's refusal to admit they made some mistakes and to fix my lens free of charge, they get 1 star. Because this thing is pricey enough already and one would hope that it would be more durable than a couple years of mild use, that averages to 1 star in my assessment.
I love Nikon stuff, and sadly will probably keep using their stuff despite the way they've treated me. But they really messed up here in their commitment to their customers.
By Jonathan Perry
I spent 30 years as a pro shooter, using Nikons. Since I retired, I only use my cameras to photograph my child. My F3s and fast AI lenses are stored away, and I now use a D70s and a new D300. I found the zooms a bit soft, bought a 60mm D lens, loved it, and got the 35 f2D. Very sharp, fast enough (my AI was a 1.4 but that was a working lens, this one is for fun) for my current needs, good color, good edges, seems to do the job for a reasonable amount of money.
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