Help on Nikon 35mm f/1.8G Auto Focus-S DX Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras - Fixed: Hello UHH friends, I just purchased the Nikon 35mm f/1.8G Auto Focus-S DX Lens for Nikon Digital...

araia

Hello UHH friends, I just purchased the Nikon 35mm f/1.8G Auto Focus-S DX Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras - Fixed today. I have nikon d3200 camera. I tried to take pictures on different modes, short and long f-stops. I didn't see big change. Do you have any insights on this lens. Any help is appreciated. Araia from Dallas
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jethro779 Loc: Tucson, AZ

araia wrote:

Hello UHH friends, I just purchased the Nikon 35mm f/1.8G Auto Focus-S DX Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras - Fixed today. I have nikon d3200 camera. I tried to take pictures on different modes, short and long f-stops. I didn't see big change. Do you have any insights on this lens. Any help is appreciated. Araia from Dallas
Thanks

What kind of changes were you looking for?

CaptainC Loc: Colorado, south of Denver

Well, if you are shooting in any of the auto or semi-auto modes, you will keep getting the same exposure every time. About all that will change is the depth of field as the lens aperture change. You might see motion blur if the shutter speed gets too low to hand-hold well.

What did you THINK would happen?

araia

Sharpness and DOP, wide angel photos. I bought it for landscapes and portrait etc.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

araia wrote:

Sharpness and DOP, wide angel photos. I bought it for landscapes and portrait etc.

It's not a wide angle lens, more of a "normal" focal length on your camera.
With that large aperture, it should be good for low light photography.

oldtigger Loc: Roanoke Virginia-USA

araia wrote:

Sharpness and DOP, wide angel photos. I bought it for landscapes and portrait etc.

A little long for landscapes, a little short for portraits but should work fine as a sharp fast normal lens..

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

I don't want to be picky about or start an argument about semantics, but it seems to me that the term "short and long f-stops" could create a misunderstanding about apertures, especially their effect on hyper focal distance and depth of field (including near-point of focus and far-point of focus). And, yes, before anyone else says it, I realize that these terms can be subjective, but even so, the effect on images can, particularly at extremes, the differences are quite obvious.

CO

Cambridge in Colour has a flexible depth of field calculator online. You can select sensor size, aperture setting, lens focal length, and focus distance. Here is the link:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/dof-calculator.htm

CO

Sorry, accidentally entered the same twice.

ABJanes Loc: Jersey Boy now Virginia

This iPhone App has been very helpful for me with my 50MM f1.8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simple-dof-calculator/id301222730?mt=8. It does the same thing but more easily in the field.

CO wrote:

Cambridge in Colour has a flexible depth of field calculator online. You can select sensor size, aperture setting, lens focal length, and focus distance. Here is the link:
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/dof-calculator.htm

sueyeisert Loc: New Jersey

From your question and the use of the words long and short I think you need to read a book on photography. I'd suggest Understanding Exposure by Brian Petersen.

araia wrote:

Hello UHH friends, I just purchased the Nikon 35mm f/1.8G Auto Focus-S DX Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras - Fixed today. I have nikon d3200 camera. I tried to take pictures on different modes, short and long f-stops. I didn't see big change. Do you have any insights on this lens. Any help is appreciated. Araia from Dallas
Thanks

GeneC Loc: Rhode Island

Not sure what the question is. Is it that you are not seeing any change in depth of field? I'm not familiar with your camera but you
can check to see if the lens is stopping down when you shoot by using the depth of field preview button. Set it at f11 and push the button. You should see it get darker and have more in focus.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

araia wrote:

Hello UHH friends, I just purchased the Nikon 35mm f/1.8G Auto Focus-S DX Lens for Nikon Digital SLR Cameras - Fixed today. I have nikon d3200 camera. I tried to take pictures on different modes, short and long f-stops. I didn't see big change. Do you have any insights on this lens. Any help is appreciated. Araia from Dallas
Thanks

I have the same lens. Got it for low light indoors. Works great. Our photo club got to tour the local aquarium after hours and I used the 35, Program mode, auto ISO on all my shots. Was also using back button focus in Continuous mode for focusing. Only had a very few dark low contrast places where the autofocus struggled to find focus.

Billynikon Loc: Atlanta

This lens is great stopped down at 1.8 to 2.8 or so for bokea. I love to take closeups of items with the background fuzzy. 35mm is a good normal lens on a DX camera.

scsdesphotography Loc: Southeastern Michigan

I also have that lens. I consider it to be my sharpest and clearest lens in my kit. At our indoor social gatherings it is the first lens that I mount. Shooting nearly wide open, it allows me to take spontaneous portraits of each person especially kids, in natural light without using a flash. The facial detail revealed by this lens can be startling and usually requires a bit of PP to make older people's skin look better than it is (people of age usually don't want their photo's to show how they really look)!