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35 or 50mm?
Mar 27, 2013 10:46:34 #
Once you've first bought a 35mm lens is there really any need to go ahead and buy a 50mm? Ken Rockwell always mentions how sharp they both are but uses the 35mm all the time. Any special need for the 50mm? Is it just a matter of choice?
Mar 27, 2013 10:52:21 #
Mar 27, 2013 10:59:23 #
Jazzer wrote:
Once you've first bought a 35mm lens is there really any need to go ahead and buy a 50mm? Ken Rockwell always mentions how sharp they both are but uses the 35mm all the time. Any special need for the 50mm? Is it just an either or choice?
Depends on what kind of photos you like to take.
Prime lenses are usually faster, if that's a consideration and you can get shallower depth of field shooting at a wider opening.
Mar 27, 2013 11:01:21 #
I have had a 50 mm for years then Nikon produced the 35 mm. The 50 is now redundent
Mar 27, 2013 12:03:37 #
Jazzer wrote:
Once you've first bought a 35mm lens is there really any need to go ahead and buy a 50mm? Ken Rockwell always mentions how sharp they both are but uses the 35mm all the time. Any special need for the 50mm? Is it just a matter of choice?
The choice is yours Jazzer. I've just got "dual purpose usage" from my AF-S 35 and 50mm lenses. In addition to their 52 and 75mm range on my DSLR they become 95 and 135mm lenses when attached to my "second camera", the Nikon V1 with the FT-1 adapter. New uses for those excellent, small, handy, low-light primes, which,along with the Nikon 1 18.5mm f1.8 (50mm full frame) make a superb portable combination for "walking around". A slightly different slant on "mirrorless", and just the job for anyone with a number of Nikkor lenses.
Mar 27, 2013 12:09:59 #
The 35mm and the 50mm are totally different lenses, used for different purposes. How can one become redundant if you buy the other?
Mar 27, 2013 12:17:59 #
GrahamS wrote:
The 35mm and the 50mm are totally different lenses, used for different purposes. How can one become redundant if you buy the other?
This!
I shot only primes, I find they are faster and sharper than their zoom counterparts. My feet have become my zoom.
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Mar 27, 2013 12:23:43 #
Annie_Girl wrote:
This!
I shot only primes, I find they are faster and sharper than their zoom counterparts. My feet have become my zoom.
I shot only primes, I find they are faster and sharper than their zoom counterparts. My feet have become my zoom.
Agree with you Annie ! How many folk, I wonder, take the trouble to actually walk the few steps forwards or backwards to see what the shot looks like with these two lenses? Don't we like using our feet these days?
Mar 27, 2013 12:29:53 #
craggycrossers wrote:
How many folk, I wonder, take the trouble to actually walk the few steps forwards or backwards to see what the shot looks like with these two lenses? Don't we like using our feet these days?
Only those with no knowledge of perspective or distortion or depth of field.
Mar 27, 2013 12:30:34 #
Just a note.... they do NOT become an different focal length on different format cameras. The angle of view changes because of the different sensor size. A more correct term would be "they become the full-frame equivalent of an xx lens"... A full frame 35mm lens and one made for a DX (Nikon speak for crop sensor) camera give the same image on a DX camera or smaller body.
Mar 27, 2013 12:36:12 #
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Just a note.... they do NOT become an different focal length on different format cameras. The angle of view changes because of the different sensor size. A more correct term would be "they become the full-frame equivalent of an xx lens"... A full frame 35mm lens and one made for a DX (Nikon speak for crop sensor) camera give the same image on a DX camera or smaller body.
Yeah, you're right, I know ....... even I use the wrong terminology, sometimes. But hope you know what I mean ! I'm a "fun-user" and by no means highly-knowledgeable ! Leave all the techy stuff to you guys ! Whatever the correct technical term I get a completely different view through the V1 viewfinder with these lenses than with my DSLR. And as a result they become additionally useful in my everyday world. And the end results are just fine for me. I don't have the perceptions of paying clients to worry about !
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Mar 27, 2013 12:43:24 #
craggycrossers wrote:
Yeah, you're right, I know ....... even I use the wrong terminology, sometimes. But hope you know what I mean ! I'm a "fun-user" and by no means highly-knowledgeable ! Leave all the techy stuff to you guys !
No worries!
Just don't want the newbies to get tehe wrong ideas.
I hear great things about those baby Nikons.
Mar 27, 2013 12:46:15 #
The perspective is slightly different with these lenses as well, with the 50mm giving a bit "flatter" perspective to a portrait...
Mar 27, 2013 12:46:51 #
GoofyNewfie wrote:
No worries!
Just don't want the newbies to get tehe wrong ideas.
I hear great things about those baby Nikons.
Just don't want the newbies to get tehe wrong ideas.
I hear great things about those baby Nikons.
This is what the V1 looks like with the 50mm lens. So ... it's the "full frame equivalent" of a 135mm lens. Fun, eh?!!
V1 + FT-1 + 50mm AF-S f1.8
Mar 27, 2013 13:16:48 #
craggycrossers wrote:
This is what the V1 looks like with the 50mm lens. So ... it's the "full frame equivalent" of a 135mm lens. Fun, eh?!!
Trade you even for my D800?
<Edit...offer retracted...too late>
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