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Originally Posted by Buzzard
Hmm...so much for what I've been reading!.
I think I need a 35 mm prime and was getting close to maybe buying this lens. It was my intention to stick with FX lenses but this kept coming up as the best bang for your buck on a Nikon crop sensor and gets tons of really great reviews all over. I figured for only a couple hundred bucks, it'd be worth a try and I could probably sell it, if and when I go full frame.
Can you tell me why it's not a good lens? For the price it sounds pretty hard to beat, no?
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I should have been less categorical about it. It's not fair to be too critical of a $220 lens. But the superb quality of a $229-priced 50mm/1.8g makes the value comparison difficult. My first foray into digital from film was a D80 fifteen years ago; then D5100. Then I got mad at Nikon for pretty much abandoning lens development for the DX format and ignoring the investments people made in it. This was when I switched to FX format completely and sold all of my DX stuff. 12-24mm and 17-55mm were the only two professional grade zooms developed specifically for DX. 10.5/2.8 DX fisheye is nice as well. Other DX lenses were lesser-quality consumer grade lenses. I am lumping 35mm/1.8g in this latter category and, I admit, this is subjective. You're right; 35mm on DX is very close to a 50mm on FX in terms of FOV and that is a very useful/popular focal distance. As for the lens optical quality, I suggest try one, first, wide-open at the store on your own camera body and then do some pixel-peeping to see if you like it before buying one.