The wonderful thing about all this is that in this era of photography, you cant really go wrong. It is so easy with FX for things to bloat and you end up with 24-70mm 2.8’s and 70-200mm 2.8’s and whilst they make complete sense for pros they just don’t make sense for my particular style where I just like having nice memories of my travels and the people in my life. It’s one of the reasons I still love using my Olympus EM5 for certain situations (mainly social photographs at parties and whatnot with a 20mm 1.7) and the same goes for this lens. For me, it has always been that mix of quality and weight. It has been exactly what I need – a lens that I can keep on my Df 80% of the time and use it for the majority of my travel photography without turning my camera into a monster. Overall I would thoroughly recommend this lens to anyone looking for a balance of price + weight + image quality. It’s just at this wider focal length I just would never really need to use C-AF. I haven’t really tried it with continuous AF but would expect similar results to what I would get with any other modern Nikon. It’s Auto Focus (AF) performance is really good, even in low light and is probably the quickest of my lenses to focus on single point AF. A wider 24 or 20 would have been interesting but the 35mm did the trick perfectly well. It worked really well and the 35mm focal length was just about right in that tight space.
I also had the chance before heading to the airport to literally run through the USS Pampanito (SS-383) which was another quick test of the lens in low light.
NIKON 35MM 1.8 ISO
Thankfully the Df’s ISO flexibility helps with this but I tried to keep it as low as possible whilst still getting acceptably sharp images. As it was a work trip I wasn’t exactly going to be lugging around a tripod so I had to do my best handheld. I took it on a recent work trip to San Francisco and I was somewhat excited at the chance to give it a go on The Golden Gate bridge… thankfully our meetings finished at around 4pm so we managed to walk from Pier 39 out to the bridge as the sunset which was perfect time for some pics. It is definitely a bit on the short side for anything in the distance but it is just wide enough to work well with general travel, architecture and people pics. 35mm I find just about right for a lot of my general travel pics. I have always really liked the 28mm-40mm focal lengths. I have been using it for a few months now and I can confirm that it’s a great performer.
Great IQ – seems to match up close enough to the Sigma that I wouldn’t notice the difference, whereas the weight i would notice. Good value – price vs performance seemed the nicest balance of the options But as a result I finally decided to go with the Nikon 35mm f/1.8 G FX AF-S due to the following:
That point is entirely subjective, I understand that. I just like lenses that have excellent IQ without too much weight. So having thought about all of the above and being reminded whilst using a Tamron 15-30mm 2.8 that for travel purposes there is a limit I am willing to tolerate in terms of weight.
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