@Sounava...great work...the lighting look superb...
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Yup I spent 2hours to take that shot
@Sounava: nice work
Just one question,now that new Nikkor AFS 50mm 1.8g is launched (~200€) and 35mm 1.8g costs same, I was thinking to get one of these. Need suggestion for which lens I should go for, 35mm or 50mm? I would like to shoot outdoor as well as thinking for portraits too. I read that 50mm is great portrait lens, but for outdoor its little tele. So not able to decide
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About 35mm f/1.8 vs 50mm f/1.8: You will have to decide yourself which lens you want to go for. I am writing the general guidelines regarding the lenses, you ultimately decide what you want.
First of all, I assume you already have a kit less (18-55mm). So both 35mm and 50mm are covered by that lens. So there must be reasons to go for these primes right? The reasons are: Sharper images, nice bokeh, and the aperture. Now coming to the aperture: How does an aperture of f/1.8 help?
1. When you compose an image and press the shutter button to autofocus, the lens always stays wide open at f/1.8. The large opening implies that more light is falling on the mirror and getting reflected to the autofocus module. So you will get amazingly fast focus even in low light, where as the kit lens will struggle to get autofocus because the lenses will be open @ say f/4.5 at 35mm and f/5.6 at 50mm.
2. When you want to blur the backgrounds nicely and want shallow depth of field effect, you can use wide apertures which was not possible with the kit lenses.
3. Larger aperture means you can use fast shutter speeds to get the same equivalent exposure than would have been possible to get with a kit lens. So, in low light situations, you can simply use a larger aperture and you don't need to crank the ISO up.
Now you need to decide what you want:
Keeping the above said things in mind, a 35mm f/1.8 will give you a "normal" field of view of 52mm and will become an excellent indoor lens. Think of birthday parties and gatherings. It will of course be useful for outdoors too. But portraits (like headshots, shots from the bust up) are not possible in general.
50mm lens will give you an equivalent field of view of 75mm which is very near to the ideal portrait length of 85mm. When you will take portraits with this lens at say 1.8, you will get amazingly blurred backgrounds and the attention will be drawn to the face.
So decide whether you want an all purpose lens or a portrait lens. If I were you I would have gone for the 35mm f/1.8. Infact that is the main reason why I bought the cheap 50mm non focus motor version @ 5.4k. When I need to shoot portraits I can live with manual focussing. I do not see myself spending 12k just for taking portraits. 35mm f/1.8 will come to more you to me atleast and is really worth the 12k. Note that the new 50mm f/1.8 is an FX lens and full frame users will buy this lens for the same reason you will buy the 35mm f/1.8.
Also, although the 35mm f/1.8 is an DX lens, with an exception you will get excellent corner to corner sharpness with this lens because the image circle cast by this lens is large enough to be even used with FX bodies with almost negligible vignetting.
