Can't decide which lens hrmff

JBuk

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Bit late for deciding this but I go on holiday on Friday and would like a fast wide(ish) prime for night time cityscapes, indoors and street photography

my current kit is a nikon d600 with a 24-120 f4

so far I'm contemplating the:

28mm f1.8g (fast but maybe too wide?)
35mm f2 (older lens bit mixed reviews of it)
50mm f1.8g (an outsider really, had this length on a 5d and never used it)

of course the other option is just cranking the iso right up and just use the 24-120

any thoughts/ other options ?
 
Why not take advantage of the excellent high iso performance of the D600 along with the 24-120's VR.

Surely this will cover most situations?
 
JBuk said:
Bit late for deciding this but I go on holiday on Friday and would like a fast wide(ish) prime for night time cityscapes, indoors and street photography

my current kit is a nikon d600 with a 24-120 f4

so far I'm contemplating the:

28mm f1.8g (fast but maybe too wide?)
35mm f2 (older lens bit mixed reviews of it)
50mm f1.8g (an outsider really, had this length on a 5d and never used it)

of course the other option is just cranking the iso right up and just use the 24-120

any thoughts/ other options ?
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Skip the 35mm f/2. It is not all that great relative to the others, if that is a FL you want then I would look at the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 for a chepaer option than the Nikon 1.4G. I would go for something like the 28mm f/1.8G and 85mm f/1.8G (and the 50mm is so cheap you can add it). Wide prime and short-tele prime, both optically superb, great Bokeh and fast AF, small, light, cheap (relatively speaking). The 85mm would be the portrait lens, but can capture details for city architecture.

I think 28mm is not too wide at all. In fact I would prefer 24mm on FF, but I don't think the price of the 24mm f/1.4 is justified relative to the 28mm, especially since the 28mm is probably better optically. Also a lot of the time you go wide you don't need a fast aperture so your 24-120 will cover that if you have to get to 24mm (and alternatively in the future a 16-35mm f/4.0 might be a good match).


24mm is perfect for city scape and indoors, 35mm is good for street. The 28mm puts you somewhere close enough to both at a bargain price.
 
Thanks for the input

I've decided and ordered a 35mm dx 1.8g

Seems it will work ok in fx mode with only a little vignetting at large apertures , which I'm fine with as I'll more or less only be using it wide open
 
JBuk said:
Thanks for the input

I've decided and ordered a 35mm dx 1.8g

Seems it will work ok in fx mode with only a little vignetting at large apertures , which I'm fine with as I'll more or less only be using it wide open
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True to a certain extent, you also have to be close to your subject., at longer focal distances it will vignette badly.

If you put the camera in 1.2x crop you will Get less problems, and you get a 42mm which is a near perfect normal lens.
 
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JBuk said:
Thanks for the input

I've decided and ordered a 35mm dx 1.8g

Seems it will work ok in fx mode with only a little vignetting at large apertures , which I'm fine with as I'll more or less only be using it wide open
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IThe vignetting occurs at all apertures but in different ways. At f/1.8 there's vignetting over a lot of the frame. At 2.8 - 5.6 it's usable, at 1.8 the vignetting is significant, at smaller than 5.6 the vignetting stars to get harder and more defined.

f/1.8 The file is usable but there's vignetting all over the image which means you need to crop significantly to use it
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patjakub/7095578625/

f/2.8 Perfectly usable with a very small crop.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patjakub/7095582161/in/photostream/

f/4.0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patjakub/7095583979/

f/5.6
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patjakub/7095585943/in/photostream/

f/11 to demonstrate the circle vignetting
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patjakub/6949518258/in/photostream/
 
Yeah i checked out every shot I could before buying

it'll never see smaller than 2.8 and I can live with the vignetting and a slight crop
 
Ksanti said:
IThe vignetting occurs at all apertures but in different ways. At f/1.8 there's vignetting over a lot of the frame. At 2.8 - 5.6 it's usable, at 1.8 the vignetting is significant, at smaller than 5.6 the vignetting stars to get harder and more defined.

f/1.8 The file is usable but there's vignetting all over the image which means you need to crop significantly to use it
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patjakub/7095578625/

f/2.8 Perfectly usable with a very small crop.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patjakub/7095582161/in/photostream/

f/4.0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patjakub/7095583979/

f/5.6
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patjakub/7095585943/in/photostream/

f/11 to demonstrate the circle vignetting
http://www.flickr.com/photos/patjakub/6949518258/in/photostream/
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Tbh that is at infinity focus, at short focal enth f1.8 is fine.
 
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