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Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G Lens with Auto Focus for Nikon DSLR Cameras, 2183, Black

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Condition
New
Color
Black
Weight
7.04 oz
Lens Type
Standard
Compatible Mountings
Nikon F
Maximum Focal Length
35 mm
Lens Design
Prime
Warranty
1 year coverage for labor, 1 year coverage for parts, This warranty doesn't apply to the batteries and software driver that accompany this product
Works with
Nikon Cameras, Nikon Digital SLRs

Features 6

  • F mount lens/DX format. Picture angle with Nikon DX format 44 degree
  • 52.5 millimeter (35-millimeter equivalent). Rear focusing; Manual focus override
  • Aperture range: F/1.8 to 22; Dimensions(approx.) 70 x 52.5 millimeter
  • Silent wave motor AF system. Accepts filter type is screw on. Lens construction: 8 elements in 6 groups

Description

The AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G optical design allows a different look and feel to images taken with zoom lenses, and its dimensions are ideal for discrete snapshots and landscape shooting with a picture angle that approximates that of the human eye. With its rounded seven-blade diaphragm opening, out-of-focus elements appear more natural. When mounted on a DX-format SLR, the picture angle is the 35mm equivalent focal length of 50mm.what's in the box: Nikon AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX Lens, HB-46 Bayonet Lens Hood for AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G, 52mm Snap-On Lens Cap, LF-1 Rear Lens Cap for F Mount Lenses, CL-0913 Soft Lens Case and 5-Year Warranty (1-Year International + 4-Year USA Extension). From the Manufacturer With a compact, lightweight design, the AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G provides the high reproduction capability and picture quality for which Nikkor lenses are renowned at an affordable price. The ring type SWM offers quiet AF operation. Although all lens groups shift during focusing, the front element and filter mount do not rotate and the barrel length does not change, which is useful when using filter mounted SB-R200 Wireless Remote Speedlight units. The AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G optical design allows a different look and feel to images taken with zoom lenses, and its dimensions are ideal for discrete snapshots and landscape shooting with a picture angle that approximates that of the human eye. With its rounded seven-blade diaphragm opening, out-of-focus elements appear more natural. When mounted on a DX-format SLR, the picture angle is the 35mm equivalent focal length of 50mm. The AF-S Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G has two focus modes, M/A (manual override autofocus) and M (manual focus). The M/A mode enables instant manual switching during AF operation. The lens also features a rubber seal to minimize moisture ingression around the mount and can focus down to 0.3 meters (0.98 ft). AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G Lens HighlightsFast, f/1.8 prime lens is perfect for low-light conditions, travel, environmental portrait and general photography Engineered for Nikon DX-format D-SLRS, the AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G lens renders a picture angle approximating the classic normal angle of view of a 50mm lens on a Nikon FXformat digital SLR or 35mm film camera Aspherical lens element minimizes coma and other types of lens aberrations, further improving image integrity Nikon Super Integrated Coating (SIC) enhances light transmission efficiency and offers color consistency and reduced flare Exclusive Nikon Silent Wave Motor (SWM) enables fast, accurate and quiet autofocus Close focusing to 1 foot for creative perspectives and versatility Rounded 7-blade diaphragm opening makes out-of-focus elements appear more natural Accepts 52mm filter attachments

Specs 37

Brand Nikon
Focal Length Description 35
Lens Type Standard
Compatible Mountings Nikon F
Camera Lens Description Nikon F
Lens Standard
Compatible Camera Mount Nikon F
Maximum Focal Length 35 millimeters

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Sharp lens, well worth the wait!! Love it.
Color: Black
I was looking at getting either this lens or the Nikon 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor Lens. The 50mm lens was only $135, but doesn't autofocus on the D40 which is my camera. I know I am looking to upgrade to the D90 soon, so that wasn't as much of an issue, but something to consider as I purchased a prime lens. Of course this 35mm lens does autofocus on the D40, so that was one point in it's favor. Truly my main reason for purchasing this lens was to use in low light, indoors, typically at home during family functions. The photos are sharp! I even had all the lights turned off in the basement and took photos of my son, and WOW,it gave nice, natural tones to his skin and his eyes are amazing in the photos. I have to get closer to my subject(s) than with the 50mm, but when you are in a room that is crowded and you are trying to get a photo with everyone in it, you don't have to back up very far. With the 50mm, you need much more room to backup to get the same shot including all the subjects. My sisters kitchen is small. My little neice was about to blow out the candles, and I got not only her, but mom and dad in the photo as well. I would not have enough room to backup and get the same shot with the 50mm lens. Being able to take photos in low light (indoors) without a flash is very handy, and paticuallary when you are in a situation where flashes aren't allowed. (I have been at several museums, historical homes during a tour, and even a 50th anniversary ceremony at a church were photos were ok, but no flash allowed). The last wedding I was at, everyone was taking photos and the photographer said that was ok while she was shooting, but no flashes please because it intereferred with her shots. Everyone had to stop taking photos, because they needed their flashes to get a decent shot. How nice to be the one able to continue to shoot photos and not have to put my camera away. I didn't need a flash. I also had to consider price. I got this lens for $199 with free shipping. I ordered this and waited a little over 4 weeks to recieve it. If you are looking at this lens, and order DIRECTLY from Amazon, the price is $199. It will say "not in, stock order now and we will deliver as soon as available". I didn't really want to wait, especially knowing I could order the 50mm that day, and get it in a week, but I knew if I was to choose between the 2 lenses, I wanted this one. I don't think it is justified paying the $300+ price just to get the one in stock. My opinion, order the one listed at $199, and be willing to wait, like I said, mine arrived about 4 weeks after ordering it. Pros: Absolutely sharp photos in low light. Price, if you are willing to wait, totally worth every penny. Fast and light lens. You can shoot indoors with low light without a flash. Cons: Only one I can think of is waiting a full month to recieve. But I would do it again in a heartbeat for a fantastic lens. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2009 by Minnesota
Great, relatively inexpensive way to take your photography to the next level
Color: Black
I imagine for most people, this will be either the 2nd or 3rd lens they buy (counting the kit lens, if you got one). For me, this was my 3rd lens. The first were the kit 18-55mm Nikon VR lens and the 55-200mm telephoto Nikon non-VR lens. Both of those lenses are very good, and very versatile, but in terms of image quality they can't even remotely touch this one. First things first, it's a prime lens, meaning no zoom. Kind of obvious, but should at least be mentioned for those newer to the hobby. However, that doesn't mean that it can't take pictures from far away, on the contrary, it can take some stunning pictures from a distance, it will just be that you can't zoom in closer on things at a distance. It's actually very good at landscapes, especially late evening sunsets and night time skylines, for instance.Additionally, this lens is so sharp, that you can crop a LOT. Meaning that you can effectively get zoom after the fact by cropping your picture in photo editing software, and the image will still look very good, as long as you nailed your focus in the original picture (obviously the more you crop, the more you notice things being out of focus). Secondly, it doesn't have vibration reduction. However, this is a fast lens, which negates most of the need for VR in the first place. What photo nerds mean by a 'fast lens' that is that it lets in a lot of light, meaning that the shutter can open and close very quickly and still properly expose the image, meaning that blur, both from camera shake and moving subjects are DRASTICALLY minimized. It also thus better at 'freezing' moving objects, that would blur in a slower lens. The only time where VR would be a welcome addition is possibly extremely low light photography, but even then you should be fine without it. To be honest, I'm almost glad it's not on there, because I often forget to turn VR off when I don't need it, and VR does run your battery down faster. Now that those two caveats are out of the way, on to the strengths: This will enable photos that you just can't take with the kit lens. Especially if you're interested in concert photography (or any other form of photography that involves low light, but also movement). In most instances, this lens just takes better looking pictures than the kit lens. But in low light concert photography it will actually take pictures that a slower lens just can't take without extreme blur (or using the flash, which both kills the atmosphere and often times isn't allowed). For instance, a lead singer who moves his head back and forth some on a dimly lit stage. With the kit lens his head will just be a blur, which is sometimes a cool effect, but sometimes it just looks blurry. With this lens, you can get a nice crisp image if you want, or adjust your aperture, or your shutter speed and get the motion blur as well, if you want it. It's nice to have both options. The bokeh. Bokeh is a photography term that essentially just means 'blurry background'. This is what really makes portraits 'pop' as the subject's face can really be set apart from the background. It's also good when you have a busy background that would otherwise be distracting, even if you're not shooting portraits. Just go into aperture priority mode and set this baby to f1.8, get relatively close (a few feet) to your subject and fire away. Your portraits will take on that dreamy professional look. The closer you are to your subject, the more extreme the bokeh effect is (which is why this lens can effectively take landscape shots, because the effect is diminished greatly when you're shooting from a large distance). More control over your depth of field. This is basically the same strength as the previous point, but just more widely considered. With the kit lens, at any given focal length, your f/stop options are going to be pretty limited. Meaning you're basically stuck with the depth of field you have. However, with this lens, you basically always have from f1.8 to f22. This gives you extreme control over how deep your field is (essentially how large the range of 'in focus' is, and how gradually images fade from in focus to out of focus). You can create that nice blurred background we talked about above, or you can have an identifiable background as well. This is especially useful when shooting dogs, for instance, because sometimes (like when they're in profile) you want a very shallow depth of field, to give good bokeh and sharpness, while others you want a little more depth of field (like if they're looking straight forward at you and you want to keep the tip of their nose all the way to their ears in focus. Being able to control your depth of field is really the first step (of many) into going from a snapshot shooter with a nice camera to an actual photographer. Light weight, short length. doesn't seem like a big deal into you lug a heavy 15-300 zoom lens around on your neck all day long. It's also short, which is surprisingly helpful in a crowded environment, like a concert. While this lens is obviously not quite as versatile as a kit or telephoto lens, the images you get will blow you away. Yes, you will have to move around more to get the shot you want and/or crop more. But that's not much of a price to pay for drastically improved image quality. Since I've bought this lens, the 18-55 mm lens rarely comes out of the bag. I still use other lenses, but this is the default go to lens. The one that stays attached when the camera is in my bag, so that if I need to pull it out and snap off a shot in a hurry, this is the one that will be taking it. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2011 by Franklin J. Rabon
EBay the kit lens and buy this before you put batteries in your new camera
Color: Black
What a great price for a fast, prime lens that you'll use every day. I'm a nube to photography (good photography) and have caught the bug. I've got a Nikon D5200 and primarily take pictures of family and kids sporting events. The big zoom goes to the soccer games with us, but for almost everything else I use this little gem. With a max aperture of 1.8 you'll rarely need a flash for most of life's events indoors or out. The sharpness of the pictures I've taken with this is so good that you can really crop something down if you want to "zoom" in using Photoshop or Aperture with no graininess or degredation. At the risk of embarrassing myself to the more savvy photo enthusiasts I will try and explain why this and not the 18-55mm kit lens that you got with your camera. No it doesn't zoom (that's the prime lens part), but you'll find yourself in the 35mm range on that 18-55mm lens most times anyway. They say a 35mm lens is most representative of what the eye sees anyway. What it does do is let in a lot of light, a lot more than the kit lens does. This gives you a couple benefits first of which is speed (the fast lens or fast glass part) which means less blur on things moving and stationary. It also means that you can dial down your ISO settings. Higher ISO settings tend to add noise to the picture which gives you that pixelated look when you zoom in and crop a picture. Thirdly is something us point-and-shooters have never gotten to appreciate called depth of field. This lens will let you take those great looking photos where your subject is in perfect focus and the background is pleasantly blurred drawing your attention to what you intended the view to see. You can adjust your aperture setting to have a deep depth of field where everything is in focus, but you'll need a fast lens like the 1.8 to get a really striking shallow depth of field photo like the pros. For under $200 (maybe under $100 if you get a good price for your kit lens on Ebay), this is the single best thing you can buy to take great photos. You can pay more money for better cameras with larger sensors and more bells and whistles, but so far it appears to me that you're better off taking pictures with a great lens on a good camera, than a good lens on a great camera. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2015 by Peffinger
This is a terrific prime lens at at super affordable price!
Color: Black
Review Image by Timothy P Buckley
Review Image by Timothy P Buckley
Review Image by Timothy P Buckley
I've had this lens for just about a month and I couldn't be happier with it! The Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G gives you a lot of quality for a little bit of money. I'm shooting with a Nikon D3500 DSLR and I have to say this lens is quite a step up from the kit lenses that came with my camera. The Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G Len has great clarity and the auto focus works very well. It's relatively fast to focus and shoot with. The manual focus works well and the focus ring moves smoothly. It's versatile close-up and far away, but remember, this is a prime lens so there is no zoom. You have to do any zooming with your feet by moving to position your framing and your shot. This lens works well in low-light situations with the ability to open the aperture up to F1.8G. It's easy to control the depth of field and creates a nice bokeh (blurred) background for professional looking photos. An example of blurred colored lights is attached. This lens is great for portrait or product photography and it's very good for landscapes too. The other attached photos examples have only a minimum of post-processing, mostly to adjust exposure and highlights, but they are a good example of the quality this lens offers for its price point. The lens is small and light and it's become my "go-to" whenever I'm shooting pictures. It won't weigh you down carrying it for a day of shooting. Remember, depending on your camera, this lens may not shoot as a true 35mm - on my camera's cropped sensor, it shoots the equivalent of 50.2mm. This works well for me for the various types of shooting I like to do. I really can't give a list of pros and cons since I have no experience with another similar lens (it's my 1st prime lens), but I will say that so far, all I've seen are "pros". As an amateur photographer, it's a nice step up from kit lenses. I don't hesitate to suggest this lens and I would purchase another. Thanks for reading my review and I hope it help you to decide on the lens that you really think will work for you. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2019 by Timothy P Buckley
Great lens for the price
Color: Black
Earlier this summer, I bought my wife the Nikon 17-55mm f2.8 lens, after hearing her talk about what a bummer it was to have deleted half the photos she took of our kids one day (with the little 18-55mm kit lens) because the light was so poor in the house that all the pictures were blurry. Even without VR, the wider aperture on the new lens made a huge difference in our ability to capture sharp photos of our kids, in or out of the house, in a much wider range of light conditions. Upon seeing the significant difference in the exposure quality of her pictures with the new lens I immediately was beset by technology envy, but since she's the primary photographer in our house and it's merely a hobby for me, I wasn't even going to try justifying the expenditure to buy me one too. So I settled on this lens. It's cheap, small, has a focus motor, and with a few already-noted exceptions, it provides very good images mounted on my Nikon D5100. I can't say enough about the difference in image quality in almost-low-light conditions. Nikon really knows what they're doing with the VR and VRII systems on many of their newer lenses, and I still love my 18-105mm f3.5-5.6 lens for its versatility. But the difference in the amount of light let through a lens in going from 3.5 to 2.8 is _significant_, let alone going from f3.5 to f1.8. Every now and then I'll find that the light is so low that the VR on my old lens would help, but in the vast majority of cases the ability to open up the aperture more than makes up for not having it. Yes, this lens is prone to some pretty funky chromatic aberration sometimes. It seems especially noticeable in lower-light situations, with wider apertures. Mostly it can be fixed by the CA removal tools in Aperture (I don't own Photoshop or anything else, but I'd imagine they'd have the same capability). As such, I can't give this lens 5 stars. But for the price it would be pretty hard to find a better lens in this category with an on-lens focus motor so it works with Nikon's consumer-level DSLRs. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2012 by Alexander T. Esplin
A must have prime for your arsenal
Color: Black
Review Image by Nickels
Review Image by Nickels
I couldn't wait for this lens to come out and I bought it the second I could get my hands on it. I was NOT disappointed. The lack of zoom obviously has you moving your feet to frame up but this is a good thing as it helps you look around more and try distances and angles you might not if you had the zoom. I have used this lens on both my D40 and my D90 with zero issues and unbelievable photo quality. The bokeh at 1.8 is amazing! All my photos are tack sharp, colors perfect. No problems focusing, but with a lens like this there is a minimum distance you must be away from an object to focus. There is no VR in this lens but in my opinion its not needed, or at least I haven't seen a need for it. I don't have the most steady hand and I very rarely blur a shot with this lens. I see people claiming this as a flaw and detracting from the rating, this is not a flaw. It is a fact of life, every lens has some sort of minimum distance in which you must be for it to focus on the subject. Manual focus is super easy when needed. This is a great lens for just walking around in the woods or the park or playground. I take stunning portraits with this lens even on my D40. The lens construction is typical Nikon standard, feels good and doesn't look cheap. This lens is fast, down to f1.8 you can get the best of low light situations which is always good for D40 users, just bump the ISO up 400 or even 800 and you should have no problem shooting your subject in low light. I have been using this lens since it launched and I make sure I always have it with me. For anyone just getting into photography this is a fantastic piece of glass for the price and to help you see what fast glass can net you. You won't be disappointed. I will post up a few photos I took recently using this lens as well. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2011 by Nickels
Do your homework...then buy this if you need it
Color: Black
I bought this for my wife, who loves to take pictures, but isn't all that well-versed in how to use the gear. I wouldn't profess to be anything but someone who dabbles in photography and knows just a little bit about how to adjust shutter speeds, ISO and F-stops to do different things. I tend to do a lot of bracket shooting of the same thing to try to get something good. When my wife got her D3100, she was really excited about taking pictures of the new baby (who is now 3), but found the kit lens (18-55mm) a little wanting for indoor shots. The interior of our house wasn't particularly well-lit, and even using the speedlight we had, we still were getting a lot of grainy shots. When I saw this lens for $200 and read the specs on it, I thought it just might be thing to get some better pictures. The answer is yes...and no. No lens is going to change your photography skills if you don't really invest time and effort in learning the equipment and how to use it properly. That being said, if you find yourself wanting to take pictures in less-than-ideal lighting, this lens is definitely a step up from the kit lens. Pictures that were grainy before suddenly weren't, and the end result was better pictures, even on the "auto" settings for metering. The drawback to this lens is that it is a fixed length lens, no zooming. That means you've got to be in the right place in terms of your shot composition, lest you cut off someone's head or get something in the background that you didn't intend to. This is a go-to lens for indoor shooting, especially where lighting is an issue. Since we also own a D80, we tend to have one rig set with a zoom lens, like the 18-55 or the 55-200 and one with a prime lens like this one. All in all, if you're an amateur looking for more glass for your rig, this isn't a terrible choice by any means. It really depends on what you're looking to photograph mostly. I feel like the best advice I've ever gotten is make sure you cover as much range as possible, which makes the 55-200mm a good option to add to your bag first if you're on a budget. You can really spend whatever you want on lenses, but I've found that we do okay with those two zoom lens and this lens. Occasionally, we score some good shots here or there. You're not going to regret buying this lens, but you should really think about what you're going to shoot before investing in a prime lens. If you want one and don't want to pay a small fortune, this lens is the ticket. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2016 by Michael Miller
great no flash motion shots in questionable lighting
Color: Black
amateur hardware geek's practical opinion: Though the experts rave about it for the price, I'm not going to talk about minuscule degrees of sharpness, minor hard to measure distortions, or CA you can't see unless you zoom in crazy close. Optically, this lens is fine for us, and it offers some great other advantages over typical kit lenses. Hand-held shots wide open at dusk outside without flash gives no blur, and results in better image quality than using the flash and auto mode, or the 18-55 vr with any settings we tried. Back to back tests each using the same (poor, but typical of a night-time birthday party, etc) lighting conditions indoors: 35 mm f1.8, ISO 400 hand-held. No camera shake or subject motion blur over numerous shots (subject was a dog who was incited to perk up her ears etc beside a motionless clothes basket to test for subject vs camera shake blur). (18-55 set to 35 mm equivalent with max aperture) 35 mm f4.5, ISO 800 hand-held, no VR. No camera shake for most shots, but significant subject motion blur, and poorer image quality even in the regions with no subject motion. Cheating down to f3.5, and otherwise the same conditions, trying ISO 400 and 800, the f1.8 35 mm still won. The above shows just how much advantage The f1.8 lens has for low light moving subject conditions compared to a typical kit zoom. Auto-focus is very fast in bright light, and pointlessly slow for moving subjects in the dark. Manual focus is as quick and easy as auto in bright light. Another huge The really cool thing about this lens compared to other low end Nikon lenses is that you can leave it in auto-focus mode when the auto-focus speed is questionable or variable. If it isn't auto-focusing fast enough on our D90 because there is just a hair less light than it needs, it will often go rapidly slightly out of focus both ways, then settle in on very close to the correct focus, and hunt around there. If it does this, right when it starts to hunt, we can just hold the shutter button down, and spin the manual focus ring the correct direction. As soon as you touch the focus ring, the 4.5 fps start firing off. Running it in the correct direction for focus from what the auto focus system deemed wasn't close enough often results in one of the first 2-4 shots being in good focus, and being a shot of the critical moment you wanted to capture, instead of what auto-focus alone would have given (perfectly in focus, too late). If it is so dark that it switches to contrast based auto-focus, this trick doesn't work. Note this is all with the auto-focus assist light off. With it on, the auto-focus is fast down to much dimmer light, and the aperture is still fast enough to give better images without a flash than with. We just don't like to intrude on the scene with the auto-focus light. this is an awesome lens. I hate to admit it, but Ken Rockwell called this one right. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2010 by Roc
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