Where are the AF-S 35mm f/1.8?

Tyr-Sog said:

moving_comfort said:

VarmintCong said:

Tyr-Sog said:

Buy and ship the Tokina 35mm 2.8 to me and I'll send you my 35mm 1.8 DX

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What is the attraction of the Tokina, just the macro or something else?

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That Tokina 35 f/2.8 is optically brilliant, almost faultless - but it's slower, bigger, and over twice as expensive than the 35 1.8G. It's a weird hybrid of things, slow for a prime, very short for a 1:1 macro... But man, it's a nice lens on aps-c when you can find a use for it.

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I think it's $270 vs the $199(if you can find it for that) for the 1.8.

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VarmintCong said:

I didn't bite on the 35G back when it was $160 - can't remember if that was Bing cashback or some other deal.

Now I regret it, can't bring myself to pay $200.

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moving_comfort said:

I paid $199 when it first came out. I think you should ask yourself, "Is there something else photography-related for $200 that will be as fun/useful to me as the 35 1.8G"?

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VarmintCong said:

I didn't bite on the 35G back when it was $160 - can't remember if that was Bing cashback or some other deal.

Now I regret it, can't bring myself to pay $200.

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Leonard Migliore said:

You've made the vignetting look natural and taken advantage of the lens's central sharpness. Very good portraits.

I see you didn't do any landscapes...

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moving_comfort said:

Leonard Migliore said:

You've made the vignetting look natural and taken advantage of the lens's central sharpness. Very good portraits.

I see you didn't do any landscapes...

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Landscapes or anything at infinity focus are not something you can really do with this lens on FX, at any aperture. The corners go from a soft vignette to a hard black curve, not fixable or attractive.

But for close-in shots, like the ones I showed - it's surprisingly good. Oddly enough, this is the application I used it for on DX anyway 90% of the time, so I don't really notice an FX limitation that much. Just gotta be aware that there are those limitations if you plan to shoot this on FF.

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