Nikkor 50mm or 35mm 1.8G?

As your body is crop !!

35mm =50mm in real
50mm=around 70mm

So if you need wide angle ,group photos and indoor functions with limited space =go for 35mm

If spectacular portraits and ample space work outdoors etc = 50mm

Nikon d5200 + 50mm 1.8g




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JJDoctor said:

I am too confused getting one of the two for my Nikon D5100

Can anyone share personal experience as both lens costs about the same

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as Crase24 already explained pretty well,
though i love 50mm ! it is great for Portraits and Street photography

Both lenses r meant for different things, what u need a lens for or u just want a 1.8f lens in ur kit?


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JJDoctor said:

I want to buy it to take good indoor pics of my daughter

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For indoor 50mm will not be good considering Smaller Room size go with 35mm for that
(BTW for that purpose i believe the KIT LENS is more than enough for your required Just a thought ! )

JJDoctor said:

Yeah I know but everyone saying I should get prime lens like 50mm our 35mm if I want more crisp images especially in low light indoors

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Yeah then 35mm is good choice for your usage as you will be photographing in close space
where as 50mm you need to go far back to take full body shot ( though it is used mostly for Headshot / portraits and provides great detail )

and 1.8 is gonna help in Low lighting condition then kit lens

have you given any thought to Tamron 17-55 2.8?
using 35 on crop body sometime limited me indoors, but going all the way to 17 at 2.8 still produces nice shots

If not this then 35 is your obvious choice under mentioned circumstances

well there is another choice you can consider which is in between 35 and 50mm, a little expensive but i know you will enjoy it more thn 35 and 50. its 40mm micro nikkor, 5mm more thn 35 but equally great lens in performance and 1 to 1 ratio macro.

JJDoctor said:

I am too confused getting one of the two for my Nikon D5100

Can anyone share personal experience as both lens costs about the same

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For a DX camera like yours, a 35 1.8g would work fine for taking portraits indoor. 50mm would get too tight unless you have a big house. And someone suggested a 40mm micro, I don't recommend it if you want to take portraits inside the house only. The issue with that lens, like other micro lenses, is that it changes its aperture according to your subject's distance. At infinity it would be 2.8 but at close distances it will fall to as low as 4.2 or so. And unless you have a speedlight you don't want to shoot at such small apertures indoors especially on a cropped sensor.

Yes nikon d3xxx , d5xxx and d7xxx are dx sensors

But nikon d7xxx series has builtin focus motor so D lens are compatible


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indoor 35mm because wide view.
out door 50mm!

assasin42o said:

Can I take 50mm 1.8 for a normal party coverage without that bokeh effect on every picture? Or will I have to go with a normal lens? [MENTION=91204]crase24[/MENTION]

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First of all yes you may use it in any way
Sir ,
Are you beginner ?
Can you use dslr manually ?

Blurring depends on your aperture and distance of background from subject ie depth of field .. In simple more the distance more will be blurring vice versa

Secondly your aperture if its lowest its eg 1.8f it will focus only nearest subject will blur background and if you use high like 4f it will blur less but will be less sensitive to light too


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assasin42o said:

No if my prime lens says 1.8G,means I can not adjust it to 3.5 or 4, right?

I am not an expert yet, learning

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You may adjust

From 1.8f to 16f in case of this lens



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