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Best bank for the buck!. Clearly the best buy of all Nikon lenses. You have to work abit more in doors due to its length, a 30mm is preferable here, but what the heck for $100 you simple cannot beat the this lens optically.

It’s my favorite lens. I am a low budget shooter who only shoots occasionally for hobby.

I use this lens mostly for low light situations and portraits.

It’s not as long as I would like for portraits, but Nikon 50mm f1.8 is good enough for hobby.

The bokeh is nice to have and 1.8 aperture is so amazing when paired with 1600 ISO.

Should be owned by every Nikon user. This lens is superb. It’s a knockout low light performer, produces vivid colors, and is super contrasty. It’s contrast is so high I often have to tone it down if a picture is taken in very low light. Where almost all zooms fail in low light, this guy excels. Utilizing it’s extremely shallow depth of field can create some very dramatic pictures. This lens reveals pictures that are impossible on 95% of zoom lenses available. Sharpness rendered is breathtaking.

I’m not saying anything new I’m sure. This coupled with the 35 f2 is an exceptional duo. Mid range zooms are fine, but the precision and picture quality produced by top notch prime lenses is the way to go. The beauty of primes in this digital age is the ability to post process. If your 50 didn’t give you the reach you wanted, zoom later on your computer.

Also, don’t put a $5 filter in front of this thing. Spring for BW’s or Nikon’s filter. This lens performs as well as lenses costing 10 times as much.

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