D800E and Nikon 35mm f1.8G DX lens

I experimented with my only DX lens in my arsenal. I was surprised that I still could get a higher resolution when I used this lens at 1.2x crop factor with my D800E. It can still generate a 17 inch x 25 inch 240 dpi file size or 6144 x 4080 pixels. RAW file size was around 26 mp.

D800E at 1.2x crop factor (image size)





100% view cropped

Very Nice to see what it can do on FX glass.

donaldjledet said:

Very Nice to see what it can do on FX glass.

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Not bad at all if you need to use it with a FX camera.

Have you tried it with the full frame resolution?

marce said:

Have you tried it with the full frame resolution?

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No I have not since most of my lenses are non-DX except for the Nikon 35mm f1.8G DX lens but since you asked this question, I just did and the result was surprising to me.

Normally, I would get something similar to this link below when I used to shoot with my D700 and still had to good amount of DX lenses at the time.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcapfoto/3077518931/

So, here is a sample image with the 35mm DX lens. The NEF file is close to 40mb. Auto DX turned Off.




From what I gather, some DX lenses are usable using full frame at certain focal lengths and the rest, you will get heavy vignetting.

marce said:

Have you tried it with the full frame resolution?

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I've used the 35mm on full frame with my D3. It definitely vignettes pretty bad in the corners especially wide open. I didn't really compensate the iso/shutter speed that much but you get the idea. The attached picture was with my 55-200 DX at about 55 F5.6

Jak said:

I've used the 35mm on full frame with my D3. It definitely vignettes pretty bad in the corners especially wide open. I didn't really compensate the iso/shutter speed that much but you get the idea. The attached picture was with my 55-200 DX at about 55 ]

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I guess it is safe to use it in either 1.2x crop mode (certain models only) or DX mode to avoid vignette.

I think it depends on the situation and your settings. I was shooting inside at higher ISOs than you'd use outside. I always personally saw vignetting from my 35mm so I keep it on my D7000.

Jak said:

I think it depends on the situation and your settings. I was shooting inside at higher ISOs than you'd use outside. I always personally saw vignetting from my 35mm so I keep it on my D7000.

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One thing that I also noticed is that the lens was slow to af even with good light.

Cheers, when I finish my house move I shall have a play as my recent camera body upgrade (a chance I couldn't miss, a D800 ex demo Curry's 400 shots £1399) has left me with 2 lenses the 50mm and 35mm f1.8g 's. (an a Tamron 0mm macro, that is destined to be used to help fund a 105 Sigma).

Check my thread in Prime forum. Depending on where the light is coming from, you can end up with little to no vignetting in FX mode using one of these puppies.

Cool cheers.

Took a few shots, quite bad vignetting on wide view shots so put camera into 5:4 size ad problem disappears (almost).