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<blockquote data-quote="insearchofhighplaces" data-source="post: 153539" data-attributes="member: 14369">Hi All,Thanks much for all this info. I think I'm triangulating some kind of answer here. It seems like what my friend said was pretty much correct. To quote him: &quot;You can put that particular DX lens on an FX body, it has almost full frame coverage.&nbsp; The vignetting is minor/repairable in post and it's entirely gone after a few stops.&quot;He was not suggesting using the DX lens in crop mode as some have suggested.It's the &quot;almost&quot; full-frame coverage that I remain a bit fuzzy on.When he says &quot;it has almost full frame coverage&quot; and when Wiley Coyote says: &quot;I believe if you select DX and shoot with an AF-S lens, it will handicap the D600's MP's from 24 to I believe just 10 MP's&quot; Is that basically saying the same thing? If that's the case, an over 50% reduction in sensor coverage seems a far cry from &quot;almost full-frame coverage.&quot; At which point I'd have to emphatically agree with Horoscope Fish when they said, &quot;I sure as heck wouldn't castrate it by using a DX lens unless there was some really compelling reason to do so.&quot;The basic idea was to get the 35mm focal length with the substantial 1.8 f-stop without having to shell out 1,600 on <a href="http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/lens/singlefocal/wide/af-s_35mmf_14g/index.htm" target="_blank">this beauty</a>.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="insearchofhighplaces, post: 153539, member: 14369"] Hi All, Thanks much for all this info. I think I'm triangulating some kind of answer here. It seems like what my friend said was pretty much correct. To quote him: "You can put that particular DX lens on an FX body, it has almost full frame coverage. The vignetting is minor/repairable in post and it's entirely gone after a few stops." He was not suggesting using the DX lens in crop mode as some have suggested. It's the "almost" full-frame coverage that I remain a bit fuzzy on. When he says "it has almost full frame coverage" and when Wiley Coyote says: "I believe if you select DX and shoot with an AF-S lens, it will handicap the D600's MP's from 24 to I believe just 10 MP's" Is that basically saying the same thing? If that's the case, an over 50% reduction in sensor coverage seems a far cry from "almost full-frame coverage." At which point I'd have to emphatically agree with Horoscope Fish when they said, "I sure as heck wouldn't castrate it by using a DX lens unless there was some really compelling reason to do so." The basic idea was to get the 35mm focal length with the substantial 1.8 f-stop without having to shell out 1,600 on [URL="http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/lens/singlefocal/wide/af-s_35mmf_14g/index.htm"]this beauty[/URL]. [/QUOTE]

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