Hi guys! I need help from someone who has experience with this lens. Today is got my lens and placed it on my D5200 and it seems to me very slow recording photos and closing shutter, if you know what I mean? I tried all settings ( M, A, S and even auto) tried also changing metering and focusing settings just to make sure it's slow everywhere, but confusion starts because couple days ago I used friend's D3200 with same lens and it snaps very very fast, instant! I'm newbie and probably I messed up somewhere in settings, or maybe focusing distance? Feeling is like, no matter what shutter speed I put, it takes over a second to render and photo to appear on screen. Thank you all for your feedback!
There may be multiple reasons. Here they are in the probability of occurrence.
1. You battery in the D5200 may be low. Charge it fully and then check the speed.
2. The lense may be defective. Use your friend's lense on your camera, and use your lense on the D3200.
. If your lense works on D3200. The lense is fine, else it is defective.
. If your friend's lense works on your camera, your camera is fine, else the camera has some problems.
. If your lense works fine in his camera and his lense works fine in your camera, then your lense may not have been attached properly. Try again with your lense in your camera.
3. Slow recording has to do with slow/bad cards. Try a faster card. I got a class 4 card with the camera and then bought a 45mbps card. None of them make any difference in single shots, but the slower card runs out of steam after 3 shots in burst mode.
4. Slow shutter? Are you are shooting at high F stops so that the shutter speed is below 1/15. To check this set the camera at Aperture Priority. Set the lense at F1.8 and then shoot. The shutter speed should be between 1/1000 and 1/4000. If it is slower than that, then either the light is bad, or your camera metering is defective (can be ruled out if other lenses work fine)
Based on the above you can home down on what is wrong.