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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 591418" data-attributes="member: 13090">On a DX body I find the 35mm the more flexible option than the 50mm. The 50mm is nice, a great little prime to have, but while you can always zoom and crop a 35mm shot to match the 50mm field of view, you can't widen then 50mm shots field of view to match the 35mm. I would not use either lens for head-and-shoulder portraits, they're just too wide for it and cause too much distortion at those distances. The shortest tele prime I'd use on a DX body for portraiture would be an 85mm. Fortunately the Nikon 85mm f/1.8G is a pretty decent lens all the way around. As a final thought, Have you considered something like the 18-140mm, or are you strictly looking at primes?....</blockquote>