If I have 50mm lens.. is it worthy to get a 35mm?

AhmedGhanam

New member
Hello
I have a 50mm lens.. I mainly use it for portraits and I likes it
I'm looking for a wide open lens to capture landscapes and architecture.. Is a 35mm lens is my best choice.. looking to the price other variable?
 

captain birdseye

Senior Member
If you are shooting on crop frame, 35mm is not very wide at all. A little better on full frame but not what most people use for scenery or architecture.
Not to say that you cannot use such a lens for these subjects but it would be rather limiting.
On a small budget I would settle for wide zoom starting at 10 or12 mm.
 

AhmedGhanam

New member
Thank you.. I'm using D5200

If you are shooting on crop frame, 35mm is not very wide at all. A little better on full frame but not what most people use for scenery or architecture.
Not to say that you cannot use such a lens for these subjects but it would be rather limiting.
On a small budget I would settle for wide zoom starting at 10 or12 mm.
 

Andy W

Senior Member
I agree with what captain birdseye said. My wife recently got a Sigma 10-20mm and really likes it for landscape photos.
 

Needa

Senior Member
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Hello
I have a 50mm lens.. I mainly use it for portraits and I likes it
I'm looking for a wide open lens to capture landscapes and architecture.. Is a 35mm lens is my best choice.. looking to the price other variable?

How are you defining a wide open lens, f1.8, f2.8 or better or will f4 work?
I also have the Sigma 10-20 its an f3.5.

Is the 50mm lens the only lens you have. If you have the 18 to 55 kit lens you could frame up some shot at 35 and 50 and see the difference.

A quick look shows Sigma make a f2.8 17-50MM and Tonika makes a 11-16MM f2.8. I have no experience with either of those. Others might have some input.
 

captain birdseye

Senior Member
The Tokina 11-16 is a good, sharp lens with an acceptable level of distortion. It can suffer a little when shooting against the sun though, as do most (but not all ) wide angle zooms.
I had one for a while and found it to be a good performer but moved it on as I did not use it enough as I am mostly in to wildlife.
 

nickt

Senior Member
I have a Tokina 11-16. Its a nice sharp lens, but honestly I don't use it much. Last year I got a Sigma 17-50. I really love this lens. It does the landscapes I need and makes for a good walking around general purpose lens too. Very sharp under so many conditions. I retired my everyday 18-140. I seldom feel the need to grab my 35 or 50mm lens.
 

Marcel

Happily retired
Staff member
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Rokinon/Samyang make a great 12mm for cropped sensors. Although it's manual focus, you barely ever have to touch it. And it's way sharper than any wide zoom I've used. The one I have is for my Fuji, but they make the Nikon mount as well. It must cost about 300.00$ or so.
 

Woodyg3

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Contributor
I have a Tamron 17-50mm that works perfectly for almost all of my landscape shots. I don't think I've used my 50mm prime lens in a couple of years, I like the 17-50 better.

I don't really do architectural shots, so I can't comment there.
 

Bob Blaylock

Senior Member
Hello
I have a 50mm lens.. I mainly use it for portraits and I likes it
I'm looking for a wide open lens to capture landscapes and architecture. Is a 35mm lens is my best choice.. looking to the price other variable?

A 50mm lens is considered a “normal lens” on a standard 35mm film camera or a ”full-frame” or “FX” digital camera, though it's actually a bit long, about 43 mm would be more correct.* A normal lens is one which gives a field of view comparable to that of the human eye.

Your D5200 has a sensor that is smaller than that of a full 35mm frame, and so, to get the same field of view, you need, proportionally, a shorter lens. This is the “crop factor” of which you've surely heard, often given as about 1.5, though 1.55 is more accurate. Your 50mm lens, on your D5200, gives about the same field of view than a {50 1.55 ×} 77.5mm lens would give on a 35mm film camera. To get the equivalent on your D5200 of a 50mm lens mounted on a 35mm film camera, what you really wants is a {50 155 ÷} 32mm lens. 35 is close enough.
 

Marcel

Happily retired
Staff member
Super Mod
I have a Tamron 17-50mm that works perfectly for almost all of my landscape shots. I don't think I've used my 50mm prime lens in a couple of years, I like the 17-50 better.

I don't really do architectural shots, so I can't comment there.
I'll second that.
Now if @AhmedGhanam only has a 50, then the 17-50 would be my choice as well. But I thought that he probably would have the "kit" 18-55...
 

Andy W

Senior Member
sounds good. can you share some photos?

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Texas

Senior Member
Good grief. Wife and I are amazed that looks just like the house we moved from in Dunwoody/Atlanta,GA. 4 years ago...
 

mark240590

Senior Member
It depends. I’ve got both, I used to use my 35mm all of the time but I don’t even carry it with me anymore. That being said I’m not ready to sell it, I use my 50mm for outdoor portraits as it’s too narrow for indoors and use the 35mm indoors. I enjoy shooting landscapes but since the birth of my son portraits have become increasingly addictive to me.


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