35mm 1.8G or 50mm 1.8G?

My birthday is coming up next week and wife had told me to pick out a lens I want. I currently have a 50MM Af lens that won't Autofocus on my D3200. I love the lens when I have time to focus.

My question is would I be off better replacing the 50MM Af lens with a 50MM AF-S or adding the 35mm to my bag? Which would you guys do?

Thanks In Advance,
Jeffrey

You probably have the 18-55? See what focal length you like best. Spend a few days at 35mm and a few at 50mm. Either of those would be a nice lens. You would not hate a 35mm. Are you ever going to move to another camera? Your 50mm could end up auto focusing if you ever get a body with a focus motor. That could be a reason to get the 35mm now and living with no autofocus on the 50.

hi there,
i have both a 50 and 35mm. when I am out and about or focusing (excuse the pun) more on portraits then the 50mm is my weapon of choice, living in an apartment however I sometimes just dont have the room to back up enough to compose the shot as I would wish with the 50, so I go for the 35mm. The 35mm is also razor sharp and focuses quite close, I use it mostly for chasing the kids around indoors.

Let us know what you decide

My answer was also "YES!" to both. At around $200 bucks, i consider these to be dirt cheap, but output is GREAT!

In answer to your question I think the 35mm is more useful for general purpose use.

If my wife asked me to pick out a lens I would be more adventurous and chance my luck for a 500mm F4 or a 300mm 2.8


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Geoffc said:

In answer to your question I think the 35mm is more useful for general purpose use.

If my wife asked me to pick out a lens I would be more adventurous and chance my luck for a 500mm F4 or a 300mm 2.8


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Lol I wish. Unfortunately she set a price limit. Don't think either of those would fly.

I have also both the 35 and the 50. I find the 35 more useful specially indoors. The 50 for me is better used for portraits.

I don;t have the 35mm but th e50mm and the 40 mm. I think cos of not doing that much portrait the 50mm inspired me to do some different outdoors as well indoors. It is a great lens. I used taking photos of my daughters stage performance as well as street and just for walk around.

I often thought buying me a 35mm but after I think the 50mm does a great job. Indoors I use my other lenses which can be wider than 50mm. And honestly, I don't have take photos much in very low light rooms so the 1.8 doesn't matter for me inside. If the light is down to much I use my camera in flash which I will replace soon to an external flash.

Sometimes, when I can't use flash I use the tripod or mono pod.

siamthai1 said:

I don;t have the 35mm but th e50mm and the 40 mm. I think cos of not doing that much portrait the 50mm inspired me to do some different outdoors as well indoors. It is a great lens. I used taking photos of my daughters stage performance as well as street and just for walk around.

I often thought buying me a 35mm but after I think the 50mm does a great job. Indoors I use my other lenses which can be wider than 50mm. And honestly, I don't have take photos much in very low light rooms so the 1.8 doesn't matter for me inside. If the light is down to much I use my camera in flash which I will replace soon to an external flash.

Sometimes, when I can't use flash I use the tripod or mono pod.

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michael, this is a really good suggestion which I forgot about. the 40mm completely slipped my mind. I have this one also and is great as walkaround, again very sharp, good for portraits AND you have some macro capability also. Strong consideration should be given to this option.

I also have the 50mm f1.8AF and 35mm F1.8 AF-S, apart from the kit 18-55. Each one is different. Though you have both 35mm and 50mm in the kit lense, there are quite a lot of differences.
. Prime is F1.8, so you can shoot in lower light and/or at lower ISO.
. The prime focuses faster.
. The prime is much smaller than the kit lens.

I was used to manual focus, so that was not much of a problem for me. With newer DSLR, I find MF much faster. You just use the view finder to get a sharp image and then use the "Range Finder" to fine tune it. At close distances I find MF much more accurate than the AF.

I say, get the 35mm AF-S. Here in India there was a major sale of the 35mm F1.8 AF-S and the price slipped from around $250/ to $135/ and that is when I got it.