like my zoom lens.... but when you need to shoot in low light situations, this little guy will save your butt. I've got the 50mm f1.8, but wanted a little wider lens. This is perfect for my style of shooting when I use my D7000 (which is a DX (cropped sensor) format)
This is a fantastic lens for any owner of a DX-Format camera. It's incredibly fast, and focuses smoothly and quickly. The focusing mechanism is completely internal, unlike the FX-format 50mm f/1.8G, which has internal focusing, but the focusing element is exposed, with this one, the focusing occurs behind the front element. The lens is very sharp and the wider angle is much better for general purpose/walk around use on a DX body. The bokeh (out of focus elements or blur) is slightly less pretty than the 50mm, but for photographers who find that it's not as easy to back up when composing, this is a worthy tradeoff. This lens lacks the focusing distance indicator, so all of your manual focusing will be done through the viewfinder/lcd, and the front focus ring is somewhat smaller than the 50mm due to the lens's smaller frame. The closer minimum focal distance of around 1 foot is easy to work with when indoors and when dealing with animals or children.
This lens is a fantastic purchase, and everybody should have one!
Earlier this summer, I bought my wife the Nikon 17-55mm f2.8 lens, after hearing her talk about what a bummer it was to have deleted half the photos she took of our kids one day (with the little 18-55mm kit lens) because the light was so poor in the house that all the pictures were blurry. Even without VR, the wider aperture on the new lens made a huge difference in our ability to capture sharp photos of our kids, in or out of the house, in a much wider range of light conditions.
Upon seeing the significant difference in the exposure quality of her pictures with the new lens I immediately was beset by technology envy, but since she's the primary photographer in our house and it's merely a hobby for me, I wasn't even going to try justifying the expenditure to buy me one too. So I settled on this lens. It's cheap, small, has a focus motor, and with a few already-noted exceptions, it provides very good images mounted on my Nikon D5100.
I can't say enough about the difference in image quality in almost-low-light conditions. Nikon really knows what they're doing with the VR and VRII systems on many of their newer lenses, and I still love my 18-105mm f3.5-5.6 lens for its versatility. But the difference in the amount of light let through a lens in going from 3.5 to 2.8 is _significant_, let alone going from f3.5 to f1.8. Every now and then I'll find that the light is so low that the VR on my old lens would help, but in the vast majority of cases the ability to open up the aperture more than makes up for not having it.
Yes, this lens is prone to some pretty funky chromatic aberration sometimes. It seems especially noticeable in lower-light situations, with wider apertures. Mostly it can be fixed by the CA removal tools in Aperture (I don't own Photoshop or anything else, but I'd imagine they'd have the same capability). As such, I can't give this lens 5 stars. But for the price it would be pretty hard to find a better lens in this category with an on-lens focus motor so it works with Nikon's consumer-level DSLRs.
I've been shooting with Nikkor glass for many years. This is the first lens I've had that was not good. I simply looked at the diaphragm pattern and it had flaws in it. So I sent it back. I'm sure I got a bad copy (so be weary of yours), but aside from that, it's a great fast prime that will complement the rest of your lenses.
5 stars for being great overall
-2 stars for the surprisingly bad quality control
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