View single post by Robert

Posted: Thu Nov 27th, 2014 08:01

Joined:	Mon Apr 2nd, 2012
Location:	South Lakeland, UK
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I saw your mention of the 50mm lens and the comment about it's 'wideness'. The 50 is a very good lens which on the D3200 is a slightly telephoto f1.4 or f1.8, trouble is you need an 'S' version because the D3200 does not have a focus motor in the body which the non 'S' lenses need. The big advantage the fast lenses bring is that they can take photographs in very dim light without flash, flash often destroys the atmosphere of low light photographs. Also you can make the background very out of focus, which can be appealing to some.

The Sigma 10-20 is a super lens and is my only other lens which will work on my D3100. It can be used to very good effect in many situations, especially photographing cars, front corner or under the hoodI have many nice pix of race bikes taken with the 10-20 Sigma. One tip is not to shoot at the very widest setting just take it in a tad and it helps the distortion. You would need an off camera flash because the petal lens hood creates an ugly shadow in the image.

For budget I do have (don't tell anyone!) a screw on wide angle/fisheye adaptor, which screws on to the front of the lens, some movie cameras have them. I have used that in the past to get a photograph where nothing else would do the job. As Eric said, with such an image the viewer doesn't really notice a slight lack of sharpness due the the low quality of the lens.

This is a pic of my daughter Louise taken with my Nikkor 50mm f1.4 @ f1.4 NO flash! It was almost dark and as I remember the only light was a camp fire and a lantern.

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