Yongnuo 35mm F/2 Review for Nikon F Mount | vs Nikon 50mm f/1.8 

Thanks, I appreciate it! Thanks for the comment on the production quality. Setting up nice shots is a struggle!

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Yeah, for a $80-100 lens, a 3D printed lens hood sounds pretty good! I did end up selling the Yongnuo 35mm in favor of the Nikon 35mm, but it was a good lens for awhile to start learning how to use the 35mm focal length.

@@DylanLiveLifeCreative I am shooting 35mm since the late 80's, it's my fave focal length. :)

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Yep. The D3300 is a crop sensor camera, so it'll have a narrower field of view than if using this lens on a full-frame camera liked I showed in the video, but it'll function just fine

I have no idea, haha. I've never tried maintenance on any lenses, or even sent in any lenses for professional repair

Hmmm good point. The hood from the 50mm does not cause any vignetting on the 35mm lens though 👍

It'll get pretty okay, sharpness-wise, if you get it up around f/5.6-f/11. It's not going to be as good as a more expensive lens obviously but it'll do if you're trying to save money

I'm not familiar with those cameras in particular, but this lens should physically fit on to the camera bodies since Nikon has kept the same lens mount since like the '60s (until, of course, the new Z mount mirrorless cameras). The next questions is, will it autofocus? If the camera bodies have their own internal focusing motors, the answer should be yes because this Yongnuo is built with the focusing lever that the older cameras used to adjust focus on the lens. Then finally, auto-exposure. The Yongnuo does have the proper chip to communicate f-stop to my D750, but it does not have an aperture control ring that the older Nikon film cameras depended on for your control of f-stop. I don't know if the camera bodies you mentioned have the ability to control f-stop or read f-stop in the same way as the D750.

@@DylanLiveLifeCreative OK Dylan, i know that all, shooting since 84 since i was a kid. I was asking, *if* especially this Yongnuo YN35 F2 Nikon version is focusing onto a N80 for instance - because, it should by design focus on any DSLR with a screwdrive AF motor in body, but it doesn't. that's the case. No offense, all good. /edit I do know the D750, it's an older 24 MP DSLR from 2014, and it was the Nikon D700 successor since then. I am onto Canon and Sony, when it comes to native 35mm Sensor format, but not Nikon. Nikon, i am only using via old AF SLRs, and 35mm Film, hence F60, F65, F75, F80, F90x & finally F100. ;) Because, i've bought them all back into their heyday, when it was the current 35mm AF Nikon SLR. Of course, the Yongnuo doesn't have an Aperture ring, like the old AF-D Series, which i personally dislike. Since i've been grown up with a 35mm Film SLR, and 50/1.7, 35/2.8 prime lens, with aperture rings, and then you've to learn the exposure triangle first, ASA/ISO , aperture & shutterspeed into correlation to each other. All good, i've bought this lens cheap 2nd hand, will test it onto my F80/N80 SLR. :)

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Yeah i hear ya...well for one, it's just not a very well-made lens. It's made to be cheap, and so it's also not terribly sharp, especially wide open. The best advice I can give is to stop down the aperture to f/2.8 or more to get it sharp

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Yep. The D5600 is a crop sensor camera, so it'll have a narrower field of view than if using this lens on a full-frame camera liked I showed in the video, but it'll function just fine

This lens will fit on the D80; I don't know if it will autofocus, however. The Yongnuo depends on the camera body having an autofocus motor, and I don't know if the D80 does

@@DylanLiveLifeCreative work without problem.D80 will work with old nikon lenses without motor.I have as a spare body.

I'd agree with that. The Nikon is maybe a little more well-built, but as long as you're not banging it around it'll probably be fine

There is a Canon EF version of this lens, yes, just be sure you're purchasing the version for Canon mount! :)

Unfortunately nope. I assume they didn't include it in order to cut down on cost

It's about what you'd expect from a $100 lens. Not amazing but not bad either. There's some distortion of the shape of light points in the corners, the cats-eye effect

I use a Nikon 35mm f/1.8 now. I bought the Yongnuo because it was cheap and I just wanted to see if I would like that focal length or not. I ended up selling the YN for about 80% of the purchase price

Yep, another great choice, and probably better than this one. I had bought the YN35 just to see it I liked the 35mm focal length, without investing much. I did get a Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G some months later