Thomas Fitzgerald Photography

Shortly before Christmas in 2008 I started a little experiment. You see, for the longest time I had been a Canon shooter. I had been solely using Canon cameras since the days of film but I had become increasingly frustrated with my camera of the time and the way Canon was developing its products (rebel after rebel but no mid range replacement). Still, I had a significant investment in Canon lenses and accessories so I didn’t want to jump ship and then regret it. Instead I decided to buy a mid range Nikon and try it out before making any decisions on what to do. You can read about my original thoughts on why I was doing this on this post on my technology blog. It’s now a little over a year since I first got my D90, so how has this little experiment played out? Read on to find out.
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I treated myself to a new Nikon 35mm f1.8 Lens for christmas and I took it out for a quick spin in the City today. I’ll have a full review in a day or two but for now just some quick first impressions and some Images. Overall, it’s a pretty sharp lens. Even at f 1.8 it’s sharp. Unfortunately it has one pretty big weakness. It has some severe fringing when used wide open and some pretty bad chromatic aberration too. The chromatic aberration you can live with as it’s reasonably easily removed in post but there’s not much you can do about the fringing. It’s like what you would expect on cheaper digital compacts. It’s a real shame because it’s a very sharp lens. Anyway, here are a few photos. I’ll post some more tomorrow. (I’m writing this pretty late so no large versions I’m afraid)

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