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

[@willemdebeer2507]

So glad you solved the lens hood problem. I had that same issue. Even though I do not use the lens a lot, I do like to have lens hoods for all my gear. The guy I bought it from gave me one that screws in and told me, there are no proper lens hoods for this lens.

[@DamianKleiman]

Great video! I just subscribed and subscriber count went from 999 to 1000.. so congrats!

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

Wow thank you! This is awesome! 🤩🤩🤩

[@DamianKleiman]

@@DylanLiveLifeCreative keep posting great vids!

[@lego_minifig]

Got mine back when it was around $80 new. This was my go to prime on my budget 2000D. It was the perfect indoor lens for my cropped sensor. It basically was my go to lens for webcam use throughout Covid. Finally moving on to mirrorless and some faster primes, but I doubt I will get rid of this little guy and keep it as a backup. On another note, you can get good 3D printers for as low as $250 (like the ender 3). Got mine awhile back just because I thought the tech was cool, but it has come in clutch so many times for custom/niche storage organizers, camera gear, and other miscellaneous designs that it has paid for itself. In just a couple of hours I can find a lens cap or hood and have it printed. Have a cheap flash that doesn’t have a defuser? I can design one with simple tools like tinkerCAD and next to no experience and have it printed within 3-4 hours. That hood would probably cost 20 cents in materials and be printed within 3 hours. Sure it’s not the same quality, but for in this price range, does it need to be?

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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.

[@marcp.1752]

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

[@williamhooper3130]

love my yongnuo 50. its a workhorse to be honest. i'd say its 98% to nikon's 1.8 50.

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@boltmann]

4:14 The first video I'm watching from this guy but I just love him! Not in a weird way though.

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

haha well thanks

[@goldeneggduck]

"Full time manual-focus" feature was a relatively recent thing, not the norm, if you live long enough.

[@deakzoltan2714]

I just wondered when you snapped the hood on from the 50mm, why you haven't mentioned anything about it vignetting or not on the 35.... 😄

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@Focusing_on_the_light]

I know the auto focus is not the best but if using in manual for landscape do you think it’s sharp???

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@Kilebfishing]

Is there a lens hood that you can get for it

[@joaomor10]

Enjoyed this video, great production quality too!

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@marcp.1752]

Hi Dylan, i know this lens since 2016, it was being released for around 85-90 bucks. My question would be, since there's no USB port, i guess there's no chance simply to upgrade lens firmware, couldn't see anything at Yongnuo either way. The question is only, does this lens work onto the Nikon F80/N80, F100 ?

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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.

[@marcp.1752]

@@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. :)

[@elle2107]

Thanks for this review! Could I use this with the Nikon D3300?

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@mackov5282]

I have little problems with this lens. Autofosus works, but a picture is not sharp as I want it. Any ideas...? 😭

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@mackov5282]

@@DylanLiveLifeCreative thanks pal... 👍 And subscribed.

[@LaistyleVlogs]

How do you open/clean the frontal lens? My lens already building up fungus and it's hard for me to open the front lens. No tutorial on KZbin.

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@cwkronenberg9838]

The Ch are quite good at cloning, ok. It's what sets them apart - Mark Bennet rates the quality of the Yongnuo 85 f/1.8 as perhaps "the best kept secret" in the photography world. Yep! It beats high-enders like Nikkor & Sony 85 mm f/1.8, and at less than half those price tags. The Ch say - this is a special service they provide for ordinary folks out there - accessibility! others of course call it theft. Interesting. great presentation & tks! for sharing. Ps: the motor mechanism on my newly arrived Y 35mm f/2 only lasted for a couple of shoots; unfortunately, and quite disappointing! but manual focus makes up for this disaster; Seems the Ch have since upped the cloning game? mmm?

[@khaijasmi2959]

you deserve more subscribers . so yah , +1 for this awesome video

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

I appreciate it!

[@ja_s.atienza]

do you still use it, the 35mm?

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@IBM_Motion]

This lens work with Canon 6d ???

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@francisenaje]

Does the yongnuo have ois?

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@unknowngamers4506]

hi loved the vid can i use this for nikon d80

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@prenosi7496]

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

[@summerraj1746]

Can i use this lens with nikkon D5600?

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@adelkhalil4339]

So what about bokeh with this lens?

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@MrSimonj1970]

Do yourself a favour and buy a beaten up old Nikkor 35mm f2 D - much better in every way and not much more money.

[@DylanLiveLifeCreative]

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

[@VapeZone69]

I have a Nikon D5300 and I’m learning photography and more specifically brand photography would this be any good for that?