Take a look at our recommendations for the best lenses for the Nikon D The reason why we wrote this guide is to help educate you on what to consider when buying a lens as well as help you narrow in on what lens is best for your type of photography. Whether you already own it or are about to get one, you need to understand that image quality depends way more on the lenses you use, rather than the camera. To get the most out of your DSLR, you need to pair it with a good lens.
A camera lens is very similar. Depending on what you like to photograph you need to get a lens designed for that type of photography so that your camera will be able to pickup all of those details at a high resolution. However, for the Nikon D there are over compatible lenses available from Nikon and other third-party companies like Sigma , Tokina and Tamron these 3 are the most popular. There are zoom lenses, primes, telephoto, wide angle lenses, and many more.
Each of these lenses for the D allow you to completely change the look of your shots. We wrote this guide to help and show you all the best Nikon D lens recommendations for the most popular types of photography.
At the bottom you can also find the full list of our favorite Nikon D lenses and their release dates. These allow you to get really close to your subject, and are great for sports, concerts, wildlife. Macro lenses make your subject appear as big as it is in real life. Simply put, a zoom lens allows you to get closer to your subject by rotating the zoom ring like the mm that goes from 55mm, everything between, and mm.
A prime lens on the other hand is always at the same focal length for example, 50mm. Quality is usually better and the maximum aperture can be bigger without making the lens huge in size. For most beginners in photography a Zoom lens will fill more natural to you on your Nikon D This is because most people will have at least used a point and shoot camera or the camera on their phone that allows you to zoom in and out.
So a Zoom lens is great for flexibility and ease. Plus all the Prime lenses on our list will provide amazing image quality, often better then their Zoom counterpart. Prime and zoom lenses, from widest to longest. You will notice some barrel distortion as the lens elements come without a fluorine coating. The manufacturers managed to balance extra-low dispersion glass elements and a powerful Silent Wave motor that accounts for quick and almost silent autofocusing.
While its speed is not as great as you might have expected, it produces bright images and allows for manual focus override. The Electromagnetic diaphragm, fast shutter speed and frame rates make this model a great option for those who want to buy a telephoto lens. However, if you need a model with a long reach, solid build and full-frame sensor coverage, you will enjoy using this lens.
As it comes with an image stabilization system, your photos will be always perfectly clear even when you use your camera handheld.
This lens for Nikon D more suitable for taking photos of a cooperative subject at a slow shutter speed. After testing it, I can conclude that the images are quite sharp.
You might notice some chromatic aberration and pincushion distortion, though. The lens is marketed for wildlife and sports photographers and can be considered a great value for money. This Nikon D zoom lens has been designed with one P-MO hybrid aspherical element and a pair of glass-molded aspherical elements that minimize chromatic aberrations and increase the image clarity.
Multi-coating accounts for better light transmission and color accuracy. You will hardly notice any ghosting or flare. This telephoto lens for Nikon D measures 4. By using this lens for Nikon D, you can capture amazing footage and stills with saturated colors, enhanced contrast and nice blurred backgrounds regardless of lighting conditions.
The lens also perfectly controls distortion, so the overall image quality stays at the top level. The Nikon D captured a larger-than-average macro area with the standard mm kit lens, measuring 4.
Detail was somewhat soft, and there was some additional softening in the corners. Most lenses have some softening in the corners at macro distances. Some vignetting is also noticeable in the extreme corners. The Nikon D's flash throttled down for the macro area pretty well, though. Geometric Distortion High levels of geometric distortion at wide-angle and telephoto ends with the mm kit lens. The Nikon D's mm kit lens produced about 1.
At the telephoto end, there was about 0. This is the tendency for the lens to bend straight lines outward like a barrel -- usually at wide-angle or inward like a pincushion -- usually at telephoto. The Nikon D offers an Auto Distortion Control feature to reduce geometric distortion automatically.
As you can see it worked quite well with the mm lens, reducing barrel distortion at wide-angle to 0. Since this option is database driven, it's only available for Nikkor D and G-type lenses with certain optics such as Fisheye and Perspective Control lenses excepted. Auto Distortion Control is Off by default.
Manual mode works with images from any lens. Some blurring in the corners of the frame at wide-angle and telephoto with the kit lens wide-open. Chromatic Aberration. Chromatic aberration is quite low at the full wide-angle setting of the Nikon D's mm VR kit lens. At telephoto, chromatic aberration is even lower and hardly detectable. This distortion is visible as a slight colored fringe around the objects at the edges of the field of view on the resolution target.
The Nikon D's image processor does a good job at automatically removing most C. See below for crops from uncorrected RAW files. Corner Sharpness. The Nikon D's mm VR kit lens produced slightly soft corners of the frame at full wide-angle. The lower right corner was a touch softer than the other corners, and the softness didn't extend very far into the frame. The center was reasonably sharp.
At full telephoto, the left hand side corners were softer than the right. The lower left corner was the softest, with some softness extending fairly far into the frame, but the lens was softer overall at telephoto than at wide-angle. There's also a little bit of vignetting corner shading at both ends of the zoom, as indicated by the darker corner crops. Still, these are better-than-average results for a kit lens, considering the zoom ratio and that the aperture was wide-open for these shots.
Corner sharpness and vignetting typically improve as the lens is stopped-down from maximum aperture. As you can see from the crops above, levels of chromatic aberration in the corners are much higher in uncorrected RAW files, though still reasonable. Nikon has been automatically reducing C. Note that these crops are unsharpened, so they appear softer than the camera JPEGs. The images above were taken from our standardized test shots.
For a collection of more pictorial photos, see our Nikon D Photo Gallery. Nikon D Optics Tweet Share. Navigate Review Jump to review page The long list of alphabetic jargon in the lens's name deserves some translation for the non-Nikonians who might be reading this, so here it is: AF-S - "Silent Wave" SWM motor for fast, quiet focusing. This design also lets you adjust focus manually after the autofocus system has achieved focus, handy for manually tweaking focus to your liking in tricky situations.
DX - designed to mate with Nikon's DSLRs, smaller and lighter because its image circle doesn't have to cover the full 35mmm film plane. The G also means no aperture ring, you set the aperture only through the camera's controls. Speaking of aperture, the diaphragm in this lens is a 7-blade rounded-opening design, for nice round catchlights and more appealing bokeh.
However, the distortion of this lens is a concern and it is seen at the lower end of 18mm radically. Chromatic aberration is well controlled. Vignetting is also present but both distortion and vignetting can be controlled via post-production. Nikon mm is one of the versatile lenses that do compromise on a few things like distortion and vignetting. However, the overall quality is nice and it does prove to be a worthy choice for the Nikon D It is a nice choice for clicking pictures of landscapes, nature, travel, and events.
The lens has excellent build quality. It feels sturdy and really well made in the hand. It weighs around 1. Speaking of Zoom, the 70mmmm range does give you a good range of zooming in. The lens does handle autofocus really well and in case you want to do the focusing manually, it also has full-time manual focus. The switching mechanism is also super convenient as you just need to turn the focus ring to switch from autofocus to manual focus.
A worthy alternative to the Tamron mm is this offering from Nikon that gives you a wider focal length from 55 to mm. This is a worthy inclusion to have as it widens the areas that you can cover with your camera. This lens has been recommended by experts ever since its release. If there is any area where the Nikkor m scores much better than its peers in the same range, it is the weight and compactness. This telephoto zoom lens for Nikon D weighs 1. Although this would sound heavy, remember that it provides some great amount of zooming range which makes it worth the extra elements.
The focusing mechanism is external which means that you can see the parts of the lens moving. This is not much of an issue as the filter thread is stable and does not move.
There are switches of focus and VR present on the body which are easily accessible. A rubber grip makes it good enough to handle. The overall design is fair and satisfactory with less weight. Autofocus is the weak point of this telephoto lens. The focusing takes a lot of time when you try to focus on a moving object. During my tests, I often missed taking the shots because of this error and I found it very frustrating.
It reaches its peak when you try to capture some pictures at the mm. Though manual focus works like a charm, I would really prefer better autofocus especially with a powerful performer like the D Sharpness usually suffers at the edges when it comes to some telephoto lenses and this one is no exception to that rule.
The edges do not seem sharp enough until the aperture of F5. Center sharpness is decent. Distortion is almost absent and the tiny bit that might appear occasionally at low end very minute can be corrected by the software built-in the DSLR. There was no chromatic aberration present in the images that I took with this combination. I found a lot of vignetting taking place which was disappointing. However, I could easily correct it in post production but neither the lens nor the camera could correct it before display.
Nikkor mm is ideal if you want to have a decent lens for the occasional photos that you click in your garden of butterflies or children playing in the playground.
If you go and click professional sports pictures, you are bound to be disappointed. This Nikkor lens is a good lens for Nikon D if you are not a professional in the field of sports or wildlife.
Clicking portraits is one of the most satisfying forms of photography and a fixed prime lens like the Nikkor 50mm is a tool that adds more fun to it. This is a lens that I personally love and find very interesting and useful. Even experts go gaga over the value it adds to the pictures. One of the most well-managed aspects of this lens is its design. It weighs around half a pound and feels minute in the hand. Even mounting it on the Nikon D did not add any significant weight to the camera.
However, this interesting feature can go the other way because it becomes prone to movements and jerks which can affect the image to a large extent especially when VR is absent. There is not much to control on the body except the focus switch.
A Distance Meter is present but only for F Build quality is impressive and overall it is a great design. You get smooth and quick autofocus in the Nikkor 50mm. I loved how this lens was quick to identify the subject and work fluidly on the Nikon D However, the focus is not instantaneous and not ideal for moving objects.
But since it is made for portraits, the focus works like a charm. Note that focusing happens internally so you can apply as many filters as you want to on the lens. You can expect some striking sharpness from the Nikkor 50mm lens.
The images are incredibly sharp at the center and a bit unclear at the edges. Being a low aperture lens, this is very normal. Increasing the aperture solves it and then you get a proper sharpness even in the edges.
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