Most of the photos of Ashley that we post are taken with a Nikon D5000 and a Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX Lens. (An exception is our trip to Maine-- those photos were taken with a little Canon point & shoot.) We are beginner photographers, and a lot of our photos show this. In particular, some of our posted photos are a little blurry as they were handheld shots at pretty slow shutter speeds (sometimes 1/10 or slower). The Nikon 35mm is Nikon's cheapest fast lens that has a built-in autofocus motor, and does give us pretty sharp results if we are willing to let our ISO creep up a little in low light.
I've been going through some old photos tonight, and I found a bunch that I took the day before Ashley was born. I had been playing with the camera, trying to learn how to use it properly, in preparation for the big day. A series of photos at different f-stops shows that the lens is pretty soft, though certainly usable, at f/1.8, but sharpens up nicely at f/2.8 and beyond. More interestingly (for a beginner photographer) they illustrate the depth of field at 35mm from a few feet away at different f-stops.
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| f/1.8, 1/1000s (these are all handheld so please don't mistake these for a scientific test) |
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| f/2.8, 1/500s |
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| f/5.6, 1/125s |
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| f/11, 1/40s |
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| f/22, 1/13s |
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