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Full-Frame DG HSM Art (2012-)
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Sigma 35mm f/one.iv DG HSM, Nikon version (FX, Full-Frame, DX and 35mm coverage, 67mm filters, 23.three oz./661g, one'/0.3m close focus, about $900. Besides comes in Canon EOS, Sony, Minolta Maxxum, Pentax and Sigma mounts, ). overstate. The biggest source of support for this costless website is when you utilise these links, especially this link straight to this lens at Adorama and this link to it at Amazon, when you get anything, regardless of the state in which you live. It helps me keep adding to this gratuitous website when you go yours through these links — merely I receive nothing for my efforts if you buy elsewhere. Thanks for your support! Ken.
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Compatibility
The Sigma 35mm f/i.4 is an optically excellent lens in a but consumer-grade package. Since all the other 35mm f/i.4 lenses are fully professional lenses, of course this Sigma costs less.
This Sigma is as expert optically as the Canon EF 35mm f/one.4 50 and Nikon 35mm f/ane.iv G, but its mechanics seem to exist the poorest of any other 35mm f/1.4 lens I've e'er seen.
Exercise not use this lens on Nikon DX cameras simply considering the Nikon 35mm f/1.8 DX is every bit practiced optically, better mechanically and compatibility wise, and is smaller, lighter and less expensive. You have to pay a lot more for a full-frame lens' coverage, which is then wasted on a DX camera. Canon has no inexpensive, high operation 35mm f/ane.4 or f/1.viii lenses; yet I'd purchase a less expensive and slower (but higher mechanical quality) Canon 35mm f/2 or 40mm f2.8 long before I soiled my purse with Sigma.
Some of my older Sigma lenses won't work on my newest cameras, while my older Nikon, Canon and LEICA lenses work bully on today'southward newest cameras. With only a i-year warranty, purchase this Sigma lens for great photos today, simply I don't consider it a wise investment for the future. Dissimilar digital cameras which are thrown abroad afterwards a few years, I always purchase my lenses as long-term investments, which is why I wouldn't purchase this Sigma lens — but if all you lot care about is neat photos today, don't allow me stop you.
The only reason for this lens is price, not quality. If you lot shoot Canon, the Canon EF 35mm f/1.4 L (well-nigh $1,260 after yous add it to your online shopping cart) is a huge bargain. It's a proven, fully professional lens far amend made than this Sigma, and non much more expensive. If you shoot Canon, become the Canon lens and you'll never look back; the quality is remembered long later the price is forgotten. The Catechism L lens is all-metal, and optically superb also. This Sigma is nowhere near 50 quality mechanically.
If you shoot Nikon, the archetype Nikon 35mm f/ane.4 AI-due south ($850 new or $500 used) is better made than any of these — and less expensive to boot, but as the oldest isn't quite equally expert optically wide-open as the balance. The Nikon 35mm f/1.4 AI-due south is a professional manual-focus lens. It's all the same fabricated today, merely not well known exterior professional circles.
The new autofocus Nikon 35mm f/1.4 G ($1,620) is a completely dissimilar lens, and is optically superb. It's also the next poorest-made lens of all, with lots of plastic. Information technology'due south the only other 35mm f/1.4 with a plastic filter thread, and costs double the price of this Sigma.
For Nikon, if yous just recollect short-term, sure, become this Sigma lens, merely if you remember long-term and realize that the lenses you buy today should serve you well for at to the lowest degree the next 10 to xx years, I'd go for the Nikon — which has a v-twelvemonth warranty, too.
Every bit the ancient maxim so correctly observes, "the poor man ever pays twice." He pays one time to get something cheap, and and then over again pays full price for what really wanted in the first place when the cheap matter breaks. How do the rich go richer? Past ever buying quality. I'd much rather have a used Nikon or Canon 35/one.4 than this Sigma.
This Sigma has slightly less baloney than the Canon and Nikon lenses, and focuses a bit more accurately at f/1.4 than did the Nikon 35/one.4G, and information technology's as super-sharp as the Canon and Nikon pro lenses, so if you're a risk taker, sure, go go one of these consumer-level Sigmas if you lot're because it. Its eyes are first-charge per unit.
Compatibility intro top
WARNING
Nikon and Catechism don't requite away developer kits to their competition (like Sigma) to make lenses that work with Nikon and Catechism cameras. No one knows their secret sauces to ensure compatibility, especially with unreleased cameras coming in the future.
Nikon and Catechism know what's next, so their lenses today volition work with cameras tomorrow. Sigma doesn't. When you buy off-brands, fifty-fifty if it works perfectly today, there's no guarantee that anything will piece of work with the next camera you buy tomorrow.
My suggestions below are simply guesses that relate to how well a camera-make lens with like technology volition work with various cameras. Your actual luck with this lens may be worse.
Nikon intro pinnacle
I actually tried this Sigma on my Nikon D800E and Nikon D7100 and it works great.
I tried it on my Nikon F4, and it sort of worked, except that the finder displays extinguished each time information technology got focus and I held down the shutter halfway. I don't know if its simply a weirdness that'southward merely an inconvenience (exposures seemed like they were probably OK), or if something about this Sigma lens is going to damage my F4 with continued employ. Buyer beware.
Everything is supposed to work perfectly on every digital Nikon e'er made, both FX and DX, from the best D4, D800, D800E and D600 to Nikon's cheapest digitals similar the D40, D40x, D60, D3000, D3100, D3200, D5000, D5100 and D5200.
It's supposed to piece of work on decent or contempo AF moving-picture show cameras like the F6, F100, F5, N80 and N75.
The incompatibilities if everything works as well as a real Nikon lens for older or cheaper 35mm cameras are that:
i.) It won't autofocus with the cheapest new AF 35mm cameras similar the N55, only if yous focus manually, everything else works neat. Even if you lose autofocus, these cameras have in-finder focus confirmation dots to help you lot.
ii.) Late 1980s ~ early on 1990s AF cameras like the N90s, N70 and F4 volition focus only fine, but you'll lose VR. You'll have Plan and Shutter-priority modes, simply lose Transmission and Aperture-priority since you have no mode to set the aperture on the camera or on the lens.
iii.) You lot're really pushing it with the oldest AF cameras like the N2020, N6006 and N8008. You'll have no AF, confused exposure modes, and no VR. Manual focus is fine, along with electronic focus indications.
4.) Since it has no aperture band, information technology's just about useless with manual focus film cameras. It will shoot every shot at its minimum aperture.
See Nikon Lens Compatibility for details with your camera. Read downward the "AF-S," "1000" and "VR" columns for this lens. You'll become the least of all the features displayed in all columns, since "Yard" (gelding) is a deliberate handicap which removes features. Retrieve, when you lot put mud make lenses on your Nikon, all bets are off.
Catechism intro elevation
The Canon version ought to be uniform with every Catechism EOS camera. I oasis't tried it. EOS cameras are every Canon 35mm autofocus SLR and digital DSLR camera made since the Canon EOS 650 of 1987.
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM. enlarge.
Specifications superlative
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Proper noun tiptop
Sigma calls this the Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG HSM | A.
DG: Marketing fluff, means it besides works on the new "digital" cameras.
HSM: "Hypersonic" autofocus Motor, a re-create of Canon's USM (UltraSonic Motor) and Nikon's copy of Canon's USM, the Nikon SWM (Silent Wave Motor).
A: "Art" serial, just marketing BS.
Also has, but not listed
G: Gelded for toll-reduction and removing compatibility with older Nikons.
Aspherical: Especially-shaped drinking glass for greater sharpness at f/1.iv.
Eyes top
13 elements in 11 groups.
Ii are aspherical.
One is FLD and 2 are SLD, which is magic glass similar to Nikon'southward ED and Canon's UD drinking glass.
Multicoated.
Rear-focusing. Nothing moves externally every bit focused.
Diaphragm top
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM at f/Xx. enlarge.
ix rounded blades.
Stops down to f/16.
Coverage summit
35mm film, Full-Frame, FX and DX.
Focal Length top
35mm.
When used on a DX camera, information technology sees an angle of view like to what a fifty mm lens sees when used on an FX or 35mm photographic camera.
When used on a Canon i.6x (APS-C), it sees an angle of view like to what a 56 mm lens sees when used on an FX or 35mm photographic camera.
Angle of View top
63.4° diagonally on Full-Frame, FX digital and 35mm.
Shut Focus top
1 foot (0.3 meters) from the image airplane.
Maximum Reproduction Ratio top
ane:5.two.
Difficult Infinity Focus Stop? elevation
No.
You take to let the AF system focus at infinity.
Focus Scale top
Yeah, abbreviated.
Depth-of-Field Calibration top
Yes, abbreviated.
Infra-Cerise Focus Index top
No.
Aperture Ring top
No.
Filter Thread top
67 mm, plastic.
Does not move.
Size top
Sigma specifies iii.0" (77 mm) diameter by 3.vii" (94 mm) extension from flange.
Weight top
23.300 oz. (660.half dozen chiliad), actual measured.
Sigma specifies 23.5 oz. (665 g).
Hood top
LH-730-03 Hood, Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM.
Plastic LH-730-03 bayonet hood, included.
Case top
Case, Sigma 35mm f/ane.4 DG HSM.
Nice padded nylon example included.
Included top
Lens caps.
Hood.
Instance.
Paperwork.
Fabricated in top
Nippon.
Warranty top
1 year, Americas.
Perhaps longer warranties in various countries.
Packaging peak
White cardboard box.
Box, Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM. enlarge.
In this box sits the lens within a plastic bag which sits with the hood inside the case. The example is the padding - in that location is no foam.
Announced top
Photokina, September 2012.
Price, U.s.a. top
September 2012-April 2013: $900.
Performance acme
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Overall Autofocus Bokeh Color Coma
Distortion Ergonomics Falloff Filters
Focus Animate Ghosts Hood Lateral Color Fringes
Macro Mechanics Sharpness Spherochromatism Sunstars
Overall performance tiptop
The Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM has fantastic eyes — as expert as the Catechism EF 35mm f/1.iv Fifty and Nikon 35mm f/i.four G, and with less baloney — simply its mechanics and potential photographic camera incompatibility are why you pay less than for the professional Nikon or Catechism lenses.
Autofocus operation superlative
AF/MF Switch, Sigma 35mm f/ane.iv DG HSM.
Overall
AF works fine on my Nikon D800E, D7100 and Nikon F4.
Information technology's fast plenty and super-accurate so that I tin can accept advantage of this lens' great sharpness at f/1.4 — which is actually better than I observed with the Nikon 35mm f/one.4 G!
AF Speed
AF speed is reasonably fast, especially considering that faster lenses need to exist more precise, and are therefore slower, than slower lenses.
AF Accuracy
On my Nikon D800E, AF was dead-on for every frame, especially shot at f/i.4 where this is disquisitional.
Manual Focus
Manual focus is swell, only catch the ring.
Transmission Focus Override
Manual focus override works, only not always as you'd await from a real Nikon or Catechism lens.
On my Nikon D7100 in AF-A mode, even on however subjects it wouldn't lock, and the D7100 kept hunting and grabbing focus away from me as I tried to fix a transmission override. To go this to work on my Nikon, I had to forcefulness the Nikon to AF-South and look for it to lock, only afterwards which could I then use the manual focus ring without my camera continuing to endeavour to autofocus.
Bokeh performance peak
Bokeh, the graphic symbol of out of focus backgrounds, is pretty expert. Backgrounds never distract.
Colour Rendition performance peak
The color rendition seems about the same as my Nikkor AF lenses.
Coma performance top
Coma (saggital blackout flare) often causes weird smeared blobs to appear effectually bright points of light in the corners of fast or wide lenses at big apertures. In lenses that have it, coma goes away equally stopped down.
I saw no coma with this aspherical lens.
Distortion performance pinnacle
The Sigma 35mm f/ane.4 DG HSM has no visible distortion at moderate focus distances around 3 to x anxiety (one to 3 meters). Information technology has pocket-size barrel baloney at infinity and strong barrel distortion downwardly at merely ane pes (30 cm).
No Nikon or Canon photographic camera will be able to right this automatically, as many of these cameras can do for their own-brand lenses today.
More good news is that what baloney there is can be corrected completely for critical use past plugging these figures into Photoshop'southward lens distortion filter. These aren't facts or specifications, they are the results of my research that requires hours of photography and calculations on the resulting information.
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Ergonomics (handling and ease-of-use) performance peak
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM.
Ergonomics are great; take hold of and go.
I find the mounting indices of the Nikon are too small and harder to observe either by experience or past looking.
The footage scale is illegible; information technology's tiny and in night gray. It's also usually covered past the plastic window, and so I hope you adopt meters.
The plastic feels a little yuckier than the professional person lenses, but otherwise, no surprises.
Falloff (darkened corners) performance peak
Falloff on FX and 35mm is visible at f/1.4, and goes away at f/2 and smaller.
It'due south not likely to be an consequence on DX (meet ingather factor).
No Nikon or Catechism camera volition have whatsoever data to correct this in-camera; you're on your own hither.
I've devilishly exaggerated the falloff by shooting a greyness field and placing these on a gray groundwork:
Sigma 35mm f/i.4 DG HSM falloff on FX, Full-Frame and 35mm film at infinity, no correction.
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Filters, use with operation top
There is no problem with vignetting, even with combinations of thick filters.
Fifty-fifty with three stacked 67mm filters (15mm total thickness excluding rear threads), in that location was only the slightest vignetting on full-frame, so only at infinity
Any vignetting becomes slightly less equally focused more closely or at larger apertures.
On DX, you'll exist able to stack many more filters. (run across crop factor.)
The filter ring never moves.
Focus Animate performance top
Of interest mostly to cinematographers focusing back and forth between 2 subjects, the image from the Sigma 35mm f/one.4 DG HSM gets bigger as focused more closely.
Ghosts operation top
Ghost resistance is good, but non perfect. Ghosts won't be a problem unless you lot go looking to cause them:
Shot into the sun at f/eight. bigger.
If we shoot directly into the daytime lord's day and lighten the epitome by two stops to make the ghosts more visible, we tin get this:
Shot into the sun at f/16 to get a sunstar, and adding +ii stops exposure bounty to show the ghosts in the shadows. bigger.
But what you don't realize is that the sunshine required to do this is and so vivid that I tin't expect at it while doing this.
Don't worry, ghosts aren't a problem unless you lot go out of your way as I did to conjure them.
Hood performance top
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM with hood.
The hood is included.
I never use hoods; they're for sissies. Hoods haven't been needed since lenses became coated — in the 1950s!
Lateral Color Fringes performance top
There are no lateral color fringes as shot on my Nikon D800E, which corrects them automatically.
Nikons need no lens data to correct this; they can practise it with any random lens.
I have not tested this on Canon, which would not exist able to correct it without a lens profile, which does not exist.
Macro performance top
Macro isn't actually. Information technology gets to within a foot:
DX image at shut-focus distance.
I've done Sigma a favor by showing this as shot on a DX photographic camera. On full-frame, it won't seem as close (run into crop factor).
Mechanics and Structure performance top
Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM. enlarge.
The Sigma 35mm f/1.four DG HSM is built to typical amateur standards.
Filter Threads
Plastic.
Hood
Plastic bayonet.
Hood Mount
Plastic.
Focus Ring
Metallic; rubber covered.
Depth-of-Field Scale
Two tiny ticks for f/16 and that'south it; this doesn't really count.
Mid-Barrel Exterior
Plastic.
Very back of butt
Metallic.
Aperture Ring
None.
Mount
Shiny chromed contumely.
Markings
Paint.
Mounting Index Dot
White plastic ball on the exterior, and a ruby-red dot in the lens mounting flange.
Identity Plate
None, only printed on lens barrel.
Serial Number
Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation engraved onto the lens butt above and the right of the focus calibration window.
Moisture seal at mount
None.
Noises When Shaken
Clunking from the diaphragm and focus systems.
Made in
Nihon.
Weaknesses
as an off-brand lens it has unproven (with me) service facilities, and unknown future parts availability. When the HSM motor dies, you're expressionless unless you tin can go a replacement part.
New cameras may or may not work with this lens, and off-make lens makers only sometimes will update lenses to work on new model cameras.
Sharpness performance height
Warning 1: Prototype sharpness depends more on you than your lens.
Warning ii: Lens sharpness doesn't mean much to proficient photographers.
Amateurs waste also much fourth dimension worrying about lens sharpness, and since this lens is designed for amateurs, information technology's super sharp.
I tested this randomly purchased sample on a 36MP total-frame Nikon D800E on the exam range at infinity:
At f/one.four
It'southward super sharp and contrasty in the center and nearly of the image, which is spectacular and as adept as the Canon EF 35mm f/i.4 L and Nikon 35mm f/ane.4 G.
The top and bottom are a picayune less well resolved, not that you'll ever detect information technology in prints less than three anxiety (one meter) wide.
Corners are a picayune softer. You'll meet it looking at images enlarged by 50 times (36MP seen on screen at 100% with a typical 100 DPI computer monitor), just merely barely on xvi 10 24" (50 ten 75 cm) prints.
At f/2
The center is great, even a little amend than at f/1.4.
The top and bottom are better than at f/one.four.
The corners are most the same as at f/1.iv, simply lighter since falloff is less prevalent.
At f/2.eight
The center is perfect.
The corners are better. They'll await pretty adept fifty-fifty on 30 x 40 inch (ninety x 140 cm) prints.
At f/4
The corners are even better, looking smashing fifty-fifty on thirty ten forty inch (90 x 140 cm) prints.
At f/5.6
The corners are better, looking pretty expert on 4 ten 6 foot (1.4 x 1.viii meter) prints.
At f/8
The corners are optimum at f/8, looking great on 4 x 6 pes (one.4 x one.8 meter) prints.
f/8 is the optimum aperture overall.
At f/eleven
Diffraction makes it slightly less sharp than at f/8.
At f/16
Diffraction makes it slightly less sharp than at f/11.
Sharpness Summary
For actual photography, the Sigma 35mm f/1.iv is sharper than any consumer is likely to be able to appreciate. Even shot at f/1.4, it's super sharp, and in real photos, the corners aren't ever in focus — they only are at my test range where everything is at infinity throughout the entire frame.
I bought this one from Adorama and so I know it hasn't been fiddled with. Never buy at retail since Sigma does not seal their packages, and you'll never know who has monkeyed with your lens earlier yous bought it.
Spherochromatism operation top
Spherochromatism, sometimes mistakenly called "color bokeh" by laymen, is a minor abnormality which can add together slight color fringes to out-of focus highlights in very fast lenses.
I didn't come across any in actual shooting, but if I go out of my style to bear witness it, information technology'southward got the usual amount expected in a lens like this. Out-of-focus highlights behind the subject field can take on slight green fringes, and those in forepart could accept on slight magenta fringes.
Complete DX image at f/ane.4.
Crop from center of above 13MP DX epitome at 100%.
Sunstars performance meridian
With its rounded diaphragm, the Sigma 35 14 rarely makes whatever sunstars on bright points of light.
If you actually push button it, it can do this at f/16; but it took me a while to become this:
Sigma 35mm f/i.four sunstar at f/xvi.
Compared pinnacle
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I've been making comparisons throughout this entire review. Hither are merely some tabulations of specifications.
Versus Nikon
| Sigma 35/ane.4 | 35/ane.iv 1000 | 35/one.4 AI-s | 35/2 AF-D | 35/1.eight DX | |
| Introduced | 2012 | 2010 | 1970 | 1989 | 2009 |
| Actual focal length | 36.0mm | 36.0mm | |||
| Filter | 67mm | 67mm | 52mm | 52mm | 52mm |
| Filter | plastic | plastic | Metal | plastic | plastic |
| Barrel | plastic | plastic | Metal | plastic | plastic |
| Mount | Metal | Metal | Metal | Metal | Metallic |
| OK on manual-focus cameras? | no | no | Yes | Yes | Yep |
| OK on DSLRs? | usually | Yes | Yes | Yeah | Aye |
| Optics | xiii/11 | ten/9 ASPH | 9/seven CRC | 6/5 | eight/six |
| Diaphragm Blades | nine rounded | 9 rounded | 9 | 7 | 7 rounded |
| f/minimum | 16 | 16 | 16 | 22 | 22 |
| Focus | AF-S/USM/HSM | AF-South | Manual | AF-D | AF-S |
| Instant manual-focus override? | Aye | Yes | Yes | no | Yes |
| Focus Scale | Yep | Yes | Yes | Yes | no |
| Depth-of-field scale | not really | not really | Yes | Yes | no |
| Infra-red alphabetize | no | no | Yes | Yeah | no |
| Shut Focus | 0.3m | 0.3m | 0.3m | 0.25m | 0.3m |
| Maximum Repro Ratio | 1:5.ii | i:5 | i:5.5 | ane:4.ii | one:6.ane |
| Weight | 661g | 600g | 381g | 200g | 197g |
| Price, 12/2010 | northward/a | $1,800 | $i,100 | $360 | $193 |
| Price, 4/2013 | $900 | $ane,620 | $950 | $360 | $197 |
Versus Canon
| Sigma 35/i.4 | 35/1.4 L | 35mm f/two IS | 35mm f/ii | 24-70 2 L | |
| Anni | 2012 | 1998- | 2012- | 1990- | 2012 |
| Filter Threads | 67mm | 72mm | 67mm | 52mm | 82mm |
| Filter Threads | plastic | Metallic | plastic | plastic | plastic |
| Barrel | Mostly plastic | Metal and plastic | Plastic | Plastic | Plastic and metal |
| Build Feel | Consumer | Pro | Skillful Consumer | Good Consumer | Tough Consumer |
| Autofocus motor | USM/HSM | USM | USM | Arc-Course Drive | USM |
| Instant Manual Override? | Yep | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Close Focus | 1' | 1' | 0.8' | 0.8' | ane.25' |
| Maximum Repro Ratio | 1:v.two | ane:5.5 | 1:4.three | one:four.76 | |
| Sigma 35/ane.4 | 35/1.4 50 | 35mm f/ii IS | 35mm f/2 | 24-lxx II L | |
| Sharpness | Splendid | Splendid | Splendid | First-class | First-class |
| Diaphragm | 9 rounded | 8 blades | 8 blades | 5 blades | 9 blades |
| Sunstars | few | 8 points | 8 points | ten points | eighteen points |
| f/minimum | f/16 | f/22 | f/22 | f/22 | |
| Distortion @ 3m | +0.iii | +one | +1.2 | +1.ane | -ane.vii |
| Bokeh | Excellent | Fantabulous | poor to neutral | Fair-good | |
| Length | 94mm | 86mm | 63mm | 42mm | 123mm |
| Diameter | 77mm | 79mm | 78mm | 67mm | 83mm |
| Weight | 23.3 oz. | 20.v oz. | 11.nine oz. | vii.4 oz. | 28.4 oz. |
| Cost, 12/2012 | $ane,350 | $850 | $310 | $ii,300 | |
| Price, 4/2013 | $900 | $1,260 | $850 | $310 | $2,100 |
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This Sigma 35/ane.4 has superb eyes, but in an iffy mechanical package.
I wouldn't buy a Sigma lens because I don't trust their lens' long-term viability (I demand that any lens I buy serve me for nigh 20 years), but if you can get over my personal problems, this consumer-grade Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM has the same superb optics as Nikon or Canon's professional lenses.
Deployment
Sigma uses crappy caps. Leave them in the box for resale, and purchase the existent Nikon or Catechism caps to employ with this lens instead.
I would also get out the hood in the box for resale time. I don't apply them.
I'd go out either a 67mm Nikon Articulate (NC - UV) filter, or a 67mm Hoya Super HMC UV on the lens at all times.
If I was working in nasty, dirty areas, I'd forget the cap, and use an uncoated 67mm Tiffen UV filter instead. Uncoated filters are much easier to make clean, merely more prone to ghosting.
For colour slides like Velvia 50, I use a 67mm Hoya HMC 81A outdoors.
For B&West motion-picture show outdoors, I'd use a 67mm Hoya HMC K2 Yellow or 67mm Hoya HMC Orange.
If you now take or always expect to have any 77mm -threaded pro lenses, the smartest affair to do is to get a 67mm -> 77mm pace-upward band, and care for this lens as a 77mm-threaded lens from at present to eternity. This will save you lot a lot of aggravation, unless y'all really do build a system effectually 67mm filters.
If y'all step-up to 77mm filters as I suggest, exist certain to become a new 77mm Nikon front end cap, so apply:
I'd get out either a 77mm Nikon Clear (NC - UV) filter, or a 77mm Hoya Super HMC UV on the lens at all times.
If I was working in nasty, dirty areas, I'd forget the cap, and use an uncoated 77mm Tiffen UV filter instead.
For color slides like Velvia 50, I use a 77mm Hoya HMC 81A or 77mm Nikon A2 filter outdoors.
For B&W film outdoors, I'd use a 77mm Hoya HMC Yellow K2 or 77mm Hoya HMC Orangish.
If 82mm-threaded lenses are in your time to come (my Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L II and xvi-35mm f/2.8 50 Two use 82mm filters), then step up from 67mm to 82mm, and use 82mm filters.
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