Now I have another brand new lens in my arsenal and it is Nikon AF-S FX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G ED; it’s a full-frame lens, not the DX one (Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G) which I owned before but then I sold it off once I moved to a full-frame camera.

I decided to buy this one mainly for its weight and size; it’s much lighter and smaller in weight and size than the highly recognized and well reputed Sigma 35mm Art lens and of course, Sigma is more costly than Nikkor. I have never coupled the 35 Sigma Art lens with my Nikon camera, but I have tried other Sigma Art series lenses like 24mm f/1.4, 50mm f/1.4, and 24-35mm f/2. In general Sigma lenses are heavy, they have a full metal body, rugged construction, comparatively bigger in size, and pictures are sharp and a little more contrasty than what I usually get with Nikkor lenses. Somehow I feel Nikon cameras work just perfectly well with Nikkor lenses – be it color, sharpness, resolution, and contrast rendition. It works totally in sync with all other Nikkor lenses I possess.

With the new Nikkor glass, on the first day, I went out to the Salt Lake Sector 5 area (within Kolkata) in bright daylight around noon. I liked the frames I got – fishing net, structures, different patterns, reflection, water body, and a way of life over there; very interestingly all these belong to the very adjoining area of Bengal’s high-tech park.

“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down – sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray.

At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing.
But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.”


― Terence McKenna