Nikon is the company that offers the widest variety of lenses for those who prefer it to the competition. It currently has more than 200 lenses available for all types of photographers, from beginners to more experienced professionals.
Nowadays, given the wide variety of goals available, it is very difficult to decide in which goal to invest your savings, whether due to price, quality, focal length or anxiety that can cloud your judgment, acquiring a new goal is not easy at all. and much less if you are still new to the world of reflections.
In this article, I will show you how to use the lens simulator offered by Nikon to make your life easier.
In recent years, the lenses of SLR cameras have reduced their price while increasing their quality, which has allowed them to become increasingly accessible to beginner photographers. Still, the targets are still as expensive or more expensive than the housing itself.
If you’ve already started in the world of SLR photography, or plan to, you’ll notice that choosing a lens that lets you take the photos you’re looking for is the same or almost harder than choosing a camera. Therefore, before you start using the Nikorr goal simulator, you need to update some concepts:
Your camera lens is where magic really happens. Although the body is fundamental, it is not as fundamental as good optics. If you are thinking of changing your goal, I recommend that you read this article.
The numbers, symbols and letters with which manufacturers identify their objectives, the uses that you can give them and the characteristics of these are usually very confusing for photographers who are starting in this new world, so if this is your situation, you I recommend reading the following articles. :
It is a free and very easy-to-use simulator that will allow you, using sample images, to test the vast majority of Nikkor lenses available virtually. Nikon has developed this application with the intention of guiding you in achieving your next goal. If you are about to buy a lens or are starting to save to be able to do so, I recommend that you take a look at this application that Nikon puts at your disposal.
To access it, go to Nikon Lens Simulator
This is not the only tool available online to determine the viewing angle from the focal length, but I think it is the only tool that allows you to see the result not only in numbers, but also in photographs.
Then you will see that I have referenced all the parts of the simulator so that you understand what each of them is for:
Viewfinder (1): You can see how the scene would look through your SLR camera’s viewfinder, if you were to use a lens at the selected focal length. If you move the slider indicated by the number 3 from left to right, you can see how the image is enlarged or reduced as if you were doing it from the lens mounted on your camera.
Scenes (2): Nikon has made three different scenes available so that you can put your virtual lenses to the test, you can select any of them to your liking and start evaluating what your next lens will be based on the use you intend to give it.
Targets (3): Here you can select a target to test or zoom out or closer to the scene using the horizontal scroll bar. Initially, by not having a specific lens selected, it will be able to move in all the focal lengths that Nikkor lenses offer as a possibility, but if you select a particular lens, you will see that the trip is shortened depending on the focal range of the selected lens.
If you’re not very familiar with the concept of focal length, I recommend you take a look at the following article: Focal Distance of Lenses and Lenses.
Viewing Angle (4): Each focal length range has a corresponding viewing angle. Quoting Mario in the article: What do so many numbers mean?The smaller the number (18 mm for example), the greater the viewing angle that you can capture with this objective. On the other hand, a large focal length (say 200 mm) will capture a narrower viewing angle although it will allow for a larger zoom.
Sensor and lens format (5): Nikon incorporates two different sensor sizes in its equipment, the famous Full Frame and the APS-C, which are much smaller. APS-C sensors are 1. 5 times smaller than full-size sensors.
This value is known as the focal length multiplying factor and is by which you must multiply the focal length of a lens used in an APS-C sensor, to determine the focal length equivalent to a full frame format. , which manufacturers use as a benchmark.
If you are using a 300 mm lens on an APS-C camera, the true focal length of that lens mounted on that camera is actually a lens with a focal length of 450 mm.
It is possible to use lenses prepared for Full Frame format in APS-C cameras without any problem, if it is compatible with them, in fact, better results and lower aberrations are obtained than is used in FF format. However, using a DX lens, that is, one designed for APS-C sensors, on a full-frame camera will produce vignetting. In most modern full-frame cameras, Nikon has incorporated the “Crop” option. allowing you to easily use both full-frame and APS-C lenses.
If you do not know the sensor type of your camera, you can select it directly from the drop-down list below the Indicator (5) of the simulator reference image.
Save the combination (6): You can record each combination of camera and lens that you try with the simulator in case you want to see it again later, without having to reselect each component, this allows you to quickly test different combinations and compare them to each other.
Combinations (7): You can choose between each of the combinations that you have saved very easily from this simulator option.
As you can see, it doesn’t have much of a mystery. Nikkor lens simulator is a very easy to use and extremely useful tool, don’t stop using it every time you think about giving your Nikon camera a new lens.
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