the 35-40mm focal length range for 35mm full frame cameras offers a lovely perspective for street photography and is very useful for photographing groups of people such as at weddings.
a wide aperture lens such as f/1.4 allows more shallow depth of field (DOF) to separate the subject from the background, and also extends low light versatility
35mm full frame AF lenses
Tamron SP 35mm f/1.4 Di USD
the sharpest 35mm lens available in 2019, even sharper than the Canon EF vII and much cheaper
optically, similar to the 1970's Nikon 35mm f/1.4 manual focus F mount lens
“low contrast and blurry with spherical aberration and vignetting wide open, improving greatly as stopped down”2)
lots of coma aberration
barrel distortion
best optics at f/8
9 elements in 7 groups
9 blades but not rounded
close focus 0.3m
52mm filter
381g
35mm full frame MF lenses
SLR mounts
Samyang/Rokinon 35mm f/1.4
“superb optics, sharper at the largest apertures than Nikon's enduring classic 35mm f/1.4 AI-s, sharper than the 35mm f/1.8 DX and even a little sharper than Nikon's new $1,650 35mm f/1.4 G” 3)
12 elements in 10 groups incl. 1x aspherical and 2 high refractive