The NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.8 S is a highly versatile and sought-after prime wide-angle lens, favored by photographers for a wide range of subjects, from landscapes to street photography. With its bright f/1.8 maximum aperture, this lens excels in challenging lighting conditions and provides increased control over depth of field for precise subject isolation and selective focus. The optical design of the lens incorporates three aspherical elements and two extra-low dispersion elements, effectively reducing various aberrations and distortion to deliver images with exceptional sharpness, clarity, and accurate color reproduction. Additionally, both Nano Crystal and Super Integrated Coatings are applied to minimize flare and ghosting, resulting in improved color fidelity and enhanced contrast.
The lens is equipped with a stepping motor, ensuring swift, quiet, and accurate autofocus performance, making it suitable for both still photography and videography. Full-time manual focus override is also available, providing photographers with seamless control. Furthermore, a programmable control ring allows for intuitive adjustment of various camera and exposure settings, adding to the lens’s versatility and ease of use.
Designed specifically for FX-format Z-mount mirrorless cameras, this prime wide-angle lens offers exceptional image quality and versatility. Its bright f/1.8 aperture not only enables shooting in challenging lighting conditions but also provides greater creative control over depth of field, allowing photographers to isolate subjects and achieve stunning bokeh effects. The optical design incorporates three aspherical elements, effectively minimizing spherical aberrations and distortion, resulting in sharp and accurate image rendering. Additionally, two extra-low dispersion elements are used to greatly reduce color fringing and chromatic aberrations, ensuring greater clarity and color accuracy.
To further enhance image quality, the lens features Nano Crystal and Super Integrated Coatings. These coatings effectively suppress flare and ghosting, delivering images with improved contrast and color fidelity, even in bright and backlit conditions.
The lens’s stepping motor ensures fast, quiet, and precise autofocus performance, making it well-suited for both stills and video applications. The full-time manual focus override allows photographers to fine-tune focus manually, providing additional control and flexibility. The internal focusing design maintains the overall length of the lens during use and enables faster focusing speeds.
The programmable control ring offers a customizable adjustment option, allowing photographers to assign it to control manual focus, aperture, or exposure compensation based on their preferences and shooting requirements.
The lens incorporates a specialized electromagnetic aperture mechanism, ensuring greater exposure control stability, especially when working with fast continuous shooting rates. The rounded nine-blade diaphragm produces a pleasing bokeh quality, enhancing the use of shallow depth of field and selective focus techniques.
The lens barrel is designed to be dust- and moisture-resistant, making it suitable for use in various weather conditions and challenging environments. This feature ensures the lens’s durability and reliability over time, providing peace of mind to photographers who frequently shoot outdoors or in inclement conditions.