Nikon NIKKOR Z 26mm f/2.8

Nikon NIKKOR Z 26mm f/2.8 Lens

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Nikon NIKKOR Z 26mm f/2.8 

Explore the Nikon NIKKOR Z 26mm f/2.8 lens: compact, lightweight, and featuring a 26mm focal length and f/2.8 aperture. Capture stunning images! Shop now.

Discover the NIKKOR Z 26mm f/2.8 Lens, the epitome of compact, high-quality photography equipment. As the slimmest and lightest lens in the Z series, this lens is less than an inch thick and featherlight, making it the perfect companion for street photography. Its compact size transforms your camera into a highly portable device, encouraging frequent use in diverse locations. This lens is renowned for its exceptional image quality, delivering lifelike sharpness, beautifully blurred backgrounds, and versatile low-light performance. Its wide-angle focal length offers a creative field of view, making it ideal for capturing everything from wide shots to environmental portraits. The NIKKOR Z 26mm f/2.8 Lens features an innovative all-element focusing system, utilizing a stepping motor (STM) to move all lens elements in unison. This space-saving design reduces the overall barrel length and ensures remarkable consistency across the focus range. Shoot wide open at f/2.8 to achieve photos and videos with a shallow depth of field, making your subjects stand out against softly blurred backgrounds. The combination of the larger Z mount and the fast f/2.8 aperture allows ample light entry, enabling you to increase the shutter speed to prevent blur or shoot videos in low light conditions. The lens also allows for creative close-ups, with the ability to get as close as 8 inches from your subject. Its wide 26mm perspective, shallow depth of field, and lifelike sharpness can transform ordinary scenes into extraordinary images. The optical formula of the NIKKOR Z 26mm f/2.8 Lens includes three Aspherical (AS) lens elements, ensuring maximum sharpness with minimal spherical aberration and field curvature. The included lens hood has a sleek design that protects the front element and accepts convenient 52mm threaded filters. The lens features a smooth control ring for manual focus, aperture adjustment, ISO sensitivity, or exposure compensation. Its sturdy design incorporates metal parts and components, tactile knurling, and the modern Z series design. It also offers dust and drip resistance, allowing you to use it with confidence in various conditions. The NIKKOR Z 26mm f/2.8 Lens pairs beautifully with any Z series camera and is particularly effective with Full Frame/FX Format Cameras such as the Z 5, Z 6II, Z 7II, and Z 9. Its Aspherical Lens technology and Stepping Motor ensure fast, accurate, smooth, and quiet autofocus, making it ideal for video shooting. The lens also features an Electromagnetic Diaphragm Mechanism for highly accurate electronic diaphragm or aperture blade control during continuous shooting. Experience the compact, high-quality, and versatile photography that the NIKKOR Z 26mm f/2.8 Lens offers.

I travel regularly and often get bogged down with "the best" camera plus lens choices.  The Nikkor Z 26mm f/2.8 is very small, light weight, very, very capable and a less costly solution for those day trips to small villages with narrow streets, shopping markets, and building interiors like castles and grand homes/museums.   I typically leave it attached to my Z6 although it easily fits in a camera bag to swap onto my Z8 when the bigger glass is a handling compromise.

Travel Photography Favorite - How Did I Manage Before I Added It?

Got it for my daughter's Z30.  She's been wanting a camera so I thought it would be great for a travel camera.  Had to wait a bit but worth the weight.  It is FAST and VERY capable of doing what a 2.8f will do.  I like it because it's also very small making the Z30 much easier to carry around.  Pictures are coming off amazing too!

Small but fast and powerful

I have only had the lens a short time. The big feature is its smaller size. Sometimes you just want to take a Z5 when you are not expecting to shoot very much. This lens pretty much is parallel to the handle and does not extend beyond it. It is about half the size of 24-50/4-6.3 that comes with some of the camera packages. I have not made any comparison tests yet.

Great compact size

I Like It!

I am happy I own one. 

Ever since I bought a Nikkor 40/2 I had been eying the 28/2.8 as a wider companion lens. At the same time, I was looking at the 26/2.8 on Nikon's lens roadmap and was waiting anxiously to read/watch its reviews. So I hemmed and hawed over buying the already available 28 or waiting for the yet unknown 26. I am glad I waited. After studying reviews of both lenses I chose the 26 primarily because of its superior image quality. That superiority was demonstrated nicely in a video review by Ricci Chera, a Nikon Europe Ambassador. His swan photo in that video is nothing short of stunning. 

Mounted on a Nikon Z 7II with ISO set to its base level of 64, the 26 tends to favor cool tones while generating the rich colors Nikon is noted for. Auto focus is quick and accurate in good light but may search in dim scenes. The 26's size and weight make for nimble use and allow also for handheld long exposures. This latter characteristic is valuable for an old guy like me who no longer has the steady hand of youth. Nonetheless, I've managed to handhold some stunningly acute photos at 1/10 sec. In addition, one of the things that makes this lens so fun for me is that it is a new (for me) prime focal length. Learning to use it properly keeps me fully engaged in the composition and the camera positioning stages of making a photo. It presents the stout challenges of avoiding distortions of perspective and of exaggerated object length. And, as with any new lens, it takes attentive practice to have images look like the ones in my mind's eye. I find it fun.

I was a bit leery about review comments noting focus motor noise and vibration. The comments are true: the lens is audible and does vibrate lightly while focusing. I shot the first few frames indoors and my reaction was, "Oh, blast!" However, after taking shots outside I was mollified that the sound and vibration diminished. As I use the lens more and more both effects seem less and less apparent. So, all in all, I am no longer concerned. I had also read the lens hood falls off easily. I experienced that until I took a good look and saw the hood mounts just like a lens to a camera body. One only needs to line up the flanges correctly, push the hood firmly into place, and then rotate the hood a quarter turn. It locks in place snugly.

Another fun challenge for me with this lens is staying within the compositional guideline that less is more. With its greater field of view than my favorite 50, the 26 includes a lot more area and so requires a careful survey of what to leave in and what to leave out. Being old school I still try to get my composition and camera settings correct in-camera so that I need only one frame without having to make edits in post. Therein lies the enjoyment of doing - as well as the satisfaction of creating a keeper - when I manage to score.

I have now used this lens for a variety of applications and subjects. I am happy with the results. Consequently, I recommend the Nikkor 26/2.8 with the caveat to include in your decision to buy - or not - awareness of its tendency to hunt for focus when light is dim and that it may be more audible than what you are used to. Considering this proviso, my score is 4.5 stars.

Nikon NIKKOR Z 26mm f/2.8 Lens

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