Nikon’s Nikkor Z 135mm f/1.8 S ‘Plena’ is designed to attenuate vignetting, keep rounder bokeh edge-to-edge and produce sharp photographs with distinctive readability. Nikon appears to have put numerous thought into making a lens that maintains a top quality of sunshine and easy fall-off to create depth of subject with gradual gradations.

The ensuing lens feels tailored for portrait and studio photographers utilizing Nikon’s Z-series cameras. What higher method to check these claims than to take it to the streets of Seattle to make portraits? In our newest pattern gallery, we take a better take a look at the tremendous element of pores and skin and hair, bokeh efficiency on the edges, and depth-of-field, and we even handle to get folks in movement and freeze some rain mid-drop.

It must also be famous that this pattern gallery was created utilizing a pre-production mannequin of the lens, so Nikon restricted our sharing of lens photographs to out-of-camera JPEG photographs in our pattern gallery. As quickly as we get our fingers on a manufacturing model of the Plena, we anticipate to shoot Uncooked+JPEG samples, as is our commonplace observe. Please preserve a glance out for these updates.

View our Nikon Nikkor Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena’pre-production pattern gallery

Be aware: Please don’t reproduce any of those photographs on a web site or any publication/journal with out prior permission (see our copyright web page). We make the originals obtainable for personal customers to obtain to their very own machines for private examination or printing (at the side of this assessment); we achieve this in good religion, so please do not abuse it.


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