Nikon 24 120 f4 pictures and biography

Definitely welcome additions that set this lens apart and help to confirm its S designation. I fitted this to my Nikon Z7II pretty soon after opening the box and have barely needed to change lenses since except when I needed some ultra-wide shots and switched to the fantastic Z S. The Nikon website claims this is g which they achieved by using light - but tough - alloys and plastics.

This is a really well balanced, nice looking and tough lens. The action on the zoom ring is smooth and the grip itself is grooved and feels good to hold. I got used to that on my F4 and F4 but I much prefer the lens starting at the 24mm position and immediately ready to use when the camera switches on. Saying that, I think I used my Sony lens cases that were very well padded just once or twice so maybe Nikon has the right idea?

The has an unlock twist to use mechanism whereas the does not. The has a function button and extra three total control ring. In the hand the feels like a better quality lens. This might just be the extra weight of the telling my mind that it is more robustly built but after several weeks of use I do think it is very well made and edges out the As you can see from the side-by-side images, the is a bit bigger when both are fully retracted or extended which was to be expected.

As mentioned earlier, when attached to the Z7II the size and weight of the feels very balanced and natural but if compactness is your primary aim the is the smaller of the two. Both of these lenses take amazing pictures and I found it very hard to see any discernible differences between the two. Both are exceptionally sharp and handle flare very well.

Some early sharpness charts from Nikon show that the should technically be the sharper of the two but those MFT graphs are not that interesting to me. Other differences may sway you one way or the other though. In Lightroom you can filter your image library by focal length which is handy if you want to see which focal lengths you frequently use.

The Z-mount lens also gets Nano and Arneo coating to reduce flare and ghosting, plus fluorine coating on the front element to better shed dust and water. Another change is in the focus ability of the lens. First up, the Z version focuses closer 0. For you Americans, that's a bit less than 15" for close focusing, with a working distance of just over 6" 0.

Focus is achieved with two stepping motors that move two different groups of elements within the lens. Nikon is careful to say that focus breathing is suppressed, not eliminated, with this lens. During zoom the lens front telescopes forward by 2" 52mm as you zoom from 24mm to mm. With hood attached, that means that the front part of the hood is nearly 8.

So in terms of its "S-ness", it's mid-pack in terms of additional features. Likewise, there's no lens VR in this design, so you'll be relying on sensor-VR to stabilize your images. Build quality is typical S-line. Polycarbonate external housing over metal frame interior, with weather sealing throughout, including a rubber ring at the lens mount. Nikon's page for the lens.

How's it Handle? While the ring moves smoothly-but-with-resistance while doing so, the minimal turn does making dialing in small focal length changes exactly as you want them a little more challenging. The resistance means that the lens isn't prone to focal length creep due to gravity when tilted. The minor issues with the handling are two-fold.

For casual walk-around use, that does tend to make a bit of difference. I found myself having to watch from bumping the front of the lens into things while walking about, particularly if I had left it in the telephoto extended position. Walking around in crowded travel locations I found my lens bumped more than, say, the mm would have particularly when that lens is in the collapsed position.

But the thing that bothers me more is this: where the focus ring is. In the six mid-range zooms we currently have two with focus rings at the front, four with rings at the back. This is a design issue that Nikon has been pushing with the Z-mount lenses: if the lens has three rings, the focus ring moves to the front, but if it has two the focus ring moves to the back.

Interestingly, Nikon doesn't allow you to assign focus to that third ring, would would solve the problem. And the two telephoto zooms—mm and mm—add yet another wrinkle by putting the focus ring in the middle! Now granted, I'm not manually focusing as often as I used to with the Nikon DSLRs, as I'm finding I don't have to override the autofocus system nearly as much with the Z System cameras, but still, cognitive dissonances are cognitive dissonances, and should be avoided in design foundations.

A subtler example of that is the location where Nikon puts the Nikkor S logo versus the L-Fn button on lenses. These now go on the same flat area of a lens, but with the mm the logo is at the horizontal position and the L-Fn button is just above that, while on the mm lens, for example, the L-Fn2 button is at the horizontal position and the Nikon S logo is above it.

Like with the Nikon mm f4 lens, Nikon and Adobe apply a distortion correction profile to this lens in post-processing software, which cannot be disabled. Chromatic Aberration. Chromatic Aberration tends to be more nikon 24 120 f4 picture and biography on either end of the focal length range and This most commonly manifests as a small purple fringe around high-contrast subjects, this is also easily fixed in post-processing.

These tend to look better on the wider end of the lens. This is probably the single most important factor for any lens, is it sharp and does it capture crisp detail? Yes, it certainly does! The most impressive aspect of this is that the lens appears to be equally sharp all through the focal length range, especially between f4 and f8.

I tend to shoot this lens at f8 most of the time, when reducing the aperture past f13, diffraction starts being introduced, which leads to a softer image As is the case with any other lens. Sharpness is great across the frame at both close and long range with this lens, which is a welcome surprise and significant improvement over its predecessor.

Naturally, the lens is the sharpest around the centre, but the drop off towards the corners in not bad at all! Midrange zooms have become incredibly useful as general carry-around lenses and the Nikon Z perfectly bridges the gap between Ultra-wide and Super-telephoto. It is small, lightweight and very well built. Fast and accurate autofocus.

Good detail and sharpness. Compact and lightweight. Good build quality. Visually pleasing sunstars. Well priced. No vibration reduction. Some CA and Vignetting, however these are easily corrected in post processing. Some distortion at 24mm.

Nikon 24 120 f4 pictures and biography

Double-telescoping barrel construction. Final thoughts. As a landscape photographer, I put a lot of time and effort into getting myself into remote places to capture images of mountains, rivers, waterfalls and stunning landscapes, I am very particular about the camera equipment that I use and its performance.