Product Description
Nikon NIKKOR Z 28mm f/2.8 SE Lens
Retro-Inspired Design Meets Modern Performance
The NIKKOR Z 28mm f/2.8 SE combines classic design with the latest in optical innovation, offering a compact, versatile lens that delivers stunning image quality. Designed to complement the Nikon Z fc DX mirrorless camera, this lens brings a retro look with cutting-edge performance for today’s photographers and videographers. Whether you’re shooting portraits, landscapes, or video content, the NIKKOR Z 28mm f/2.8 SE ensures sharp, richly detailed images with a beautifully blurred background.
Key Features
- Classic Design, Modern Performance: Styled to match the retro aesthetic of the Nikon Z fc, this special edition lens brings classic elegance with the advanced technology of the Z series.
- Wide-Angle Versatility: With a 28mm focal length on full-frame cameras or a 42mm equivalent on DX-format cameras, this lens is perfect for landscapes, street photography, and vibrant vlogs.
- Bright f/2.8 Aperture: The wide f/2.8 aperture and 7-blade rounded diaphragm create smooth, natural bokeh, ideal for beautifully blurred backgrounds in portraits and close-ups.
- Dynamic Close-Ups: Get as close as 19 cm to your subject, perfect for detailed food photography, product shots, or artistic close-ups.
- Fast, Silent Autofocus: Nikon’s multi-focusing system with dual stepping motors ensures fast, accurate, and silent autofocus, making this lens perfect for both stills and video recording.
- Weather-Sealed Construction: Built to withstand tough shooting conditions, this lens is sealed to protect against dust and moisture, ensuring reliable performance in all environments.
Stunning Bokeh and Sharpness
The NIKKOR Z 28mm f/2.8 SE delivers exceptional sharpness and clarity, even when focusing on subjects up close. The combination of the wide Z mount and the fast f/2.8 aperture ensures beautiful subject isolation with smooth, creamy bokeh. Whether shooting video or stills, you can achieve striking compositions with blurred backgrounds that enhance your subject.
- Dynamic Close-Ups: With a minimum focus distance of just 0.19 m, you can capture your subject with incredible detail and clarity, making this lens ideal for close-ups of food, products, or even bold portrait shots.
- Softly Blurred Backgrounds: The wide aperture and rounded 7-blade diaphragm ensure soft, natural-looking bokeh, helping your subject stand out against blurred backgrounds.
Optimised for Video and Stills
Designed for modern content creators, the NIKKOR Z 28mm f/2.8 SE is perfect for shooting video as well as stills. The fast, smooth, and virtually silent autofocus system allows for professional-quality results without distracting motor noise, while the programmable control ring adds extra versatility when shooting in both AF and manual modes.
- Silent Autofocus: The lens’ stepping motor ensures fast, silent focusing, ideal for capturing candid moments or recording videos without unwanted noise.
- Adaptable Control Ring: The silent control ring can be customised to adjust focus, aperture, exposure compensation, or ISO, giving you fast and intuitive control while shooting.
Compact and Lightweight
Weighing just 160g, the NIKKOR Z 28mm f/2.8 SE is easy to carry and use, making it perfect for spontaneous shooting on the go. Its small, unobtrusive design ensures that you’re always ready to capture the perfect moment without adding extra bulk to your kit.
- Portable and Discreet: This lens is small enough to stay on your camera all day, ideal for travel, street photography, and everyday shooting.
Durable and Weather-Sealed
Designed to perform in all conditions, the NIKKOR Z 28mm f/2.8 SE features dust- and drip-resistant construction, making it reliable in challenging weather conditions. Whether you’re capturing street scenes in the rain or family portraits on the beach, this lens can handle it all.
Technical Specifications
- Lens Mount: Nikon Z mount
- Format: FX/35 mm
- Focal Length: 28 mm
- Maximum Aperture: f/2.8
- Minimum Aperture: f/16
- Lens Construction: 9 elements in 8 groups (including 2 aspherical elements)
- Angle of View: FX format: 75°, DX format: 53°
- Minimum Focus Distance: 0.19 m (0.63 ft)
- Maximum Reproduction Ratio: 0.2x
- Diaphragm Blades: 7 (rounded diaphragm opening)
- Filter Size: 52 mm
- Dimensions: Approx. 71.5 mm diameter x 43 mm length
- Weight: Approx. 160 g (5.7 oz)
- Autofocus: Yes
- Focusing Options: Auto, Manual
Included Accessories: LC-52B Lens Cap (front cap), LF-N1 Lens Cap (rear cap)
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| Type | Nikon Z mount |
| Format | FX/35 mm |
| Focal length | 28 mm |
| Maximum aperture | f/2.8 |
| Minimum aperture | f/16 |
| Lens construction | 9 elements in 8 groups (including 2 aspherical elements) |
| Angle of view | FX format: 75°, DX format: 53° |
| Focusing system | Internal focusing system |
| Minimum focus distance | 0.19 m (0.63 ft) (measured from focal plane) |
| Maximum reproduction ratio | 0.2x |
| No. of diaphragm blades | 7 (rounded diaphragm opening) |
| Filter attachment size | 52 mm (P = 0.75 mm) |
| Diameter x length (extension from lens mount) | Approx. 71.5 mm (2.9 in.) maximum diameter x 43 mm (1.7 in.) (distance to end of lens from camera lens mount flange) |
| Weight | Approx. 160 g (5.7 oz) |
| Autofocus | Yes |
| Internal focusing | Yes |
| Focusing | Auto, Manual |
| Supplied accessories | LC-52B Lens Cap (front cap), LF-N1 Lens Cap (rear cap) |
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