NewsPhotography

Gear in this story

Nikon’s Nikkor Z 135mm F1.8 S ‘Plena’ is the company’s second Z-mount lens with a unique moniker, which seems to suggest they think it’s something special. Nikon has described the lens as a must-have light-gathering beast for photographers, one which minimizes vignetting with clean edge-to-edge brightness, has exceptional clarity and sharpness for fine details, hair and skin tones, as well as minimizes cat’s eye bokeh to produce round specular highlights throughout the frame.

DPReview’s Shaminder Dulai gets some hands-on time with a pre-production version of the new mid-telephoto portrait prime to see how those claims measure up in our latest episode of DPRTV.

After the video, learn more about the ‘Plena’ and peruse some out-of-camera JPEG sample images.


Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new episodes of DPReview TV when they go live.


Buy now:

$2500 at B&H

$2500 at Adorama



Author:
Shaminder Dulai
Source: Dpreview

Related posts
AI & RoboticsNews

DeepSeek’s first reasoning model R1-Lite-Preview turns heads, beating OpenAI o1 performance

AI & RoboticsNews

Snowflake beats Databricks to integrating Claude 3.5 directly

AI & RoboticsNews

OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research

DefenseNews

US Army fires Precision Strike Missile in salvo shot for first time

Sign up for our Newsletter and
stay informed!