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A fantastic 35mm lens

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2022

This is one great lens.
I shoot family portraits and weddings for a living. I can use this on the Family portraits on my Nikon Z6 and it is a very sharp lens with good contrast and fast focus.
I use a 85mm Z on my second Z6 on portraits for a two camera setup.
The 35mm for the group photos and the 85mm for the single and two people photos.

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Overpriced for a 1.8 lens; not a great fit on the new Nikon Z F....

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2023

I was hoping this would be a good lens for the new Nikon Z F camera, but the lens is surprisingly large for a 1.8 aperture design. It is roughly 3.5" from the mount, more with the hood attached. The lens has good IQ in terms of sharpness but its rendering seems a bit "clinical." I regard the price of over $750 to be excessive for the lens as well, especially because it doesn't have a mechanical aperture ring or the solid feel of metal constructed lenses.

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A fantastic 35mm lens

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2022

Style: 35mm f1.8 SVerified Purchase

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Andreas

Extremely sharp, fast, hi-res lens for Z7

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2019

Style: 35mm f1.8 SVerified Purchase

+ excellent image quality
+ very sharp, low distortion
+ fast and accurate AF

- not the 'feel' of a 1.4, let alone a Leica lens...

It's a quite big, but light and well built 35mm than can cope with the sensor res of the Z7.
(My AF-S 35/1.4 only delivers around 28MP, hence doesn't do on the Z7).

What I would have hoped for is a 1.4 version that would get closer to (but probably never reach) my Leica Summilux 35.
Overall, more versatile than the 50mm (which is also awesome).

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C Rogers

A beautiful edition of the 35mm, and it fits the Z

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2020

Style: 35mm f1.8 SVerified Purchase

Super sharp. Great bokeh, beautiful colour rendition. There is something special about this lens. I’ve had this for approx four months to compare against the 50mm and now the 20mm Z lenses on my Z7.
I’m am now of the clear belief that the 35mm is the sharpest of the Z prime range.

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Simeon

Best Lens...Even better that the 85mm 1.2

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2023

Style: 35mm f1.8 SVerified Purchase

The Nikon 85mm 1.8 is a great lens...especially for the price. It was much better to get this lens than the 85mm 1.2 that cost over 3 times the price. I have all the 1.8 S line lens for the Z mounts.

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Truer Reviewer 2019

Mostly Does The Job Expected Of It

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2023

Style: 35mm f1.8 SVerified Purchase

My brand new Nikon NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.8 S | Premium Large Aperture 35mm Prime Lens for Z Series mirrorless cameras works great in manual mode and does not perform as well as I expected it to in Auto. I'm using it with my Z9 and I do almost exclusively static photography and am happy with it. It is A Nikon, so it is well built and of course A bit expensive. Still all and all, I do recommend its purchase as needed.

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Ronald Neeleman

Spectacularly sharp images

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2020

Style: 35mm f1.8 SVerified Purchase

The images made with this lens came out spectacularly sharp. I use the lens mostly for video and for video it's fast, silent and has nice bokeh. When I use it for photography I can zoom in endlessly and it's amazingly sharp. Best lens I ever bought.

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WowFactor

Well done Nikon

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2018

Style: 35mm f1.8 SVerified Purchase

This native lens is a winner. Fantastic color saturation, nice contrast, and it’s sharp corner to corner. Weather sealing is second to none and it’s a very light lens. Build quality is superb. Would be nice to get a native pancake lens Nikon. Wishful thinking.

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Loren Colson

Great lens, works well for video too!

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2021

Style: 35mm f1.8 SVerified Purchase

Excellent lens. With the f1.8 aperture, this is my go-do indoor lens. Also recently used it for video, great bokeh and silent operation.

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Overpriced for a 1.8 lens; not a great fit on the new Nikon Z F....

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2023

Style: 35mm f1.8 SVerified Purchase

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Susan Frontiera

Great Lens, but not for me

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2023

Style: 35mm f1.8 SVerified Purchase

I was wanting this lens for my kit b/c I love all of my other Nikon lens' so much, this would be a good emergency lowlight goto. The build quality is what I expected. The focusing was sluggish compared to the better lens', but acceptable. Image quality was very good. However, the focusing motor is a little too loud for my needs, it is NOT completely silent as everyone says, so just be aware. If you need a totally silent focusing lens, you're going to have to fork over the big bucks for the f1.2... Whenever the hell Nikon finally gives us one.

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