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Your cart is empty.An essential lens for creators, the 12-28mm f/3.5-5.6 Power Zoom lens is the widest APS-C size/DX format zoom lens for Z series cameras. Built with an ultra-wide field of view ideal for content creators and vloggers, plus the versatility of a motorized, yet silent Power Zoom function for precision and consistency when using 1 of 11 built in zoom speeds. Built-in VR, all in a compact, lightweight gimbal-friendly lens, you’ll want to take this lens everywhere.
John L. Daschbach
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2025
On a Z30 it works well with one hand with a dog on a leash on the other.
José Del Solar Gunn
Reviewed in Canada on August 19, 2024
Great lens, light and cheap.
William Hite
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2024
I like wide lens because I take photos at car shows Museums and vacations. I'm enjoying the power zoom and the built in anti-shake. I bought my Nikon Zfc because of it's smaller lighter than the camera i replaced. The Nikon kit lens is very good but it wasn't wide enough for my needs. I purchased a Viltrox 13mm F 1.4 lens for wide shots and I was very pleased with photos it took but it was BIG and Heavy and I wanted to travel lighter. I sold the Viltrox to get the Nikon lens which I should have got first.
Fernando Ramirez
Reviewed in Mexico on June 7, 2024
Si eres aficionado y estás iniciando está bien, francamente, lo encontré falto de nitidez , frágil y demasiado básico, lo único bueno es el power zoom pero en un angular no es algo que pueda destacar mucho , francamente creo que incluso el lente de kit 16-50 ofrece mejor calidad que este lente , opté por regresarlo.
D. Roberts
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2024
I loved this lens for the about a week or so I was able to use it. I bought it to use with my Nikon Z30 mirrorless camera, but after just a couple of days of normal use, it began giving a lens initialization error when I turned on the camera, accompanied by noise of the focus motor moving back and forth. Sometimes, by turning the camera off and on or remounting the lens I could get it to work, but then it would fail randomly after that. Very disappointing because I had hoped to use it on a road trip with my daughter. I returned it and got a different wide angle lens. I suspect that the power zoom was the problem. Possibly something happened to one of the limit sensors for the focus motor.
Marco Gerardo Paez Angeles
Reviewed in Mexico on May 13, 2024
Excelente lente, todo terreno en fiestas, retrato, arquitectura y paisaje. Muy nítido y el zoom es super útil. Más grande y luminoso que el que viene con el kit de Z50
A. Ashley
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2024
I have this paired with a Z5. I don't mind losing the pixels to the dx format because I don't need large images, and in fact I appreciate the smaller file size. I love the light weight and small size. Zoom ring is super smooth. I had been using a Canon 10-22 with an adapter - a known good lens, but the IQ of this lens is better. I miss the few mm on the wide end, but really like the extra reach on the long end. A favorably trade-off.One of the reasons I wanted this lens was the in-camera distortion correction. It works very well but not all apps open the RAW files with the corrections applied. Photoshop Elements 2024 (PSE) does open with corrections, but I tried several other consumer grade editing apps that don't, revealing the ample distortion, particularly on the wide end. I use some of these apps so I am batch converting the NEF files to TIFF using PSE, which preserves the corrections, and then edit in the other apps. Windows 10 default viewer also does not display the correction. The free IrfanView for Windows does display NEF with correction. Correction is also applied to videos.
RICHeRICHpix
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2024
It's the main stay in my photo bag and majority of my live event portraits
R. Decoveny
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2023
The "power" in the power zoom is silent. Absolutely no focus breathing. While I wish it went a little wider, the range on this lens is really very good, covering wide angle to normal field of view. The ability to program zoom speeds is a neat trick. Optically the lens is very sharp across the frame and in camera corrections are needed due to strong distortions.
Lars
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2023
I like that this lens both focuses and zooms internally - the outside is a sealed shell which makes it more dust proof and sturdy.The power zoom is well Implemented, has a very fluid, physical feel. My Z30 can also use +/- buttons, which can be set to a glacially slow zoom speed - probably quite useful for video.The mount is not metal, which saves weight for gimbal and drone applications.
Maurice
Reviewed in Canada on December 22, 2023
12mm on a crop factor is 18mm full-frame equivalent; I would much prefer a 14 or 16mm equivalent. The aperture is nothing to write home about, and the power zoom is sluggish. But this is the only super-wide option available for crop factor Z cameras, and it does the job acceptably for an ok price. If you need it, you know it, and this is pretty much your only option.
Ayantika
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2023
This lens has unreal sharpness and contrast for its price. I have used Tokina 12-24 for 10 years with Nikon dslr and never could achieve similar sharpness with my technique being same. Another great advantage for landscape photographers is pretty good sun star @ f11. Flare is a problem if the sun is near the frame and the third party Hood that I bought from Amazon really helped with it. There was no vignetting even with a polarizer. This is the hoodLens Hood for Nikon NIKKOR Z DX 12-28mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ VR Lens on Nikon Z30 Z50 Z fc Replaces Nikon HB-112 Hood, Compatible with 67mm Filter and 67mm Lens Cap https://a.co/d/h6RSsl1
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