News-Kommentare • Re: NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.4 Objektiv vorgestellt, auch für Video

Pros:

• closed, weather-sealed mechanical construction,

• good resolution in the frame centre,

• slight longitudinal chromatic aberration,

• nice out-of-focus areas,

• moderate vignetting on the APS-C/DX sensor,

• sensible performance against bright light,

• silent and fast autofocus,

• low level of focus breathing.

Cons:

• weak image quality on the edge of the frame near the maximum relative aperture,

• huge coma,

• very high distortion,

• distinct vignetting on full frame,

• noticeable astigmatism.

Our test proved that much: producing a 1.4/50 standard at low cost is possible but when it comes to a noticeably wider angle and 1.4/35 parameters, you have to try much harder. It's clear Nikon failed here.

The optics constructors gave up on distortion, coma, and vignetting correction completely and, at the same time, neglected a bit astigmatism and lateral chromatic aberration correction. They also left a noticeable level of spherical aberration. As you see there are a lot of compromises here and we are not sure what they give us in return.

You can say this performance doesn't differ from the performance of older constructions that are even several dozen years old. The weather-sealed, closed barrel that doesn't change its dimensions and is optimized when it comes to video recording, because its focus breathing is low, is the only gain we were able to notice.