The NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S lens from Nikon is a highly adaptable and luminous standard zoom lens, capable of capturing a range of perspectives from wide-angle to portrait lengths. Its constant maximum aperture of f/2.8 allows for effective performance in diverse lighting environments, while also providing enhanced control over depth of field, facilitating subject isolation and selective focus techniques. The lens's optical architecture features two extra-low dispersion elements and four aspherical elements, which work together to minimize chromatic and spherical aberrations across the entire zoom range, resulting in superior clarity and sharpness. Furthermore, the application of ARNEO and Nano Crystal Coatings, along with a Super Integrated Coating, effectively reduces flare, ghosting, and surface reflections, thereby enhancing contrast and color accuracy. In addition to its optical excellence, the lens is equipped with a multi-focus system that utilizes two stepping motors, ensuring rapid, precise, and silent focusing capabilities, complemented by full-time manual focus override to accommodate both photography and videography. The lens's innovative physical design includes a top-mounted OLED information panel for quick verification of aperture and focus settings, while an assignable L.Fn button allows for convenient adjustments to exposure and settings directly from the lens. Moreover, a programmable control ring offers intuitive manipulation of various camera and exposure parameters. Standard zoom covers a wide-angle to portrait-length range and is designed for FX-format Z-mount mirrorless cameras. Constant f/2.8 maximum aperture offers consistent performance throughout the zoom range and also benefits working in difficult lighting conditions and using selective focus techniques. Four aspherical elements are used to reduce spherical aberrations and distortion in order to realize sharp imagery with accurate rendering. Two extra-low dispersion elements greatly reduce color fringing and chromatic aberrations throughout the zoom range in order to produce greater clarity and color rendering. ARNEO and Nano Crystal Coats are used to prevent ghosting, reflections, and flare in order to realize improved contrast and clarity when working in strong lighting and backlit conditions. The Nano Crystal Coat controls incidental light from a diagonal direction while the ARNEO Coat controls incidental light from a vertical direction. A Super Integrated Coating is also featured on multiple elements to help ensure consistently accurate colors. Multi-focus system incorporates two separate AF drive units, which are synchronized, to deliver especially fast and accurate focusing throughout the zoom range. This system uses stepping motors, which offer impressively smooth and quiet autofocus performance that is well-suited to both stills and video applications. Full-time manual focus override is also possible and an internal focusing design is used, where only the internal lens groups are moved during focusing, to maintain the overall length of the lens during use and to promote faster focusing speeds. Programmable Control Ring is, by default, set to adjust manual focus, but can also be used to control aperture or exposure compensation. Integrated OLED lens information panel allows you to quickly confirm aperture setting, focus distance, and depth of field figures right on the lens in both bright and dark situations. Assignable L.Fn button works in conjunction with camera based Fn buttons to provide a seamless point for quickly changing exposure settings and other functions. Specialized electromagnetic aperture mechanism provides greater exposure control stability that is especially beneficial when working with fast continuous shooting rates. Rounded nine-blade diaphragm promotes a pleasing out of focus quality that benefits the use of shallow depth of field and selective focus techniques. Dust- and moisture-resistant lens barrel benefits the lens' use in inclement conditions.
