Digital Camera World

Nikkor Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena £2,699/$2,497

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The Nikkor Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena has a tough act to follow. We were impressed when we reviewed the Nikkor Z 85mm f/1.2 S, but the Plena sets out to take everything to a whole new level. Naturally, it doesn’t have such a fast aperture rating (which would be impractical) but the longer focal length still enables a tight depth of field. We love the way the Plena is perfectly suited to tight head-and-shoulders portraiture but also for still-life photography and any time you want to compress perspective with a medium telephoto focal length while isolating the main subject within a scene by blurring

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