Nikon NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena

The Nikon NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1.8 S lens is designed for Nikon Z-mount cameras. This lens is designed to cover the full-frame sensor format, providing a wide field of view and compatibility with Nikon Z-mount full-frame cameras. It has a wide aperture range, starting from f/1.8 and going up to f/16. This allows for excellent control over depth of field, low-light shooting, and the ability to create a shallow depth of field effect.

This lens has a focal length of 135mm, making it a telephoto prime lens. It is suitable for capturing subjects at a distance, such as portraits, sports, or wildlife photography. It is designed to be lightweight and compact for easy handling and portability and to create a round and smooth bokeh effect, even at the edges of the frame, providing a pleasing out-of-focus background. The lens utilizes a multi-focus system, which combines multiple lens elements to achieve high optical performance throughout the focus range.

It features a programmable linear focus ring, allowing for manual focus control with precise and smooth operation. Incorporating various lens elements, including Extra-Low Dispersion (ED), Short-Wavelength Refractive (SR), and aspherical elements. These elements help minimize chromatic aberrations, distortions, and ensure high image quality with excellent sharpness and contrast.

The anti-reflective Nano Crystal (ARNEO) and Meso Amorphous coatings applied to the lens elements. These coatings minimize flare, ghosting, and reflections, resulting in improved image clarity and contrast, even in challenging lighting conditions. The customizable Control Ring can be assigned to adjust various camera functions, such as aperture control, exposure compensation, or ISO sensitivity. With a dust and water-resistant design, the lens ensures durability and reliability in various weather conditions and environments.

The Nikon NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1.8 S lens is a high-performance telephoto prime lens suitable for a range of photography genres, including portraits, sports, and wildlife. Its fast aperture, sharp optics, customizable features, and weather-resistant design make it a versatile choice for Nikon Z-mount camera users.

Product Features in Detail

A Lens Above The Rest.
Step into a new world of imaging with the NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena. Named after "plenum," symbolising boundless richness, this lens is designed to fulfil your creative potential. Its elegant design, reminiscent of the Noct lens, proudly showcases the engraved "Plena," while the wide f/1.8 aperture empowers you to create captivating, enveloping bokeh without the need for adjustment.
Experience an elevated level of artistry with exceptional rendering, allowing you to capture even the finest nuances of skin and hair. It seamlessly adapts to your needs, offering video-friendly features and rugged durability to fuel your creative journey.

Full, overflowing, the image and imagination.
One of a kind. The NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena offers versatile modes of expression, for portraits, landscapes and still subjects. Discover the magic of near-circular bokeh, even at wide apertures, and a flood of light that ensures uniform brightness across the frame's periphery. 
Harnessing the full potential of the Z mount, it delivers unrivaled bokeh and optical excellence, a feat only possible with Nikon.

Dreamy bokeh.
At f/1.8, the NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena delivers near-circular round bokeh that makes your subjects pop against dreamy backgrounds, without stopping down the aperture. Every point light source across the frame is reproduced with brilliance, free from vignetting.

Minimal Colour Fringing. 
Enjoy stunning, unspoiled bokeh with minimal colouring on the edges across the entire screen, from foreground to background, letting point light sources around your subject shine.

Depth and clarity
From bustling cityscapes, intimate portraits, to delicate flowers, experience large soft foreground and background bokeh that brings out your subjects' dimensionality. Say goodbye to onion-ring bokeh at the periphery, ensuring consistent shapes across the frame.

Never miss the beauty of every moment
Designed for exceptional video performance, the NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena offers quiet operation, a "click-less" control ring and focus-breathing suppression. Capture natural-looking footage with minimal angle-of-view shifts while enjoying smooth control and quiet precision during video recording.

Unrivalled Detail.
With superior rendering performance, the NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena captures even the finest details of skin and hair with immaculate precision, ensuring that no detail goes unnoticed.

Perfect Point-Image Reproduction.
Achieving the highest point-image reproduction performance among NIKKOR Z lenses, it is ideal for landscapes and night scenes. Your images will reflect the beauty of every point of light.

Uniform Brilliance Across The Frame.
With abundant peripheral light volume at its f/1.8 maximum aperture, the NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena maintains uniform brightness across the entire frame, resulting in better transparency and brilliance.

AF Precision in Motion.
The NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena boasts a multi-focusing system for precise control over multiple focusing groups, delivering fast and accurate autofocus, even at maximum aperture. What truly sets it apart is its whisper-quiet operation, thanks to two silent stepping motors (STMs). This means delicate moments remain undisturbed, preserving the 

Better In Backlight.
The NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena excels challenging backlit situations. Thanks to MesoAmorphous and ARNEO coatings, it reduces ghosting and flares caused by various incident light sources. Capture crystal-clear, sharp images, even under harsh lighting conditions like intense sunlight or strong backlighting.

Exceptionally built.
Reminiscent of the Noct lens, the NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena sports a robust metal lens barrel adorned with the "Plena" engraving. Meticulously crafted metal elements not only enhance the lens' exterior but also give it a distinguished and elegant appearance.

Seamless L-Fn Convenience.
Positioned atop the lens, the L-Fn button mirrors the versatility of camera Fn1/Fn2 buttons, allowing you to assign various functions and adjust settings during vertical shooting.

Intuitive Control. Elevated Precision.
A newly designed control ring offers outstanding operability. Its smooth, comfortable torque guarantees a noise-free experience, particularly during video recording. Adjust setting values in response to the level of rotation, delivering precision and ease at your fingertips.

Rugged Reliability.
With sealing across various lens areas, including movable parts and the lens mount, the NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena comes with dust- and drip-resistant performance2 you can rely on. The electromagnetic diaphragm mechanism ensures precise aperture control and stable exposure management, even in continuous shooting scenarios. It’s ready to withstand the elements, ensuring unwavering performance when you need it most.

Stepping Motor
NIKKOR Z lenses use a stepping motor for fast, accurate, smooth, quiet autofocus with reduced wobbling. This quiet drive system makes the lenses ideal for use when shooting video.

Electromagnetic Diaphragm Mechanism
An electromagnetic diaphragm mechanism in the lens barrel provides highly accurate electronic diaphragm or aperture blade control when using auto exposure during continuous shooting.

Fluorine Coat
Photographers need gear that can withstand the elements. Nikon’s fluorine coat effectively repels dust, water droplets, grease or dirt, ensuring easy removal even when they adhere to the lens surface. Nikon’s fluorine coat endures a high frequency of lens surface wiping and its anti-reflective effect also contributes to the capture of clear images.

ED (Extra-Low Dispersion) Glass
An optical glass developed by Nikon that is used with normal optical glass in telephoto lenses to obtain optimum correction of chromatic aberrations.

IF lens
A NIKKOR lens in which only the internal lens group shifts during focusing. Thus, IF NIKKORS do not change in size during AF operation, allowing for compact, lightweight lenses capable of closer focusing distances. These lenses will be designated with the abbreviation IF on the lens barrel.

ARNEO Coat
An anti-reflective coating developed by Nikon and used in conjunction with Nano Crystal Coat to further reduce ghost and flare effects caused by incident light entering the lens vertically. This allows for the outstandingly clear capture of images even when a light source is located within the frame.

Aspherical Lens
A lens with a curved, non-spherical surface. Used to reduce aberrations and enable a more compact lens size. Aspherical lenses minimise coma and other types of lens aberrations, even when used at the widest aperture. They are particularly useful in correcting distortion in wide-angle lenses and help contribute to a lighter, more compact design by reducing the number of standard (spherical) elements necessary. Aspherical lens elements correct these distortions by continuously changing the refractive index from the centre of the lens.

Meso Amorphous Coat 
Meso Amorphous Coat suppresses ghost and flare caused by incident light from any direction, including those entering the lens diagonally and vertically, to the utmost limit, demonstrating the highest anti-reflection performance in NIKKOR history. With this coating system, amorphous particles are interconnected and overlapped randomly to create a large number of air gaps termed mesopores. The many gaps within the coating form an ultra-fine mesoporous structure, attaining an outstandingly low refractive index. Additionally, a higher-precision base coat is employed to further enhance the anti-refection effect.  

Short-Wavelength Refractive Lens
SR is a high- and specialised-dispersion glass lens that refracts light with wavelengths shorter than that of blue. By controlling short-wavelength light, the lens is able to achieve highly precise chromatic aberration compensation so that the colours in your images are more accurately reproduced. It also allows for more flexible optical designs, which allows for compact, lighter lenses to be designed.