Nikon NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.2 S Lens

The Nikon NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.2 S is a high-performance, fast wide-angle prime lens designed to deliver exceptional optical quality and versatility for full-frame mirrorless cameras using the Nikon Z-mount system. Designed for Nikon's Z-mount system, this lens is compatible with Nikon's full-frame (Nikon FX-format) mirrorless cameras, delivering stellar image quality across the entire frame. The very wide maximum aperture of f/1.2 allows for exceptional low-light performance and depth of field control, making it ideal for portrait, street, and low-light photography. The aperture can close down to f/16 for increased depth of field and sharper landscapes. A popular focal length for its versatility, the 35mm lens provides a natural perspective that is similar to the human eye, suitable for a wide range of photography styles, including reportage, landscape, and general-purpose shooting. Its fast wide-angle prime lens provides high-speed autofocus and excellent brightness, enabling substantial light gathering capabilities for sharper, clearer images under various lighting conditions.

The lens utilizes multiple focus motors to improve autofocus accuracy and speed. Dual stepping motors (STM) offer near-silent and smooth autofocus performance, which is especially useful for video recording. It includes a customizable control ring that can be used for manual focus adjustment, aperture control, or exposure compensation. Dedicated function buttons further enhance the operability and accessibility of settings. The lens features one aspherical extra-low dispersion element and three extra-low dispersion elements. These elements help reduce chromatic aberrations and color fringing, enhancing clarity and color fidelity. The lens 
allows for a relatively close 11.8" minimum focusing distance, making the lens suitable for close-up shots while still being versatile for other types of photography. The advanced Meso Amorphous and ARNEO lens coatings are designed to reduce ghosting and lens flare, improving image clarity and contrast even in backlit conditions. A rounded 11-blade diaphragm contributes to a pleasing out-of-focus quality (bokeh), making the lens particularly effective for portraits and applications where the subject needs to stand out against a smoothly defocused background. Built to withstand adverse conditions, the lens has dust and moisture-resistant seals, making it suitable for shooting in various environmental conditions without worry.

Product Features in Detail

Famed storytelling focal length meets extraordinary light-gathering ability.
Our finest 35mm lens ever—the NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.2 S combines a classic focal length with an unprecedented f/1.2 maximum aperture and beautiful bokeh quality. Every element of a scene portrayed in stunning detail—only possible thanks to the unique dimensions and advanced technology of the Nikon Z mount.

Exquisite bokeh.
The NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.2 S offers all of the benefits of a medium wide-angle field of view with ideal bokeh characteristics. For environmental portraits at wide apertures, in-focus details blend seamlessly into smooth blurred backgrounds giving images an incredible sense of depth.

Three-dimensional expression.
The optical characteristics of the NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.2 S are finely tuned to create the perfect combination of sharpness and atmosphere. Soft, delicate organic textures such as skin and hair are rendered with a natural authenticity, while reflective objects like jewelry are sharp and free of color aberrations.

Clarity in all conditions.
Shoot towards light without worrying about flare or ghosting, thanks to Nikon's proprietary Meso Amorphous Coat, Nano Crystal Coat and ARNEO coating.

Virtually flawless rendering.
Extra-low Dispersion (ED) and Aspherical ED glass keep resolution high while suppressing undesirable fringing, distortion and false color.

Superior accuracy. Enhanced performance.
At f/1.2, depth of field is razor-thin, making accurate focus essential. The Multi-Focus System of the NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.2 S includes two high-precision STM autofocus motors, which work in tandem to deliver precise, accurate focus at all distances, and improved image quality close up.

Elevated portraits.
The NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.2 S is designed to work with the advanced face and eye-detection autofocus capabilities of Nikon Z series mirrorless cameras. This powerful combination helps ensure that focus will be right where you want it—even wide open at f/1.2.

A filmmaker's favorite, refined.
An ever-popular focal length, updated with incredible control over depth of field, stunning cinematic bokeh and thoughtful, filmmaker-friendly features.

Precise control.
Change focus position without any shift in the angle of view, thanks to highly suppressed focus breathing. Use customizable linear manual focus support to pull focus accurately, every time, and adjust aperture smoothly with stepless power aperture control.

The S-Line difference.
The S-Line designation is reserved for premium NIKKOR Z lenses. As an S-Line product, the NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.2 S features Nikon's best optics, most advanced coatings, cutting-edge technology and premium build.

Smooth Manual Focus Ring
Can be set to either rotation direction, linear or non-linear.

A trio of excellence.
With the addition of the NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.2 S, Nikon’s mirrorless Z system now boasts a trio of high-performance, fast aperture primes covering three essential focal lengths for visual storytelling.
35mm | 50mm | 85mm
All three lenses offer exceptional image quality, including similar rendering of natural-looking bokeh at wide apertures.

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.

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.

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.

Nano Crystal Coat
An anti-reflective coating developed by Nikon that virtually eliminates internal lens element reflections across a wide range of wavelengths. Nano Crystal Coat solves ghost effects caused by red light and effectively reduces ghost and flare caused by light entering the lens diagonally.

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.

Super Integrated Coating
Nikon Super Integrated Coating is Nikon's term for its multilayer coating of the optical elements in NIKKOR lenses.

Multi Focus System
In 1967, Nikon developed the world's first focusing system that effectively suppressed aberrations by moving multiple lens groups (Close-Range Correction System). The multi-focusing system is the evolution of that AF system with which the positions of multiple focusing groups are very precisely controlled, each by its own focusing unit, all of which work together. This system effectively suppresses various types of aberration, even with scenes captured at close distances where aberrations are generally more likely to occur. This enables superior image-formation performance from maximum aperture, regardless of the focal length or shooting distance. It also contributes to faster AF. The multi-focusing system is effective even with fast lenses.

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.

Aspherical ED glass
Using ED (Extra-low Dispersion) glass that successfully minimizes color fringing as a material, this type of lens features non-spherical surfaces on one or both sides of the glass. It provides superior rendering capability by maximizing the advantages of both ED glass and an aspherical lens – effectively correcting various lens aberrations such as lateral chromatic aberration, coma flare at the periphery, as well as distortion and spherical aberration. It achieves aberration correction of ED glass and aspherical lens in one element, contributing to lens compactness.

A/M
A/M stands for Auto-Priority Manual Mode. This mode also enables an easy transition from autofocus to manual during AF operation. However, mode switch sensitivity has been altered to reduce the possibility of sudden unintentional switching to manual focus while shooting.