Another Nikon NIKKOR Z 135mm f/1,8 S Plena lens review for astrophotography (see also this blog guest post) – this time by Göran Strand (website \ Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube): For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been using the new Nikon Z 135mm f/1.8 Plena lens. The optical design of this lens gives a bigger image which results in better corner performance. For me as an astrophotographer, this is a really good thing since the lens produces point-shaped stars all the way out to the corners. On most lenses, you get quite bad stars in the corners resulting in a smaller field of view since you need to crop the image. The build quality is nothing but stellar and the lens handles really well with its weight and balance. The focal length of 135mm is quite useful in the night sky making it possible to capture large portions of the sky. I had the lens for quite some time but the weather has been nothing but cloudy the past months, but a few days ago I finally some clear skies. The Plena under the stars mounted on my star tracker. As you can see in the image above, there was a bit of a haze in the air so no top-notch conditions but good enough. My plan was to take a longer total exposure of the region around Orion’s nebula M42. Orion isn’t that high in the sky here at lat. 63 (Orion was 25°...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Sunday, 11 February, 2024