Nikon's 28-400mm f/4-8 VR is ONE Lens to Cover Them All!
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- It seems to be super-zoom lens season, and Nikon has just raised the bar with the Nikkor Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR. Chris Niccolls went to Nanton, Alberta to test this monstrous zoom range. Watch now to see how it fared!
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0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Sample Images
1:23 - Design and handling
3:30 - Aperture Range
4:24 - Autofocus Speed
5:13 - Bokeh
6:15 - Close-up Performance
6:55 - Should you buy it? - Věda a technologie
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Also I am really happy about this "wave" of superzooms. Versatility can only bring more people on board of photography / video!
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Tamron was able to pull off a monster 35-150 f/2-2.8...I'm not surprised that 28-400 f/4-8 is actually doable at that size and price package with modern manufacturing and engineering methods. Optics have steadily been getting better and better over the past two decades, almost exponentially better in some cases.
Yess
Tamron also made an 18-400 f3.5-6.3, albeit for a crop sensor.
Tamron also made an 18-270mm lens years ago for apsc, 28-420mm equivalent
28-400 f/1.8 coming soon
@@fizzcochito I just pre ordered it
I love how he says the Nikon rep drove it down to them… like they are in Edmonton. Where did the rep drive down from? The north pole??? 😂
They are based in Calgary. So I guessthe Nikon rep drove down from Edmonton???? :d
haha. Not like someone drove down to my home in Ft. Worth!
@@pseudoryx9284 the rep drove down from Edmonton and then they drove right back up to Edmonton to make this video? I dont think so. 😂
Clearly Chris is going against the stereotypical northern hemisphere centric view of the world and referring the south as up 🙄
@@airdailyx Nanton is south Calgary, so Im not sure where they drove up to Edmonton in the video.
The 28-300vr was the best super zoom ever, I'm not surprised at all that Nikon took it to the next level with a new best ever.
That was f/3.5-5.6. I would have settled for another 28-300 5.6
@@Ben_Stewart you have that, you just use the ftz
I agree-I love mine!
f/8 is too slow. Keeping my 28-300mm.
@@lour7753 depends on what you're doing, in daylight f8 is fine and this gets you to 400
This will be a perfect backpacking lens. Great for on-the-go landscapes and surprise coyote or bear. Primes in the pack will be great for breaks. I'm very stoked for this lens.
28-400?!!! Had to check and see if it was April 1 for a sec 😳
Tamron has an 18-400 😂
Panasonic makes 28-300mm f2.8 fixed aperture for the L mount
I'll take "things we'll never see on the RF mount" for $200, Alex.
On 1st April will Nikon introduce new 24-600/f1,4-5,6 😀
@@mchwmediaYea for APS-C. Nice try
I'm wondering if at F/11-F/16 the performance is good enough for landscapes. Incredible zoom range for a full frame lens. Nikon's 24-200 is well regarded in the landscape community for a super-zoom.
Nikon is killing it with lenses atm
Yeah, but they're sleeping on bodies. No new APS-C camera that isn't a Z50 bodykit since many years. It's time for a Z60, Z70 or Z50 II or whatever they'll call it.
@@angrybirder9983but why? Z5 is a full frame camera for $1000USD, is there still a need to build APS-C?
@@angrybirder9983Well, they're sleeping on bodies that you want. Otherwise, things seem to be going well.
@@RedlinerSeven Because neither of the Z5, -Zf- , Z6 II or Z7 II have AI subject detection (nor does the Z50). Which isn't a full frame problem though, it's a Nikon problem. And part of the reason why they need to wake up and release new bodies.
EDIT: The Zf does have it.
Because APS-C tends to be smaller and lighter (both bodies and lenses). That gap is definitely shrinking though.
Because some people care about reach at full zoom more than about high ISO quality. And the 1.5x crop factor gives them that reach. Yes, high-res full frame can do it too, but that's a lot more expensive.
Because full frame did not have any credible megazooms until today.
@@RedlinerSevenYes it is. And in same way as D500 was a small D5 with all fearures, high speed and AF advantages. I have had D500 for wildlife photography so the 200-500 Nikkor is 300-750 mm thanks to crop factor 1,5. That's why is a good idea to introduce Z90 as a apc-c flagship (small Z9) with 30 Mpix sensor to make long lenses even longer. But I don't believe that Nikon will do it so that's why i bought Z8 45 Mpix and that's a good replacement of my D500 for wildlife with very similar details at 500 mm because Z8 has in DX mode also ca 20 Mpix. Z5 is a entry level FX and its aps-c equivalent id already existing Z50 and they aren't the bodies whih are wildlife photographers looking for.
I’m amazed. I opened instagram to see Nikons advert on their Australia page and I’m baffled by the awesome things they are coming out with. I currently live my 24-70/4 and 100-400, but daily a 24-200. I’m now wondering if I should hand it in for this…
Absolutely I love when lens makers take a chance and try something new. No it isn’t for everyone but at that price point damn there def is a market for it!
Chris getting his bifs and bilfs confused 😂
He just invented a whole new subgenre.
Google, show me some images of a Secretary bird.
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That is awesome!
28-400mm sounds like an oxymoron lens to me. Like How? I am blown away by such a superzoom.
There are plenty of even more aggressive superzooms in the professional video world. The catch is that those lenses cost tens of thousands of dollars, have _extremely_ complex optical formulas, and are constructed to exacting tolerances that are beyond what is possible in a cost-constrained consumer lens.
Nikon apparently feels that with modern simulation and manufacturing they're able do an adequate job. We'll see if they're right once these are out in volume (cherry-picked preproduction units as here don't count).
Wait till you hear there's a crop 18-400 lens
Why? It isn’t at all a new focal length.
I think it was Tamron they had a 18-400mm for DSLRs
@@opalyankaBGWhich is crap IIRC. The new-ish mirrorless Tamron 18-300 is an excellent lens though.
I have the 18 - 200 mm lens you mentioned at the beginning, and with my old DSLR it quickly became my favorite lens for anything outdoors. Now that I have a Z camera I'm looking forward to trying this new 28 -400 mm! Thank you for this review
Excited to watch, Chris-san.
I love it, that they have gone for such crazy numbers..
4:52.. the ambiance and weathered wood.. this place reminds me of City 17.
Thanks for your review - very objective, and exactly what I wanted to hear --- I am pretty sure I will be buying this lens before summer... as I want it in time for my trip to Banff, and for lazy days at the cottage in Haliburton Forest, Ontario.
0:45 😂😂 BTW the video from the Z8 is fantastic!
huh?
I think it's going to be perfect for my channel. And vibration reduced, perfect! Long time Nikon Z series shooter and looking forward to when this lens is launched. Thanks PetaPixel.
For travel photography The Nikon Z5 combines with the Nikon Z 24,-120 and Nikon 28-400.
I just got a fly fishing ad while watching this. Hmmm, I wonder why? 🤔
Would love to see a comparison to the 24-200mm in the final review!
Thanks for the review.
The lens hood looks great on the lens
Footage looks great. Well done as usual Jordan. What profile did you shoot and grade? And did I hear popping on the audio?
you guys are always so enjoyable to watch
I reallllyyyy dig the shot of the antiques building at 4:16. The sun-stars at f/14 look sick. Also, great frame by Jordan at 1:22. This lens looks fun!
Good job, thanks!
The first zoom lens I ever bought was the Tamron 28-300 XR DI IF 18 years ago. Got great photos with that. I can imagine how much better this lens will be even going all the way out to 400 mm.
Love the Buick Special. My parents had one.
I am commenting again on this video but I just got done speaking with some friends who have vineyards in Virginia, and they are excited about this lens. Most of the pics are during the day, outside in daylight times and such a range has got them drooling. So I guess there’s that market!
Looking forward to seeing more technical sharpness charts, since hopefully that will have been able to be improved from the old 18-200 and 28-300 F-mount lenses.
Aaaaaand they did this right before the Solar Eclipse.
I see you Nikon 👀
Thanks guys! Well done for Chris getting BIPs (birds in pipe) 😂
I'm so close to jumping ship to Nikon.
Superzoom has also been made by others, but not as such a small lens, so it's great that Nikon came up with it. Of course, you don't get everything with such a lens, but there will surely be many who can see a purpose with this lens 👍
Amazing- the ad just before this review for a Swiss Army knife !
This was announced just as I’m looking for a good affordable zoom. Picking up on day one. Should pair well with my ZF.
Will this be the lens to pull me from m43 and my 14-140ii? Hope so!
No video coverage? I feel this would excel for outdoor events like weddings/graduations.
Tbh the sunstars at 4:19 look nicer than with most Nikon lenses. I feel they don't really that much but probably should more often
I am imagining Jay Maisel walking around NYC making incredible images with this lens.
I worked for Jay’s Chicago Rep for 11 years. Jay’s a legend!
Perfect lens for traveling, consider adding it to my collection!
and a simple question: what's the name of the background music used in the video? Is it from some canned music website?
very small and useful range for travel/holiday lens indeed.
Such a classy shot of Jordan in front of this sign!😂😂😂
Already have the preorder in but part of me would have liked to see the range tweaked a little to open up the aperture a little more. Also seems sort of another semi redundant lens with the 24-200 and this one, and the 24-70 f4 followed by a 24-120 f4 version.
Reminds me of the Tamron 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3 that I have for the Fuji X-S10. 27-450mm equivalent.
They also made an 18-400mm for crop sensor cameras.
but these are shitty lenses
That is equivalent of f/5.2-9.4 FF
@@hardywoodaway991218-400? Yes. From what I've heard, its image quality is poor and it has only 2.5 stops of stabilisation (WHAT!?).
18-300? No. It's a great lens. Could be just a bit sharper at the very wide end, but every other setting is perfectly sharp.
@@yash_kamblifor depth of field, yea. But saying it’s “equivalent” is misleading, because the light gathering abilities are still 3.5-6.3.
hi. how is the image quality compared to the sony rx10 iv?
CF-100! Nice Chris!
Valiant effort, but 24mm is important to me and i like to keep lens sizes in check so i'd be probably be happier with the older 24-200mm from Nikon.
To reach 400 is one lens, they had to comporomise 4 mm at the wide end.
I have the 24-200 F4-6.3 Z lens as my easy travel kit lens ... And I got the 70-180 F2.8. The one I use more often since I got it is the 70-180, but the other one is often my choice if I need a lighter kit. The advantages of the 70-180 si that I can put my TC1.4 on it. ... So I have plans to take that one on my vacation this summer. But if I had this lens!? I wouldn't min changeling 24 to 28 at F4 to be able to reach 400 at F8 instead of only 200 at F6.3 ... This is a perfect Safari lens for any one going on Safari to Africa. (Not for the professional photographers, but for tourists) If you have this lens on your cameras and bring a 28 F2.8 and 40 F2.0 as your low light lenses. You have it almost covered. But I would never recommend any one going on a once in a lifetime trip to Africa with only one camera! If I had this lens, I would still bring my 400mm F4.5 + TC1.4 and my two Z6II cameras. And my 20mm F1.8. But one of my cameras would have this on!
thanks!!
The bridge cam lens! They had them laying around.
I always prefer to divide the focal lengths (24-120, 100-400). But I've been in some circumstances where changing lenses was impractical. for those who stay in places with a lot of wind and dust, it is a great option.
The video work in this one was great :) Great job Jordan. May I ask what lens you were using on the Z8 to shoot this, there was a nice pop to the image :)
Looking at the shots at 1:01, it looks like he's using a 24 - 70 f2.8
Correct! Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/2.8. Great video lens!
- Jordan
This lens looks great for sports and wildlife shooters when the light outside is good enough, or when cranking up ISO. I will stick with the Z 24-200mm for now which I have my eye on for my Z5. I don't do much wildlife or sports. And 200mm is still good for some sports in close range. I also bought the FX 28-300mm previously for my D780, which I like a lot and have used it at ballet recitals and weddings. Good work and praise to Nikon though, for making a Z 28-400mm, and so light for wildlife/sports shooters!
It just goes to show that there is a market for super zooms. I also feel that full frame is the new APSc as Nikon don't seem to be developing anything major specifically for their APSc range. I would expect them to release a true budget ff camera soon
That lens very much reminds me of Tamron 18-300 f/3.5-6.3 for APS-C sensors - construction is identical, capabilities too.
Intriguing. Yeah, definitely interested in the 400mm zoom. Kind of a shame about it being f8 from 200mm, but with the enormous zoom the trade off still seems good.
whatt it's already f/8 at 200? that's a bummer...high iso is really good now yes but still...
Have you compared to the Tamaron 28 to 400 F/3.5-6.3. I have that lense on the Nikon D750 and my favorite lense.
I am still happy with my Tamron 18-400mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II VC HLD with Z-adapter ... for 1/3 of the price in Canada.
I’ve got my Tamron 18-400mm on my D5600. A totally cool kit if ever there was one. FF equiv of 27-600 is just the “ant’s pants” travel camera of all time.
Sounds reasonably good, but I'm still waiting for a proper test. I mostly go with the 24-120 S and the Sigma 150-500 (both are superb, IMO), but if the IQ is good enough, I just might switch... third of the weight compared to that combo is something to be considered. I use the Sigma at f/8 anyways, so the loss of light is not necessarily a huge issue... it all comes down to price for me at this point. €1500 or thereabouts, and I might be tempted. €2000 or above, I wouldn't bother with it.
Props to you knowing thst was an (Avro) CF-100 aircraft.
Very cool!
I'll be interested to see a later test when you look at sharpness.
This seems like a Tamron lens; they just partnered up with Nikon and now this one has the relatively useless locking switch while omitting the very useful stabilizer and AF/MF switches, just like the 28-200mm.
People shoot different things, but this trend toward zooms starting at 28mm is sad; I was on a trip recently with the 28-200mm and it was shocking how often the 28mm was just not quite wide enough and I was often switching lenses. Maybe that's the price to pay for a smaller size (maybe there's some sort of physics law involved where 24mm is much harder to engineer than 28mm) I'm not sure.
I'm appreciating the recent superzoom releases; I'm always trying to lighten my kit and lately it seemed like the companies were only focusing on those who want giant lenses and a bag full of primes (due to thinking that everyone else must have switched to a smartphone and they could maintain profit margins with the remaining enthusiasts who don't care about weight).
This, in fact, can make me return to Nikon back from Panasonic L mount. I've waited for Panasonic Ultrazoom but I was VERY disappointed - ONLY 28-200 is crap. And now Nikon does this! Veeeery interesting!
well I’m sold
I actually would prefer an improved 28-300. It was a very good lens already and 5.6 at the long end. I would happily trade 400 f/8 for 300 f/5.6
The thing I am most pleased with is actually the polygonal bokeh... I wish, more lenses would offer just that.
Maybe... 20mm F1.0 with 6 Aperture Blades? 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
ONE lens to RULE them all, c'mon, get it right!
You didn’t get it 😂
Love it…….what to do with my 24-200 which I still love?
I have to say, there is nothing wrong with the video out of the G9 {I just watched the Sigma 50mm 1.2 Art video}. However the video out of the Z8 is something else. This video looks great.
Just bought a Z6. There are so many choices for standard zoom now on Z mount. I am so lost.
0:44 that throw had me sweating
3:48 I figured 35mm would be entirely glossed over in this review given there are 372 other single mm incremental focal lengths...does he secretly like 35mm?
Which camera bag was chris using?
Did you and Jared Polin coordinate to release a video on the same lens with the same title at the same time? Kawaiiiii!
Sharpness looks great, bright day wildlife traveling lens
Really wanna see the contrast between 24-200 and 28-400 since I just got the first one about eight months ago. The moment I saw the launch of this new lens…Ohhhh boy am I so regret buying 24-200 right now😂
..looking forward to the 17-400mm lens
Perfect for parents taking photos especially soccer
It seems very versatile..can it take the z teleconverter?
I'm kinda looking forward to picking it up for my afternoon walks. It'd be perfect to snap a sunset or a hawk on a pole and everythign in between...during the day in good light of course.
Ich fotografiere nur Sonnenuntergänge tagsüber 😂
What about chromatic aberration? I remember I had chromatic aberration on a similar lenses that I had over ten years ago.
Hello, is it suitable for Nikon Z NIKKOR ZTC-2.0X Teleconverter? Thank you
I dont think so
what a range
Honestly I would consider getting a Nikon Z camera purely for this lens.
More versatile for air shows than a 100-400 as you are able to get close up shots of the planes once they land or are in large groups.
How does it compare to the Tamron 18-400?
Any chance that the tamron 50-400 will come to nikon Z mount?
Was this video shot on the same camera and lens? It would be great to know what the rig, including wireless mic, for the shoot was.
This was shot on a Nikon Z8, Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8, and recorded with a Shure MoveMic.
I guess I might just buy one - thanks guys
Travel superzoom comparison would be great
I am begging on my hands and knees to hear what Chris thinks about the OM 150-600, he's the only person who's opinion on MFT I trust 😢
No VR switch is normal on a z mount lens
The positives imho: good on Nikon to try something different it was a lens no one saw coming. I believe landscape photographer will love this. Does it beat the 24-120f4 ? I believe not, BUT given how popular that 100-400 was for landscape photographers I see them forgoing the 17-28 and the 100-400 and sticking with this and maybe the wider 14-30f4 and boom you have the perfect landscape setup! Me personally I can’t see this for any other target range of photographers
The size of the lens is probably silly on a Z30/Z50. But the range for something like soccer or baseball would be awesome. If only there was a D500 style mirrorless body for it.
It looks to be a great "Mom or Dad" lens...when you're not out here trying to make ART but want some decent pics of the kids! Nicely done Nikon! ☺
Should I sell my Z 24-200mm? I do sports event video with my Z 5 and also nature photography. For both uses 28-400mm range would be useful.
Is that a crop sensor or full frame lens?