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Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR Lens
Product Code: 3243258L
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The Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR Lens is a portable all-in-one superzoom, with vibration reduction, close minimum focusing and fast AF, which is ideal for everything from travel and architecture to wildlife and portraits.
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- Lightweight and portable lens with an incredible 14.2x zoom range, which makes an excellent all-in-one option
- Built-in optical vibration reduction and fast autofocus help to capture sharp shots, even when ambient light is low
- Ideal for travel, and you can photograph anything from landscapes and portraits, to sports and wildlife
- Short minimum focus distance with high magnification extends versatility for beautiful close-up shots
- Great optics with sharp results, a weather resistant design, and excellent ergonomics from a Nikon zoom lens
Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR Lens Summary
With an extensive 14.2x zoom range and a lightweight design of just 725g, the Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR Lens is an incredibly versatile all-in-one zoom lens. It is designed for full frame (FX) mirrorless Z cameras, where it zooms from a 28mm wide angle to 400mm super telephoto range. Crop sensor cameras (DX) benefit from a 1.5x crop factor, resulting in a range of 42-600mm, which is equally versatile, and enables you to capture even more distant subjects.
With this range you can photograph everything from landscapes and portraits to sports and wildlife, and of course this is also an excellent travel option, allowing you to bring just one Nikon Z lens and still get all of the shots.
Nikon has integrated effective optical vibration reduction (VR) to ensure sharp results while shooting handheld, which is especially useful in low-light conditions. The lens delivers an impressive 5-stops of shake compensation, or 5.5-stops when paired with a compatible camera with Synchro VR.
Results are excellent thanks to an optical design which includes special aspherical and ED elements, and you can capture close-up macro images with a high magnification, allowing for even more creative versatility.
If you use camera lens filters you may already have ones which fit the common 77mm filter thread found on the Z 28-400 lens, and outdoor creators will appreciate the reliable weather sealing, which helps to keep dust and moisture out.
Key Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR Features
- All-in-one 14.2x superzoom lens
- Weighs just 725g, perfect for travel
- Hugely versatile 28-400mm zoom range
- 5-stops of built-in optical vibration
- Excellent close-up capabilities
- 0.35x maximum magnification
- Intuitive ergonomics
- Includes a customisable control ring
- 9-blade rounded diaphragm
- Reliable weather sealing
- 77mm filter thread
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Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR Lens in More Detail
One lens – endless creativity
With its extensive 14.2x zoom range, the Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR lens covers many of the most popular focal widths, including 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, 105mm and on through 200mm telephoto to 300mm and 400mm super telephoto lengths.
This allows you to bring just this one lens on almost any photo trip, whether capturing street photos in the city, distant birds and wildlife, or creative beach shots and landscapes. What’s more, the 725g lightweight design and compact portability mean that you won’t be tempted to leave this at home and can take it wherever your imagination leads.
Powerful built-in stabilisation
Whichever situation you’re shooting handheld in, the Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR lens has you covered with built-in optical vibration reduction. The stabilisation system supports Synchro VR with a compatible camera body and includes SPORT mode, which stabilises the viewfinder image, enhancing stability during fast-paced shooting situations.
Fast Autofocus
High-speed autofocus (AF) and near silent operation allow you to capture any moment without unwanted noise. Whether documenting the kids weekend sporting events, tourism shows or everyday street scenes, the Z 28-400mm internal mechanism focuses quickly and quietly.
Great image quality
Nikon’s optical design with 21 elements in 15 groups includes 4 ED elements and 3 aspherical elements. This formula achieves great results throughout the zoom range and across the frame, with nice sharp details, which is supported by the in-body stabilisation system.
Renowned ergonomics
This lens combines great balance, lightweight portability and renowned usability found across the entire range of Nikon lenses. It has a customisable silent control ring, a zoom lock switch and a comes with a square lens hood, which can be mounted backwards to save space when stored.
Nikon has also added reliable weather seals around the Z mount, and all moving parts, preventing dust and moisture from entering the lens.
Capture close-ups and macro style shots
A variable close minimum focus distance with high magnification of 0.35x at 28mm enables macro and close-up photography across the whole zoom range. Whether capturing images of delicious food, flowers and nature macro, you can do it all with this one superzoom.
Minimum focus distances include:
- 0.2m at 28mm
- 0.6m at 105mm
- 1.2m at 400mm
What’s in the box
- Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR Lens for Z Mount
- Lens hood HB-114
- Lens cap LC-77B
- Rear cap LC-77B
- Lens case CL-C2
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| Best For Holiday and Landscape: Yes |
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Our Verdict
There are lots of benefits to using an all-in-one superzoom lens, and the Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR combines virtually every feature you need to capture great results across a huge variety of styles. These include the effective optical design with special elements to render great image quality, fast and quiet AF and effective built-in vibration reduction using voce coil motors.
The 14.2x zoom far exceeds the range of existing options from Nikon like the Z 24-120mm F/4 S or Z 24-200mm F/4-6.3 VR lens, which opens up new creative possibilities from just this one lens. Versatility is further extended by close minimum focus distances across the zoom range, plus the high maximum magnification, which allows you to capture close-up images where the subject covers almost the whole frame.
Other benefits of the Nikon Z 28-400mm lens include the customisable control ring, weather sealing and perhaps most importantly the lightweight design. This ensures you’ll bring it with you wherever you go, as the only option you need for travel and everyday photo walks.
The Nikon 28-400mm superzoom for mirrorless cameras ensures that you can create lasting memories with a single all-in-one lens that captures lovely photos across a huge variety of subjects.
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Condition guide
Our used products are subject to wear and tear in comparison to brand new products. This also applies to accessories that are supplied with the camera including batteries which may have a lower optimum performance level/life expectancy.
- Like New – The equipment is in a condition as if you have just bought it from the manufacturer. The item is still considered to be ‘Like New’ even without the original packaging and accessories. The product has been fully tested and is in perfect working order. Lenses are optically clear. There may be light dust present that will not effect the imagery.
- Excellent – The equipment should be close to being ‘Like New’ but there may be some small cosmetic blemishes that lower its grade. The product has been fully tested and is in perfect excellent order.
- Cameras – Should have no marks on the LCD screen
- Lenses – Should have no marks on the elements and optically clear. There may be light dust present that will not effect the imagery.
- Very Good – The equipment may have some slight cosmetic wear to the paintwork and cosmetic blemishes with only light signs of use and the product has been fully tested and is in great working order.
- Cameras – The LCD screen may have small signs of wear that does not affect its display
- Lenses – The mount of the lens will start to show signs of wear
- Good – The equipment is showing more obvious signs of cosmetic wear and blemishes, but the product has been fully tested and is in great working order.
- Cameras – LCD screen may have scratches or wear that is starting to affect the display.
- Lenses – May have slight dust inside that does not affect images. The mount shows signs of use.
- Well Used – The equipment will show significant signs of wear. The paintwork will be coming away in large areas exposing the metal work, but the product has been fully tested and is in great working order.
- Cameras – LCD screen is heavily worn either by de-lamination or has scratches to it. Rubber grips are starting to come away from the body.
- Lenses – The lens has dust inside that may affect images. The rubber zoom/focus ring is coming away from the barrel of the lens.
*All of our used items are listed with the accesories that are included. If they are not listed then they will not be supplied at eh epoint of purchase.
Peace of mind with our 6 month warranty
This product has been thoroughly tested by our team of photographers and we are happy to give a 6 month warranty as a result. The number of tests depends on the individual product but we are confident in this product having tested all the major functions. Anything that isn’t as you would expect, we then make a note of and show this in the condition notes on the page.
So you can be confident you are buying a great piece of kit that’s been looked after by a fellow photographer and seen many extraordinary sights, tested by our team of photographers and now looking forward to being set free to capture more great images!
