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Ultra-Wide Power Zoom for DX-Format Z-Series Mirrorless Cameras
The Nikon NIKKOR Z DX 12-28mm f/3.5-5.6 PZ VR is an innovative, ultra-wide-angle zoom lens designed specifically for creators, vloggers, and live-streamers using Nikon DX-format mirrorless cameras. Providing an 18-42mm full-frame equivalent focal range, this highly versatile lens delivers the expansive perspective needed to keep yourself comfortably in frame at arm’s length while showcasing your surrounding environment.
As the first dedicated Power Zoom (PZ) lens in the Nikon Z lineup, it replaces traditional mechanical linkages with an internal linear drive system, providing ultra-smooth, repeatable, and near-silent focal transitions that are essential for high-end video production and gimbal stabilization.
Versatile Ultra-Wide Framing & Specialized Optics
18-42mm Equivalent Creative Reach: The ultra-wide 12mm end (18mm equivalent) is perfect for immersive first-person vlogging, sprawling landscape shots, and dramatic interior real estate framing. The 28mm end (42mm equivalent) lets you tighten your view for product close-ups or casual street snapshots while preserving the overall environmental context.
Premium Optical Glass Formula: Incorporates extra-low dispersion (ED) and specialized aspherical lens elements to aggressively minimize chromatic aberrations, suppress color fringing, and control field distortion for crisp resolution across the entire zoom track.
Dramatic 7.5-Inch Close-Focusing: Features an impressively close minimum focusing distance of just 7.5 inches (19 cm). When combined with the ultra-wide field of view, it allows you to step directly up to a foreground subject to capture unique, exaggerated perspectives with excellent background separation.
Linear Power Zoom Controls & Handling Architecture
Smooth Linear Motor Power Zoom: Driven by a precise internal linear motor that manages focal adjustments seamlessly. This architecture guarantees highly precise results, fluid continuity between takes, and eliminates the physical jerky camera movement often caused by turning a manual zoom ring.
Multi-Platform Zoom Operation: Offers highly flexible remote and local control options. Adjust your zoom setting directly using the dedicated ring on the lens barrel, mapping it to the magnification buttons on compatible Z-series cameras, or utilizing the ML-L7 Bluetooth Remote, the SnapBridge smartphone app, or NX Tether software.
11 Assignable Zoom Speed Modes: Allows you to select from 11 distinct Power Zoom speeds via your camera settings, enabling everything from a slow, imperceptible dramatic crawl to a rapid, high-impact perspective swap.
Internal Zoom & Gimbal-Optimized Profile: Engineered with an internal focus and internal zoom design that does not extend or alter its physical length when zooming. This stationary center of gravity makes it an exceptional choice for smooth balancing on compact motorized gimbals.
Advanced Vibration Reduction & Silent AF Drive
4.5-Stop Lens-Shift Vibration Reduction: Features built-in optical Vibration Reduction (VR) that compensates for up to 4.5 stops of handheld camera shake. This system ensures tack-sharp still images in low-light environments and significantly smoothens out the jarring bounce of walking-and-talking video footage.
Whisper-Quiet Stepping Autofocus System: Outfitted with an agile stepping AF motor that tracks moving subjects smoothly and silently. This responsive tracking system ensures that lens operational motor noise is kept entirely off your internal video microphone audio tracks.
Dust- and Drip-Resistant Shell: Built with robust protective weather seals around the lens barrel and mount junction to safeguard internal electronic and optical components from dust, light rain, and environmental moisture.
Technical Specifications
Focal Length Range: 12-28mm (18-42mm Full-Frame Equivalent)
Maximum Aperture Range: f/3.5 (at 12mm) to f/5.6 (at 28mm)
Minimum Aperture Range: f/16 to f/25
Lens Mount Type: Nikon Z Mount (Optimized for DX-Format Sensors)
Filter Thread Diameter: 67mm
Lens Optical Layout: 12 Elements configured in 11 Groups
Zoom Drive Mechanism: Linear Motor Actuated Power Zoom (PZ)
Autofocus Motor Drive: Stepping Motor (STM)
Image Stabilization Hardware: Built-In Optical VR (Up to 4.5 stops of correction)
Minimum Focus Distance: 7.5 inches / 19 cm
Maximum Magnification Ratio: 0.21x
Dimensions (Diameter x Length): Approx. 2.8 x 2.5″ / 72 x 63.5 mm
Weight: Approx. 7.3 oz / 205 grams (Featherlight travel footprint)
