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Rent NowUnleash your potential with the NIKKOR Z 400mm f/2.8 TC VR S lens by Nikon, the ultimate prime lens for capturing sports, action, and wildlife. With its exceptional reach and impressive speed, this super-telephoto lens stands out with its bright f/2.8 maximum aperture and advanced optical, autofocus, and VR systems. Setting itself apart from other prime lenses, the 400mm lens incorporates a built-in 1.4x teleconverter that allows for seamless switching to an effective 560mm f/4 lens, extending its reach even further.
Built-In 1.4x Teleconverter
With the built-in 1.4x teleconverter, you can instantly expand your reach to 560mm by simply flipping the right-hand switch.
The teleconverter is seamlessly integrated within the lens housing, ensuring optical precision and maintaining the lens’s weather sealing.
When the teleconverter is engaged, the 400mm f/2.8 lens becomes an effective 560mm f/4 lens.
S-Line Optics
The fast f/2.8 maximum aperture excels in low-light conditions and offers excellent control over depth of field, enabling subjects to be separated and isolated from busy backgrounds.
Featuring two ED (extra-low dispersion) and one Super ED glass elements, two lightweight fluorite elements, and an SR (short-wavelength refractive) element, this lens virtually eliminates chromatic aberrations, color fringing, and comatic aberrations.
The SR element, with its specialized high-dispersion design, refracts shorter wavelengths, ensuring accurate color rendering while making the lens more compact.
Refined Anti-Glare Coatings
The newly developed Meso Amorphous Coat provides the highest level of anti-reflective performance among NIKKOR lenses, surpassing the Nano Crystal Coat in terms of diagonal incident light and matching the performance of the ARNEO Coat for vertical incident light.
ARNEO and Nano Crystal Coats are also applied to offer comprehensive anti-glare protection from all angles, effectively suppressing ghosting, reflections, and flare. This results in higher contrast and accurate color response, especially in strong lighting and backlit conditions.
Silky Swift VCM Autofocus
The Silky Swift Voice Coil Motor (VCM) employs magnets instead of gears to move the focusing groups at higher initial speeds, ensuring greater accuracy and smoothness. A guide bar is incorporated to minimize focusing vibrations, enhancing continuous focusing speeds. (WARNING: This product should not be used if you have a pacemaker or other medical device, as the magnets may cause malfunctions.)
Using a high-precision sensor from the robotics industry, the lens features an optical ABS (absolute) encoder, ensuring precise and rapid autofocus performance.
The Silky Swift VCM is exceptionally quiet, making it ideal for video use, and the multi-focusing system significantly reduces focus breathing, enabling greater compositional accuracy when adjusting focus.
Full-time manual focus override is available, and the internal focusing design, which moves only the internal lens groups during focusing, maintains the overall length of the lens and promotes faster focusing speeds.
The lens has a minimum focusing distance of 8.2′ and a maximum magnification of 0.17x without the teleconverter and 0.23x with the teleconverter, making it suitable for close-up subjects.
Vibration Reduction
Vibration Reduction image stabilization reduces the impact of camera shake by approximately 5.5 stops, facilitating handheld shooting in low-light situations.
When used with compatible cameras featuring sensor-shift VR, it supports Synchro VR, combining in-body VR with optical VR for even better results.
Professional Durability and Intuitive Handling
With an updated design weighing 6.5 lb, the lens is 20% lighter
than its F-mount counterpart, the 400mm f/2.8. Additionally, the Z-mount version features a built-in teleconverter.
The physical design places the center of gravity around the tripod mount, resulting in smoother and more responsive panning, especially when mounted on a tripod or monopod. The tripod mount itself rotates, allowing for easy switching between vertical and horizontal shooting orientations.
Advanced weather sealing, including rubber gaskets, prevents dust and moisture from entering the lens. The lens body is constructed from lightweight and durable magnesium alloy, while the front and rear elements feature a fluorine coating that repels dirt, moisture, and oils, making them easy to clean.
The lens is compatible with the optional Z-Teleconverter TC-1.4x and TC-2x, further extending its reach.
Intuitive “no-look” Control Layout
All frequently-used buttons and dials are strategically placed within easy reach, allowing for seamless operation without needing to move your eye from the viewfinder.
The Memory Set button lets you store a focusing position, which can be instantly recalled by rotating the Fn ring—perfect for capturing fleeting moments.
Two customizable L-Fn buttons can be set to configure subject tracking, AF lock, image playback, or other modes. The L-Fn2 button is accessible from four different locations on the barrel for effortless access.
A focus limiter switch is available to constrain the focus range to 19.7′ to infinity or 8.2′ to infinity.
The programmable Control Ring can be used to adjust aperture, ISO, or exposure compensation.
Kensington lock support ensures the lens remains securely in place during remote shooting sessions.
The lens accepts 46mm drop-in filters via the included filter holder.
