A Complete List of Nikon Z Mount Lenses

The new Nikon Z-mount with the 55mm diameter allows for improved lens designs for faster autofocus lenses with improved overall IQ. 

As Nikon Z mount cameras grow in popularity we will see many 3rd party lens manufacturers jumping on board as well as new lenses developed from other manufacturers.

Use this guide to find Nikon Z Lenses.

Nikon Z-Mount Lenses

Use this guide to find every Nikon Z Lens. Including all Nikon Z zoom lenses and all Nikon Z Prime lenses as well as third-party lenses made for the Z-Mount.

I will not list the Nikon F lenses as there are several hundred out there.

Nikon Z-Mount Zoom Lenses

The Nikon Z Mount zoom lenses so far do not have manual focus couplings and will be focus-by-wire. This might disappoint some landscape photographers but we will have to wait and see what Nikon does with the ultra wide Z mount zooms.

Nikon Z-Mount Prime Lenses

The legend of Nikon lenses continues with the Z mount. Many of the new Nikon Z mount primes lenses are going to be a little different than the F mount lenses you may be use to. They will be light weight and focus-by-wire.

The Nikkor 58mm f0.98 Noct will be a manual focus lens and we still unsure if it will still have the light weight plastic feel of the other primes.

Nikon Z-Mount Adapters

So far we only have the official Nikon F to Z mount adapter. It will autofocus AF/AE with E, G, D Lenses.

D lenses will not be able to have autofocus.

Third-Party Lenses

There still aren’t a lot of third party options for the EOS R yet, but we are starting to see some cool lenses come out of China. Expect to see a lot more coming in 2019.

Kipon “Elegant” Lenses For Nikon Z Mount

Kipon has a new lens line of Elegant lenses for the Canon RF and Nikon Z Mount. These are essentially new Handevision lenses. Handevision is actually owned by Kipon and they make lenses with a classic style in both physical design and rendering.

Kipon is one of the few Chinese factories that has the precision gear to make this stuff properly. They have to, since they every adapter you can think of and their reputation is very good. This is also why they were able to capture the attention of some fairly prestigious lens designers out of Germany.

I’ve reviewed several of the Handevision lenses and some are really cool, some are just so-so. The 75mm f2.4 is a gem, so if you want to see what these lenses are all about, start there. I highly recommend it.

So what’s the story of the rebrand?

Kipon has expanded their network of lens designers and they now have some very good guys they work with and consult. The very initial release of Handevision lenses designed by IB/E Optics GmbH had a few minor issues with the builds that resulted in some minor reliability issues, oil on the aperture some minor wiggle that sort of thing. As to be expected with any new lens company. In early 2018 they were tuned up for improved reliability. The Kipon Elegant lenses have been completely mechanically redesigned for improved reliability and precision by Kipon’s new team of designers. Consider these IBERIT Mk II lenses since they have the same optical formulas.

Since the Handevision lenses have also been updated, you could still buy the Leica M mount versions of the Handevision lenses and adapt them to the Nikon Z. I don’t recommend adapting the M-mount 50mm f2.4 though, you’ll get some mechanical vignetting. You also lose some minimum focus distance which you’ll really notice on the 35mm when adapting the Leica M mount.

What’s the point of these Kipon lenses compared to a Nikon 50mm f1.8 or a 35mm f1.8 since the prices are similar? The main thing is size, weight and rendering. The Kipon Elegant lenses are about as small as you can make a full frame lens without any huge sacrifices to output. This means they are perfect for street photographers or casual shooters that want to keep their gear low profile and light. Since the element count is low, you also see some really nice micro-contrast and color. 

NIKKOR Z-Mount Lens Road Map

Nikon Z Mount Lens List Conclusions

There are lot of lenses coming from Nikon and third-party manufacturers coming 2019 and 2020. I’ll continue to update this list with everything with reviews of what I can get my hands on.