A Complete List of Nikon Z Lenses

This is a complete list of every full-frame mirrorless Nikon lens.

I may consider adding APS-C but that gets messy, or I might build a separate list for that as the APS-C system gets more popular. There are only a few Nikon APS-C lenses, if you want a manual lens, remember you can adapt any Sony or Fujifilm lens to Nikon if what you’re looking for isn’t available in the Z mount.

Nikon Z Lenses

Use this guide to find every mirrorless Nikon lens. Including all Nikon Z zoom lenses and all Nikon Z Prime lenses as well as third-party lenses Z lenses.

While F-Mount lenses are still great, the cameras with IBIS will revert to only 3-axis stabilization.

Nikon Z-Mount Prime & Zoom Lenses

The f1.8 S-line lenses are significantly improved over their older G and F mount lenses with new focus technology, weather-sealing, and mechanical improvements for video. These are the best f1.8 lenses we’ve seen made by anyone so far.

Some of the S-line lenses like the 85mm have a dual focus system to help with close focus. The 50mm f1.8 is the fastest-focusing lens of the lineup.

Many of the S-line lenses minimize field of view shifts when focusing and both aperture and the stepping motor focus systems are completely silent when shooting video. The aperture has also been designed for a smooth motion for exposure changes during video shooting.

The zoom S lenses like their prime lenses have been designed as multipurpose video and still lenses. Nikon is approaching the whole system with video in mind and they are building in technology that allows for optimal performance when shooting video as well as stills.

Many of the S lenses have minimum focus breathing, smooth motion aperture, and silent autofocus which is very useful for videography. This is the big advantage the Z system has over the older F mount lenses.

So far none of the Z lenses have manual focus couplings, instead, they are all focus-by-wire. All the lenses have some form of weather sealing.

I’ve also included all lenses on the Nikon Z Lens Roadmap as well as DX Lenses. Row headers are marked with DX or FX. FX refers to the Nikon Full Frame camera while DX reference APS-C cameras. Nikon APS-C cameras use a 1.5x crop. If you push the plus sign in front of the lens name you can see more stats like the full frame equivalency when using lenses on a DX camera.

American Third-Party Z Lenses

Lensbaby Nikon Z Lenses

Lens baby has released its lenses in the Z Mount. These are all manual focus.

German Third-Party Nikon Z Lenses

Meyer Optik Gorlitz

Japanese Third-Party Z Lenses

Tamron Z Lenses

We’ve seen rebadged Tamron lenses under the Z branding and now Tamron is releasing lenses designed for the Z mount. It looks like Tamron and Nikon have a nice partnership going and we should expect to see a full lineup.

Tokina Z Lenses

Hopefully, we get more Tokina lenses in the future.

Voigtlander Lenses For Nikon

Voigtlander is now releasing lenses manual for Nikon with fully electronic contacts. If these lenses are anything like Sony lenses, they could potentially report focus position which allows the camera to use 5-Axis stabilization instead of just 3-Axis.

Yasuhara Lenses for Nikon

Yasuhara has made a small and lightweight manual focus 35mm f1.8 lens. They may release a few more in the future.

The new Anthy 35mm f1.8 Features 9 elements in 7 groups. So far I’m seeing nice contrast and sharpness with the weakness being the vignetting. This might be a great place to start if you’re looking to build out their prime manual lens collection.

Korean Third-Party Z Lenses

Samyang / Rokinon Z Lenses

Samyang has a few lenses for the Z system. Hopefully, they bring everything over in the next few years.

Russian Third-Party Nikon Z Lenses

Lomography / Zenit Lenses

The Lomography-style lenses originally were from Austria but today are reproduced by Zenit

Lomography has brought back some very vintage designs with their Petzval lenses that have a very extreme swirl to them. They make several other lenses for the DSLR mounts so you could always adapt those if you’re into what they are doing. Here is what they have available for the Nikon Z mount.

Swiss Third-Party Nikon Z Lenses

Irix Lenses

Irix has a set of Swiss-designed Cine lenses that use Japanese optics.

List of Irix Cine lenses for the Nikon Z system.

Chinese Third-Party Z Lenses

7Artisans Lenses

7Artisans has been around for awhile now and they’ve continued to improve their designs and optics over the years. Their first gen lens were budget lenses and often had some technical issues, but most of the designed today have been significantly improved and you can now find some good value with their lenses.

AstrHori Z Lenses

Brightin Star

There is yet another Chinese lens company now making lenses for the Nikon Z Mount. Most of these Chinese lenses seem to share the same formula. 7 elements in 5 groups. Brightin Star lenses so far are all manual focus.

Kipon “Elegant” Lenses For Nikon Z Mount

Kipon has a new lens line of manual focus 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.

KamLan Lenses

I’m not sure if Kamlan is a Taiwanese company or from Shenzhen so I’ve included it in the China section to make my life easier.

Today they are making pretty good lenses with nice build quality.

Laowa / Venus Optics Nikon Z Lenses

The Venus Optic Laowa brand now has a very rich lineup of lenses, especially with ultrawide zero distortion lenses. Recently been moving into making standard and telephoto focal length lenses with macro capabilities as well as a few zoom lenses. Venus Optics also has a very interesting line of Cine and Anamorphic cine lenses.

There are a few lenses that are the same lens but with different aperture configurations. The lower apertures will give you nicer sun stars and the higher apertures will give you nicer bokeh when stopped down.

Note that with some of the Cine lenses you can choose between Feet and Meters for the markings and with some, you can even choose lenses that will flare with different colors.

Laowa lenses are typically going to have a little more of the clinical high-element vibe. This list has been updated to include APS-C and Super35mm lenses. Click the + sign next to the lens name to see more stats including the 35mm crop factor for APS-C cameras.

Meike Lenses For Nikon Z Mount

Meike has engineered its 50mm f1.7 lens for the new Nikon mount. This was a fairly popular low-budget lens for the Sony FE mount and it’s nice it has moved over to Nikon. The Meike lenses are cheap Chinese lenses but their optical formulas are actually quite nice.

They make a lot of lenses now and also have a full line of cine lenses that will hopefully all come to the Z mount.

Mitakon Zhongyi Z Lenses

Mitakon has brought over their 50mm f1.095 manual focus Speedmaster to the Nikon Z mount. This is the latest version III of their lens.

NiSi Lenses For Nikon

NiSi, a popular company known for its ND and UV filters has started making lenses.

They also have a line of Cine lenses in the PL, E and EF mounts that you could adapt to Nikon.

Opteka Lenses

Opteka has a few telephoto lenses for the Nikon Z. They are actually T-mount lenses, but they come with an RF adapter as well as range extenders. They have a few more standard APS-C lenses but we haven’t seen them with a Z mount yet.