Classic-style lenses for the Nikon Zf and Nikon Z fc are few and much between, particularly in case you’re on the lookout for an optic with an aperture ring. So I imply it once I say, I’m mighty enthusiastic about Hong Kong-based Artralab’s cheekily-dubbed Nonikkor-MC 35mm f/1.4. Positive, Voigtlander makes some beautiful retro-style Z-mount lenses – just like the D23mm f/1.2 Nokton Z Aspherical – however at roughly $380/£300, Artralabs (@artralab) has cooked up a extra inexpensive choice.
Curiously, there are two internally an identical however aesthetically completely different lens variants, within the type of a Sixties and Nineteen Eighties version. The variations – so far as I can inform – regard the focusing ring and filter thread, with the Sixties variant displaying a chunker ring and silver thread (suppose F-mount’s unique non-AI lenses), whereas the Nineteen Eighties model has a extra trendy rubber focusing ring and black filter thread (indicative of Nikon’s AI-S period of optics).