Jared Polin goes hands-on with Nikon’s new Nikkor Z 800mm f/6.3 VR PF S lens: Digital Images Overview

Editor’s observe: The DPReview TV workforce has additionally spent a while with the lens, and can publish their preliminary impressions when the lens is formally introduced.

Again in 2021, Nikon introduced it was engaged on the event of a Nikkor Z 800mm F6.3 PF VR S lens for the corporate’s Nikon Z-mount system. Since then, no substantial updates has been supplied on this lens, however in a brand new video from Jared Polin, of FroKnowsPhoto, we get our first look on the lens by means of a hands-on preview of the Nikkor Z 800mm F6.3 VR PF S lens.

As Polin explains within the introduction to his video, there may be little or no info he might share in regards to the lens. Apart from sharing a fundamental hands-on overview and detailing a set of pre-production photos captured with the lens, most of the technical particulars stay below wraps. A lot in order that Nikon USA had a consultant sitting exterior of the room whereas Polin filmed this 18-minute video.

Nonetheless, Polin was capable of spends the primary half of the video going over the exterior options of the lens. It has the same old array of customizable buttons (4 in-between the management ring and focus ring) and switches for controlling the varied autofocus and picture stabilization modes. Since Polin wasn’t allowed to share the precise dimensions or weight of the lens, he in contrast it to the NIkkor Z 400mm F2.8 TC VR lens, which truly weighs a bit greater than the 800mm F6.3 lens and is available in solely marginally shorter when each lenses have their lens hoods on. Talking of lens hoods, the brand new 800mm F6.3 lens has a brand new lens hood launch system that makes use of a locking lever to safe it in place when prolonged and reversed for touring.

To check out the efficiency of the pre-production lens, Polin took it to the Philadelphia Zoo to {photograph} bald eagles, bears and gorillas. He spends the final half of the video going over a number of of the photographs he captured and sharing his total expertise utilizing the lens connected to a Nikon Z9. Because the lens is pre-production, we don’t have any full-resolution recordsdata to take a peek at, however Polin does spotlight the picture high quality of the lens in varied capturing environments on the zoo.

It stays to be seen once we’ll know extra about this lens, however we shouldn’t have to attend an excessive amount of longer contemplating Nikon is clearly engaged on getting pre-production models into the arms of reviewers.