To observe up on our article “The Greatest Nikon Digicam of All Time,” immediately I current an analogous match for Nikon lenses! As earlier than, you may vote in your favorites this week, and shortly, we’ll crown the best Nikon lens of all time. What do you suppose ought to win?
This time, there are 256 Nikon lenses within the match. The winner is completely as much as you! You may vote in your favourite lenses in a collection of head-to-head matches all through the following a number of days, and after every spherical, the variety of lenses remaining can be minimize in half. We’ll go from 256 to 128, then to 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, and at last the #1 best Nikon lens of all time.
I’ve arrange the match in order that Spherical 1 lasts till 11:59PM on Monday night time (Mountain Daylight Time / UTC -6). Every subsequent spherical can be open for twenty-four hours. The match is split into eight completely different brackets, every with 32 lenses. You may entry them from the checklist beneath.
Be aware: Solutions can’t be modified after you click on “vote.” Nevertheless, you’re free to skip any votes, or you may click on “outcomes” to see the totals with out voting.
- (Most) Nikon Z Lenses
- (Most) Newer F-Mount Lenses
- (Most) DX Lenses
- Superteles
- Specialty Lenses
- Older D Autofocus Lenses
- Ai-S Lenses (Half 1)
- Ai-S Lenses (Half 2) and Others
Just a few different related notes:
- First off, my apologies for the annoying advertisements on that third-party web site! When you’ve got an advert blocker, you would possibly need to allow it. I wouldn’t have used that web site if I had one other selection, however sadly I couldn’t discover another that had the entire vital options to run this ballot.
- Though I restricted this ballot to 256 lenses, Nikon has made greater than that of their historical past, particularly for those who rely a few of their extra off-beat optics like medical and industrial lenses. I needed to make a couple of judgment calls about which lenses to incorporate. Finally, I excluded most of Nikon’s pre-Ai-S lenses in addition to some earlier variations of assorted lenses, and I restricted the lens choice to Nikon F and Nikon Z. I hope that not one of the lenses you had been enthusiastic about are absent from immediately’s ballot, but when any are, be happy to tell us within the feedback! (You may see a whole checklist of Nikon lenses on Roland Vink’s “Photosynthesis” web site right here.)
- I did every thing doable to make every matchup, together with in future rounds, as attention-grabbing and related as doable. Nevertheless, there are a couple of unusual head-to-heads within the first spherical resulting from some odd numbers of assorted sorts of lenses. These had been vital sacrifices in order that the remainder of the matchups might be pretty regular!
- If I made any errors within the names of the lenses, or if I unintentionally skipped any main lenses, I apologize forward of time. Sadly, I’m unable to alter something within the ballot now that it’s been printed. However for those who catch any inaccuracies, let me know, and I’ll add a notice about it to this text.
- Lastly, don’t be discouraged in case your favourite lens goes out early, even within the first spherical! The best way that I designed this ballot, I prioritized attention-grabbing and related matchups over permitting good lenses to go so far as doable. To call one instance, one of many first-round matchups is the Nikon Z 70-200mm f/2.8 S versus the Nikon Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S. Each of those are glorious lenses that might have gone very far, however one in all them is assured to lose within the first spherical.
- HOWEVER: On the finish of this match, I’ll return and calculate a top-20 checklist utilizing anticipated scores. It will present an estimate for a way far a given lens “would have gone” on common. For instance, if the Nikon Z 70-200mm f/2.8 barely wins the primary matchup 51% to 49% in opposition to the Nikon Z 100-400mm, after which ultimately wins the entire match, the Nikon Z 100-400mm would stand an excellent likelihood of rating #2 within the last high 20 checklist.
That’s it from me! I hope you take pleasure in voting to your favourite Nikon glass and seeing what our different readers should say. We’ll replace this text day by day with some commentary and highlights from every spherical, so keep tuned all through the week for extra.