The Nikon Z 135mm f/1.8 S Plena has a tough act to follow. We were highly impressed when we reviewed the Nikon Z 85mm f/1.2 S, but the Plena sets out to take everything to a whole new level. Naturally, it doesn’t have such a fast aperture rating (which would be impractical) but the longer focal length still enables a really tight depth of field. We love the way the Plena is perfectly suited to tight head-and-shoulders portraiture but it’s equally epic for still-life photography and pretty much any time you want to compress perspective with a medium telephoto focal length, while isolating the main subject within a scene by blurring its surroundings.
