If you’re a manual exposure user—where the dials of the Zfc start to make more sense—there’s a delicious irony in the Zfc that I’m not sure Nikon is going to like: all those third-party DX manual focus lenses are more appropriate for the camera than many of the Nikkors (because of the aperture rings).
Some of the lenses I’ve noted that are likely very appropriate for the Zfc user are:
- 7Artisans 7.5mm f/2.8 fisheye
- 7Artisans 10mm f/2.8 fisheye
- 7Artisans 35mm f/1.2
- Laowa 9mm f/5.6
- Laowa 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6
- Laowa 11mm f/4.5
- Laowa 14mm f/4
- Meike 8mm f/3.5 fisheye
- Meike 25mm f/1.8 (review coming)
- Meike 35mm f/1.4
- Meike 35mm f/1.7
- Meike 50mm f/1.7
- Meyer-Optik 30mm f/3.5
- Meyer-Optik 50mm f/2.8
- Pergear 7.5mm f/2.8 fisheye
- Pergear 12mm f/2
- TTArtisans 11mm f/2.8 (review)
- Viltrox 23mm f/1.4
- Viltrox 33mm f/1.4
I’ve kept that list to just the smaller and mostly wide angle lenses, as the lack of a hand grip on the Zfc would start to make the larger lenses less comfortable while shooting.
All of the above lenses are manual focus, and the Zfc doesn’t have user settings (U1, U2, U3, etc.), so you’re going to want to have the i button quick menu set so you can quickly select monochrome Picture Controls and Focus Peaking, then return to what you were doing. It’s far easier to manually focus with the right peaking set to appear over a monochrome rendering, thus my recommendation.
