Can Red ask Nikon for one Zmount zoom that is good optically?

[radost]

Considering we shoot compressed RAW Nikon lenses would look bad especially when it comes to distortion.

 

[Nick Hufen]

No.

 

[M Harvey]

Considering we shoot compressed RAW Nikon lenses would look bad especially when it comes to distortion.

I don’t know about the request, but an interesting development that I might expect would be a box you can tick in redcine X pro to enable/disable automatic lens correction.

And that said, for now you might want to make friends with a nice PL mount adapter.

 

[Phil Holland]

Considering we shoot compressed RAW Nikon lenses would look bad especially when it comes to distortion.

Compressed RAW and lens distortion have zero relationship to each other.

In terms of distortion in primes and zooms, I'll focus on zooms here, Nikon just released their Nikkor Z 28-135mm f/4 PZ. I'd start there. Generally you'll find an interesting balancing act between zoom range, lens size, and maximum aperture playing a role on distortion. Canon recently is relying heavy on distortion correction on some lenses, but it does keep the lens small if that's a priority. If you want good coverage and a big zoom range with a fast aperture, that lens will be larger, hence the difference between Premistas and say smaller VV/LF/FF coverage zooms with a similar range. Also corrective elements and their shape can play a role here too.

I guess to a more interesting point, a good chunk of Nikon Z mount glass works great right now, but it makes my mind wander what we could get out of some interesting new motion oriented or hybrid designs.