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    June 28, 2023, 9:11 p.m.

    My 12-28 arrived, so here's the reported aperture and magnification against focal length for all current Z DX lenses (the 16-50, 18-140, 50-250, and 12-28).

    First, the aperture reported to the camera:
    zoom aperture.png
    I've included the 24-200 in this one with values taken from this post (I don't have a copy myself).

    And for macro, here's the minimum frame width (along the long edge of the frame) possible on all the DX lenses and the 40mm:
    macro.png
    Surprisingly, the 24mm keeps up with the zooms. Most are best at their tele ends, except for the 16-50 which gets closest at 35mm.

    Theses were all measured with the camera pointed at a ruler. 1/4 grid lines turned on so I had a nice line through the middle of the frame to align the ruler with, and a focus confirmation point in the middle of the frame to indicate when the edge of the ruler was in focus. Generally shot wide open, I don't care enough to measure the effect of focus shift on these.

    macro.png

    PNG, 15.5 KB, uploaded by xlucine on June 28, 2023.

    zoom aperture.png

    PNG, 10.3 KB, uploaded by xlucine on June 28, 2023.