Nikon has announced that it is developing a new telephoto lens: the Nikkor Z 120-300mm f/2.8 TC VR S, which includes a built-in 1.4x teleconverter. The lens will be part of Nikon’s S line of high-end optics and will be compatible with its full-frame (which Nikon calls FX) mirrorless cameras. The lens appears to be a modern replacement for the AF-S Nikkor 120-300mm f/2.8E FL ED SR VR lens that was released in February of 2020 . It is no longer in production. When Nikon released it, which ended up being the company’s final F-mount lens, photographers immediately wondered when it might come to Nikkor Z mount. After all, the company had launched the Z system a year and a half earlier . It wasn’t just the timing that made the AF-S 120-300mm f/2.8 professional telephoto zoom lens notable, though; it was the lens’s performance: it was the kind of lens a photographer would buy an FTZ adapter to use. Nikon saved its best for last and sent the DSLR era out with an impeccable swan song.…