Rumours of a Nikon Z 8 mirrorless camera, that fits in the range somewhere between the Z 7II and Z 9, have been doing the rounds for years. In fact, we were hearing whispers about it even before the Z 9 saw the light of day. And now it’s finally here. Nikon is touting the camera both as the ‘true successor to the D850’ and a ‘baby Z 9’. And indeed, it looks and feels like the Z-series equivalent of the D850, with a similar form factor, yet squeezes virtually all the high-end specs of the flagship Z 9 into a smaller (and more affordable) body.
Key features
So let’s kick off with those headline specs that it shares with its bigger brother. It has the same 45.7-megapixel stacked CMOS sensor, which boasts the fastest scan rate of any commercially available camera. So while this isn’t a ‘global’ sensor that captures the entire image instantaneously but renders the image line-by-line in the same way as traditional sensors, it does this incredibly quickly. So quickly, in fact, that the camera forgoes the need for a mechanical shutter entirely.
Bu hikaye N-Photo: the Nikon magazine dergisinin July 2023 sayısından alınmıştır.
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Bu hikaye N-Photo: the Nikon magazine dergisinin July 2023 sayısından alınmıştır.
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