Information about the new Nikon mirrorless cameras from somebody who’s used them
Aug 18, 2018
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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Nikon Rumors is reporting feedback from somebody who’s actually handled the new Nikon Z mirrorless cameras and confirmed a few things. They got their mitts on the new cameras during a closed-door event last week in Asia. This is what they had to say.
- There are many similarities between the Z6/7 and Sony’s A7 series
- The new Z-mount is almost as large as a medium format for some 6×6 SLR cameras
- Handling and ergonomics are perfect
- The Nikon Z6 and Z7 have exactly the same body and use the same battery
- The EVF is fixed (I’m assuming as opposed to articulated, not broken)
- There are no scene modes
- There is a green AUTO mode as well as the usual MASP and 3 user settings
Not having any scene modes is interesting. It means that both cameras are almost certainly aimed at professional users and not consumers.
Nice to hear that the handling and ergonomics is good. That’s been the biggest general gripe that most people have had with mirrorless cameras. That they’re too small, fiddly, with bad ergonomics. Even with small DSLRs, though, you can feel the same if you’re used to bigger cameras. I remember when it came out, the D7000 felt tiny in my hands after having spent a year with the D300s & grip.
NR also says that both the 24-70mm f/4 and 50mm f/1.8 lenses have very fast autofocus. And that on test images, they showed some signs of vignetting when used at wide open apertures.
Well, there’s only 6 days to go until an official announcement, and another leak or two between now and then wouldn’t surprise me. But, we’ll all find out what’s coming soon enough.
[via Nikon Rumors]
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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10 responses to “Information about the new Nikon mirrorless cameras from somebody who’s used them”
How can the ergonomics be perfect ? Everyone has different size hands.
Rumor has it, Nikonians are required to have a standard hand size to join the club.
Very true.
I’ve always found nikon cameras to be like badly designed Pentaxs as far as ergonomics go ?.
Still the best camera I’ve held so far is my sdQ-H :)
Ricky haha, I used Pentax first so it’s only natural for me to find Nikons odd .
My d3 for example required me to take my hand off the lens to press an iso button on the bottom left of the viewfinder while my older Pentax let me change iso,shutter,aperture and focus point all with my eye on the ovf and one hand on the lens to focus.
So yea, Pentaxs ergonomics and button layout has for me been better than nikon, camera performance though nikon has always seemed better at focus, speed and such.
Its what your used to, if you grabbed a Pentax it would feel much like a nikon with a strange layout.
Ricky Fleming I was on about the “perfect ergonomics”.
No camera is perfect and ergonomics are a very subjective thing, things like the size of your hands, what camera your used to using and many more factors can play into it.
I’m sure the nikon is going to be great, especially if your a nikon user already and I noticed nikon has started putting the iso button near the top dial like Pentax instead of on the left-hand side of the camera so they might not be so bad these days of your used to Pentax and using Nikon. :)
But if you compare say the d7000 to the k5 which where both out at the same time for the same price, the Pentax had the better layout/ergonomics and built quality but failed down in other areas like comtinous af :).
I’m actually looking forward to see what nikon is doing.
I’m hoping that the new mirrorless Nikon come with better polishing and with more durable batteries two negative points of current Sony cameras
I also hope that the automatic focus for livestock is the height of Sony and Canon.
Today I read information that an adapter for F mount will come to Nikon users who have the current lenses. This adapter will have its own motor and it will be possible to use all Nikon lenses
The price tag is £2,600 upwards and you seriously need the lack of scene modes to tell you that “both cameras are almost certainly aimed at professional users and not consumers”?