Japanese camera brand Nikon has announced the ZR, a full frame camera that’s part of its Z CINEMA series. It’s also the smallest in the series, and the first to feature tech from relatively new subsidiary, RED. For context, the former acquired the latter within the first half of last year.
The Nikon ZR is armed with a 24.5MP full-frame COMS sensor, albeit a partially stacked one like the Z6 III. That said, it can still shoot 6K videos at 60fps in R3D NE. This is based on RED’s R3D RAW format that lets you change settings like ISO and white balance in post. On the other end of extremes, it can also shoot in Full HD at 240fps.
Nikon says that it’s given the autofocus in the ZR the AI treatment. Then there’s the five axis sensor-shift stabilisation as well as support for 32-bit float audio recording. In place of an EVF, you get a 4-inch LCD screen with a peak brightness of 1,000 nits.
All of this is packed into a body that measures 133 × 80.5 × 48.7mm with “highly efficient heat dissipation without a fan”. On the latter, Nikon claims can do 125 minutes of continuous recording in R3D NE 6K 60fps. With USB power delivery of course.
The Nikon ZR is priced in the US at US$2,199.96 (~RM9,283) for the body only. It ships on 20 October over there, but there’s no word on local pricing and availability for the local market as of yet.
