Lensvid published their interview with Dirk Jasper from Nikon taken during the 2018 Photokina show - their main topic of discussion was of course the new Z mirrorless (more Nikon Z interviews can be found here): Here is a recap of the interview: Nikon wasn’t willing to state exactly when the work on the Nikon Z started (a good guess would be at least 3 or so years ago) but it did mention that the now discontinued Nikon 1 cameras were indeed the basis for at least some of the technologies we are now seeing in the Z cameras. The upcoming NIKKOR Z 58mm f/0.95 S Noct is more of a proof of concept for Nikon to show was this mount could do in terms of image quality and speed (Jasper actually mentioned the Zeiss Otus by name here and suggested that we might see a new fast prime king with this lens). Nikon had endless discussions about changing the mount and although Jasper was not willing to openly state that the large mount was developed to support larger sensors in the future it certainly seems that way from his answer. Nikon claims that the dynamic range on the Z7 is better than the D850. Faster processing (and everything that goes along with it like managing heat and power consumption) is according to Nikon the main reason why several advanced video technologies are still not implemented in the Z7 such as 10bit 4:2:2 internally and full pixel readout of the entire FF sensor...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Friday, 5 October, 2018