The Nikon ZR is a special breed. Offering impressive video quality, probably the best in its segment, the ZR manages to house it all in an impressively compact chassis, about the size of compact stills cameras. If you’re reading this and thinking, “Hmm, that sounds familiar…” you’re not mistaken. The dream of a compact camera capable of great quality is almost as old as the medium. One can even stretch this line as far as Oskar Barnack and the invention of the Leica camera, the Hasselblad 500, and more. In this article, however, we’ll discuss some more contemporary iterations of this concept. While the Nikon ZR may not be a fully-fledged cinema camera, it surely delivers on the IQ front. I will not dive too deep into the definition of cine cameras nor its specs, but we have covered this camera extensively. I invite you to read my colleague Johnnie’s review and mini-doc of the camera, as he figures out what this new special beast is about, as well as Francesco’s first-look review, and the talk we had with him at IBC. We, of course, also ran it through our lab tests and had a talk with Gunther on his findings. This article, however, will take a deeper look at the recent history of the high-end, high-IQ compacts preceding the Nikon ZR. Nikon ZR: Tech specs CAN enhance creativity The dream of capturing stunning footage on a compact camera has always driven photographers, filmmakers, engineers, and designers. Be it Henri...
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