The new Nikon Z 9 full-frame camera has arrived at the CineD headquarters in Vienna – curious to hear how it fares in our lab test? Then read on … (Side note: the lab test was done on a Pre-Sale camera with final firmware installed) The Nikon Z 9 has quite impressive specs, at least on paper – not only does it shoot 8K up to 30 frames per second in 10-bit N-Log mode plus 4K up to 120 frames, but it also features internal 4K recording in full-frame ProRes HQ 422 (you can read more about the specs here camera of the year for video here). But not only that, in a future firmware release planned for 2022 the camera will be able to record internally in 8K60p in 12-bit ProRes RAW next to 12-bit N-RAW (a variant of the TicoRAW codec internally). Very impressive. But as usual, the image quality of a camera is not about pixel count and specs, so I was quite eager to grab this camera and run it through our lab test – and it’s quite revealing, to say the least. Nikon Z 9 – Rolling shutter Starting with 8k H265 mode at 25fps, we are getting a really good 14.5ms of rolling shutter (less is better): Rolling shutter in 8k mode of the Nikon Z 9. Image credit: CineD That is about 1ms better than the Canon R5 and about 2ms better than the Sony A1. The king of the castle for mirrorless...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 15 December, 2021