Nikon's Zr Is Its First Cinema Camera Co-designed With Red

Nikon has unveiled its first cinema camera developed successful collaboration pinch nan institution it acquired past year, RED. The Nikon ZR (the "R" is for "RED" I imagine) is simply a camera that neither institution could person made connected its own, marrying RED's colour subject and video codecs pinch Nikon's precocious taxable observe AF and in-body stabilization. It will spell up against different creator-oriented models for illustration Canon's caller C50 and nan Sony FX3 but astatine a overmuch little price.

Nikon's mirrorless cameras are known for their precocious move scope and nan institution is leaning into that for nan ZR. It has a partially stacked 24MP sensor pinch a Dual Base ISO of 800/6400 that promises 15+ stops of move scope for precocious low-light sensitivity and greater item successful shadows and highlights. Though it doesn't rather lucifer nan C50's 7K resolution, it will output 12K RAW 6K video astatine 60 fps, aliases 4K astatine 120 fps.

The soul RAW format utilized will beryllium RED's caller R3D NE and a log format called Log3G10 pinch nan aforesaid colour subject arsenic RED's high-end cinema cameras (so it tin lucifer those successful post). That's a lighter codec designed exclusively for Nikon, but nan ZR besides supports Nikon's N-RAW format on pinch ProRes/ProRes RAW and H.265. If you want to use RED's LUTs, you tin load and show up to 10 astatine a time.

Nikon focused connected audio arsenic well, offering 32-bit float soul audio signaling and Nokia's OZO situation sound tech via 3 built-in high-performance mics. You tin take from 5 pickup patterns including beforehand (super directional), front, each directions, rear and stereo (binaural) for immoderate business from interviews to vlogging to ASMR.

The ZR comes pinch taxable search hybrid phase-detect autofocus, making it much palatable for contented creators than immoderate RED camera that has ever existed. That includes AI search of group (eyes, caput and body) on pinch animals and vehicles, pinch 9 types total. It besides has five-axis in-body stabilization pinch 7.5 stops of smoothing, thing palpably lacking successful Canon's caller C50. Another cardinal characteristic is integer focus-breathing compensation.

Since nan ZR has nary viewfinder, Nikon made nan surface arsenic big, agleam and crisp arsenic possible. It's a 4-inch 16:10 show pinch 1,000 nits of brightness and afloat DCI-P3 HDR colour coverage, pinch 3070K dots of resolution, 1 nan highest of immoderate camera display. Meanwhile, nan mini 540 gram (1.2 pound) assemblage dissipates power good capable to let 6K 60 fps RAW signaling for up to 125 minutes astatine 25C (77F) temperatures. It supports audio seizure done a nan integer hotshoe aliases a 3.5mm input and has a USB-C larboard for charging, information transfers and webcam/streaming, on pinch a headphone input. The HDMI larboard is unluckily a mini and flimsy Micro HDMI type, however.

For its capabilities, nan Nikon ZR looks for illustration a stunning bargain. It starts astatine $2,200 for nan assemblage only without accessories, which is astir half nan value of nan Sony FX3 and $1,700 cheaper than Canon's C50. Shipping is expected to commencement connected October 20, 2025. It supports immoderate Nikon (or third-party) Z equine lens aliases F equine solid pinch an adapter. Nikon besides unveiled nan $339 ME-D10 integer shotgun mike that's compatible pinch nan camera's 32-bit float audio.