When I first saw the spec of the Nikon Z30,
I thought to myself Nikon, you can really do it.
After three years, you changed the design again and turned
it into a new camera .
After I used it for a while,
I have a new opinion.
In this video, let me
talk to you about Nikon's third Z-mount APSC camera, the Z30
. Hello everyone, this is Kelvin.
In
this video,
I will not repeat too much to describe
the photos of this camera. And the parameters of video shooting, I
will only talk about
its different advantages and disadvantages.
If you
are interested in some shooting performance of this camera, you
can go back to my Z50 review three years ago, or the rest of the ZFC reviews on the Internet. In
terms of parameters,
Z30, Z50 and Zfc
can't be said to be very similar, they can
only be said to be exactly the same.
In my opinion, they are not only the relationship between
big brother and little brother,
but triplets. The
same sensor
, the same processor, the
same shooting parameters, the
only one The difference is the appearance.
In the eyes of many people,
this is a machine for
cutting leeks. I also thought so at the beginning,
but when you take a closer look at them,
you will find that Nikon
has been silently listening to the needs of customers. The
Z50 is criticized by others. The flip-down screen
finally turned into a rollover in the Zfc
, and that continued here in the Z30. The
Z50 can only be charged with a power bank when it is turned off, while the Zfc can be charged
while using it. Of course, the current Z30 can also be used
at the same time. Everyone said that the price of charging
Z50 Zfc is a bit high
. Nikon will remove the viewfinder for you, and the
price will of course become cheaper.
However, the Z30 still has some new designs
that will surprise everyone. The
first is the shooting indicator in
front of the camera.
When shooting a video, as long as you
press the record button, the
red light will light up, and
we know that the recording has started. The
shooting time has finally broken through the
ancestral limit of 29 minutes and 59 seconds.
If it is 1080p shooting, you can shoot for about 125 minutes.
These two designs I also hope that it
can
continue to be continued in future Nikon models.
This time, the Z30 actually made
some efforts in the radio part.
In some scenarios,
even if you don't need an external microphone,
only using the internal microphone will have a good effect.
Now I Let's test the microphone of this camera. I am
currently using the microphone that comes with the camera.
I am using the mode that mainly records people's voices. Now
I have changed this mode
to a mode that records more ambient sounds
and people's voices,
everyone. You can also compare how the effect is.
At present , there is a little breeze here,
and there is a seaside behind with
a little sound of waves.
I am using
Rhodes ' video micro on-camera microphone
. You can also compare and
see which you like.
A radio effect
As a main camera for shooting Vlogs, the
anti-shake function is just needed.
However, the Z30, Z50 and ZFC are the same.
There is no body image stabilization,
only electronic image stabilization and lens image stabilization.
Next, you can Let's see how the hand-
held shooting works in different anti-shake modes .
Now let's test the anti-shake effect of the camera.
At present
, I have turned off all the camera's anti-shake,
and then I walk here slowly, and you can see
What is the anti-shake effect?
​​Now I have turned on the electronic anti-shake,
and everyone can take a look at how the anti- shake effect is.
Now I turn on the electronic anti-shake of the camera, and also turn on the optical anti-shake at the
same time. In the
normal mode, you can also take a look
at
how the anti-shake effect is in this mode.
Now I have turned off the electronic image stabilization and turned on
the optical image stabilization in the normal mode . You can also see how the effect looks like.
Now I turn off the electronic image stabilization, and then
turn on the optical image stabilization in the sports mode. You can
walk like this normally .
You can also see how the image stabilization effect is.
Finally, I turned the electronic image stabilization on, and at the same
time, I turned the optical image stabilization into
motion . The mode is also turned on.
Now it is the strongest mode
. You can also see how this anti-shake effect is. In
terms of video shooting,
if you want to see the shooting effect in different scenes,
you can actually take a look at my last issue of
Nikon 400mm f4 .5 The evaluation video of VR S In
that video,
most of the pictures
were shot by my wife Chloe hand-held, and the
whole process was using file A.
For a novice who does not know how to shoot videos at all,
she thinks that this machine
is basically Just don't need to learn the
cost , you can shoot directly when you turn it on.
In my opinion, although it doesn't have n-log
, no hlg,
no 4K50/60
, but if you just use it to record life
as a backup camera,
then 4K25/30
use flat plane mode
to open d-lighting
is sufficient even for shooting in scenes with relatively high contrast of light .
It is also convenient for enthusiasts
or newcomers to video shooting
for shooting
and post-editing
. For me personally,
I hope that Z30 or subsequent models
can join the United States
. I think this is what many vloggers
, especially female vloggers want to see
. I also hope that Nikon can enrich the APSC lens group as soon as possible and
launch more ultra-wide-angle lenses suitable for shooting vlogs
because the current 16-50 f3.5-
After the f6.3 DX lens is
converted to full-frame transmission, it becomes the equivalent focal length of 24mm, which
is
actually really bad for self-portrait vlogs.
Finally , I have to talk about some shortcomings of this camera,
but these shortcomings are
overwhelming Part of it can be solved by firmware upgrade. The
first is that manual ISO adjustment is not supported in video A and S files.
For shooting vlogs to record life, I will not add nd filters
to keep the shutter speed at 180 degrees like
commercial shooting .
The principle is to shoot, but
to open the A file to let the camera perform automatic exposure.
At present, when the Z30
and Z9
are shooting video,
there
is no way to change to manual ISO adjustment except in the M file mode.
The second screen of the Z30 shows: There is a little problem. When we
press the DISP button when the screen is not turned over, we
can see the audio and level indicators,
but as long as the screen is turned over, the
audio and level will disappear
. If we start recording at
this time, the level and level will not be prompted.
Audio information, unless
we press the record button before flipping the screen, and then flip the screen,
the above content will be displayed.
Third , the lack of a headphone monitor jack
Although no one will monitor while
shooting vlogs, I still hope that Nikon will continue to monitor in the future. This (headphone) jack
can be added to the model. The
fourth battery life is not ideal. I
use the Z30 to shoot 4K25 video.
If I shoot intermittently,
I can only shoot for more than an hour. I need to change the battery
or recharge it.
If you want to take it to travel or record In
life, we may need to bring 2~3 batteries
or connect the power bank all the
time to meet the needs of a whole day of shooting.
To sum up, the Z30 machine
is not actually a sincere work from Nikon,
but it can be seen from different details that
Nikon has always been After listening to the requirements of every user,
I hope everyone can have a better shooting experience.
It can also be seen
that Nikon really wants to go further in video.
I hope that more and more vloggers will
use Nikon cameras for shooting.
If You are currently using a card camera
or a mobile phone to shoot,
hoping
to
improve your shooting pictures, especially those in low-light environments.
You can indeed consider this small and lightweight Nikon Z30,
but for now I think its biggest problem
is the lack of a rich lens group.
I hope that Nikon or a third-party sub-factory
can launch
more Z-mount APSC ultra-wide-angle zoom lenses
or large-aperture fixed-focus lenses as soon as possible.
The Z30 is practical and
playable . Sex will also be greatly increased
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