what is going on everybody my name is Chris Hau and I'm a YouTube and content
creator from Toronto Ontario Canada and today we're gonna be talking about this
right here the Nikon Z6 now i posted a video to my channel recently and i
thought i'd give you a little behind the scenes on how we shot that and what we
did while we were exploring with this camera now I've been in Europe for the
last few weeks and I got this camera the day before I left for Europe so I only
had about a day to start exploring with it and start shooting with it before we
entered Ireland on the first night that we arrived it started raining and I
thought this would be a perfect time to test the low-light capabilities of this
camera because it claims to be one of the best low-light cameras on the market
in terms of video capabilities so we went out on a rainy night in Belfast
Ireland and here are some of the video clips that we captured now most of those
were shot at 120 frames a second on a kit lens that's right a 24-70 f/4
lens which means that when you have f/4 you can't rely on low aperture to get
more light in so what do you have to do you have to boost that ISO which usually
introduces a lot more grain but most of those clips were shot at like 4,000 to
10,000 ISO and I thought the images looked really good also a handful of
those clips were shot at 4k in real time and the 4k images look amazing because
this camera actually shoots 6k internal and then down rez's it to 4k so that's
why a lot of those shots look super crispy so I only had one day before we
went out and started shooting with this camera and one of the things that I
really loved about it is how good it felt in your hands and while you're
going out and shooting and doing the handheld movements is it just felt
really nice it didn't feel like a toy where it kind of dangles a little bit or
you can add a lot of motion it just feels really solid in your hands and the
second thing is is that the menu system is really intuitive and really easy to
understand I don't like it when menu systems are too complicated it's hard to
find the setting that you really want everything is laid out really easy in
this menu system so those are two really big things in terms of picking up a
camera for the first time where I could actually go out and start shooting and
capture the content that I actually wanted so yes those are two things I
really love now where does this camera fit for someone like you who might be
watching this video so if you're like me and you like to shoot both photo and
video content well this is a perfect camera for those things the nice thing
that I wanted to note about Nikon is that they don't have a competing cinema
line so in terms of their products they just jam-packed really great video
features into this mirrorless setup so not only do you get the best of the
photography world in terms of 24 megapixels great dynamic range but
you're also getting really great video capabilities now one of the things
that's really nice about the Nikon Z6 and what I'm looking forward to with
grabbing this camera is that they're gonna have raw capabilities with this
since but in the meantime if you pair this up with an external video recorder
you can get 42:2 color and you get 10 bit out of it which if you guys don't
know what that means it just means that you have a lot more flexibility in
post-production in terms of color grading they also have a flat profile
that you can record when you're using that external recorder called N-LOG so
you have another level of color definition and getting really high
dynamic range out of this camera overall after using this for the last month or
so I really like this camera I think Nikon came to the game very strong in
terms of its video capabilities and as someone who is a professional content
creator who shoots both commercial work and regular YouTube content this is kind
of like the perfect world for all about where I can meet my photo demand where I
can meet my video demands in terms of YouTube and social but also commercial
level quality when I'm working with some of our bigger brands so yes
overall Nikon this is a great camera