So in this video I'm going to be talking about the Nikon Z fc
and I'm going to be basically doing my review. I've been using it now for a couple of weeks
and so I've had a lot of time to test it and play around with it and take lots of footage
and photos so I'm just going to be showing you footage photos, let you hear the audio,
go through features and yeah just basically give you my verdict on what I think about the camera.
So in terms of just general use from this camera I've really enjoyed using it.
The thing that I do miss though is having some kind of grip on the camera, I find myself like
when I was trying to hold on to the camera I just felt like it was missing a grip but I know that
there is an accessory that you can get which will kind of put that on there for you so that's not
really a big deal it's just something that I felt myself missing every time I picked the camera up,
but overall it's just it's got a great build quality, it's a really nice looking camera as well
I love the fact that it has this articulating screen, something that the Nikon Z 50 doesn't
have which disappointed me a bit when I used it but overall it was a really nice camera to use.
I really enjoyed using it, especially the top dials, so where you've got your ISO and your
shutter pr… shutter prior… shutter speed not shutter priority, your shutter speed and being
able to dial those in on top of the camera is really useful especially when you're taking photos
and also the exposure compensation too. In terms of battery life because I was using this for quite
a long time and just being out and about with it pretty much all afternoon or all morning
I felt like the battery lasted maybe about two hours, up to about two hours so that's actually
pretty decent and obviously you can replace the battery so it's not really a big deal,
but two hours is pretty good going so that's what I found I was getting out of the camera.
The one thing I did find disappointing was the fact that it doesn't have stabilization
so unless you've got a lens which does have stabilization then you're going
to get really shaky footage and the only way to get around that is to use a gimbal.
So I did use a gimbal on a couple of occasions but most of the time I was out and I didn't actually
have my gimbal with me so I was trying to do things handheld so the footage was quite shaky,
and the lens that I'm using is this 28mm… is the Nikon
Z 28mm f/2.8, so this lens doesn't have optical stabilization in it so again the footage is just
going to be really shaky when you use it with this lens and because this lens is actually–
it zooms in more so you're going to pick up a lot of the vibrations a lot more so
that's something to really be aware of when you're using a lens which doesn't have some
stabilization with this camera, you will pick up a lot of the vibration.
I went out and tested this in low light and I was pretty impressed with it. It's,
you know it does avpretty good job and everything that I did, most of the footage that I did
in general was shot in auto exposure and when I went out and I filmed in low light that was
definitely shot in auto exposure and it does a really good job of changing the exposure between
something that's really light and something that's really dark, so for example I was
filming the sky because it was sunset and the sky looked really pretty and then I brought it back
down to the foreground and then it compensated for the exposure pretty well in that situation,
so in low light it does pretty well. Let me know what you think in the comments if you
think it looks decent or if you think there are cameras that are much better in that scenario.
in terms of camera profiles there are 20 different creative ones but in terms of just having
normal not creative ones then there's flat, standard, neutral
and I think there's another one vivid maybe and there might be another one, I can't remember, but
I haven't quite determined which one I like the most but I did find myself using standard
the most just because that's what I left it on but I did do a comparison between
the different ones so you can see which one you prefer and which one looks better to you.
In terms of autofocus the camera does really well, it's got eye detection auto autofocus. So
I really hope you can hear me because there's a lot of traffic going on behind me.
But it picks up your eyes when it's focusing so it will focus on your eyes,
so if you leave the frame and you come back in the frame it should pick you up pretty quickly
and that's something that this camera did really well I found, so
in terms of autofocus you're not going to have a problem with it and it works really well.
I'm going to switch over to actually using this camera for talking about the video
quality and the audio quality because it only makes sense so that you can actually see it
whilst I'm talking so I'm going to do that now. So in terms of video quality I do think this is
a really good camera it makes the skin tones look really nice and video quality is just really good
even in low light. The only thing that I will say is though if you're shooting in auto exposure
you might want to use the exposure compensation dial just to dial back the exposure a little bit
because I do feel like, especially when the sun comes out it just kind of overexposes
the scene a little bit too much so just dialing in the exposure compensation down a little bit just
means that you've got a little bit more control if you want to shoot in auto but you just don't
want to have a blown out scene with the skin and anything in the background that's really light.
The audio that you're hearing now is from the Nikon Z fc
and I'm using this 28mm not 16mm so I'm standing maybe like two or three feet away from the camera
so this is what it sounds like. It will potentially sound better
if I had a wider angle lens and could get close to the camera but yeah this is what it sounds
like with the 28. I'm gonna put my Rode VideoMic GO II on so that you can hear the difference in
using an external microphone as well. So this is now with the Rode VideoMic GO II and it's got a
furry windshield on it as well because it's quite windy today though there's not really any gusts of
wind at the moment. Again, standing about two or three feet away so if I was closer then it would
sound even better. So overall I really I do like this camera and if I was looking for a crop sensor
and something which was actually quite light as well - it's a really light camera to carry
around - and something that just looks good then the Z fc would definitely be a choice for me. I
love the colors that it produces in skin tones as well, that was something that I forgot to mention,
so overall it is just a really nice camera, I really enjoyed using it. So yeah check it
out if you're looking for a vlogging camera but yeah I hope you found this video useful anyway
and if you did then do give it a like, I have created a playlist for the Z fc so there're a few
other videos which just gives you some tips and then also just runs through the actual specs of
the camera because that's something I didn't talk about in this video, and also so that you can see
the creative color the creative picture profiles as well I've put a separate video together for
that so do check out those videos, but yeah thanks for watching and catch you next time.