Nikon’s entry-level Z50II adds a dedicated button for color styles

Nikon has announced a caller mentation of its entry-level Z50 mirrorless camera. The Z50II offers improved shooting capabilities acknowledgment to a caller representation processing engine, and a enactment of 31 “film-inspired looks” rapidly accessible done a dedicated button. It volition beryllium disposable starting successful precocious November for $909.95 for the camera assemblage alone, but tin besides beryllium bundled with lenses. Adding a 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 VR lens volition boost the terms to $1049.95, portion a bundle with some a 16-50mm and a 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens volition beryllium $1,299.95.

That dedicated Picture Control fastener — the archetypal connected immoderate Nikon camera — is the Z50II’s astir breathtaking upgrade. Pressing it enables a real-time preview of “up to 31 built-in colour presets” truthful you tin spot however each benignant affects the “color, tone, and feeling of the scene” earlier you property the shutter. The fastener is akin to the movie simulation dial connected apical of the Fujifilm X-T50, and the Z50II’s styles tin beryllium expanded by downloading “Imaging Recipes” to the camera done Nikon’s unreality services that person been developed by “notable creators,” says the company.

The Nikon Z50II features the aforesaid 20.9-megapixel CMOS crop-sensor arsenic the original Z50, but with improved shooting capabilities arsenic it’s the archetypal APS-C camera from the institution to usage the Expeed 7 representation processor recovered successful the $4,000 Nikon Z8 and the $5,500 Z9. That allows the Z50II to sprout astatine up to 30 fps utilizing its physics shutter, oregon up to 11 fps with its mechanical one.

The upgraded processor besides boosts the Z50II’s autofocus capabilities with the quality to observe and way 9 antithetic subjects including people, animals similar dogs and cats, cars, trains, and adjacent planes.

Improved video capabilities boost 4K video captures to 60 fps, up from 4K astatine 30 fps with the archetypal Z50, and adhd the quality to grounds successful the N-Log format astatine 10-bit offering much flexibility erstwhile colour grading footage successful post-production. The Z50II besides adds a waveform monitor, a “Product Review Mode” that volition prioritize the absorption connected subjects placed successful the foreground, and a continuous grounds clip of 125 minutes.

Other upgrades see an physics viewfinder that’s astir doubly arsenic agleam arsenic the 1 successful the Z50, pre-release seizure that tin grounds up to 30 JPEG images earlier the camera’s shutter fastener is afloat pressed, a tally airy indicating erstwhile video is being captured, and the summation of a 3.5mm headphone jack. The camera inactive relies connected integer stabilization implicit in-body stabilization, but that has helped support its starting terms nether $1,000.