Nikon’s Z FC mirrorless digital camera recollects the glory days of 35mm movie | Engadget

Nikon is taking a visit again to its glory days of 35mm movie pictures with its second Z-series APS-C (DX) mirrorless digital camera, the Z FC. Designed to evoke the corporate’s well-known FM2 SLR from the ’80s, it provides beneficiant guide controls, together with devoted dials for shutter velocity, publicity compensation and ISO. The decidedly retro look may additionally attraction to people taking a look at fashionable fashions from Fujifilm and others.

Unlike Fujifilm’s fashions, nevertheless, the Z FC has a standalone mode dial, so you will not set modes by combining settings from the ISO, shutter or aperture dials. It has a d-pad sort management on the again, however (just like the Z50) lacks a devoted joystick. 

The Z FC (presumably the FC stands for movie digital camera?) is not simply in regards to the seems and dealing with, although. It makes use of Nikon’s Z mount system and shares the 20.9-megapixel sensor, Expeed 6 processor and different options with Nikon’s Z50. 

However, it provides a fully-articulating OLED (slightly than LCD) show, and a considerably sooner USB-C socket for transfers, charging and director energy. Other bodily options embody a 2.36 million-dot digital viewfinder, single SD card slot, microphone port (no headphone port) and an EN-EL25 battery that delivers as much as 300 photographs on a cost. 

Like the Z50, it may possibly shoot at 11 fps with autofocus and auto-exposure enabled, with object, face and eye-tracking. However, it now permits you to mix face and eye-tracking with a large focus mode, increasing the place the digital camera seems for a topic. 

You can shoot oversampled 4K video utilizing the total sensor width, and the Z FC introduces full-time eye autofocus mode whereas capturing video. That, mixed with the fully-articulating sensor, will make the Z FC rather more helpful for vlogging and capturing selfies than the Z50. 

To greatest benefit from the small dimension and retro seems, Nikon additionally launched the Nikkor Z 28mm f/2.8 (SE). It’s comparatively small and has an excellent subject of view for vacationer or road pictures, and likewise provides a pleasantly retro look. 

The Z FC arrives in late July at $960 for the physique solely, $1,100 with the DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR equipment lens or $1,200 with the brand new 28mm F.2.8 (SE) lens. The latter may also be offered individually for $300, but it surely will not arrive till the autumn.