The wide-area AF (L) AF-area mode ensuring the clear capture of eyes and faces by limiting the focusing area, continuously focusing on the eyes of the intended subject when there are several people in the frame, or the tracking of eyes of a moving pets. There are no less than 20 Creative Picture Control options to fine-tune the look of images by selecting different parameters such as hue, toning and saturation and so on.īorrowed from the feature set of the Z7 II and Z6 II, the Nikon Z fc supports Eye-Detection AF and Animal-Detection AF with the shooting of stills and video. Additional Bulb and Time modes allow for even longer exposures.įor the first time in a Nikon Z series camera, exposure compensation can be applied in Auto mode, enabling the brightness of images to be increased or to shoot silhouettes, for example. While the shutter speed dial enables settings between 1/4000 sec and 4 sec in full-stop steps, a1/3 step option on the dial allows in between settings, all the way up to 1/30 sec. The aperture, which would traditionally be set on the lens on mechanical-era cameras, is displayed in a discreet panel atop the camera, showing you all the vital exposure settings at a glance.Īn exposure mode selector had just five options: Manual, Shutter Priority, Aperture Priority, Program and Auto, though Nikon is keen to point out that it sees this camera as appealing to to the more technically minded user. Aside from the achingly cool retro design chic, the multitude of dials enables shutter speed, ISO and exposure compensation to be set directly, which is far faster than scrolling through the values with combinations of button-presses and rotating the command dial. The selection dials don't just look cool, they make dialling in settings quick and easy (Image credit: Nikon) (opens in new tab) Manual controlsīut on the outside things are very different. With the Z fc Nikon is aiming squarely at the enthusiast end of the market, with an APS-C size sensor, omitting in-body image stabilization, and with specs far closer to the Z50 model than the Nikon Z6 II (opens in new tab) or Nikon Z7 II (opens in new tab). The Nikon Df DSLR was launched back in 2013, but that was a top-spec full-frame camera with a price tag to match. It’s not the first time that Nikon has been inspired by its heritage models, wrapping a modern digital camera with a retro body sporting mechanical-style controls. And indeed, Nikon freely admits that its latest Z-series camera has been inspired by the iconic Nikon FM2 (opens in new tab) SLR film camera released in the early Eighties, with other design details including the adoption of a circular eyepiece for the electronic viewfinder (EVF), and an inscribed Nikon logo. Its silver and black body and myriad of dials looks every bit a classic camera of yesteryear.
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