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They are from the same sensor and if the ZR can achieve the same as the S1ii, then it would already be very very good (RED Raptor territory). The S1ii has the DR boost mode which showed 10 stops of latitude, that is Alexa LF level, but with 27ms, which is not great at all.

Nice video from Nikon India.

Nice side by side test video of the ZR and RED Dragon and Komodo. As always it is the Komodo which is little bit the odd one. His latitude test was unfortunately flawed as he did not match the 18% grey exposure. The one where you overexpose is clearly too bright compared to the underexposed one. I went to watch his other video review of the Pana S1ii, and their, the base exposure was very close. Here it is easily around a good stop overexposed. I did some screen grab and looked at the RGB values as I was a bit insure if it was not my eyes playing games to me. Here he has 4.5 overexposed and 3.5 down. That is 7.5 to eight and the S1ii he had 5 above and 4 below so 9 stops of latitude. Edit: I forgot to add, he is supposed to do a test of the S1II and ZR. Hopefully he does a good latitude test with same lighting and exposure, as the S1ii has become the king of DR in that price range.

Do you have a link to the video? For me, this could be just a sharpness setting or the person might be moving slightly. One thing this tells me, is that the H265, is not as bad as some people have made it to be.

Another very nice video

Are these Nikon Zr footage, or just someone putting it to get views? Just a hint that these are from France, as Limoges is a well known Basket Ball team in France. Another edit, I now saw the links.

Nice video about the ZR audio capabilities. The internal mics are quite impressive for onboard mic, but the directional pattern can only be used in non RAW video.

Funny how the ZR has reached legendary status even before its launch. Youtubers getting destroyed in the comments when making some stupid comparison. This is one example, but I have seen others... if you would have told me a Nikon camera would have got so much support, I would not have believed it. They really have got some momentum, I hope they try at least to satisfy the request of the people toward the ZR, because it is their Canon 5DmarkII moment.

After all the fuss about the ZR h265, with some youtubers including Gerald Undone, high claim that the ZR h265 was unusable. I was very worried, but also perplexed because, even with my D750 24mbit 1080p footage, the h264 and nowadays Nikon H265 had been very robust and good. But until now, very few actual footage in h265 to make an opinion. Until I saw this test. Guess what, all those BShitters were exaggerating as always dunking on Nikon. In this Chinese test, from about 15.30, you have nearly every footage in h265 and the quality is good, even the 4k 120 fps in apsc. I can see every hair of those girls dancing even with YouTube compression on my 65 inch TV. I don't think you need much more for your Bride or CEO shots.

I still have problem with Gerald Undone, and this is exemplified with Canon C50 vs Nikon ZR review. I don't question his numbers, but how he interpreted them for his bias. Man pissed on the ZR t every corner, but excused the worst or the worst for Canon. The simple example is the ZR micro hdmi vs Canon C50 lack of IBIS. Yes it is an inconvenience the ZR doesn't have a full size hdmi, but it can be remedied with a 100 USD cage plus lock. But what about the lack of IBIS, you would need a full set of big supporting gear. Either a tripod, shoulder mount or gimbal. But hey, his excuse is that he talked with some first AC, and they told him that they prefer the sensor to be locked, as if the C50 principal use will be on movie sets!!!!! He is revolting, how dare Nikon put cinema on the ZR, but does he think that the ZR/C50/Fx3 will be primarily use on cinema sets!!! Is he crazy, 99.9% of their use will be in events, corporate videos, weddings, reportage, social media content creation etc. At the top you will find them used on small to average advertising production, short films, small to no budget films. And in rare case as specialist camera like crash cam, in higher end production. But again in those 99.9% cases, stabilization is a big big plus for those production. But hey, Nikon dared to put Cinema on the ZR. I mean a camera that has better image than 90% of digital camera just 5 years ago.

Yep, looks more like it. It is good if they supply this as you can get a 2TB for about same price as a 512 GB CFexpress card. But you are still left with gigantic files if you want to achieve your work. Perhaps the best solution would be in Nraw normal, then rename them to RED. Or use the Nikon RED luts.

On Gerald Undone example, it looked not that good. But I think it is at pixel level!!!

If it is true, for me, the pefect workflow for RAW use, will be the 4k Nraw converted to RED raw. As it should be around 350 Mbs, which is very good for RAW. The only thing I don't know is how do they get this from a 6k sensor. In Gerald Undone, it did look a bit mushy, but I don't zoom 400% in my shots. The 4.1 k from my Z9 is perfectly usable. But in this case it is just half of the pixel.

Perhaps this is the reason, but for h265 it is 5.4 k and not 4k until 50-60 fps. Could those .6k make that much of a difference!!! I would have liked the impression of a z6iii shooter on the h265 format. I had a pre order for a z6iii with my reseller in my country. And I changed it to the ZR. I hope the h265 is good LOL. I was also very wary about the overheating as I live in a tropical island, but just saw another video, from a Vietnamese shooter, who said no overheating. I think he was one of those who filmed one of the launched video.

So this is a very good test of the ZR. I don't know if the english AI translation is 100% correct, but anyone can try it. He was ecstatic from the start about the DR of the camera and did a latitude test, using middle grey and overexposing and underexposing to see the level before clipping the highlight and the noise barrier. This test is very good for the ZR as DR/Latitude test have been a bit all over the place. If you watched the CVP test, it was like 6 at best 7 stops of latitude!!! The ZR was clipping even before the Z6III !!! My guess is most of the test were done before Davinci last update to incorporate REDraw NE etc. And the guys were using REDsoftware to convert the files in Tiff etc. and it might be that file did lose some information. He is getting 5 stop over and 3 to 4 stop below. So, a 8 to 9 stops of latitude, at nine it is huge. If you watch CineD lab test, you are in the RED raptorX, Panasonic S1ii territory. The Z9 approaches that, but most of the other Sony cameras (but mostly in compress format) like the Sony A1, Sony Venice (RAW) etc are at 8 stops. In their test, their is only the Sony Burano, Alexa LF at 10 stops and the Alexa 35 at 12 stops!!! His complain is like everyone about micro HDMI, and huge file size. I sincerely hope Nikon does give us a lower bitrate REdraw. He also says the h265 is bad, my guess it is that when you get use to that RAW, you see everything around bad. Matti Haapoja had the same reaction when comparing the ZR side by side with the Fx3. He then changed after using the h265 a bit more and said it was at least equal to the fx3 or better. Nikon Zr is its on worst enemy, when people compare its h265 to the raw, because the raw is so good, they feel the h265 is bad. But in the end very very positive about the camera.