Nikon Zr is coming

[MrSMW]

3 hours ago, zerocool22 said:

 

This looks like a great camera to me. Too bad the ibis isnt as great as the lumix camera's. But looks better then fx3, has a better screen, takes better stills. Never had an nikon before. So might end up buying one. The big monitor sounds like a win, as it makes so much difference in the process of enjoying making video's. External monitors are somewhat a drag.

 

I’m considering it myself…

Seems to get a pretty long run time out of a single battery and overheating despite not having any active cooling doesn’t appear to be a problem.

Perhaps I should have waited before going all in on Lumix 🤪

I still want to see what it can do for stills and would want to test it first, but a trio of these might work as I have the adapters for the Sony lenses and the Tamron zooms are the best in my experience.

I’m moving towards a pair of Thypoch Simera C’s also and as these come in native E Mount, also has appeal going fully Nikon.

Love the RED colour science from what I have seen and the camera itself including that rear screen is what I have always wanted and hoped Lumix might do.

I still think what I have is super great, but always open to other options if they might suit me better and trimming down even further to 3 small bodies and just 4 lenses has a lot of appeal.

6-7 months to think about it and meantime, Lumix might pop out something similar and that might swing things back in favour of L Mount.

Certainly not rushing into anything or blindly jumping ship but musing on options… 

[eatstoomuchjam]

51 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

I’m moving towards a pair of Thypoch Simera C’s also and as these come in native E Mount, also has appeal going fully Nikon.

I really like my Simera C's in M mount.  I like my Leica M's more, but the M's are a lot less consistent.

You might consider going the M mount route, if for no other reason than you can get an autofocus adapter for it - and then they'll be portable to any system that you might move to in the future.

[MrSMW]

3 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

You might consider going the M mount route, if for no other reason than you can get an autofocus adapter for it - and then they'll be portable to any system that you might move to in the future.

I’m looking at M-L for my current system but that won’t happen for about 6 months or so even if I do not flip to Nikon because my season is over in less than 2 weeks so other than some play time (and nothing really compares to actual work) so too soon.

I didn’t know there was an AF adapter or rather I think there is for Nikon but is there for L Mount? It would be useful but not 100% necessary.

If I went Nikon, I’d go E Mount though as it would make more sense as all my glass would be adapted.

I have looked at every cine lens going and based on; price, size, weight, sharpness, character, shorter than normal focus throw, close focus distance, they are a clear winner for me.

I have some final manual focus tests to do with my AF Lumix lenses next job first but other than having just one camera designated to AF duty, currently my S9 with zoom, I’d prefer to go MF on my hybrids as I’m not 100% happy with the AF hit rate with pics and stickiness with video…another area where based on my experience with the Zf, Nikon is better than Lumix and it can pick out faces at something like less than 3% of the screen which is bloody good!

[eatstoomuchjam]

1 hour ago, MrSMW said:

I didn’t know there was an AF adapter or rather I think there is for Nikon but is there for L Mount? It would be useful but not 100% necessary.

I don't know about L mount.  There are a few for E mount, though.

 

[MrSMW]

7 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

I don't know about L mount.  There are a few for E mount, though.

 

Yes I think Techart do but they are quite expensive at something like 400+ and I do need AF for some of what I do, but I need it to be highly accurate.

The weakness of the old Lumix cameras such as the OG S5/S1H/S1R was forward tracking AF when ideally you needed a stopped down aperture, crop mode and some tweaks to the tracking to stand a chance.

Since the S5II, not an issue, but even if there is an M to L Mount adapter with AF (and I have not been able to find one), I would not trust one to do this specific job above any better than the old Lumix system.

The rest of the time, I don’t need AF and at 400+, might as well just have a cheap AF lens for this purpose.

The Zr looks very interesting however as  I always suspected it might. Enough to warrant any kind of flip, is too early to call and there is so much to consider such as…

Zr stills mode vs S1RII stills mode I suspect is a win for Lumix being the sensor is 20mp larger and has a mech shutter.

Video probably also the Lumix, especially as it has open gate which I shoot in all the time and Nikon does not…but probably can and maybe can in a future firmware release because it’s the same sensor as the S1II isn’t it?

Red Raw ‘lite’ makes the Zr very interesting but where it gets even more and most interesting to me is I could build an even more compact kit, both bodies and lenses and tripods, than I currently have.

Anyway, 6 or so months to consider and by that time there will be used Zr’s on MPB (so I could at least try one with their 14 day return policy) and Lumix may have brought a more cine-orientated camera to market than the current offerings as maybe, just maybe, they might ditch the current format for any S1H replacement…??

[ND64]

Canon managed to make a slower sensor than ZR sensor, twice the price, with less DR.

[Danyyyel]

On 9/13/2025 at 1:07 AM, Brian Williams said:

I think this camera looks pretty great for the price.

Its still out of my price range, unfortunately, I’ll have to stick to an iPhone 17p to get my raw kicks.
 

But I can’t think of anything in the price range that comes close.

(Is the Panny S5 IIX also considered a “content creator camera, as well”?)

I will never understand this thinking when someone likes photography or videography. Today the only true thing they are changing in phones is the camera. My 2 years old Samsung will handle all my social media or call perfectly. Why not invest in a camera and lens, that will be their for the next decade, rather than buy a new phone every 2 3 years for 1000 USD and more, that will sorry to say, never match a FF camera. 

[Danyyyel]

1 hour ago, ND64 said:

Canon managed to make a slower sensor than ZR sensor, twice the price, with less DR.

But if you hear Gerald, the Nikon is Shit, and the Canon will find a place as a Cine camera. The man cannot stop dunking on Nikon. Last week was, how come Nikon put cinema on this camera with its micro Hdmi... This week it is, but Dop and First AC have told me they prefer no IBIS. As if 99% of the people using the C50 will be on movie set. And not as one man band doing weddings, corporate events, social media content creation and some smaller advertising, and occasionally on some short movies.

Same, for the ZR. No one expect it to be a cinema camera and replacing the RED raptor or Arri Alexa on most sets. The Ibis is 10x more important on such a camera than a micro hdmi that you can lock with a cage, and the camera itself coming with a big screen. 

[MrSMW]

18 minutes ago, Danyyyel said:

Same, for the ZR. No one expect it to be a cinema camera and replacing the RED raptor or Arri Alexa on most sets. The Ibis is 10x more important on such a camera than a micro hdmi that you can lock with a cage, and the camera itself coming with a big screen

Agreed and one of the reasons why as much as I like the look of the new Canon, the lack of IBIS is a no go for me and if that puts me in the camp of being a non-serious filmmaker, 🤷‍♂️

I also do not want to and will not rig anything up so the micro hdmi I could not care less about.

[ND64]

25 minutes ago, Danyyyel said:

The man cannot stop dunking on Nikon.

Nikon and Panasonic to be precise 😉

But its not new thing. Shilltubers have been like this for years. What I find interesting is.. what Canon engineering are doing exactly? I mean how you get 1 stop lower DR on a BSI sensor, compared to a semi stacked sensor known for its low DR?