Nikon Z50

Experience the perfect blend of power and portability with the Nikon Z50. Its exceptional image quality and compact design make it ideal for photographers of all levels. Unlock new creative possibilities and elevate your photography game with the Nikon Z50!

Product Highlights

APS-C Size

The Nikon Z50 features an APS-C size image sensor, providing excellent image quality and performance in a compact form factor.

High-Resolution Image Sensor

With 20.9 effective megapixels, the Z50’s image sensor captures detailed and vibrant images, while its high ISO of 51200 ensures clean and noise-free shots in low-light conditions.

ISO 100-51200

The ISO range of 100-51200 ensures excellent low-light performance and flexibility in various lighting conditions.

EXPEED 6

Powered by the EXPEED 6 image-processing engine, the Z50 offers fast and efficient processing, enabling quick response times and high-quality output.

Up to 11 fps

Capture fast-moving subjects with ease, thanks to the Z50’s continuous shooting speed of up to 11 frames per second.

4K UHD

Record stunning 4K UHD videos at 30 frames per second, allowing you to capture high-resolution footage with vivid detail.

Eye-Detection AF

The Eye-detection AF feature enhances autofocus capabilities, delivering incredibly sharp and impressive portraits by ensuring precise focus on the subject’s eyes.

Creative Picture Controls

Explore your creativity with a variety of Picture Control modes, including Auto, Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait, Landscape, and more.

180° Tilting Monitor

The Z50 features a 180° tilting touchscreen monitor, enabling flexible shooting angles, including high-angle shots, low-angle shots, and self-portraits.

Touch Screen

Navigate menus, adjust settings, and focus on subjects quickly and intuitively using the responsive touchscreen interface.

Self-Portrait Mode

Easily capture self-portraits and group shots with the Z50’s dedicated self-portrait mode, which optimizes settings for flattering results.

Silent Mode

Silent shooting mode allows you to capture images discreetly without disturbing your subjects, perfect for quiet environments or candid moments.

SnapBridge

With Nikon’s SnapBridge technology, seamlessly transfer images and videos to your smart device for easy sharing and remote camera control.

The Nikon Z50 combines advanced features and compact design, making it an ideal choice for photography enthusiasts and content creators alike. Whether you’re capturing stunning stills or cinematic videos, the Z50 offers versatility, performance, and convenience.

Powerful Yet Compact

The Z50 offers a lightweight and compact body, ensuring convenience and comfort during extended shooting sessions.

Large-Diameter Z-Mount System

Equipped with the large-diameter Z-mount system, the Z50 delivers stunningly sharp pictures and videos, capturing every detail with precision.

Wide Autofocus Coverage

Featuring 209 focus points, the Z50 offers wide autofocus coverage in the frame, ensuring sharp and in-focus subjects with approximately 87% horizontal and 85% vertical coverage.

User-Friendly Design

With a secure grip and intelligently arranged buttons, the Z50 provides easy and comfortable operation, ensuring confident handling and quick access to functions.

Proven Product Quality and Reliability

Nikon’s reputation for product quality and reliability shines through in the Z50, ensuring dependable performance and the ability to capture precious moments with trust.

Shutter Options

Electronically Controlled Vertical-Travel Focal-Plane Mechanical Shutter

The Nikon Z50 features an electronically controlled vertical-travel focal-plane mechanical shutter, providing reliable and precise control over exposure.

Electronic Front-Curtain Shutter

With the electronic front-curtain shutter, the Z50 minimizes the risk of camera shake, ensuring sharper images, especially at slower shutter speeds.

Electronic Shutter

The electronic shutter option offers silent shooting capabilities, perfect for discreet or noise-sensitive environments.

Wide Shutter Speed Range

The shutter speed range of the Z50 extends from 1/4000 to 30 seconds, providing flexibility to capture a wide range of scenes and subjects.

Bulb and Time Modes

For long-exposure photography, the Z50 includes bulb and time modes, allowing you to manually control exposure durations beyond the limitations of standard shutter speeds.

Flash Sync Speed

The flash sync speed of the Z50 is set at 1/200 seconds, enabling synchronization with external flash units for proper exposure in various lighting conditions.

Auto FP High-Speed Sync

The Z50 supports Auto FP High-Speed sync, allowing you to use flash at faster shutter speeds, ideal for capturing fast-moving subjects with fill-flash or creative lighting effects.

Image Sensor

Dimensions and Format

The Nikon Z50 is equipped with a high-quality image sensor measuring 23.5 x 15.7 mm, adhering to the Nikon DX format standards. This sensor size ensures exceptional image quality while allowing for a compact and lightweight camera body.

Total Pixel Count

With a total pixel count of 21.51 million, the Z50’s image sensor delivers sharp, detailed, and vibrant images, capturing every nuance and detail with precision.

Dust-Reduction System

To maintain the cleanliness of the sensor and ensure optimal image quality, the Z50 incorporates a sophisticated dust-reduction system. This system utilizes Image Dust Off reference data, which can be effectively employed with Nikon’s Capture NX-D software. By minimizing the appearance of dust particles on the sensor, this feature ensures that your images remain clear, pristine, and free from imperfections.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the Nikon Z50 is a versatile and capable tool that excels in performance, usability, and portability. Whether you’re capturing everyday moments, exploring creative pursuits, or taking your photography to the next level, the Z50 has you covered. With its impressive features and top-notch performance, it’s a camera that’s well worth considering for anyone in the market for a mirrorless option.

Technical Specifications

Type of Camera: Digital camera with support for interchangeable lenses

Lens Mount: Nikon Z mount

Compatible Lenses:

• Z mount NIKKOR lenses
• F mount NIKKOR lenses with mount adapter; restrictions may apply

Effective Pixels: 20.9 million

Image Sensor: 23.5 x 15.7 mm CMOS sensor (Nikon DX format)

Total Pixels: 21.51 million

Dust-Reduction System: Image Dust Off reference data (requires Capture NX-D)

Storage

• Image Size (Pixels):
  • DX (24×16) Image Area: 5568 x 3712 (L: 20.7 million), 4176 x 2784 (M: 11.6 million), 2784 x 1856 (S: 5.2 million)
  • 1:1 (16×16) Image Area: 3712 x 3712 (L: 13.8 million), 2784 x 2784 (M: 7.8 million), 1856 x 1856 (S: 3.4 million)
  • 16:9 (24×14) Image Area: 5568 x 3128 (L: 17.4 million), 4176 x 2344 (M: 9.8 million), 2784 x 1560 (S: 4.3 million)
  • Photographs taken during movie recording at a frame size of 3840 x 2160: 3840 x 2160
  • Photographs taken during movie recording at a frame size of 1920 x 1080: 1920 x 1080
• File Format:
  • NEF (RAW): 12 or 14 bit
  • JPEG: JPEG-Baseline compliant with fine (approx. 1:4), normal (approx. 1:8), or basic (approx. 1:16) compression
  • NEF (RAW)+JPEG: Single photograph recorded in both NEF (RAW) and JPEG formats

Picture Control System

• Auto, Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait, Landscape, Flat
• Creative Picture Controls (Dream, Morning, Pop, Sunday, Somber, Dramatic, Silence, Bleached, Melancholic, Pure, Denim, Toy, Sepia, Blue, Red, Pink, Charcoal, Graphite, Binary, Carbon); selected Picture Control can be modified; storage for custom Picture Controls

Media

• Media: SD (Secure Digital) and UHS-I compliant SDHC and SDXC memory cards
• File System: DCF 2.0, Exif 2.31, PictBridge

Electronic Viewfinder

• 0.99-cm/0.39-in. approx. 2360k-dot (XGA) OLED electronic viewfinder with color balance and auto and 7-level manual brightness controls
• Frame Coverage: Approx. 100% horizontal and 100% vertical
• Magnification: Approx. 1.02x (50 mm lens at infinity, -1.0 m-1)
• Eyepoint: 19.5 mm (-1.0 m-1; from center surface of viewfinder eyepiece lens)
• Diopter Adjustment: -3 to +3 m-1
• Eye Sensor: Automatically switches between monitor and viewfinder displays

Monitor: 8-cm/3.2-in., approx. 1040k-dot tilting TFT touch-sensitive LCD with 170° viewing angle, approximately 100% frame coverage, and 11-level manual brightness controls

Shutter

• Type: Electronically controlled vertical-travel focal-plane mechanical shutter; electronic front-curtain shutter; electronic shutter
• Speed: 1/4000 to 30 s (select from step sizes of 1/3 and 1/2 EV), bulb, time
• Flash Sync Speed: X=1/200 s; synchronizes with shutter at 1/200 s or slower; Auto FP High-Speed sync supported

Release Modes: Single frame, low-speed continuous, high-speed continuous, high-speed continuous (extended), self-timer

Approximate Maximum Frame Advance Rate (Measured Under Nikon-Specified Test Conditions):

• Low-speed continuous: 1 to 4 fps
• High-speed continuous: 5 fps
• High-speed continuous (extended): 11 fps

Self-Timer: 2 s, 5 s, 10 s, 20 s; 1 to 9 exposures at intervals of 0.5, 1, 2 or 3 s

Metering System: TTL exposure metering using camera image sensor

Metering Modes:

• Matrix metering
• Center-weighted metering: Weight of 75% given to 8 mm circle in center of frame; weighting can instead be based on average of entire frame
• Spot metering: Meters 3.5 mm circle (about 2.5% of frame) centered on selected focus point
• Highlight-weighted metering

Metering Range (ISO 100, f/2.0 lens, 20°C/68°F): -4 to +17 EV

Exposure Modes:

• Auto modes; programmed auto with flexible program (P); shutter-priority auto (S); aperture-priority auto (A); manual (M)
• Scene modes: portrait; landscape; child; sports; close up; night portrait; night landscape; party/indoor; beach/snow; sunset; dusk/dawn; pet portrait; candlelight; blossom; autumn colors; food
• Special effect modes: night vision; super vivid; pop; photo illustration; toy camera effect; miniature effect; selective color; silhouette; high key; low key
• User settings: U1 and U2

Exposure Compensation: -5 to +5 EV (select from step sizes of 1/3 and 1/2 EV) available in P, S, A, M, SCN, and EFCT modes

Exposure Lock: Luminosity locked at detected value

ISO Sensitivity (Recommended Exposure Index): ISO 100 to 51200 (select from step sizes of 1/3 and 1/2 EV); can also be set to approx. 1 or 2 EV (ISO 204800 equivalent) above ISO 51200; auto ISO sensitivity control available

Active D-Lighting: Can be selected from auto, extra high, high, normal, low, or off

Multiple Exposure:

• Add, average, lighten, darken
• Other options: HDR (high dynamic range), photo mode flicker reduction

Focus

• Autofocus: Hybrid phase-detection/contrast AF with AF assist
• Detection Range (Single-Servo AF, Photo Mode, ISO 100, f/2.0 lens, 20°C/68°F): -4 to +19 EV (Without low-light AF: -2 to +19 EV)
• Lens Servo:
  • Autofocus (AF): Single-servo AF (AF-S); continuous-servo AF (AF-C); AF mode auto-switch (AF-A; available only in photo mode); full-time AF (AF-F; available only in movie mode); predictive focus tracking
  • Manual focus (M): Electronic rangefinder can be used
• Focus Points (Single-Point AF, Photo Mode, DX Image Area): 209
• AF-Area Modes: Pinpoint, single-point, and dynamic-area AF (pinpoint and dynamic-area AF available in photo mode only); wide-area AF (S); wide-area AF (L); auto-area AF
• Focus Lock: Focus can be locked by pressing shutter-release button halfway (single-servo AF) or by pressing AE-L/AF-L (protect) button

Flash

• Built-In Flash:
  • Manual pop-up flash raised via flash pop-up control
  • Guide number: Approx. 7/22, 7/22 with manual flash (m/ft, ISO 100, 20°C/68°F)
• Charging Time: Approx. 3 s
• Flash Control: TTL: i-TTL flash control; i-TTL balanced fill-flash is used with matrix, center-weighted, and highlight-weighted metering, standard i-TTL fill-flash with spot metering
• Flash Modes: Fill flash, red-eye reduction, slow sync, slow sync + red-eye, rear-curtain sync, auto, auto + red-eye reduction, auto slow sync, auto slow sync + red-eye, flash off
• Flash Compensation: -3 to +1 EV (choose from step sizes of 1/3 and 1/2 EV) available in P, S, A, M, and SCN modes
• Flash-Ready Indicator: Lights when built-in flash or optional flash unit is fully charged; flashes as underexposure warning after flash is fired at full output
• Accessory Shoe: ISO 518 hot-shoe with sync and data contacts and safety lock
• Nikon Creative Lighting System (CLS): i-TTL flash control, optical Advanced Wireless Lighting, FV lock, Color Information Communication, Auto FP High-Speed Sync

White Balance: Auto (3 types), natural light auto, direct sunlight, cloudy, shade, incandescent, fluorescent (7 types), flash, choose color temperature (2500 K to 10,000 K), preset manual (up to 6 values can be stored), all except choose color temperature with fine-tuning

Bracketing Types: Exposure, white balance, and ADL

Movie

• Metering System: TTL metering using camera image sensor
• Metering Modes: Matrix, center-weighted, or highlight-weighted
• Frame Size (Pixels) and Frame Rate:
  • 3840 x 2160 (4K UHD); 30p (progressive), 25p, 24p
  • 1920 x 1080; 120p, 100p, 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p, 24p
  • 1920×1080 (slow-motion); 30p x4, 25p x4, 24p x5
  • Actual frame rates for 120p, 100p, 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p, and 24p are 119.88, 100, 59.94, 50, 29.97, 25, and 23.976 fps respectively; quality selection available except at sizes of 3840 x 2160, 1920 x 1080 120p/100p, and 1920 x 1080 slow-motion, in which case quality is fixed at ★ (high)
• File Format: MOV, MP4
• Video Compression: H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding
• Audio Recording Format: Linear PCM, AAC
• Audio Recording Device: Built-in stereo or external microphone with attenuator option; sensitivity adjustable
• ISO Sensitivity (Recommended Exposure Index):
  • M: Manual selection (ISO 100 to 25600; select from step sizes of 1/3 and 1/2 EV); auto ISO sensitivity control (ISO 100 to 25600) available with selectable upper limit
  • P, S, A: Auto ISO sensitivity control (ISO 100 to 25600) with selectable upper limit
  • Auto, SCN, EFCT (excluding night vision): Auto ISO sensitivity control (ISO 100 to 25600)
  • Night vision: Auto ISO sensitivity control (ISO 100 to Hi