What It's Like to Shoot Stills With the Nikon ZR
The Nikon ZR puts RED's raw video format, 32-bit float audio, and a 4-inch screen into a body with no viewfinder, so most of the conversation around it stays on codecs and cinema workflows. If you shoot both stills and video, the more useful question is whether it's a camera you'd pick up on a day when there's nothing to film. Most coverage of the Nikon ZR treats RED raw as the headline. Pav SZ argues that focus points at the wrong feature. To test the hybrid label, he took the camera to a loca
The Nikon ZR puts RED's raw video format, 32-bit float audio, and a 4-inch screen into a body with no viewfinder, so most of the conversation around it stays on codecs and cinema workflows. If you shoot both stills and video, the more useful question is whether it's a camera you'd pick up on a day when there's nothing to film. Most coverage of the Nikon ZR treats RED raw as the headline. Pav SZ argues that focus points at the wrong feature. To test the hybrid label, he took the camera to a local food festival with the NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.2 S and spent a few hours using it only for photographs.…