Travelling light
Travel photography throws up a perennial balancing act for photographers. Sure, you want a camera with impressive features that will result in high-quality imagery and open up creative options, all while keeping the weight inside your cabin luggage low enough to avoid any excess baggage charges.
Given this conundrum, it's little wonder that crop sensor mirrorless cameras often find favour with photographers heading off on a long-haul adventure. As a result, the current range of choice is staggering. From Sony's A6100 and more advanced A6400, to Canon's impressive 32.5MP EOS M6 Mark II right through to Fujifilm's charismatic retro-inspired offerings like the ever-popular X-T30. Enter the Z 50 – Nikon's first ever APS-C sensor mirrorless camera – to crash the party. While Sony has been beavering away at this sector of the market for years now, the Z 50 is a first-generation camera that was launched in October last year, so already the odds are stacked against it. A second jab comes in the form of lens selection; at the time of testing there are just two dedicated DX Z-mount lenses available, the 16-50mm and 50-250mm that make up the Z 50 twin lens kit that I packed into my bag. But users also
