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Rumours of a Nikon Z 8 R mirrorless camera, fitting into Nikon’s lineup somewhere between the Nikon Z 7 II and Nikon Z 9, had been doing the rounds for years but now it’s finally here. The manufacturer is touting the Z 8 as both the “true successor to the Nikon D850” and a “baby Z 9” and these are both fair descriptions. It looks and feels like the Z-series equivalent of the D850, with a similar design, yet squeezes all the high-end specs of the flagship Z 9 into a smaller – and more affordable – body.
The specs-wise, the biggest news is that the Nikon Z 8 has the same 45.7MP stacked CMOS sensor as the Z 9, which boasts the fastest scan rate in any commercially available camera. So while this isn’t a ‘global’ sensor that captures the image instantaneously, but renders the image line-by-line in the same way as traditional sensors, it does so incredibly
