Everyone: Sony zv-e10 ii Christopher: Z6iii

The quality of the slow mo 240p was incredible. 😮

From ISO 800 onward, the Z6 III is about as good, as the Z9 in terms of dynamic range, even a bit better, actually. I don't get why the dynamic range suddenly is such a big deal to youtubers, nobody cared about it with the Z9 or A1, stacked sensors have always been a trade-off.

Every camera model should come with a choice of either a flip out screen or a tilt screen.

Good review Chris, happy to see some solid coverage for Z mount cameras. Please keep those Z mount lens reviews coming.

Just had this camera delivered today, and I'm thrilled that you like it! That's relieving. Time to go film stuff.

I know you have to draw the line somewhere in your testing but I would encourage you to review the ISO6400 N-log video. The second native ISO makes this camera very competitive with the Sony ISO12800 capable cameras for low light video shooting. That’s a big deal.

for me the 4K120 even though it's a crop is what I want anyway for wildlife/bird. I hear you say it's sharper than the R5 thats good to know I've been looking to sell off old Canon stuff and go solely Nikon. It might take a little while for the grey imports to get to the same discounts as the Z8. I may just get the Z8.

The playback button moving to the lower right is Nikon listening to its customers. This is now consistent with the Z8 and Z9 as well as pro DSLRs. No need to use the left hand to review photos or videos.

That 1080p looks almost like 4k!

When I see your review I am really happy 😊

12:20 I believe the Sports VR mode is mainly for not counteracting panning motions (i.e. when tracking an athlete or car), as Normal VR can be jerky when panning.

Been waiting for this video. Nice

Have been waiting for aweek or so for your review,since I'm proposing to buy one.Thank you❤

Grabbed one on launch day, Nikon's best price:feature set body yet. Love this Z6iii!

EVERYONE WAKE UP! CHRIS FROST POSTED!

I wonder how dynamic range compares with Sony a9 III

The placement of the playback button has finally been fixed. It was wrongly placed on prior models.

awesome review

Thank you. Great video. Much improved AF over the first iterations of the Z6 series. The only downside is the flippy screen, I prefer the tilting screen on the previous models.

Thanks for this review Chris, please do review on nikon z35mm 1.4

Great Video, although it would be nice to know which lens is being used for the test ....

Thanks Chris

Why are people all of a sudden trying to recover shots taken at -5EV. Also, with the dual gain, ISO 800 and boosted in post is cleaner than higher ISOs.

Hey Chris! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and observations on this. I was hoping Nikon would've provided you with their new 35mm f/1.4 for testing with this lens, but I guess such was not the case. Hoping to see that one here soon though.

The DR performance and flip-out screen are now basically the only things holding me back from leaving my DSLR for this right now. I'll probably wait a couple more years before getting a used one (or a used Z8 once its successor is out).

Top review.

Great to see Portmeirion too.

I had no problem 6k 60 10 Bit, H265 to the SD Card with no problems. One problem with one brand of CFExpress Card but it is excellent also. I live in Texas and it will get a thermometer warning after a while of video recording. Cheers!

Excelent review

The only reviewer mentioning the reduced dynamic range and crop issues.

Good stuff, Christopher! As a Z6II user I'm somewhat tempted by the AF improvements but the dynamic range limits bother me a little bit. But mostly, I'm not very interested in shooting video, so the Z8 might be the more interesting upgrade.

Appreciate your videos as always! Any chance you can consider reviewing the Nikon 58mm f1.4G? Would love to see how that lens fairs and how interesting the rendering and colors are from it!

How many times have I pressed the button in the 'old playback' location...a lot...the muscle memory is struggling with that one. Loving this camera so far though!

For the first time, I am drawn to Nikon. Especially now with Object Detection focus and both mechanical and electronic shutter, yes please Only thing I don't like is the mic input, id prefer XLR, if I wanted to record audio

Please review the Nikon lens 35mm f1.4

I don’t understand the focus on speed while losing on image quality. May be it’s me, but I had rather seen the very best picture and video quality with super dynamic range than more fps. However, the raw editing will probably improve when software is updated (usually does). Did you edit in Nikon software or ACR?

Many reviewers tend to leave the sensor open without the cap

We only miss a S5ii review to have the triplet with Canon! Thanks!

Thank you for the video. Mine has some issues with eye af and 3d af. The box is on the eye but the focus is somewhere else. It’s very disappointing. Image quality is nice when focus is ok…

It's a very capable camera, but at £2699 in the uk and Z8 is £3200, I'd rather have a Z8 with these prices

More speed usually means less Dynamic Range.

My next camera for sure.

I inended to buy a Z6iii but £2700 was too much for me. Very happy with my ZF for £1500. It's dynamic range is superb. Plus it's the most beautiful digital camera I've ever owned.

What I am concerned about is whether the maximum brightness of the LCD screen can be clearly seen under harsh sunlight. I had issues with the screen of the Z6ii before. How does it compare to the Sunny Weather mode of the Sony A7iv?

Nikon Z 35-1.4 vs AFS 35 1.8 G pleaaaaaaaseeeeeeeee. It might seem nonsense! BUT it will be so useful for those who would like to switch to a Z mount 35mm. thanks a lot for all content

Good stuff!! Though I’m not a video kind of guy, was wondering about landscapes. Like; I wonder if I’d really be able to tell the difference between a Z7ii and the Z6iii if I printed a 24x24 picture of a mountain and hung it on a wall. Could both be totally different looking?

Rolling shutter must! be compared with apsc crop counterpart. (modes that allows it, not 6KNRAW or 5.3K but 4K 1080)

Didn't know you review cameras. I come here for lenses.

You can get a refurbished z8 from nikon for $3200. If you can save $700 bucks id still go for that.

I don't understand these dynamic range examples. What are you expecting to recover out of a jet black shadow and who shoots/edits like that?

At that price point, they could have added sensor shield for protection while swapping lenses

I am not a number I'm a Z6 III.

Next Nikon review, 35 1.4!! and compare to Tamron 35 1.4 and Nikon 35 1.8s !

Keeping my Sony a7iv. Thanks

Your photographs have such beautiful colors, would you say this is because of this particular camera?

Is there raw noise reduction applied like the r6ii in the iso range from 100 to lets say 1600?

Nikon z6 3 or canon r6 2???

It's $4500 in australia, that's a lot for a video camera! As a still photographer there is just too much compromise for video in these newer bodies like ISO and DR. Starting to think that a SLR is a better option IQ wise for stills.

hi, what is 6k raw bitrate? thanks

Will be nice if they make Z5ii which is more stills focused and has better DR.

Means it has crop in every frame rate?

z6 3 or z8?

Chris, you have to practice throwing the lower apple from one hand to the other without looking. And practice from L to R and R to L so you can reverse the juggle. Only then can you add another fruit and get that circus job you've always longed for 🙂

Christopher Frost - AKA - The Juggler. ;)

What ISO was used in the "dynamic range test" I guess 100?

How is the DR compare to R6mkII? Is it better?

Wow this camera makes my a7 iv seem ancient! Well done Nikon 👏

Please answer one question -which one you prefer -Z8 or z6iii?

I don’t understand why I would want this camera ? The z7.2 is available now for around or less price wise? I can’t understand the price difference. The z7 2 is full frame

No problem with the dynamic range. Its all WYSIWYG from the EVF or LCD preview. Unless the photographer sucks.

Well I’m glad your conclusion was so positive because your DR example was brutal! I have a Zfc and it has a very similar flip screen which basically means I use my left index finger instead of my thumb, no big deal. Normally I love your reviews, but your attitude to the pixel shift mode is unprofessional! Being able to make a 96Mpix image with reduced noise on suitable scenes can only be seen as a bonus!

wow that 240p 😮😮😮

Question.......does the Z6iii have backlit buttons?

I'll probably keep my used original Z6 camera, but it's good to see Nikon do some innovation. Shame about the worse performance with regards to dynamic range

Nikon put out an outstanding camera, excellent.

I just bought the GH7, I need better stabilization over sensor size for the type of videos I do. I do aviation videos.

You are the only one who mentioned the crop in video. All other reviewers ignored it. You saved me from making expensive mistake.. thank you 👍🏻

One thing to note is that Canon cameras like the R6 II may appear to have higher dynamic range, but part of that is because they apply noise reduction to the RAW files. Also the DR of the Z6 III at its native base ISO of 100 is actually about the same as the Z8/9 from the same ISO. I think that people expected better based on the fact that the Z8/9 have a fully stacked sensor, and video’s like Matt Irwin’s in which he mentioned a 1 stop high ISO noise performance improvement compared to the Z6 II. But all in all this is really nothing out of the ordinary.

I love Nikon and I've bought almost evey Z full frame camera but not this one how it can crop on 1080 60p or even on 1080 24p come on even the first Z6 from 6 years ago didn't do that

Can you pls explain the the 2 black plastic watchamacaulit thing inside the box😂 i don’t know its purpose or why nikon put those things inside the box🤦🏻‍♂️

Here I am watching something I can't afford

Do you think this is better than the Z8 for stills and using flash

Is there the "StarLight" feature in the Z6iii, too, just like Z9, which virtually turns night into day to help the camera easily detect the subject in the darkness?

Let's praise Nikon for not gimping and segmenting their camera body features like Canon.

If you live outside the USA you need to take out a mortgage to pay for this Z6III .The Nikon people have ditched their weak yen for the USD now and do all their business around the world in USD not YEN .Its now so ridiculously stupidly expensive in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK and Europe , The USD is about 30%-40% stronger than the currencies listed so this means its over priced in this countries . Nikon bench marked the USA price off the USD . Not their historically low weak Yen .This is the normal now for local Japanese camera and lens sellers on E bay now, as well they trade use USD as a preferred currency to business in and not their own YEN. Avoid now buying Z6III outside USA wait until they lower prices for markets outside USA .

At this point of time any DSLR or Mirrorless camera is overkill for Vlogging, anyone's is better off with a DJI Action 4 for that purpose, so VR on that particular situation is probably not a concern for manufacturers anymore.

That shutter (the mechanical one) is absolutely batty. It sounds like a 35mm cine camera

I’ll stick with my Z6ii, tar very much.

BrutaLLLLL

3000€ is just too expensive. For 2500€ it would've been a no brainer...

Disappointing dynamic range

If it was 33 mp I would have bought it. 24 mp is low for a wildlife perspective..

This camera has only 2 dials for adjustment. Why nobody mentions about it ?

a bit late to the party…

I get the impression, Christopher, that your reviews stem from integrity, in your thinking. There's a decent level of depth to it too. And in my thinking that could be a bit more. You see, "these cameras" all being in the "Bayer paradigm", means that we must understand that paradigm well, before we attribute anything we see in "RGB" images to "the camera". A Bayer camera cannot shoot RGB colour like a colour film and its raw images can be considered as both 100% colour noise, and 100% luminance noise. Any conclusion you make regarding the RGB image you see on your display has tons of image processing applied between that raw "original" and what you see on your display. "Bayer colour photography" relies on a colour-blind sensor that however sees the entire humanly visible spectrum, so in old B&W jargon we should call it "panchromatic". Yes, calling it "monochrom" is fundamentally wrong. Very wrong. About as wrong as implying that there is more than 1 black or more than 1 white, by using these words in plural. As each data element from each photosite in the sensor is an exposure value in one spectral colour band, it seems legitimate to call the raw file monochrome, even. The Bayer paradigm - if there is a camera conspiracy then it is here - relies on shooting these raw files with a bit of colour information that through a lot of image processing and both classical AI (smart algorithms) and modern AI (based in learning - i.e. statistics) has its monochrome data elements converted into RGB pixel values. This image processing happens after the shot/take and it is a form of mathematically precise and repeatable wild-assed guessing. Rather than attributing the noise perceived as colour or luminance noise to the camera, I would attribute it to the paradigm and call the whole bunch "Bayer noise". This shifts the blame from 100% camera to the collective of camera and raw processing. You see, if you shoot raw and do the raw processing (AKA conversion) in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), and have ACR set to "Adobe Standard" then ACR applies a profile that tweaks the raw processing specifically to make your camera look like "Adobe Standard". In a standard Lightroom Classic (LrC), ACR, Photoshop (Ps) installation, to a Windows PC, look in folder "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic\Resources\CameraProfiles\Adobe Standard\" and note that there are over 1,230 camera specific profiles in there. Note that ACR does all raw processing, not LrC, and ACR "is" the "Develop" tab in LrC. You can run ACR standalone via Adobe Bridge (Br) by selecting an image in Br and right click open it in ACR. Your edits end up in an ACR-specific sidecar file that however LrC ignores. (I think it could add the ACR sidecar as a separate virtual copy of an image). ACR processes your "14 bits" (14 monochrome bits) into 16+16+16 bits RGB in a ProPhoto colour space when it hands that result over to LrC or Ps. Rendering that on your display is impossible so, all the beautiful gradation in those 48 bits per image pixel gets compressed into 8+8+8 that your display might be able to handle (a cheap one only using 7+7+7). Somewhere in the processing between ACR's resulting internal RGB representation of your raw file, e.g. display drivers and graphics adapter apply anti-aliasing, whether you like it or not. Whether it already happened in camera or not. Whether ACR already applied it or not. Whether LrC also did something in presenting the ACR result to you or not. So, way back, that "raw processing" became a challenge to processing power when image and sensor resolution increased while serious processing power was big, heavy, expensive, and power hungry. Your supercomputer of 1990 (cf. Cray One) probably had its own building, its own support staff, its own connection to the electricity grid. That same processing power, about 5 years ago, could be bought in the form of two NVIDIA GTX 1080ti graphics adapter cards, and probably the latter had a lot more memory (2x 11GB). This requirement for processing power, impossible to integrate into a camera, led to the introduction of "shoot-time hardware help" in the form of a filter over the sensor called OLPF in one perspective, and AA in another [1]. It disperses a bit of light travelling to a photosite [x,y] in the sensor so a fraction of that light also hits the neighbouring photosites. This reduces some of the Bayer noise in an artificial way, but it helps less sophisticated "raw processing" algorithms. When you shoot your ColorChecker Passport (CCP) colour reference/calibration target, and would look at the raw data elements in the area of the "red" patch of the subject, then you'll see data elements from photosites under a red filter that have a relatively high exposure value (EV), but these red ones are only 25% in the image. 50% of the photosites are under a green filter and in the red patch in the subject these will produce a much darker EV. Then there are a 25% of photosites under a blue filter and these, I'd argue, should produce pure black digital zero [00,000,000,000,000] data elements. Except in the case of lenses with glare, there may be some stray "glare" light with blue in it hitting these photosites that raise their EV from rock bottom 0 to a tiny bit higher. But that would be a "lens feature". Because of the "cons" starting to dominate the "pros" above a certain resolution , Nikon, in 2012, released the D800E version that has the OLPF Eliminated, and otherwise is equal to the D800. Both 36MP. [2] Since the D800E, the "industry" however did not seriously adapt raw processing. Meaning that software developers in a way broke their part of the gentlemen's agreement int the Bayer paradigm. Any noise in the pure red patch of the CCP subject can be seen as a breech of paradigm contract. I have to add that Nikon for a long time, and maybe still today, held the position that removal of the OLPF gives more sharpness and the price you pay is in more noise. Topaz jumped into this niche and years ago released their DeNoise AI app that can help here. Then DxO (the software company) added DeepPRIME as improved processing option of Bayer noise to their PhotoLab app (compares in part to ACR+LrC), but as photographers need Ps and hence also have ACR and LrC, DxO started selling DeepPRIME in a stand-alone plug-in for ACR/LrC called PureRAW. These had been available for "years" when, finally, the Mudbricks [4] added the "AI Denoise" option into ACR's "Enhance" option bundle. Well, raw processing done naively, generally called deBayerisation, generates "digital artefacts" that collectively are called (verb) mosaicking [3], and the first denoise improvements in ACR did nothing to improve in the mosaic department. "Bayer noise" is what we need to discuss first. Another thing is, "cropping the sensor" in this Nikon camera. If you reviewed the Z 8 and Z 9, you may have noticed that these have a lot more additional rows and columns of photosites in the sensor than are in the "effective "sensor image area. The origin of the added rows and columns is shoot-time hardware help for raw processing. The added "non-effective" photosites remove the need for a separate "edge algorithm" in raw processing. My hypothesis with the Z 9/Z 8 is that the much wider resolution edge is used for IBIS in software in the processing pipeline that adds no latency into that pipeline that we can notice. But the Z 6iii sensor does not have a bunch of the "non-effective" photosites, so, my guess, part of the cropping in movie modes is related to IBIS in firmware. When motion in the sensor plane is involved. And most photographer induced camera motion/vibration/shake probably is. Here we again see the use of hardware help in one place to make solving problems easier that otherwise would require more expensive technology. If we take the sensor readout times of the Z 6iii and Z 8 and relate that time to bit depth and total (gross) sensor resolution) then we get as "bandwidth" Z 8 ~= 28,080 MB/s (224.6 Gbps) - at NY, NY, USA megastore price excluding sales tax of US$ 3,947 we get US$/Gbps at 15.57. Z 6iii ~= 3,253 MB/s ( 26 Gbps) - at NY, NY, USA megastore price excluding sales tax of US$ 2,497 we get US$/Gbps at 95.94. Part of the Z 6iii "speed" is in its resolution being effectively 24MP, rather than 45MP. That difference in bandwidth is in the chip stacked to the physical back of the sensor as well as the motherboard in the camera and the chipsets involved. Having only SD card slots is such a limiting factor to I/O bandwidth that everything "digital" can be cheaper in a camera. The question is what we can attribute to "the camera" rather than image processing that follows. Considering remarks by other reviewers, Nikon may do something special to mitigate the cons of the OLPF. But the OLPF was a reason for me to move to a 45MP camera, in the past, as I got surprised by total reflection colour haze from between the OLPF and sensor, in the past, in contrasty backlight. Approaching YT's 10,000 character limit, I'll keep the "correct exposure" principles lecture that fluencers violate all the time for another occasion. Notes in comment to this comment.

Quality control is terrible kinda like the z8/9 when they first came out. I’d wait before buying this z6iii so they can get all the issues like a broken evf fixed. Overall poor dynamic range, I’d only use this camera on cloudy days due to poor dynamic range.

24mp in 2024, depressing....

I am from India

Before buying.. look Camera Conspiracies video about that...🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️👎👎👎