Share your story with stunning video quality

Elevate your content by boosting the image quality. Express your memories of a wonderful night richly, without image noise. Draw all eyes to yourself or your subject looking beautiful against a soft background bokeh. Engage people's senses across your whole image, with sharp details and rich textures. The Z 30 gives you easy access to all these benefits. The key is the larger volume of light received by its APS-C size/DX-format image sensor - 14x larger and more advanced than that in a typical smartphone. Further contributions come from the advanced-performance engine — the same EXPEED 6 found in higher-level models such as the Z 7/Z 6 - and the strikingly sharp NIKKOR Z lenses.                                                                        

* 1/2.5-in. sensor.

Sharp focus on the eyes of friends and pets in motion

Make your video more engaging with a constant sharp focus on the eyes - whether it's you, your friends and family, or your pets. Eye-Detection AF and Animal-Detection AF are available in wide-area AF (L) as well as auto-area AF, letting the camera more reliably pick out the eyes to focus on. This makes it easy to capture your subject's eyes in focus even when they are moving - in both video recording and still photography. The AF-F mode dedicated to video recording enables powerful tracking of your subjects even when they are moving or composition changes. If you want a more subtle and nuanced expression, try applying slower or faster focusing, with AF speed adjustable between 11 steps. Go faster to quickly shift focus from the item you're introducing back to your face, or go slower to smoothly draw viewers’ attention from one subject to another.

Check footage of yourself in real-time with the rotating monitor

Connect better with your audience via the Z 30's vari-angle monitor, by simply pointing the camera and rotating the monitor toward yourself. This way, you can record selfies while making sure you look good in real-time. Adjusting exposure compensation is also easy and intuitive by checking your appearance and using the touch operation on the monitor. Taking further advantage of the vari-angle monitor, you can explore more creative angles, whether it's from waist level, higher up or very low - letting you share your life from your own unique angles.

Let the camera roll for as long as you need

Keep the camera rolling for up to 125 minutes, convenient for content like makeup tutorials or product reviews. Meanwhile, connecting a portable charger or computer allows the Z 30 to record with a constant power supply, giving you peace of mind during a long take.

Compact and lightweight yet sharp and beautiful

The NIKKOR Z lens lineup offers beginner-friendly choices that are designed to be small and accessible but deliver extremely high performance. They depict every detail with superb sharpness, create soft, natural background bokeh, and are easy to operate, exceeding what's expected from conventional kit lenses. All the DX lenses come equipped with Nikon's vibration reduction (VR) system, which helps stabilize the footage when recording while walking. Try using different lenses and broaden the possibilities for your content.