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Will the new Nikon Z9 feature a heated handgrip and ‘Niko’ smart assistant?

Will the new Nikon Z9 feature a heated handgrip and ‘Niko’ smart assistant? Nope.
Nikon Z9 hasn’t been released yet , but the team over at nature photographer tour company Squiver has published a thorough ‘field report’ on the camera on its blog, going over the rather, shall we say, interesting feature set that they claim is offered by Nikon’s upcoming flagship mirrorless camera

The Nikon Z9 hasn’t been released yet , but the team over at nature photographer tour company Squiver has published a thorough ‘field report’ on the camera on its blog, going over the rather, shall we say, interesting feature set that they claim is offered by Nikon’s upcoming flagship mirrorless camera. In the report – which, in case you’re still not getting it, was published April 1st – Squiver co-founder and nature photographer Marsel van Oosten , claims to have spent the past month ‘extensively’ testing the Nikon Z9. He starts off by going over the specs, saying: ‘ The Z9 is built around a newly developed FX-format stacked CMOS 80.2MP sensor with a 20-stop dynamic range (19.77 EV) with a native 50–102,400 ISO range (expandable to 25–204,800). The Z9 has an updated hybrid AF system comprising 1,080 on-sensor phase-detection AF points as well as 850 contrast-detect points, covering 98% of the image frame.’ Moving to the outside of the camera, van Oosten says the body ‘ is considerably smaller than a D6 and a whole lot lighter despite having an integrated vertical grip.’ Better yet, he claims that the entire camera is apparently made from titanium, a first […]

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