Nikon Mirrorless Z30
USD679.00
with NIKKOR Z 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 Lens
USD 1,450 with NIKKOR Z 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 Lens and NIKKOR Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens
Get in the creative zone and seize the moment with the Z 30 – the lightest and most compact Z series camera to date¹. Handy in size and weighing just 350g², this is the mirrorless model built for spontaneity and surprise.
Be inspired. Inspire others.
Product Description
A Window For Your World
The Z 30 is made for your inner videographer. Hit record with ease whenever inspiration strikes. Excite the ears of your audience with premium sound quality from dual micro
phones. Capture higher quality video with the Z 30 thanks to its sensor that is 14x bigger than your phone’s.
From teasers to reels to stories to streams, this is where heroes of content are born.
Personalised Performance
Customise the dial and buttons for instant access to your unique creative process. You’re just a click or a turn away to make your content the most authentic extension of you.
No angle or position is out of reach or focus with the 7.5cm (3-inch) touch-sensitive vari-angle LCD monitor. Look up and out, explore what lies below, or flip into selfie mode.
Ultimate Creative Control
Capture your content the way it was meant to be seen with the Z 30’s signature Creative Picture Controls. Choose from 20 real-time filters that add emotion to your frame and eliminate the need for post-processing. Breathtaking looks include Pink, Morning, Melancholic, and Sunday.
Time, On Your Side
Enjoy up to 125 mins³ of continuous video. Eliminate the extra work of piecing together multiple short recordings and switch to long-form videos to save time and effort.
Snap. Edit. Share
SnapBridge – Shoot remotely and admire the results via your smart phone’s screen. Get your content online in an instant, directly from your camera. Or connect and transfer it straight to your device and share to your heart’s desire.
NX Studio – With Nikon’s signature post-production software, you can view, process and edit your stills and video anytime, anywhere. For free.
Webcam Utility – Free software that transforms your Z 30 into a portable livestreaming hub. Harness high-resolution video and amaze your followers with real-time content.
¹As at June 29th, 2022.
²Body Only.
³In Full HD/24p/25p at 25°C/77°F. The camera’s ability to always achieve the full 125 minutes is dependent on conditions like battery life or the camera’s internal temperature. Approx. 35 minutes of recording time is available in 4K UHD.
Type: Digital camera with support for interchangeable lenses
Lens mount: Nikon Z mount
Image sensor format: DX
Image sensor type: CMOS
Sensor size: 23.5 mm x 15.7 mm
Total pixels: 21.51 million
Dust-reduction system: Image Dust Off reference data (NX Studio software required)
Effective pixels: 20.9 million
Image size (pixels): [DX (24×16)] selected for image area: (L) 5568 x 3712 ( 20.7 million) (M) 4176 x 2784 ( 11.6 million) (S) 2784 x 1856 ( 5.2 million) [1:1 (16×16)] selected for image area: (L) 3712 x 3712 ( 13.8 million) (M) 2784 x 2784 ( 7.8 million) (S) 1856 x 1856 ( 3.4 million) [16:9 (24×14)] selected for image area: (L) 5568 x 3128 ( 17.4 million) (M) 4176 x 2344 ( 9.8 million) (S) 2784 x 1560 ( 4.3 million) Photographs taken while recording videos at a frame size of 3840 x 2160: 3840 x 2160 Photographs taken while recording videos at other frame sizes: 1920 x 1080
File format (image quality): NEF (RAW): 12 or 14 bit JPEG: JPEG-Baseline compliant with fine (approx. 1:4), normal (approx. 1:8), or basic (approx. 1:16) compression NEF (RAW)+JPEG: Single photograph recorded in both NEF (RAW) and JPEG formats
Picture Control system: Auto, Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait, Landscape, Flat Creative Picture Controls (Dream, Morning, Pop, Sunday, Somber, Dramatic, Silence, Bleached, Melancholic, Pure, Denim, Toy, Sepia, Blue, Red, Pink, Charcoal, Graphite, Binary, Carbon); selected Picture Control can be modified; storage for custom Picture Controls
Media: SD, SDHC (UHS-I compliant), SDXC (UHS-I compliant)
Card slot: 1 Secure Digital (SD) card
File system: DCF 2.0, Exif 2.31
Compatible lenses: Z mount NIKKOR lenses F mount NIKKOR lenses (mount adapter required; restrictions may apply)
Type: Electronically-controlled vertical-travel focal-plane mechanical shutter; electronic front-curtain shutter; electronic shutter
Speed: 1/4000 to 30 s (step sizes of 1/3 EV), bulb, time
Flash sync speed: Synchronizes with shutter at X=1/200 s or slower; supported with auto FP high-speed sync
Release Modes: S (single frame), CL (continuous low-speed), CH (continuous high-speed), Continuous H (extended), Self-timer
Approximate frame advance rate: Up to 11 fps Continuous L: Approx. 1 to 4 fps Continuous H: Approx. 5 fps Continuous H (extended): Approx. 11 fps * Maximum frame advance rate as measured by in-house tests.
Self-timer: 2 s, 5 s, 10 s, 20 s; 1 to 9 exposures at intervals of 0.5, 1, 2, or 3
Metering system: TTL metering using camera image sensor
Metering mode: Matrix metering Center-weighted metering: Weight of 75% given to 8 mm circle in center of frame; weighting can instead be based on average of entire frame Spot metering: Meters 3.5 mm circle (about 2.5% of frame) centered on selected focus point Highlight-weighted metering
Range: -4 to +17 EV * Figures are for ISO 100 and f/2.0 lens at 20 °C/68 °F
Mode: Auto, P: programmed auto with flexible program, S: shutter-priority auto, A: aperture-priority auto, M: manual U1, U2 and U3: user settings modes
Exposure compensation: Range: –5 to +5 EV, Increment: 1/3 step
Exposure lock: Luminosity locked at detected value
ISO sensitivity (Recommended Exposure Index): ISO 100 to 51200 in steps of 1/3 EV ; can also be set to approx. 1 EV above ISO 51200 (ISO 102400 equivalent) or to approx. 2 EV above ISO 51200 (ISO 204800 equivalent); auto ISO sensitivity control available
Active D-Lighting: Auto, Extra high, High, Normal, Low, and Off
Multiple exposure: Add, average, lighten, darken
Other options: HDR (high dynamic range), photo mode flicker reduction
Autofocus system: Hybrid phase-detection/contrast AF
Detection range: -4.5 to +19 EV * Without low-light AF: -3 to +19 EV * Measured in photo mode at ISO 100 and a temperature of 20 °C/68 °F using single-servo AF (AF-S) and a lens with a maximum aperture of f/1.8
AF Mode: Single-servo AF (AF-S), Continuous-servo AF (AF-C), AF mode auto-switch (AF-A; available only in photo mode), full-time AF (AF-F; available only in video mode) , predictive focus tracking Manual focus (M): Electronic rangefinder can be used
Focus point: 209 Number of focus points available in photo mode with single-point AF selected for AF-area mode and DX selected for image area
AF-area mode: Pinpoint AF (photo mode only), single-point AF, dynamic-area AF (photo mode only), wide-area AF (S), wide-area AF (L), wide-area AF (L-people), wide-area AF (L-animals), auto-area AF, auto-area AF (people), auto-area AF (animals)
Focus lock: Press the AE-L/AF-L button or press shutter-release button halfway (single-servo AF/AF-S)
Flash control: TTL: i-TTL flash control; i-TTL balanced fill-flash is used with matrix, center-weighted, and highlight-weighted metering, standard i-TTL fill-flash with spot metering
Flash mode: Front-curtain sync, slow sync, rear-curtain sync, red-eye reduction, red-eye reduction with slow sync, off
Flash compensation: -3 to +1 EV in steps of 1/3 EV available in modes P, S, A, and M
Flash-ready indicator: Lights when optional flash unit is fully charged; flashes as underexposure warning after flash is fired at full output
Accessory shoe: ISO 518 hot-shoe with sync and data contacts and safety lock
Nikon Creative Lighting System (CLS): i-TTL flash control, optical Advanced Wireless Lighting, FV lock, Color Information Communication, auto FP high-speed sync
White balance: Auto (3 types), natural light auto, direct sunlight, cloudy, shade, incandescent, fluorescent (3 types), flash, choose color temperature (2500 K–10,000 K), preset manual (up to 6 values can be stored), all with fine-tuning except choose color temperature
Bracketing types: Exposure and/or flash, white balance, ADL
Metering system: TTL exposure metering using main image sensor TTL metering using camera image sensor
Metering mode: Matrix, center-weighted, or highlight-weighted
Video Frame size (pixels) and frame rate: 3840 x 2160 (4K UHD): 30p (progressive)/25p/24p 1920 x 1080: 120p/100p/60p/50p/30p/25p/24p 1920 x 1080 slow-motion: 30p (x4)/25p (x4)/24p (x5) * Actual frame rates for 120p, 100p, 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p, and 24p are 119.88, 100, 59.94, 50, 29.97, 25, and 23.976 fps respectively * Quality selection (normal/high) available at all sizes except 3840 x 2160, 1920 x 1080 120p/100p, and 1920 x 1080 slow-motion, when quality is fixed at high
Video File format: MOV, MP4
Video compression: H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding
Audio recording format: Linear PCM (for videos recorded in MOV format), AAC (for videos recorded in MP4 format)
Audio recording device: Built-in stereo or external microphone with attenuator option; sensitivity adjustable
Video exposure compensation: Range: –3 to +3 EV, Increment: 1/3 step
Video ISO sensitivity (Recommended Exposure Index): M: Manual selection (ISO 100 to 25600; step size of 1/3 EV); auto ISO sensitivity control (ISO 100 to 25600) available with selectable upper limit P, S, A: Auto ISO sensitivity control (ISO 100 to 25600) with selectable upper limit Auto: Auto ISO sensitivity control (ISO 100 to 25600)
Video Active D-Lighting Same as photo settings, Extra high, High, Normal, Low, and Off
Video Other options: Time-lapse video recording, electronic vibration reduction, time codes, with REC lamp
Monitor size: 7.5 -cm ( 3.0 –in.) diagonal
Monitor type: Vari-angle TFT touch-sensitive LCD with 170° viewing angle, approximately 100% frame coverage, and color balance and 11-level manual brightness controls
Monitor resolution: Approx. 1040 k-dot
Playback: Full-frame and thumbnail (4, 9, or 72 images or calendar) playback with playback zoom, playback zoom cropping, video playback, photo and/or video slide shows, histogram display, highlights, photo information, location data display, auto image rotation, and picture rating
USB connector: Type C USB connector (SuperSpeed USB) ; connection to built-in USB port is recommended
HDMI output connector: Type D HDMI connector
Audio input: Stereo mini-pin jack (3.5 mm diameter; plug-in power supported)
Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11b/g/n 2412 to 2462 MHz (channel 11) 2.4 GHz band: 4.5 dBm Open system, WPA2-PSK
Bluetooth: Bluetooth Specification Version 4.2 Bluetooth: 2402 to 2480 MHz Bluetooth Low Energy: 2402 to 2480 MHz Bluetooth: –1.0 dBm Bluetooth Low Energy: –2.5 dBm
Battery: One EN-EL25 rechargeable Li-ion battery
Charging AC adapter: EH-7P charging AC adapter (available separately)
Tripod socket: 0.635 cm (1/4 in., ISO 1222)
Dimensions (W × H × D): Approx. 128 x 73.5 x 59.5 mm ( 5.1 x 2.9 x 2.4 in.) (width x height x depth)
Weight: Approx. 405 g ( 14.3 oz. ) with battery and memory card but without body cap; approx. 350 g/12.4 oz. (camera body only)
Operating environment: Temperature: 0 °C to 40 °C (+32 °F to 104 °F) Humidity: 85% or less (no condensation)
Supplied accessories: BF-N1 Body Cap、EN-EL25 Rechargeable Li-ion Battery, AN-DC25 Strap, UC-E24 USB Cable
1. Unless otherwise stated, all measurements are performed in conformity with Camera and Imaging Products Association (CIPA) standards or guidelines. All figures are for a camera with a fully-charged battery. The sample images displayed on the camera and the images and illustrations in this document are for expository purposes only. Nikon reserves the right to change the appearance and specifications of the hardware and software described in this document at any time and without prior notice. Nikon will not be held liable for damages that may result from any mistakes that this document may contain.