In practice, though, we found that both cameras are good for rather more than the official figures. This is where the Z9 houses its much larger EN-EL18D battery, while the Z8 has to make do with the same EN-EL15C battery as found in the Z7-series cameras.Īs a result, the official CIPA battery rating is 275 rather than 700 shots. The main and most obvious one is that the smaller form factor of the Z8 is due to there being no underside grip, with duplicated controls to aid vertical shooting. Perhaps shorter than listing the features that the Z8 shares with the Z9 is to highlight the differences. This results in an enhanced dynamic ISO range of ISO64-25,600 (ISO32-102,400 expanded). It’s a back-side illuminated stacked sensor that boasts much-improved lowlight capabilities over traditional designs, as all the electronics are ‘stacked’ behind the photosites. And with JPEGs, you can keep rattling off full-resolution images at 30fps until the card is full.Īs mentioned, the 45.7MP sensor is the same one found in the Z9, with 493 AF points covering 90% of the sensor area, enabling the advanced AF system to pick up subjects towards the edges of the frame. Another advantage of this next-gen processor is that it can capture more than 1,000 Raw images at 20fps before the buffer causes it to slow down – provided that you have a fast enough memory card. This speed-freakery isn’t solely down to the advanced sensor and shutterless design, but is also due to the Z8 sharing the same cutting-edge Expeed 7 processor that debuted in the Z9. Admittedly these are low-resolution JPEGs (if you call 11MP low-res – it’s essentially the equivalent of a frame of 4K video), but it can still shoot high-resolution 45.7MP JPEGs at 30fps, or RAW files at 20fps – and all this with full autofocus and autoexposure between frames. Like the Z9, the Z8 can shoot continuously at an astonishing 120fps. The benefits of the shutterless design don’t end there. That’s 4 times faster than that found in most high-end cameras, which typically top out at 1/8000 sec (while entry-level models are even slower at 1/4000 sec). And that brings us to the second headline spec: the maximum shutter speed is a blistering 1/32000 sec.
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