9 reviews for Nikon Z 8 | Professional full-frame mirrorless stills/video hybrid camera | Nikon USA Model

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   Red Barron – August 4, 2025

   All around excellent camera for those who care enough to have the very best.
   Excellent Z8 PRO CAMERA but at a high price. Superior focus, great sensor, and super video. Reasonable size and weight for travel photography. It offers an array of modern technology and produces top quality still and video in the hands of a serious photographer. Battery life is less than optimal but fine with an extra battery on longer shoots.

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   Visionz – August 4, 2025

   The perfect Nikon mirrorless
   I have been a long time shooter of the Nikon brand. I have been using their cameras since the old Nikon film SLR cameras. With the move to mirrorless, the first two generations left a lot to be desired. My Z5, and Z6 offered a nice experience but you really had to know your camera in order to deal with it’s less than perfect auto focusing issues. Trying to nail focus with those cameras had become an art form that had to be perfected. Then they released the $5500, beast of a camera, Z9. This camera gave us a taste of just how good a nikon with reliable auto focus and premium features could be. The problem with the Z9 was that the larger body and the much more expensive $5500 price tag did not appeal to most of us. I tested the Z9 out after preordering it and was not a fan of the full body size and weight so i cancelled the preorder and decided to wait for something great.Two and a half years later, they finally gave me what i wanted, the Z8. It had all the features and proven autofocus of the Z9 with a much more attractive price tag and stuffed it in a body that felt more like a D850 than the previous Z6-Z7II bodies. Finally i got a camera that was worthy of the Nikon name. The Z8 feels great in the hand and just looks how a professional camera should.It’s 45mp sensor gives you a ton of resolution for those that like to crop in or edit with full detail in post. The BSI CMOS sensor is stacked and renders a beautiful full frame image with colors that are synonymous to the Nikon brand. The images that come out of this camera are some of my favorites amongst all camera manufacturers. I shoot with Fujifilm, Sony and Canon, so i have a lot of experience and reference points with these brands.The shutterless design seemed like a gimmick that i did not think i was going to like when it was announced on the Z9. After doing a couple of shoots, it has really grown on me and now i see a lot of benefit in it. You can adjust the volume level of the artificial shutter sound. This is perfect for events where silence is important and the sound of a full frame shutter slapping could create an annoyance. There is a sensor shield that you can turn on to close when the camera is powered off. That allows you to change lenses in the field without the concerns of dust, dirt and droplets making its way onto your sensor.The Z8 boasts a good collection of frame rates for photography. Being able to shoot at 20 fps at full resolution and RAW is more than i will ever need. But there is a whopping 120 fps mode as well as 30 fps and 60 fps in JPEG only for those who really want to pinpoint the perfect moment of motion and do not need the flexibility of a RAW file. These frame rates are amazing and will definitely be something for me to play around with in the future.Unlike the Z9 the Z8 only has one Cfexpress type b card slot instead of the dual cfe slots. Instead it has an SD UHSII card slot as the second slot. For what i shoot, this is more than sufficient and works out well as i have a ton of SD cards just waiting to be used. The Cfexpress type B card has blistering fast writing speeds and is the best media on the market IMO.The Z8 has all the video specs of the Z9 but at a compromise. The smaller body does not handle heat as well and therefore will not give you the same record times as the Z9. The battery of the Z8 will also play a factor in these record times. 4K frames range from 24fps all the way to 120fps for amazing slow motion video. The Z8 also adopts the Z9’s ability to record in 8K. This future proofs your camera. I have recorded in 8K a handful of times just so that i could have the flexibility to zoom in and out of a shot and still be able to maintain a 4K image quality. Then i can render the entire file at 4K.Nikon made a bold statement when they created the Z8. They are no longer holding back when it comes to the features and performance of their newer released cameras. It’s a great time to be a Nikon shooter.

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   Robert – August 4, 2025

   Amazing camera and kit, pros claim accurate color rendering
   The camera and lens go well as a kit, they give you super fast auto focus with very good pics.The camera feels just the right weight to be sturdy yet nifty enough to use with hands. I have used other Nikons before and this one just feels great. Please go try it out at a local electronics store, you will not regret it.If you are getting a mirrorless Nikon, I suggest to go with their mirrorless lenses.A professional team of photographers I know of swear by the Nikon lineup due to accurate color rendering when the pics are developed.I haven’t even tried the video feature yet, but so far I am happy with the purchase. You get what you pay for in general with Nikon. The reliability history of the brand is top notch.

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   Laura – August 4, 2025

   Nikon….Bye Bye.
   Excellent camera on paper but in reality, it’s more marketing than anything else on many aspects! The video image quality is superb but that doesn’t make it a video camera but more a very good camera! So yes, the technical sheet makes you dream, 8k60 nraw, pro res raw, 4k oversampled, 4k120 without crop, almost zero rolling shutter, very good in low light and robust body but in reality and me who was looking for a camera for video mainly, I turned to Nikon, after having moved from Sony and Lumix but what a mistake! in my opinion and according to what I’m obviously looking for, Nikon is an excellent brand but they are years behind Lumix for video, autofocus on a gimbal with fast rear movements, are a disaster even with a native lens and specific settings, the Z8’s autofocus is far behind Lumix S5IIX in video, except in low light, the body is made of plastic so it heats up a lot! I tried several types of cf express but where I am it’s hot it’s impossible to film a video shoot outdoors! In short Lumix’s strong point is to make their cameras compatible with SSDs but Nikon will not do it because they will not be able to do it on their range above Z9, in any case for me it’s a first on Nikon and the last time, paying 4000usd for a video camera, which limits you in your actions, it’s not worth it. Bad AF video, overheating, cf express too expensive, N-log to rec709 weak compared to v-log and s-log3, believe me stay away from Nikon cameras for the moment!, I’ll come back one day maybe but not now.UPDATE>Ok, I’m coming back to the z8’s autofocus, I almost sold it and I still decided to buy the 50mm 1.4 z, a latest-gen native lens, to see how the AF works and I have to say that in video, it’s now very, very good! it manages to surpass my s5IIX in autofocus, after some research, I saw a lot of possibilities to improve the camera that heats up, like a Zitay SSD to the express cf or Exascend pro or element pro cards for example with lower voltage 1.25v at 400mb/s, so this card should be the best for this camera, I’ll get back to you on that soon but in practice in h265 or Nraw 4k 30p, you can film for more than 2 hours without the camera emitting a signal which is a pretty good sign! I also improved the Nlog to the rec709 on Davinci resolve because the one given by Nikon was bad! with just a few options on the software and the use of RED luts, it becomes very very good. in short, with patience… so I change my rating, only morons don’t change their opinion.

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   Amazon Customer – August 4, 2025

   Great professional level camera.
   Upgraded from a Nikon Zfc that I received as a retirement gift. Image quality is great. So far I have used it for portrait, macro, and backyard wildlife. I intend to do some sports action photography (baseball) but my local team’s season has ended. Still have a lot to learn. I follow YouTube videos for setup and tips/tricks. I have several Z mount lenses and I use my Canon EF lenses with an FtoZ converter. Photo is a stacked focus image of a cicada with the Nikkor MC 105/2.8 macro lens.

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   Ignacio Figueroa – August 4, 2025

   Excelente calidad de cámara, para foto o video.

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   Alejandro – August 4, 2025

   Excelente equipo.

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   Art – August 4, 2025

   Su capacidad de auto-enfoque en los ojos del sujeto asi como su rapidez, la sensación de robustez, son tantas cosas que son fabulosas en esta camara!

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   Luis Duarte – August 4, 2025

   Excelente cámara