Challenge Nikon Z 8 in the extreme cold of minus 39 degrees to shoot the snow scene and meteor shower in northern China

Nikon Z 8 believes that everyone is familiar with it, and the whole picture is full of sincerity camera Since its release, it has received a high degree of attention. After all, its performance configuration is comparable to the flagship camera Z 9. Today we are going to bring you something different, a report on the extreme cold challenge of Nikon Z 8. Not long ago, we took Nikon Z 8 to the north of Inner Mongolia and the great northeast of the motherland. In a few days here, we felt the extreme cold of minus 35 to minus 39 degrees. At the same time, we also used Nikon Z 8 to shoot the northern snow scenery and meteor shower wonders. Next, let's see how Nikon Z 8 performs in extremely cold environment.

First of all, I would like to bring you the video works taken this time.

The extreme cold of minus 39 degrees still does not affect the shooting experience

In addition to shooting the meteor shower this time, we also shot the snow scene in Northern China. After the whole trip, we had a new understanding of the Nikon Z 8 camera. Nikon Z 8 is positioned as an all-purpose camera, which is comparable to the flagship camera in terms of image quality, focusing, anti shake, continuous shooting, video and control protection. After this experience, we believe that the performance of Nikon Z 8 in extremely cold environments is very satisfactory, even beyond our imagination.

It's very difficult to shoot in an environment of minus 39 degrees

The first problem you will encounter in extremely cold environment is the rapid decline of battery power. Normally, the battery life of Nikon Z 8 is very easy, but in extremely cold environment, the battery life will be greatly reduced. Unexpectedly, Nikon Z 8 can shoot for a long time with one battery, at least 3-4 hours. Especially when shooting meteor shower with long exposure at night, it still has excellent endurance performance, which frankly surprised us.

Nikon Z 8 takes the rime spectacle

Another situation is that the LCD screen of the camera will show serious smear in extremely cold environments. In our previous experience, when the LCD screen is outdoors for about 15-20 minutes, there will be serious smear phenomenon, or even the picture will freeze. However, Nikon Z 8's performance is much better. It takes about 40 minutes to appear the phenomenon of shadow dragging in the open air, and the degree of shadow dragging is relatively slight. The large-scale moving shooting is not affected too much.

The Nikon Z 8 has no problems with control, focusing and shooting at minus 39 degrees

Focus experience of small objects is still fast and accurate

Even macro focusing has no effect

In addition, in terms of control, focusing and shooting, Nikon Z 8 has no problems due to extreme cold. Even in an environment close to minus 40 degrees, Nikon Z 8's parameter adjustment and setting changes are the same as our daily use, and focusing can still be fast and accurate. The object recognition focusing ability is still excellent and stable. Pressing the shutter to capture photos, record videos and store has no impact, just like we use it in our daily environment. With this performance, we can take Nikon Z 8 to record different scenes in more harsh environments with more confidence.

Comparable to the image quality of the flagship full frame camera

Nikon Z 8 is a full frame micro single camera, which is equipped with the same stack full frame CMOS sensor design as Z9. Its pixels have reached 45.71 million, and the maximum photo resolution has reached 8256 × 5504, which means that this is a full frame camera with high pixels, high resolution and high image quality.

Nikon Z 8 live shot sample (the red box is the screenshot area)

The screenshot area is 100% enlarged

Nikon Z 8 has a very powerful analytical performance. What is the meaning for users? It is that the content presented in the screen is more abundant. As can be seen from our live shot samples, even if we capture a small part of the area in the picture, after 100% magnification, we can still see rich and clear details, which is the strength of Nikon Z 8 in terms of analytical power. At the same time, the residual resolution of the screenshot area still reaches 2435 × 1614. Therefore, after we use Nikon Z 8 to shoot, whether we zoom in to see details or later re composition, it is very relaxing and pleasant.

Nikon Z 8 real shot sample

Nikon Z 8 real shot sample

Nikon Z 8 real shot sample

Tolerance has always been one of Nikon's strengths. Nikon Z 8 has RAW format files with large capacity, which means that the original information it records is very rich, so its later adjustment ability is very broad. Especially in the high light ratio environment, when we shoot with Nikon Z 8, we tend to expose details in the highlight area more normally, but sacrifice details in the dark area, and then use the RAW file of Nikon Z 8 in the later stage Software After adjustment, restore the lost dark details. The restored dark details not only do not have obvious noise increase, but also do not have color deviation problems, which fully shows that Nikon Z 8 has professional tolerance performance, so that users can be more confident and bold to shoot in a high light ratio environment.

Real time shooting of meteor shower in Nikon Z 8 (ISO 2000)

Nikon Z 8 Real time Star Pictures (ISO 2000)

Nikon Z 8 Real time Star Pictures (ISO 3200)

Nikon Z 8 is not only a high quality, high-speed camera, but also has a powerful high sense image quality performance, comparable to the standard of flagship cameras. In addition to taking pictures of the snow scenery in Northern China, another important trip this time is to record the wonders of meteor shower. In the dark environment, Nikon Z 8 can achieve - 7EV dark light focusing ability (- 9EV dark light focusing can be supported in the starry sky mode), so the focusing experience is excellent when shooting stars and meteor showers. In addition, even in the shooting mode of high ISO and long exposure, the pictures recorded by Nikon Z 8 are still clean, which fully demonstrates the excellent noise control ability of the camera. Therefore, users can use high ISO more confidently and boldly when shooting and recording starry sky photography subjects at night. In fact, even if ISO 12800 is used, we are still satisfied with the noise control effect of Nikon Z 8.

It can be seen that even in the extremely cold environment, Nikon Z 8 still has excellent performance, which can fully meet our shooting needs to record the wonders of the ice and snow world and meteor shower. In such a harsh environment, the protection and endurance performance of Nikon Z 8 can still meet our needs for high-intensity shooting, which really makes us very satisfied, even better than we expected. In particular, Nikon Z 8 has not been affected by the cold environment in the process of control, focusing, storage and other links during the shooting process, so that the whole shooting process has a relaxed experience. Not to mention the core competitiveness of Nikon Z 8, which is comparable to the flagship camera in terms of image quality, high sensitivity, high resolution, etc., to record the wonderful northern scenery for us. With such strong strength, we believe that we can take Nikon Z 8 to any corner of the world, and use Nikon Z 8 to record different landscapes with ease.

Appreciation of more photos of northern scenery of Nikon Z 8:

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