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There’s a 0.7x-magnification 100% coverage optical viewfinder along with 7 frames per second (fps) shooting rate, or 12 fps in Live View.

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Full HD recording up to 120 fps is available, too. This sensor also permits UHD 4K video recording up to 30 fps using either full-frame or cropped areas.

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The Nikon D780's sensor features a BSI (back side illuminated) design for 'heightened clarity and reduced noise' that is why I’ll test the 204,800 ISO setting to, you know, see what happens. Implementation of Auto ISO on the D780 may be a Nikon quirk (or feature) but it’s something that I use when the lighting conditions gets iffy and playing the 'guess the ISO' game takes too much time. Unlike many cameras including some of Nikon’s own, the useful Auto ISO setting is only available in 'Green Mode,' the totally automated setting most used by beginners. To their credit, Nikon doesn’t require you to do menu dives to unlock these settings, but the actual numbers are hidden behind monikers like Hi 2.0, for 204,800. The Nikon D780’s full-frame CMOS sensor along with Nikon’s EXPEED 6 processor together enable a normal sensitivity range from ISO 100-51,200, which can be expanded to ISO 50-204,800, if you absolutely, positively must go there.

Nevertheless, I will, as they say, press on regardless. But there are others, moi for example, who feel the opposite.

Now there are those people to whom shooting with a big camera signifies solidity and professionalism and I should know I’m married to one of them. Adding the 24-120mm kit lens’ 1.56 pounds of weight brings the entire package up to 3.41 pounds. Weighing in at 1.85 pounds, the D780's body is slightly heavier than the six-year-old D750, which is its predecessor. Maybe the reason for this lack is that the D780 is already a big 'un. The Nikon Z6, Z7 and Z50 mirrorless cameras have a single card slot with an XQD slot in the two former models and an UHS-I SD memory card slot in the latter.Īre twin card slots a necessity? If you are going to build a camera like the Nikon D780, which is obviously aimed at professionals, I think you need two card slots and maybe offer a battery grip, like the D750’s optional MB-D16.īut wait there are no pins on the D780’s base to accommodate a battery grip. Make no mistake about it though, the D780 is a serious camera it has two UHS-II SD memory card slots but no XQD slots. Let's look closer in this Nikon D780 review.įueling the mirrorless/DSLR confusion is Nikon’s own admission that the D780 is 'new kind of DSLR' that includes 'features from the Nikon Z series.' But let me repeat myself: the Nikon D780 is a DSLR! But the Nikon D780 is more than just another pretty face. On the other hand, what the Nikon D780 does have, other than a higher price tag, is the best body design since Nikon’s landmark F2. What the Nikon Z6 does have and what the D780 notably lacks but tries to make up for with the stabilized AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4G ED VR kit lens is IBIS (In Body Image Stabilization). It is not.īy comparison, Nikon’s mirrorless Z6 has a 55mm throat with a 16mm flange-to-focal plane distance and doesn’t have a mirror. Imagine that.īut because the D780 has features similar to Nikon’s mirrorless 24.5-megapixel Z6, some pundits have referred to this new camera as a hybrid or bridge mirrorless/DSLR. The Nikon D780 also has a flippy mirror that jumps out of the way when making an exposure. It uses the venerable F-mount introduced on the Nikon F in 1959 and features a 44mm throat with a 46.5mm flange-to-focal plane distance. Remember those? The D780, which was introduced by Nikon in January, is a 'throwback' camera in other ways as well.