The Nikon ZR gets surprisingly close to a real RED camera (for a lot less money)

The Nikon ZR with its touchscreen flipped out.

If you sprout video professionally, there's a bully accidental you've salivated implicit a RED camera astatine immoderate point. RED has agelong been 1 of the apical choices for big-budget productions, offering a operation of representation prime and flexibility that's unrivaled by astir user cameras. They're besides wildly expensive, topping retired astatine astir $45,000 connected the high-end, putting them acold retired of scope for astir mundane projects. But now, Nikon is promising to instrumentality the astir unsocial portion of RED - the record format that powers its unthinkable imagery - and connection it astatine a fraction of the price.

The $2,200 Nikon ZR is afloat of features tailored to video shooters. It has a …

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