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Creative Picture Controls
Self-portrait mode
SnapBridge
Webcam Utility
Introducing the Nikon Z30 Mirrorless Digital Camera - 20.9MP, 4K where exceptional imaging prowess meets unmatched versatility. With its APS-C size/DX-format image sensor, powered by the advanced EXPEED 6 image-processing engine, and the brilliance of NIKKOR Z lenses, this compact camera delivers video quality that's truly outstanding.
Whether you're creating stunning stills or captivating videos, the Z30's standard sensitivity range of ISO 100-51200 ensures your shots remain noise-free, even in challenging lighting conditions. One of the Z30's stand out features is its Eye-/Animal-Detection AF, designed to keep your subjects sharply in focus, whether you're shooting dynamic videos or breathtaking stills. The vari-angle touch-sensitive monitor empowers you to explore various shooting angles, from selfies to low-angle, high-angle, and waist positions, ensuring your creative vision knows no bounds. You can unleash your creativity with features like 4K UHD/30p, Creative Picture Controls, slow motion, and time-lapse.
This camera is ready to support your content creation journey, making it a perfect companion for content creators and vloggers. With up to 125 minutes of continuous video recording and being the smallest and lightest mirrorless camera in the Z series, the Z30 is always ready to capture your inspiration. Designed with video shooting in mind, the Z30 boasts a REC lamp, dedicated video-record button, ergonomic grip, and an intuitive button layout. It's your ultimate tool for turning your creative ideas into reality.
Plus, with content creator-friendly applications like SnapBridge and NX Studio's Movie Editor and Webcam Utility, your editing and sharing options are seamless. The Nikon Z30 Mirrorless Camera is your gateway to incredible imaging and limitless creative possibilities.
Model | Z30 |
Brand | Nikon |
Colour | Black |
Type | |
Type of camera | Digital camera with support for interchangeable lenses |
Lens mount | Nikon Z mount |
Lens | |
Compatible lenses | Z mount NIKKOR lenses |
F mount NIKKOR lenses (mount adapter required restrictions may apply) | |
Effective pixels | |
Effective pixels | 20.9 million |
Image sensor | |
Type | 23.5 x 15.7 mm CMOS sensor (Nikon DX format) |
Total pixels | 21.51 million |
Dust-reduction system | Image Dust Off reference data (NX Studio software required) |
Storage | |
Image size (pixels) | DX (24 x 16) selected for image area: 5568 x 3712 (Large: 20.7 M), 4176 x 2784 (Medium: 11.6 M), 2784 x 1856 (Small: 5.2 M) |
1:1 (16 x 16) selected for image area: 3712 x 3712 (Large: 13.8 M), 2784 x 2784 (Medium: 7.8 M), 1856 x 1856 (Small: 3.4 M) | |
16:9 (24 x 14) selected for image area: 5568 x 3128 (Large: 17.4 M), 4176 x 2344 (Medium: 9.8 M), 2784 x 1560 (Small: 4.3 M) | |
Photographs taken while recording videos at a frame size of 3840 x 2160: 3840 x 2160 | |
Photographs taken while recording videos at other frame sizes: 1920 x 1080 | |
File format (image quality) | NEF (RAW): 12 or 14-bit |
JPEG: JPEG-Baseline compliant with fine (approx. 1:4), normal (approx.1:8), or basic (approx.1:16) compression | |
NEF (RAW)+JPEG: Single photograph recorded in both NEF (RAW) and JPEG formats | |
Picture Control system | Auto, Standard, Neutral, Vivid, Monochrome, Portrait, Landscape, Flat, Creative Picture Controls (Dream, Morning, Pop, Sunday, Somber, Dramatic, Silence, Bleached, Melancholic, Pure, Denim, Toy, Sepia, Blue, Red, Pink, Charcoal, Graphite, Binary, Carbon) selected Picture Control can be modified storage for custom Picture Controls |
Media | SD (Secure Digital), and UHS-I compliant SDHC and SDXC memory cards |
Monitor | |
Monitor | 7.5-cm/3.0-in. approx. 1040k-dot vari-angle TFT touch-sensitive LCD with 170 viewing angles, approximately 100% frame coverage, and color balance and 11-level manual brightness controls |
Shutter | |
Type | Electronically controlled vertical-travel focal-plane mechanical shutter electronic front-curtain shutter electronic shutter |
Speed | 1/4000 to 30 s in steps of 1/3 EV, bulb, time |
Flash sync speed | Synchronizes with shutter at X1/200 s or slower supported with auto FP high-speed sync |
Release | |
Release modes | Single frame, continuous L, continuous H, continuous H (extended), Self-timer |
Approximate frame advance rate | Continuous L: Approx. 1 to 4 fps |
Continuous H: Approx. 5 fps | |
Continuous H (extended): Approx. 11 fps | |
Maximum frame advance rate as measured by in-house tests. | |
Self-timer | 2 s, 5 s, 10 s, 20 s 1 to 9 exposures at intervals of 0.5, 1, 2, or 3 s |
Exposure | |
Metering system | TTL metering using camera image sensor |
Metering modes | Matrix metering |
Center-weighted metering: Weight of 75% given to 8-mm circle in centre of frame weighting can instead be based on average of entire frame | |
Spot metering: Meters 3.5-mm circle (about 2.5% of frame) centred on selected focus point | |
Highlight-weighted metering | |
Range (ISO 100 and f/2.0 lens at 20C/68F) | -4 to +17 EV |
Modes | Auto, P: programmed auto with flexible program, S: shutter-priority auto, A: aperture-priority auto, M: manual |
U1, U2 and U3: user settings modes | |
Exposure compensation | Range: -5 to +5 EV, Increment: 1/3 steps |
Exposure lock | Luminosity locked at detected value |
ISO sensitivity (Recommended Exposure Index) | ISO 100 to 51200 in steps of 1/3 EV can also be set to approx. 1 EV above ISO 51200 (ISO 102400 equivalent) or to approx. 2 EV above ISO 51200 (ISO 204800 equivalent) auto ISO sensitivity control available |
Active D-Lighting | Auto, Extra high, High, Normal, Low, and Off |
Multiple exposure | Add, average, lighten, darken |
Other options | HDR (high dynamic range), photo mode flicker reduction |
Autofocus | |
Type | Hybrid phase-detection/contrast AF |
Detection range (in photo mode, AF-S, ISO 100, f/1.8 lens at 20C/68F) | -4.5 to +19 EV (-3 to +19 EV without low-light AF) |
Lens servo | Autofocus: Single-servo AF (AF-S), continuous-servo AF (AF-C), AF mode auto-switch (AF-A, photo mode only), full-time AF (AF-F, video mode only), predictive focus tracking |
Manual focus (M): Electronic range finder can be used | |
Focus points (in photo mode, single-point AF, DX format) | 209 focus points |
AF-area modes | Pinpoint AF single-point AF dynamic-area AF wide-area AF (S), wide-area AF (L), wide-area AF (L-people) wide-area AF (L-animals) auto-area AF auto-area AF (people) auto-area AF (animals) pinpoint AF and dynamic-area AF available in photo mode only |
Flash | |
Flash control | TTL: i-TTL flash control i-TTL balanced fill-flash is used with matrix, center-weighted, and highlight-weighted metering, standard i-TTL fill-flash with spot metering |
Flash modes | Front-curtain sync, slow sync, rear-curtain sync, red-eye reduction, red-eye reduction with slow sync, off |
Nikon Creative Lighting System (CLS) | i-TTL flash control, optical Advanced Wireless Lighting, FV lock, Colour Information Communication, auto FP high-speed sync |
White balance | |
White balance | Auto (3 types), natural light auto, direct sunlight, cloudy, shade, incandescent, fluorescent (3 types), flash, choose colour temperature (2500 K to 10000 K), preset manual (up to 6 values can be stored), all with fine-tuning except choose colour temperature |
Bracketing | |
Bracketing types | Exposure and/or flash, white balance, and ADL |
Video | |
Metering system | TTL metering using camera image sensor |
Metering modes | Matrix, center-weighted or highlight-weighted |
Frame size (pixels) and frame rate | 3840 x 2160 (4K UHD) 30p (progressive), 25p, 24p |
1920 x 1080 120p, 100p, 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p, 24p | |
1920 x 1080 slow-motion 30p (x4), 25p (x4), 24p (x5) Actual frame rates for 120p, 100p, 60p, 50p, 30p, 25p, and 24p are 119.88, 100, 59.94, 50, 29.97, 25, and 23.976 fps respectively | |
File format | MOV, MP4 |
Video compression | H.264/MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding |
Audio recording format | Linear PCM (for videos recorded in MOV format) or AAC (for videos recorded in MP4 format) |
Audio recording device | Built-in stereo or external microphone with attenuator option sensitivity adjustable |
Exposure compensation | Range: -3 to +3 EV, Increment: 1/3 steps |
ISO sensitivity (Recommended Exposure Index) | M: Manual selection (ISO 100 to 25600 in steps of 1/3 EV) auto ISO sensitivity control (ISO 100 to 25600) available with selectable upper limit |
P, S, A: Auto ISO sensitivity control (ISO 100 to 25600) with selectable upper limit | |
Auto: Auto ISO sensitivity control (ISO 100 to 25600) | |
Active D-Lighting | Same as photo settings, extra high, high, normal, low, and off |
Other options | Time-lapse video recording, electronic vibration reduction, time codes, with REC lamp |
Interface | |
USB | Type-C USB connector (SuperSpeed USB) connection to built-in USB port is recommended |
HDMI output | Type-D HDMI connector |
Audio input | Stereo mini-pin jack (3.5-mm diameter plug-in power supported) |
Wi-Fi/Bluetooth | |
Wi-Fi | Available |
Bluetooth | Available |
Power source | |
Battery | One EN-EL25 Rechargeable Li-ion Battery |
Charging AC adapter | EH-7P Charging AC Adapter (available separately) |
Dimensions/weight | |
Dimensions (W x H x D) | Approx. 128 x 73.5 x 59.5 mm/5.1 x 2.9 x 2.4 in. |
Weight | Approx. 405 g/14.3 oz. with battery and memory card but without body cap approx. 350 g/12.4 oz. (camera body only) |
Operating environment | |
Operating environment | Temperature: 0 to 40C/32 to 104F Humidity: 85% or less (no condensation) |
Supplied accessories | |
Supplied accessories (may differ by country or area) | EN-EL25 Rechargeable Li-ion Battery, AN-DC25 Strap, BF-N1 Body Cap, UC-E24 USB Cable |
Free Shipping | No |
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