Nikon Z 30 Mirrorless Camera with 16-50mm VR Lens

Share your story with stunning video quality
Elevate your content by boosting the image quality. Express your memories of a wonderful night richly, without image noise. Draw all eyes to yourself or your subject looking beautiful against a soft background bokeh. Engage people’s senses across your whole image, with sharp details and rich textures. The Z 30 gives you easy access to all these benefits. The key is the larger volume of light received by its APS-C size/DX-format image sensor — 14× larger and more advanced than that in a typical smartphone*. Further contributions come from the advanced-performance engine — the same EXPEED 6 found in higher-level models such as the Z 7/Z 6 — and the strikingly sharp NIKKOR Z lenses.
* 1/2.5-in. sensor.

Sharp focus on the eyes of friends and pets in motion
Make your video more engaging with a constant sharp focus on the eyes — whether it’s you, your friends and family or your pets. Eye-Detection AF and Animal-Detection AF are available in wide-area AF (L) as well as auto-area AF, letting the camera more reliably pick out the eyes to focus on. This makes it easy to capture your subjects’ eyes in focus even when they are moving — in both video recording and still photography. The AF-F mode dedicated to video recording enables powerful tracking of your subjects even when they are moving or composition changes. If you want a more subtle and nuanced expression, try applying slower or faster focusing, with AF speed adjustable between 11 steps. Go faster to quickly shift focus from the item you’re introducing back to your face or go slower to smoothly draw viewers’ attention from one subject to another.

Check footage of yourself in real-time with the rotating monitor
Connect better with your audience via the Z 30’s vari-angle monitor, by simply pointing the camera and rotating the monitor toward yourself. This way, you can record selfies while making sure you look good in real-time. Adjusting exposure compensation is also easy and intuitive through checking your appearance and using touch operation on the monitor. Taking further advantage of the vari-angle monitor, you can explore more creative angles, whether it’s from waist level, higher up or very low — letting you share your life from your own unique angles.

Let the camera roll for as long as you need
Keep the camera rolling for up to 125 minutes, convenient for content like makeup tutorials or product reviews. Meanwhile, connecting a portable charger or computer allows the Z 30 to record with a constant power supply, giving you peace of mind during a long take.

Compact and lightweight yet sharp and beautiful
The NIKKOR Z lens lineup offers beginner-friendly choices that are designed to be small and accessible but deliver extremely high performance. They depict every detail with superb sharpness, create soft, natural background bokeh, and are easy to operate, exceeding what’s expected from conventional kit lenses. All the DX lenses come equipped with Nikon’s vibration reduction (VR) system*, which helps stabilize the footage when recording while walking. Try using different lenses and broaden the possibilities for your content.
* As of June 29, 2022.

NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR
If you are carrying the Z 30 with you all the time to shoot your vlogs, this compact lens is for you. It’s perfect for selfie shots, either solo or with a friend, as well as for any of your everyday moments. Just take it with you everywhere and enjoy its high-definition rendering performance with amazing sharpness that makes your subject stand out beautifully, whether it’s you or a tasty dish you’ve just made. If you want to push your creativity, you can come right up to your subject and get striking close-up shots.

A companion you can take anywhere
As the most compact and lightweight* camera in the Z series, the Z 30 is no burden at all to take with you. The compact body fits right in your hand and weighs about 540 g** even in combination with the NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR — not much more than a 500-ml bottle of water. Slip it into your bag or sling it over your shoulder and enjoy going out with your camera.
* As of June 29, 2022.
** With battery and SD memory card.

A camera body that just feels right
Every detail of the camera is designed to help you tell your stories more easily. The Z 30 features a luxurious exterior design, adopting operational controls and embossed leather material commonly used in the Z series from flagship to entrance level models, offering a smooth operational feel. The deep grip ensures the compact body feels comfortable and secure in your hands, even when shooting all day long. Since you can grip the camera firmly, it helps you get steadier footage. If you want to further stabilize the camera, simply extend the camera strap taut against the back of your neck. The iconic shape of the front right shoulder means it’s also comfortable held sideways — perfect for creating vertical content.

Optimized for video recording
The Z 30 helps make all your video recording smoother. The large video-record button is easy to access in every position — whether it’s a selfie, high angle, or from the waist. When recording yourself, the red light on the front body lets you confirm that you are actually recording, so there’s no chance of getting to the end of your shot only to realize you accidentally failed to capture anything.

Effortlessly achieve your desired look
The Z 30’s Auto mode is not just simple to use but also enables higher-level expression. If you feel your video is too dark or too bright, you can tweak the brightness by easily adjusting the exposure, without even changing modes. This lets you achieve the look you want while confirming the result on the monitor, making it easy to capture yourself or your subject in silhouette, high key and low key.

Your content, your way — Picture Controls and Creative Picture Controls
If you want an instant natural look and colours, select Picture Control Auto, which is also used in the Nikon Z 9 flagship model and optimally designed for video recording — to easily enhance the quality of your video. With 20 kinds of Creative Picture Control you can instantly add colour to your content, so you can easily get the look you want. The applied effect is visible on the monitor, helping you confirm the look before shooting. You can also fine-tune the effect level, sharpness, or other parameters to help you craft that unique look you want.

Shortcut to setting change via i button
The i button offers convenient one-touch access to 12 settings via the i menu, letting you make quick changes without needing to go deep into the menus. Your setting change is immediately reflected on the monitor so you can preview each adjustment in real time. The operation is touch-sensitive, providing even speedier access to the settings you need. The i menu is customizable with your 12 most frequently used settings in the order you prefer.

Wow your audience with immersive beauty
Make your content stand out by capturing sharply detailed 4K UHD video at 30p, 25p and 24p. What you shoot will come out amazingly sharp with rich textures and immersive beauty. Since there is no cropping of the frame, you can maximize your lenses’ angle of view even in 4K UHD, letting you achieve wide-angle scenery shots or sizzling food shots with ease.