Nikon Z 9 | Firmware version 5.00 | First look at new features

The latest major FREE firmware update version 5.00 is now available for the Nikon Z 9!

Ricci Chera takes us through the latest features & advancements for the Z 9, including:
📷 Skin softening
📷 Portrait impression balance
📷 Rich tone portrait picture control
📷 Added reserve function to Auto Capture
📷 Added lower-speed [C15] option to High-Speed Frame Capture+
📷 Increased number of functions can be added to custom controls

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[beckermuns]

Thank you Nikon, owning both Z8 and Z9, all these firmware updates are making the shooting experience better each time, and it shoes your commitment towards us the buyers!!

[MikeJamesMedia]

Always a pleasure to hear what you have to say, Ricci. Thank you! I hadn't bought a Nikon "flagship camera" since the D3X, but the Z9 was too amazing to pass up. Now, two years later, it just keeps getting better! Thank you, Nikon!

[rogeriopeccioli]

Congratulations Nikon. The company that is always innovating for Z9 owners.

[peternavanac]

Thanks Nikon for a truly awesome camera that is highly reliable, has phenomenal image quality and excellent ergonomics and menu options. Supplying all these useful, thoughtful updates after the purchase is greatly appreciated.

[Afireinside]

Can't wait to see what is next! I'm loving firmware updates!

[venkatalgramam]

Tx ricci for the short & crisp update - Two comments - PIXEL shift & faster Raw shooting would have been welcome - Also why cant we add a firmware update & have zebras showing overblown highlights in the view finder itself ( in still mode - its there in Video mode !!!!) - have taken up many times with Nikon to no Avail - can you help

[MrModerate_kane]

Nikon makes me happy, as a long term customer this makes me feel you guys are setting the bar so high for the brand post purchase, its value for money. Having updates makes it feel current and values, its not a purchase and forget, no more Version II with small changes like D5 to D6, these are the same body with additional functions, thats massive in my mind. Not a fanboy, just a happy customer seeing these updates, having the Z8 i am more than happy with anything i get extra to my original purchase. I can't wait to see the impact of RED patents and tech moving both ways on future, the futures bright for sure. Also Look at Ricci, glad your presenting, best feature for me, Custom offsetting for flicker reduction, i shoot arena's and return to the same places each year, this will make it a lot easier to save it and add it as defaults in my bank for events, and awards. GJ Ricci and GJ Nikon, just having a realisation why i like this Brands support.

[gll]

what the Z9 needs is pre capture in RAW Olympus has it

[musiqueetmontagne]

Thanks Ricci for your usual well explained information and explanations. Excellent stuff. Nikon are really becoming a heavily customer aware company and I feel we've had almost two cameras out of the Z8 and Z9. Amazing. Feels comfortable to be invested in their hardware going forward.

[LavricSorin]

Pixel shift and RAW pre-capture ! Please, Nikon!😢

[showphoto]

Your Nikon special Arc'teryx jacket is very nice. Where can I get it?

[beetrootize]

Please consider adding to Z8 and Z9 the bracketing options found on Z6 and Z7 - specifically two-frames bracketing, to have one -3stops exposure to protect highlights!

[HotGates]

So we're not going to get pre release in RAW ever?

[ArnaudLerondeau]

Loving many things:
- cycling thru AF areas is totally awesome 🤩
- high speed JPEG FINE 👌
- High ISO type B 👏

Now what i really miss, which seems super easy to implement, is for Recall Shooting Functions, being able to set High speed modes ! Why stopping at 20fps ??

What do you think Ricci ?

[alnoormeralli]

Most photographers that own a Z9 have standardized their workflows using RAW. So improvements in JPEG pre-capture functionality provides limited value. Even 10 fps with pre-capture RAW for just one second would be very helpful, if only to simply counter the average human reaction time to visual stimulus of around 300 milliseconds. Thank you for all the updates, Nikon!

[DeanAllman]

Nikon needs to provide documentation on how separate settings in the Shooting menu banks for video and photos has been implemented. You still can't change the name of one without affecting the other. And why do we have separate banks for Shooting and Custom settings? It's pretty hard to track which combo has what. A much simpler implementation combining both Shooting and Custom settings makes a lot more sense. It is still way too cumbersome to use this feature.

[johnhjic]

Hello Ricci, You must thank the team at Nikon for some supper update, let alone the great Z cameras and not sure what the team. developing the Z glass were doing but the Z glass is just so much nicer better than the very good F glass. So thank you Nikon.

[ShaneBaker]

Thanks Ricci. Some good stuff there - but no pixel shift shooting. 😔

[drstavroseleftheriou]

Great analysis! My wish list to Nikon: 1. see "blinkies" the same way (or similar) as we have in video mode. 2. Pre- capture RAW

[Riskbreaker]

Nikon is going strong and showing Sony how to make meaningful updates for cameras