📷Nikon Z5 real life review - Eye AF, high-ISO, dynamic range, IBIS and video tested!

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If you're in Budapest, check out one of the best camera stores, 220Volt, who were kind enough to give me a test body:
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0:00 Intro
1:21 Specs
Z5 sports a newly designed 24 megapixel full-frame sensor with IBIS, which works insanely well!

5:04 Autofocus settings
The Z5 has Auto Area, Wide Area, Dynamic area and single point AF. Most of the time I was happy with the Auto Area AF setting, it automatically focused on the subjects closer to me, and found the faces if there were.

5:52 Eye-Af
In Auto-Area AF mode, the Z5 can find faces and eyes, if set in the Menu. By default it focuses on the closer eye, but you can jump between the eyes with the joystick

6:56 Subject tracking
The same square box as we've gotten used to so far. Works well, but the size is not adjustable

7:37 Burst speed
This is where Nikon made the only compromise in the specs: only 4.5 fps. It could surely do more, but probably Nikon did not want to make competition for the Z6

7:54 Animal Eye AF
Almost the same as I've found in the Z50. It did an outstanding job on a bright-fured dog, finding the eyes even from several meters!
However, with a dark-grey dog, the Eye AF just wouldn't activate...

10:10 iMenu
10:32 Customisation
Almost every button is customizable, and even the control rings on the Z lenses. Here I show what you can use the focus ring on the lens for.

11:25 Manual focusing
11:58 Ports
12:23 Kit lens test
Though the 24-50 mm f/4-6.3 lens is small, feels cheap, has poor aperture, it actually delivers pretty good overall sharpness!

13:57 IBIS
The image stabilisation delivers what it promises! I could easily handhold 1/8 s shutter speed with the 85mm lens!

16:18 Self-timer

17:18 High ISO performance
Though the Z5 has a sensor made with BSI technology, which is supposed to be inferior, the high ISO performance is actually pretty good!

18:15 Dynamic range / ISO invariance test
Quite surprisingly, the Z5 has an excellent dinamic range, shadows can be pushed up by 5 stops with no noticeable color noise banding

19:28 RAW file size
Z5 offers 14 and 12 bit RAW files, both with lossless and lossy compressed format. To my surprise, the lossy compressed setting produced only slightly smaller files.

20:12 Battery power time
I could not specifically test it, but I could take 450 shots, and have the battery still around 40%.

20:41 Video specs
21:35 Video AF
22:58 Image stabilisation in video
23:47 Color grading
24:23 Summary