Details leak about the Nikon Zr

On March 7th, 2024, Nikon acquired the cinema camera manufacturing company, RED, in a pretty shocking move at the time. It was one in which I was a little jealous that Canon, with its massive war chest for such acquisitions, didn't pull off, but maybe they'll buy Arri instead.

Nikon Corporation (Nikon) hereby announces its entry into an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding membership interests of RED.com, LLC (RED) whereby RED will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nikon, pursuant to a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement with Mr. James Jannard, its founder, and Mr. Jarred Land, its current President, subject to the satisfaction of certain closing conditions thereunder.

Nikon's been pretty quiet, outside of the continued progress on its interchangeable lens cameras, having better video chops, and starting to get recognized for its video capabilities. In many ways, on the pivot to mirrorless, Nikon had the better video specifications, even though Canon had a significant head start with that via its video systems in its DSLRs and EOS-M.

Now, though, Nikon is making its first cinema camera, and it's called the Zr. But it's a small compact camera versus what we are used to seeing in the cinema world. Think of it more like a Sony FX series or a Canon R50V-like line of cameras, versus a fully featured cinema camera like the EOS C50 that Canon will announce today.

Rumored Specifications

• 24MP partially stacked sensor
• 6k all intra
• IBIS
• one SD and one micro SD card slot
• Announcement on Sept 10

6K would align with it being one of Nikon's 24MP sensors – quite possibly the same sensor that is in the Z6 III .

The Micro SD card slot seemed strange to me. I really can't see the point of that. SD cards are bad enough, let alone the smaller Micro SD cards.

We also have images (thanks) showing off the Zr, and you can see that it conforms to the compact bricks we are seeing from all the camera vendors.

We'll find out more soon enough.

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