24.5 megapixel sensor with better stability, the latest Nikon Expeed 7 processor and the best automatic focus ever, as well as rapid access to color profiles and Creator recipes, Z5 II represents a decent upgrade from the Z5.
The Z5 was launched in 2020, which is much cheaper than the second generation, while the shots are also called 24.5 -megapixels with wonderful construction quality. It is a generally slower camera, consider.
Nearly five years on Nikon upgraded the full camera line for beginners, with Nikon Z5 II taking matters of the original Nikon Z5. With a large time gap, this was never a gradual update for generations.
Nikon Z5 II has a significantly superior shooting, improving stability, the best automatic concentration of cars in Nikon, and 4K video that reaches 60 frames per second, with “flat” modes to improve liberation ingenuity, and more.
However, there is a healthy leap in the Nikon Z5 II launch price. However, more, the actual online retail prices are separated for these cameras at the time of writing this report with a bay completely. For some, there may be enough gap to justify the old model.
But in 2025, a camera was filmed at 4.5 frames per second and a 4K/30 video? Nikon Z5 may be one weakening a lot for some camera buyers.
1. Price and availability
- Nikon Z5 II with 24-50 mm lens costs 1,999.95 dollars / 1,859 pounds / 3,300 dollars in Africa
- Nikon Z5 Body-only-only around half the price of Z5 II at launch
If we compare the launch costs of Nikon Z5 and Nikon Z5 II, the contrast can be largely placed on inflation. Since these models are more affordable, the most important package is the lens that has a main kit.
In 2020, it paid $ 1,699 / 1,719 pounds sterling / 3,099 dollars for Nikon Z5 with 24-50 mm lens. In 2025, we pay $ 1,999.95 / 1,859 pounds / 3,300 USD for a similar package.
This is a 17 % increase in the United States, 8 % jumped in the UK and 6 % in Australia. We managed to find the original Z5 to a large extent on the Internet. Five years will not pass without price erosion-it is less than $ 1,000 / 900 pounds now for the body only.
Nikon Z5 was launched in July 2020, about five years before the Z5 II announced approximately.
2. Design
- Nikon Z5 II: 700G, image control button, 2.1M angle screen
- Nikon Z5: 675g, 1.4 m screen.
Nikon Z5 and Nikon Z5 II shells vary, but their control layouts are very similar.
We get basic manual control as your thumb and reasons will rest naturally, with a high demand higher. There is no screen installed at the highest level, which will be unusual in a camera of this category. Look at Nikon Z6 III, comparable if you want such a screen.
Dimensions and weight are almost identical. It measures Nikon Z5 II 134 x 100.5 x 72 mm, Z5 134 x 100.5 x 69.5 mm. The new camera is greatly heavier, with a battery and SD card connecting, at 700 grams compared to 675 grams.
Both cameras also have double UHS-II openings. There is no support for the fastest CFExpress standards, it can be said that there is no real need for the additional speed they offer when this camera does not contain the rush of bleeding and video.
Note the image control button at the top of the Z5 II – this direct access to the color profiles, and it is possible to download the “recipes” made by other creators through Nikon’s Imaging Cloud.
Both generations have a 3.2 -inch width, but the accuracy collides from 1.04 million points to 2.1 million points. In pixel terms, this is an upgrade from 720 x 480 pixels to something like 1020 x 680 pixels.
Its detailed brings the most influential change, though. When Nikon Z5 has a fairly simple tilt screen, Nikon Z5 uses a more flexible variable screen that can be folded for camera -like use.
3. The sensor
- Nikon Z5 II: 24.5MP, 7.5EV IBIS
- Nikon Z5: 24.3MP, 5ev IBIS
Nikon Z5 and Z5 II -24.5 sensors are similar to 24.3 megapixels – but they use completely different sensors.
Important promotions include a significant improvement in the installation of images inside the body (IBIS), as we took from about 5 effective stations of up to 7.5 stops (at the center, where it decreased to 6 stations at the ocean). A very faster reading sensor is better than shooting.
Nikon Z5 click at 4.5 frames per second, with the address number 30 frames for Nikon Z5 II. Although 4.5 frames per second are sufficient for many photography methods, they are completely therapeutic according to today’s standards.
These two numbers are not a comparison like. Nikon Z5 II, as expected, can reach only 30 frames per second with his electronic shutter mode, which means that you have to face the effect of shutter. The mechanical shutter can be turned at 14 seconds for JPEGS, compared to 11 per second for primary photos. It is still very faster than its predecessor, partially due to the promoted Expeed 7 processor.
There is a very small difference in the original dynamic range. Nikon Z5 was ranked at 14.3 stations from the doctor, and Nikon Z5 II should reach about 14.5 stopping due to the results seen from Nikon ZF, which share its sensor.
4. Video
- Nikon Z5 II: 4K up to 60 frames per second, Full HD Slow Motion 120fpsn-RAW and N-Log Cookies,
- Nikon Z5: 40 30 frames per second with 1.7X crop
Nikon Z5 II is a more capable video than the original Nikon Z5.
There are two main types of promotions. You can now photograph at 4K/60, instead of only 4K/30, and there are N-RAW and NO-LOG modes to increase flexibility in editing.
Although you take 12-bit N-RAW with a lot of data, you can pick up Nikon Z5 II in this mode directly to the SD card. Just make sure that you do not skimp when buying the UH-II card to avoid headaches.
Nikon’s Z5 II is not intended to be a real upscale camera between the full frame models, and there are restrictions or two. When shooting 4K/60, there is an unexpected 1.5X crop. This is what is required to use raw sensor data, instead of declining from a full sensor width.
You can also photograph without a crop in 4K/30, something that Nikon Z5 could not deal with. He had a 1.7X crop in this mode.
Nikon Z5 II also acquires the appropriate photography of the appropriate Slo-MO, at a maximum frame rate of 120 frames per second at 1080 pixels. 60 frames per second is the upper frame rate of 1080 pixels for Nikon Z5.
Nikon also replaces its HDMI output (MINI) to type (Micro).
5. Features
- Nikon Z5 II: 14 frames per second in photography, the second before capturing, automatic discovery, EVF with 3000nits brightness, battery life up to 380 rounds
- Nikon Z5: 4.5 frames in the group
With the latest Nikon 7 processor, Z5 II is a much faster camera than the Z5. The shooting of 14 frames per second can be increased to 30 frames per second in high -speed Capture_ mode, along with up to one second of pre -capacity. Z5 4.5 provides relatively second frames.
As in many areas of consumer technology, parts affected by improving software sees the largest gains of Nikon Z5 II. This includes automatic focus.
Z5 II includes the best automatic setting of Nikon, the ability to identify nine different types of topics-these are people, dogs, cats, cars, birds, motorcycles, bikes, aircraft and trains-for materials that reach 3 % of the frame.
Automatic Z5 is much more. In 2020, we often heard about the track and eye tracking/detection with cameras like Nikon Z5.
Nikon Z5 II’s AF to work in a much lower lighting than Nikon Z5, in -10EV to the old camera -3EV.
There are some noticeable changes in EVF and the rear display of Nikon Z5 II. Although the specifications of Corefinder Core are the same – OLED panel, 3.69m Dot and zooming 0.8X – Z5 II has bright settings.
It contains 18, to Nikon Z5’s 11. This does not actually tell us that EVF for the latest camera is brighter, of course, but there was already an enormous increase in the brightness room of 1000 groups of 3000 groups as well. The brightness has been the main area of improvement in OLED panels over the past two years.
It can be said that the back screen, where brightness is more important, upgrades elsewhere in Nikon Z5 II – we do not have brightness numbers for the back screen.
Unfortunately, there will be no significant increase in the battery life through these generations. The two cameras use the same En-Lel15C battery. Nikon Z5 is classified as 470 LCDs or 380 shots (camera lens). According to what you were mentioned, you will get only 380 (LCD) or 330 (camera lens) from the latest Nikon Z5 II, which may be related to the brighter offers.
Early judgment
Nikon Z5 II represents a huge upgrade on Nikon Z5. Although you may think Nikon has gone very far and spoiled a place for this series as a full frame model for beginners, another perspective is completely appropriate.
Since 2020, treatments have become more powerful, as the sensor reading and OLED boards have increased in general. It has gone for a while.
Nikon Z5 II is unlikely to take better pictures of Nikon Z5 in perfect conditions. Both have the full frame sensors for a similar decision. However, with the presence of Nikon Z5 II, you are less than unlikely to miss a shot thanks to the speed of the explosion and automatic automatic automatic and more reliable.
All this comes with a bite, especially if you are shopping initially in Nikon Z5 recently. Although the new Nikon Z5 II is not much more expensive compared to the launch price at the launch price – given the inflation levels seen since 2020 – there is a large bay in the real online prices for actual shoppers.