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The ability to add grain effects tarnishes the Zf’s retro credentials Photo: Richard Butler |
When Nikon showed us its two new DX lenses, it also let us try out the grain effect processing that’s coming to the Nikon Zf.
This option should come in an upcoming firmware update for the camera. It allows you to add grain to images or videos with options for grain size and intensity. Grain varies with each photo, and changes frame-to-frame in video mode to give a realistic ephemeral effect.
The grain effect gives you a choice of six intensity levels and three sizes of grain. It can be paired with any of the camera’s Picture Style color modes, but at least on the camera we used, it couldn’t be paired after using the in-camera RAW converter. This means you can shoot with the grain and then reprocess it if you decide you don’t want it, but not the other way around.
Nikon has been tight-lipped about when this feature will be available, but we’ll bring you news as soon as it becomes available.
In the meantime, here are some examples we shot. They were shot using a camera running non-final firmware, so we are not allowed to provide full size images. However, these samples have been trimmed rather than resized, so that the grain size, shape and character do not change.
Pre-production grain effect images from the Nikon Zf
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Comment: All images are cropped and re-saved as JPEGs out of the camera.
