Another Nikon camera just appeared on China's MIIT wireless certification list — and it makes three unannounced bodies on the books in under five months. NikonRumors reports the new registration: internal code N2528 (CMIIT 26J99NA7E003, dated August 24, 2026), joining N2324 (April 7) and N2527 (April 24). No product name, no sensor spec, no price — just a radio that now has a certificate. Separately, Nikon registered a new 1162ED wireless remote controller with the FCC in May, with the confidentiality window running to November 3, 2026 — another tell that something is about to ship.
What the filings actually say:
All three carry the same 2.4/5.1 GHz dual-band radio (5.1 GHz Wi-Fi ≤ 80 MHz occupied bandwidth, ≤ 20/23 dBm EIRP; 2.4 GHz Bluetooth) — the module used on recent mid/entry Z bodies (Z50 II, Z5 II, Zf class), not the flagship tri-band unit. That's the single most important detail in the file.
Context is piling up: in July, "Nikon Z70" briefly appeared on Apple's official ProRes / ProRes RAW authorized-products page before being quietly removed. Nikon has a server-maintenance window scheduled for September 15, and an "exclusive product presentation" in the UK on September 25 — the kind of housekeeping and events that rumor watchers treat as pre-announcement tells.
Our take: the radio is the tell, and it points one direction: these are not flagship bodies. A 2.4/5.1 GHz module on all three, plus a leaked "Z70" with 24.5MP partially-stacked sensor and D500-successor ambitions, reads as Nikon building out its mid tier — and, given everything that's happened since the RED acquisition, doing so video-first. The interesting question for this site's readers isn't "which Z body is it" but "what does the ZR pipeline leak down into a $2,000 DX camera?" If the Z70 carries any of the ZR's 32-bit float audio, R3D-adjacent codecs, or RED LUTs, it becomes a genuine threat to the Sony a6700 and Canon R8 — and a compelling B-cam for anyone already in the Z Cinema world. Two caveats: (1) these are certifications, not promises — Nikon has sat on exactly this kind of registration for months before; and (2) the recent Japanese patent ruling against RED's compressed-RAW format may still ripple through which RAW story Nikon can tell in these bodies. Our read: expect at least one of these three by the end of 2026, and it will almost certainly shoot video first.
For a full breakdown of all four leaked 2026/2027 bodies (Z9 II, Zf II, the high-res full-frame, and the DX speed camera), this is the most-watched independent walkthrough we could find:
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