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I owned the ZF.2 135/2 with a D810 for a year, and I even used the eyepiece magnifier available from Nikon and it was still near impossible to nail focus with. Sure, the green dot in the corner of the screen works okay, but I don't want to take my eye of my subject to check focus. If your focus is moving, forget about getting a usable shot unless you're willing to focus bracket in a burst. I even tested this thoroughly, I put the camera on a tripod and compared my feeling of proper focus, green dot focus and live view focus, and found that in all cases - what I *SAW* was way off from both the green dot and the live view, which tells me that the D810 viewfinder was misaligned from proper plane of focus making it absolutely impossible to do a focused shot using my eyes only. Plus, the viewfinder of most modern cameras show a DOF of about f/4 - f/5.6 creating a rather large error window for bright lenses.
I eventually gave up and sold everything to move to medium format where I'm still at, and recently added a Sony A7sII to my arsenal, and now regret selling the Z135. I tried it once with a A7r (mark1) and focusing was a breeze. D810 doesn't have a suitable focusing screen for manual focusing, and neither do the latest Canon bodies.
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