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 p.22 #20 · Official Z Series Camera and Lens Discussion | |
I shoot landscapes, some wildlife and people.
The Z7 with 24-70S is a landscape shooter's dream come true. Coming from a D-750, I have improved IQ in a smaller and lighter camera and lens. I'm hoping the new 14-30 F4 will be a 77mm filter thread (pretty sure!).
Really enjoying my 70-200 f4 AF-S lens with the adapter also.
Oh, and all my 20+ Ai-S lenses work better with this camera than they ever did on my D-750, in spite of not having the full aperture readout. The IBIS and peak focusing more than make up for this. I'm still using all my old batteries and I'm getting the same battery life as before as far as I can tell (more info this winter).
The only problems I am having:
1. I kept hitting the OFF switch during my first two weeks of shooting. Doing that less and less, but it's a lot closer to the front dial than on the D-750.
2. Would like to be able to turn off the touch screen shutter release while leaving the touch screen on for focusing. Can't figure this one out...prolly impossible to do it!
Oh, and I enjoy the Northrups very much. I totally agree with much of what the Northrups say, including the Nikon press stuff. It is not a "mirrorless D-850." It's a completely different system, heading in a completely different direction - gimbal-light, high IQ, movies, great ergonomics. But the Northrups cover a lot and can't get it perfectly right, which they surely don't with the Z7, a camera they have hardly used. For example, the battery life is arguably the best of any FF mirrorless. Neither are the S lenses "cheap kit lenses," they just represent Nikon's new direction with the Z series to go smaller and lighter with f4 lenses (the 1.8 primes aren't small because they use the new 55mm mount), but they are a lot smaller and lighter than Canon's FF mirrorless lenses so far). The S lenses have the best optical quality Nikon has ever offered, and the build quality, though lightweight (as they should be), is quite good, with plenty of metal (except the rubber ring and barrel extension areas - like all their pro glass) and very high quality fully-spec'd glass. The reason the focus feels funny is that it's the new electronic wire focus tech which is revolutionizing movie making, and opens up whole new worlds of ergonomic controls, not because it's "cheap." The new button configurations, though on a tiny body, are in some ways better - especially the U1, U2 and U3 buttons.
The way to view all the new cameras is with a forward view, because they are not designed to do the same thing the dslrs do, nor do they do those things the same way. They do some things better, and some worse, especially the Nikons! If you aren't invested in Nikon, consider the SONYs and Canon. If you are interested in crop-sensor, go Fujifilm. But if you have lotrs of Nikon equipment, (except maybe D lenses), the Z7 is more than fine, unless you shoot wildlife or sports exclusively. Then maybe go with SONY, CANON or FUJIFILM.
Edited on Oct 25, 2018 at 12:27 PM · View previous versions
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