Have had the Z7 for a couple of weeks but got time to use it only today. Here is a shot from today, just a casual grab. Love the ease of manual focusing.
1) When using C-AF, is it possible to do instant S-AF, without changing modes ? Like in Sony when you press on center button, no matter where the AF point it, camera will single focus at the center point.
2) Is it possible to customize a button to change AF mode/AF area and other items as long as the button is held?
I've had the Z7 for awhile now and just purchased a 50mm f1.8 S from one of our forum brothers. Needless to say it's made a good first impression. Tell me what you think.
And here I thought the Z7 was incapable of taking a picture of a bird...what did I know....
I'm still going through my Egypt pictures, first time using the Z7. I enjoyed shooting with it for the most part, and the images look pretty good so far.
asamimasa wrote:
I've got three trips under the belt with the Z7 so far. It's made my life quite a bit easier while retaining the D850-class output I've gotten used to.
The 24-70 is clearly a winner all-around. The 50 is optically great, but I've really got my eye on the 85S. I keep a Milvus 85 in the bag when weight allows, but it's quite a handful on this body. The Voigtlander 180APO rounds out the tele end for me. Where it doesn't make my life easier is in swapping around a single adapter with two adapted lenses. I've picked up a dumb adapter for the 180APO since it doesn't carry electronics anyway, so I won't be doing any more swapping around.
The speeds I can handhold puts me at odds with my love of tripods. I don't shoot too much past a second, and I can get pretty close with the native lenses on burst.
A quirk that has surfaced for me is that the automatic display switch is occasionally uncooperative. The sensor switches to EVF, and it requires a rotational flick to get it to switch correctly. For the first time over roughly fifty bodies, the battery door retaining peg snapped off. I keep it gaff taped and don't place the body down, and I'm just thankful I was in a place where superglue was easily obtainable. Parts of the rubber grip are already coming off, and I think the memory card door is a big target alongside being an enlarged head to accidentally pop open.
The memory card door is an accident waiting to happen; mine has popped open twice when the camera brushed the side of my leg. It needs to be re-designed for the next Z-Series. Speaking of a redesign, Nikon could learn something by looking at the command wheel placement and function on Fuji's X-T2 and/or X-T3....Show more →
Will need to play with it more but I can said that low light AF is very impressive with this lens. I don't have 24-70/4 S to compare but noticeably faster than anything with FTZ adapter and 50/1.8 S, 35/1.8 S I think.
Shutterspeed should really be sharper to freeze the action but lighting was not so great.
From my recent New Zealand trip. Christie Falls on the road to Milford Sound.
Z7 + 24-70 f4s, 3s f/11.0 at 25.5mm iso64. A 3 second exposure made without a tripod (forgot to take it!), just rested on a wooden railing of a bridge and just waited until there were no people walking across! Thank God for electronis shutter!
