After four days and about 4000 frames, it's difficult to find things about the Z6 to complain about. It focuses my G lenses at least as good as my D500 and D4. The dynamic focus mode is terrific and tracks like a hound dog on the trail of a rabbit. (For you city slickers without experience with hound dogs, that's pretty good.) The IQ is top notch. Battery life is fine. The EVF is slow to restart, but there are work arounds to deal with that. The EVF itself isn't anything to write home about, but it doesn't interfere with image capture, so I don't care. Overall, this seems to be a heckuva nice camera.
My only substantive complaint is ergonomic. My wrist doesn't like the way I'm holding the Z6. It's enough smaller than what I'm used to, and requires just enough contortion to operate, that it's made my wrist sore. Not enough to keep me from using it -- not even close -- but who knows if it will get worse. That is something I need to consider, because I'm 67 and prone to tendinitis. I've been dealing with an achilles flareup since April. Probably not an issue, but I didn't think my achilles was a big deal, either.
henry albert wrote:
My only substantive complaint is ergonomic. My wrist doesn't like the way I'm holding the Z6. It's enough smaller than what I'm used to, and requires just enough contortion to operate, that it's made my wrist sore.
If you order it, make sure to also consider ordering the extension for the FTZ adapter to help support the adapter with long and heavy telephoto lenses.
henry albert wrote:
My only substantive complaint is ergonomic. My wrist doesn't like the way I'm holding the Z6. It's enough smaller than what I'm used to, and requires just enough contortion to operate, that it's made my wrist sore. Not enough to keep me from using it -- not even close -- but who knows if it will get worse. That is something I need to consider, because I'm 67 and prone to tendinitis. I've been dealing with an achilles flareup since April. Probably not an issue, but I didn't think my achilles was a big deal, either.
agreed. shooting vertically suuuuucks. i do the move i hate, the chicken wing, with the elbow out, sucks. otherwise my wrist feels like its gonna break off. i need the battery grip stat!
ooo also, i have a call with my NPS regional supervisor and NPS tech about what i love and dont love about the camera, so tell me yours and i can try and relay the info.
Tried out the Z6 and 70-200/2.8 v2 at a local college women's basketball game. Some images below. Overall, it's no d5, and never advertised as such, but with additional getting used to it's own capabilities, definitely could be used for some sports. I found the wide small and dynamic continuous AF most effective in this situation. Single point resulted in lots of missed AF. The slight lag in the EVF was disconcerting at first; something to get used to. That was probably the biggest initial negative for me with regards to action photography. The below are straight OOC jpegs with some cropping, no other adjustments; AF-C, single wide or dynamic.
Found something to gripe about: none of my cards will click into place this morning. And since as we all remember the Z6 has only one card slot, I'm out of the Z6 testing biz. Bummer. Will ship back to LensRentals tomorrow.
henry albert wrote:
Found something to gripe about: none of my cards will click into place this morning. And since as we all remember the Z6 has only one card slot, I'm out of the Z6 testing biz. Bummer. Will ship back to LensRentals tomorrow.
What kind of cards? thats scary. i havent had any issues with both of my cameras, both click with G series cards
I remember everyone was looking to see if the Breakthru arca 40mm plates would fit with the ftz. so i bought a couple to test.
my findings are, with the "anti twist" plate, it will not work in either direction, one way pushes the FTZ forward, the other way and the antitwist portion digs into the chamfered mount area. but if you remove it, they fit just fine and clear everything.
as you can see, with the anti-twist, it pushes forward too much.
if you push the anti twist back it becomes useless anyway.
turbodude wrote:
Fleetwood Mac... z6 with 200-400. Should have brought a converter, all of these are atleast 50% crops, some like 70%. testing the higher isos now. iso500-6400. NR off. I left them as is, didnt want to oversharpen and didnt want to get the file muddled with Noise reduction. It can resolve pretty darn well for iso6400 and atleast half of the image cropped. i think i could get very usable files up to 10,000. after that the image details get pretty mushy in lower light, if you need to crop, if you dont need to crop, and are viewing on web or printing smaller than 5x7, you can probably stretch it until about 25k or so, but dont think about cropping in more than 20%, and dont bring it up too close to your face. ...Show more →
One of the many differences I noticed in comparing Sony A7R III with Z6 is how IBIS is implemented:
- on the Sony, IBIS operates only when the shutter button is half-pressed or pressed or when the zoom is active
- on the Nikon, when IBIS is ON, it is always operating.
I find this behavior of the Nikon IBIS nice, as it enhances the viewing experience through the EVF, but it probably contributes to depleting the battery much faster.
Good news. I was looking at my cards and noticed one of them had lost a small piece of plastic at the corner of the plug. It was about 1/32 x 3/32. Couldn't see anything in the slot, but when I shook the camera up and down, the offending bit of plastic fell out! Tried a different card and -- bingo -- all is well. Life is good, again.
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