OwlsEyes wrote:
I was out shooting some pre-dawn landscapes and low-contrast wildlife subjects. The landscape (posted) was with the 24-70. The dynamic range and color output of the Z6 are a dream. As for wildlife, well today was a bit of struggle compared with the elk I photographed last week. In fairness, I was shooting Canadian geese in white-out fog and this was just too little contrast for the AF to hit consistently. I was using the 200-400G + FTZ (of course). As I reflect on the camera's performance, my D4 did not better with this lens under these circumstance. In contrast, the D500 and 500PF seemed to do much better in the super-flat light. This difference may be due more to the magnification of a 500mm lens on a DX body w/ larger af spots than anything else. More testing to follow throughout spring.
Anyway, here's the landscape shot from today.
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Great shot Bruce. Like the cloud reflection in the water.
Finally got my Z6 out for my daughter's soccer game and was the first real use I'd gotten out of my 70-200 that I bought from the buy/sell forum here. Also the first time I've really used any type of AF-C on this body. I chose Wide-L for the game, which I was pretty impressed with. I just kept my daughter inside the box and the camera took care of the rest. I took about 70 snaps and not a single one has my daughter out of focus (really, not kidding).
Including one below just to show a result, this is SOOC, RAW put into Lightroom CC, cropped only and exported as a "small" JPG.
Been using the Z6 for the last week and still have somewhat mixed feelings about it. I've been shooting primarily with the D750 pretty much since it came out, and love it, despite some infuriating limitations. The D800 has stayed in the bag since, save for some portrait sessions.
As I've gotten into some 1.4 primes, the D750's limitations have become much more glaring. Namely, the 4000/s shutter speed and the tiny focusing screen making it impossible to keep subjects in focus closer to the edges when wide open. This was the primary reason, really. The Z6 shines in that respect, and gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling every time.
I'm still getting used to the focusing modes, as I've almost always used the 3d-tracking on the Ds. That auto area white box thing has been close, but it's rather clunky with all the button presses involved. The face detection has also been weird to use, as it doesn't always find what I need, and needs to be reset with the buttons.
Indoor, low light stuff is also questionable, and I've found myself grabbing the 750 for that. I need to spend more time playing with the different tracking modes to see what stands out. Using that white square to focus on a subject's face, I still find a lot of shots where the background is in focus instead of said face. Hopefully, that firmware update will address this to some extent.
The battery life too has been bothersome. I'm gotten really comfortable with knowing that I can get at least 1200 shots with the 750, and it's been jarring to deal with the battery anxiety.
Also, so far on every outing so far, I've had to pull the battery to "reboot" the camera at least one due to either an "Err", or it just blacking out. Has anyone else had experience with this?
Meanwhile, a couple quick snaps of some crew during downtime at a small event with the Z6 and 20mm 1.8 and 105mm 1.4.
Ma3aev wrote:
Been using the Z6 for the last week and still have somewhat mixed feelings about it.
For what it's worth - it likely depends on specific use cases.
Focus - I'm mainly using AF-C, back button with either single or dynamic area AF and didn't have many problems with it. Backlit subjects, dimly lit forest, running dogs = no problems.
Low light - no issues (but I don't do tracking)
Battery life - no issues (not as good as a DSLR but I can easily shoot all day without having to worry about it too much)
'Err' message - haven't seen it, didn't have to reboot the camera / pull battery even a single time.
tek9 wrote:
For what it's worth - it likely depends on specific use cases.
Focus - I'm mainly using AF-C, back button with either single or dynamic area AF and didn't have many problems with it. Backlit subjects, dimly lit forest, running dogs = no problems.
Low light - no issues (but I don't do tracking)
Battery life - no issues (not as good as a DSLR but I can easily shoot all day without having to worry about it too much)
'Err' message - haven't seen it, didn't have to reboot the camera / pull battery even a single time.
Same observations as you and no "err" incidents. As far as battery life it depends how one shoots. I can take a few snaps a day, day after day and number of shots per recharge will be around 400 or I can go out and do an event shooting 1000 frames and still have 30% battery life remaining.
All with 24-70 f4. 1st image is a HDR TIFF (I was just testing how it works). 
