p.5 #2 · Z9 a near failure, according to Ken Wheeler
There is no AA filters ... there a is glass element in front of the Sensor with protective coatings(ARENCO + some other coatings) which make it dust resistant ...
Eric214 wrote:
I dont listen to the Monkey. But the one video I watched said there was no optical low pass filter (AA Filter) and judging from the images I have seen I can not see the softness usually associated with an OLPF (AA Filter)
I think this was the video I saw it in. I looked back and it is in this video at the 14:07 mark
p.5 #3 · Z9 a near failure, according to Ken Wheeler
bijan2008 wrote: There is no AA filters ... there a is glass element in front of the Sensor with protective coatings(ARENCO + some other coatings) which make it dust resistant ...
Thanks, but that's exactly what I said, there is no OLPF (AA Filter)
p.5 #5 · Z9 a near failure, according to Ken Wheeler
Agree with you..He's a smart one that knows exactly how to draw attention..look at what his video has done...there are forum threads discussing him, there are other youtubers discussing him and i remember in one of the panel discussions hosted by B&H, where Mark Cruz specifically referred to this video on buffer and i found it funny that mark referenced him "the happy photographer"...in the end i think Ken accomplished his objective of drawing a lot of attention but i am not sure if he knows he has lost the little credibility he had, if at all he had any left ;-)
p.5 #6 · Z9 a near failure, according to Ken Wheeler
EB-1 wrote:
The D7200 sensor is better since it does not have that weird banding that the D7100 has in dark areas. The buffer and throughput are also substantially improved.
EBHIndeed, the banding is gone on the D7200, and looking at my wife's results Ken's ranting about poorer image quality does not seem true at least in real life use. The buffer is still small, but about twice that of the D7100, which is why my wife got it and passed her 7100 on to me. I don't mind so much, and have not been bothered by the banding although I did get it to appear when I tried. There are other pluses as well, including better high ISO performance, trap focusing possible, and a little faster AF.
Both those cameras are so well made that it's hard to wear them out. Back in the old days, I promised myself that I'd update my film gear when my Nikon F wore out. Ha. I had to break the rule because it never did, of course. I'm having the same issue now with the D7100.
p.5 #7 · Z9 a near failure, according to Ken Wheeler
He also makes conspiracy theory videos, and videos where he claims great knowledge about physics, along with the nonsense he spews about photography. It is well known that he showed photos as his own work that were not his, and I don't know if anyone has ever seen his own, original photographic work. So, maybe, just maybe, we should take this offering of his opinions on the Z9 with the grain of salt.
p.5 #8 · Z9 a near failure, according to Ken Wheeler
The below is about as substantive and on-topic a reply as I can come up with for this thread, folks. Why are we posting this sillyness?
HS-LD wrote:
They paid CASH for that Beemer...
Little known fact: apparently "Beemer" is supposed to refer to BMW motorcycles, whereas the cars are supposed to be called "Bimmers". I can't remember where I read this, so I can't promise it was a reliable source.
p.5 #10 · Z9 a near failure, according to Ken Wheeler
If you want to see his shots in real time that badly search for his video with Jason Lanier...his portrait work is harsh garbage. Woodyg3 wrote:
He also makes conspiracy theory videos, and videos where he claims great knowledge about physics, along with the nonsense he spews about photography. It is well known that he showed photos as his own work that were not his, and I don't know if anyone has ever seen his own, original photographic work. So, maybe, just maybe, we should take this offering of his opinions on the Z9 with the grain of salt.
p.5 #11 · Z9 a near failure, according to Ken Wheeler
Lee Saxon wrote:
The below is about as substantive and on-topic a reply as I can come up with for this thread, folks. Why are we posting this sillyness?
Little known fact: apparently "Beemer" is supposed to refer to BMW motorcycles, whereas the cars are supposed to be called "Bimmers". I can't remember where I read this, so I can't promise it was a reliable source.
p.5 #13 · Z9 a near failure, according to Ken Wheeler
A former colleague of mine, who owned (and did all repairs on it himself) a BMW M3 and a BMW bike schooled me about this once when I referred to his car as a Beemer. 😁
Lee Saxon wrote:
Little known fact: apparently "Beemer" is supposed to refer to BMW motorcycles, whereas the cars are supposed to be called "Bimmers". I can't remember where I read this, so I can't promise it was a reliable source.
p.5 #14 · Z9 a near failure, according to Ken Wheeler
That changed because it's was Beemers for the cars back in the 80's and 90's even with the die hard BWM people. They must have changed it when they started making the motorcycles and though that they couldn't possibly call both the same thing.
Reminds me of the British. The accent they have is only from the 1800's, a little known fact. The royals made it up so they would sound different and more "sophisticated" from the pheasants/commoners.
p.5 #15 · Z9 a near failure, according to Ken Wheeler
Not that it's all that relevant to the thread subject, but my recollection is that though they are both BMW's, the motorcycles are made in their own Berlin factory, and the divisions are quite different. I had a Beemer motorcycle long ago, and it was, at least in the 80's, a no-no to confuse a Beemer with a Bimmer. The motorcycle folks were pretty harsh if you did, and in those days at least, most people driving the cars thought of them as Bimmers. The blurring of the line would appear to be more recent. It doesn't much matter to me now as I have neither, and can no longer sport the then-current T-shirts saying "The jugs make all the difference," or "It's hard to be humble with a shaft like mine."
Back a bit more on the subject, it is too bad, I think, that the Northrups' quality has declined so. A few years ago they seemed pretty informative, but recently I haven't seen much that was worth bothering with. That seems to have infected many. I used to find Fro somewhat informative too.
