pdesopo wrote:
I've had a strange issue the other day.
After taking a picture, I pressed the Playback button to review it through the EVF and it took an unusually long time for the picture to appear.
I then took another picture and this time, I saw the hourglass icon appearing on the EVF while I waited for the picture to show up, but it didn't happen. The hourglass icon remained on the screen indefinitely.
Eventually, I switched off the camera as there was no way to clear up the EVF.
The issue hasn't happened again ever since, but now I wonder if there's something wrong with my camera.
Has anyone ever experienced a similar camera freezing?...Show more →
With multiple cameras from multiple brands I have experienced strange slowdowns like this that were cleared up as soon as I formatted the memory card. This was more common when using a card that had been in another camera. For example, even though you'd think everything would be the same, putting a card from the X-H2 into the X-T5 without formatting often resulted in the type of weird hangups you are experiencing.
That's my guess, but if you have been formatting your cards, I don't have any other guesses, aside from maybe a bad battery. Power delivery issues can cause weird problems.
Joseph Marney wrote:
To those who have or have shot with both, do you find the 3D tracking for focus and recompose on still subjects to be similar in performance between the ZF and Z8?
I've started shooting the OM-1 again and the 3D tracking is what I miss the most.
I have a Z9 and Zf. The Z9 is a bit better. It seems to be able to grab slightly lower-contrast and it can handle more dramatic changes without losing its subject.
It's not a huge difference--the Zf is still really good. I only notice the Z9 being better in edge cases like a large aperture closeup candid with a quickly-moving subject, macro at near MFD, or holding something with very little detail. And even in those situations, the difference isn't huge; I can still get the shot, I just have to reacquire a bit more than I'm used to.
If you're only shooting still subjects, I'd consider the Zf essentially identical for AF, unless. your stationary subject is a flower at 1:2 reproduction, handheld.
I’ve been pretty happy and for the brief time I owned the z8 and Zf together I didn’t really notice too much of a difference. This was the Zf with 3d tracking (with the lens I bought from you!) and it was a series of about 10 photos and all were acceptable to me. I think if you look at this one the focus might be on her pants, I don’t remember if eye af was kicking in or not. I was doing these on the fly and trying to track with a drone at the same time.
Joseph Marney wrote:
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With multiple cameras from multiple brands I have experienced strange slowdowns like this that were cleared up as soon as I formatted the memory card. This was more common when using a card that had been in another camera. For example, even though you'd think everything would be the same, putting a card from the X-H2 into the X-T5 without formatting often resulted in the type of weird hangups you are experiencing.
That's my guess, but if you have been formatting your cards, I don't have any other guesses, aside from maybe a bad battery. Power delivery issues can cause weird problems.
I'll try with different cards to see if the issue persists. The card I was using is the same one I've been using on my Nikon Zf since day one, and I've been regularly formatting it.
Also, thanks for pointing out a potential battery problem, I'll check that too.
CKrueger wrote:
I have a Z9 and Zf. The Z9 is a bit better. It seems to be able to grab slightly lower-contrast and it can handle more dramatic changes without losing its subject.
It's not a huge difference--the Zf is still really good. I only notice the Z9 being better in edge cases like a large aperture closeup candid with a quickly-moving subject, macro at near MFD, or holding something with very little detail. And even in those situations, the difference isn't huge; I can still get the shot, I just have to reacquire a bit more than I'm used to.
If you're only shooting still subjects, I'd consider the Zf essentially identical for AF, unless. your stationary subject is a flower at 1:2 reproduction, handheld....Show more →
You've got me wondering, because I do shoot a fair amount at MFD, up-to but not greater than 1:2 reproduction. I'll find out though, just picked up a Zf from another FM'er - should arrive sometime next week.
Until I can get out and play around with the newly acquired refurbed Z 28mm SE, here are a few pics with the 40mm.
Have to admit, I was trying to work up some voodoo technique on doing zone focusing with the 28mm, but without lens markings and other helpful guides, I kind of through out my research, especially with the very responsive AF in 3D and Auto...so maybe zone focus concepts can be achieved with a hybrid approach of the Zf being able to to focus on a subject and let DOF do it's thing.
Anyways - will dork around with that later.
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NIKON Z fNIKKOR Z 40mm f/2 lens40mmf/4.01/125s2800 ISO0.0 EV
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NIKON Z fNIKKOR Z 40mm f/2 lens40mmf/4.01/125s7200 ISO0.0 EV
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NIKON Z fNIKKOR Z 40mm f/2 lens40mmf/2.01/125s220 ISO0.0 EV
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NIKON Z fNIKKOR Z 40mm f/2 lens40mmf/2.01/125s1100 ISO0.0 EV
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NIKON Z fNIKKOR Z 40mm f/2 lens40mmf/2.01/125s1800 ISO0.0 EV
jcnemy wrote:
Until I can get out and play around with the newly acquired refurbed Z 28mm SE, here are a few pics with the 40mm.
Have to admit, I was trying to work up some voodoo technique on doing zone focusing with the 28mm, but without lens markings and other helpful guides, I kind of through out my research, especially with the very responsive AF in 3D and Auto...so maybe zone focus concepts can be achieved with a hybrid approach of the Zf being able to to focus on a subject and let DOF do it's thing.
No. I didn't even try the Zf files in Lightroom. The camera's RAW files have to work for me in C1. But I should go back and try just to see. That might give me hope that the C1 profile would improve. The C1 profile for the Q2 was terrible on release, practically unusable, but it's been improved a lot since.
Hi guys, another fresh zf user here and yes after z6II the loss of grip is definitely noticable but I don't want to talk about that any more than it is already said, waiting for the wooden grip to arive from China.
I was wandering about controls mapping, specifficaly to the resetting of focus point to the center - previously on z6II I got used to pressing the joystick to do that and I was using OK button for quick zooming - does anyone use the centering of focus point on a button? I also use AE-L for back button focusing so that one is out of question. I was thinking to set it to + or - but form what I saw those 2 are not programmable (will check again).
baneand wrote:
Hi guys, another fresh zf user here and yes after z6II the loss of grip is definitely noticable but I don't want to talk about that any more than it is already said, waiting for the wooden grip to arive from China.
I was wandering about controls mapping, specifficaly to the resetting of focus point to the center - previously on z6II I got used to pressing the joystick to do that and I was using OK button for quick zooming - does anyone use the centering of focus point on a button? I also use AE-L for back button focusing so that one is out of question. I was thinking to set it to + or - but form what I saw those 2 are not programmable (will check again)....Show more →
The Zf is a "character camera" in that role it is my favorite non Leica mirrorless camera. However, it is not a performance orientated camera. It is very limited in controls, and also in control configurability. I think that will come with the Z6/7 III generation of cameras, which should have much better ergonomics and configurability. Just enjoy the Zf until those are released and you should get close to everything you wish for.
1bwana1 wrote:
The Zf is a "character camera" in that role it is my favorite non Leica mirrorless camera. However, it is not a performance orientated camera. It is very limited in controls, and also in control configurability. I think that will come with the Z6/7 III generation of cameras, which should have much better ergonomics and configurability. Just enjoy the Zf until those are released and you should get close to everything you wish for.
I am definitely very much enjoying it, nothing big to complain about it. This was more just to check if anyone missed the centering of the focus point and how did they overcome it. Again not a big deal can't wait to shoot more with it
I center the focus point with OK, treating the D pad like a focus joystick and use the AE-L button for magnification. Note that the OK button still zooms in with setup like this when reviewing images.
FYI, I've been testing the Live View lag/latency on various bodies for the magnified focus view. This has been a weak spot on Z bodies because the latency is around 200ms (vs 50ms on other MILC systems), which makes MF a bit more difficult than it would otherwise be. Just tested the Zf and its latency is half of all other Z bodies I tested, including the Z6, Z7, and Z9.
