They're being snatched up quickly. I kept an eye out on Amazon to see what they inventory is. The kit is usually available but not many are going for it because of that 24-70 F4 that im sure everyone has
Don't understand why Nikon bothers with packaging the kit in a single box rather than just sending you two boxes. Just another SKU management problem for them.
ArizonaImage wrote:
They're being snatched up quickly. I kept an eye out on Amazon to see what they inventory is. The kit is usually available but not many are going for it because of that 24-70 F4 that im sure everyone has
By offering the kit they can sell more stuff, to some who just want the body but don't want to wait for body only to be available, and to some who appreciate getting the lens for a relatively low price. If the two weren't boxed together. stores would just sell the bodies separately and lenses might not be sold in as many copies. Some stores do split the kits and sell the items separately but I'm not sure if Nikon is happy about that.
GroovyGeek wrote:
Don't understand why Nikon bothers with packaging the kit in a single box rather than just sending you two boxes. Just another SKU management problem for them.
GroovyGeek wrote:
Don't understand why Nikon bothers with packaging the kit in a single box rather than just sending you two boxes. Just another SKU management problem for them.
That reminded me, I need to buy a battery charger. Apparently Nikon is not including the MH-25a charger with their cameras anymore. Kinda like Apple just giving you the cable and assuming you have an Apple charger laying around
ArizonaImage wrote:
That reminded me, I need to buy a battery charger. Apparently Nikon is not including the MH-25a charger with their cameras anymore. Kinda like Apple just giving you the cable and assuming you have an Apple charger laying around
Why would you bother with the Nikon charger when something like the NiteCore UNK2 is so much better
FWIW I picked up my Z6III today from my dealer, spent an hour getting it set up like my Z8 & Z9 (as close as possible anyway...which is like 90%+) and stepped out the backyard and grabbed some 6k60p, 4k120p and HD240p videos. (Sorry, still shooters but my main focus is video). VERY happy with the camera and the results...it's just a great all-round camera that, ex. the sensor, is basically a Z8. Amazing camera that will surely entice a few to try out Nikon, especially with the growing number of Nikon and third party lens options.
Just for fun I ordered a used 58mm f1.4G and FTZ II to dabble in some portrait and wildflower stills...the Z6III is perfectly suited for this lens, I think.
Hi, I have a z6III question. I returned my zf because one of the reasons being display showing a "slideshow" when focus was applied, something I've seen other people complain about.
Now I see similar behavior on the z6III. Check out the following video: youtube.com/watch?v=EfF3dhPBwzM
Go to 7:00m mark and pay attention to the window behind the couple, when the photographer applies focus. Why all the stutter?
ISO_5000 wrote:
Hi, I have a z6III question. I returned my zf because one of the reasons being display showing a "slideshow" when focus was applied, something I've seen other people complain about.
Now I see similar behavior on the z6III. Check out the following video: youtube.com/watch?v=EfF3dhPBwzM
Go to 7:00m mark and pay attention to the window behind the couple, when the photographer applies focus. Why all the stutter?
are you referring to the people walking in the background?
That is not slide show effect like what you would see with Z6/Z7 or Zf .
Just seemed like lots of shaking, may be VR/ in body stabilization etc tried to compensate for all the shaking, perhaps.
When I played with it over the weekend, the EVF smoothness is very close if not identical to Z8/Z9, I think.
ISO_5000 wrote:
Hi, I have a z6III question. I returned my zf because one of the reasons being display showing a "slideshow" when focus was applied, something I've seen other people complain about.
Now I see similar behavior on the z6III. Check out the following video: youtube.com/watch?v=EfF3dhPBwzM
Go to 7:00m mark and pay attention to the window behind the couple, when the photographer applies focus. Why all the stutter?
I'm familiar with the Zf AF-C LV stutter issue (you can see all my posts about it with example videos on Dpreview here). However in the video you provided the photographer is taking exposures, so the stutter seen may be related to that rather than focusing. Someone will have to do a focus-only test to see if the Z6 III inherited the issue from the Zf.
ISO_5000 wrote:
Hi, I have a z6III question. I returned my zf because one of the reasons being display showing a "slideshow" when focus was applied, something I've seen other people complain about.
Now I see similar behavior on the z6III. Check out the following video: youtube.com/watch?v=EfF3dhPBwzM
Go to 7:00m mark and pay attention to the window behind the couple, when the photographer applies focus. Why all the stutter?
Welcome to FM, ISO_5000, hopefully the Nikon gurus here can help with your question!
Disclaimer: I'm preparing to move from Lumix to Nikon and I'm here to learn about this new camera, too, so please take my input as coming from someone with near-zero Nikon hands-on experience.
In reviewing the video frames around the 7:00 mark I do notice a few duplicate frames/images appearing and took a look through the Z6III User Manual to see what settings there were for the Monitor (rear display) and Viewfinder (EVF). The only caveat I was able to unearth was found on page 797 (of the English manual) in reference to the camera's Energy Saving Mode, where it states...
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[ON] Enable energy saving. The display refresh rate may drop.
...I don't know if this has any bearing on that YT'ers video but I thought I'd inject that here with your question in case it does.
My assumption when I watched that video the other day was that the camera was likely showing a frame-duplicate everytime the user was taking a snapshot with the electronic shutter?
suteetat wrote:
are you referring to the people walking in the background?
That is not slide show effect like what you would see with Z6/Z7 or Zf .
Just seemed like lots of shaking, may be VR/ in body stabilization etc tried to compensate for all the shaking, perhaps.
When I played with it over the weekend, the EVF smoothness is very close if not identical to Z8/Z9, I think.
Methinks they're referring to the small handful of duplicate Monitor frames occurring at around the 7:00 mark (correct me if I'm wrong). Pressing "K" key will Pause/Play the video and one can move forward a single-frame-at-a-time by pressing "./>" (period) key, or reverse a single-frame-at-a-time by pressing ",/<" (comma) key.
FWIW, that section of that video is rather nauseating to watch at normal speed as the author handles their camera with about the same, er, aplomb as Barney Fife handles a pistol! Haw! They can barely keep their subject matter centered or even in the frame, oofah!
Also, that author is making rapid-fire changes to their exposure settings (and engaging the touch screen?) throughout that sequence and, again, I am unfamiliar with how well the Z6III monitor refresh keeps up with such spastic user-behavior at 1/60th-of-a-second exposure, as in that sequence?
What about the mannequins do you believe is different from a human subject that would be significant to a camera in terms of AF?
IMHO, mannequin is a perfectly valid and eminently useful test subject, and it has the advantage of being the same every time.
I was interested in seeing your comparison of higher-end cameras, as your results mirror my experiences with the Z6 and the R6 II. If I used the Z6 like a dslr, the results were fine, but EyeAF was not reliable enough to be useful. Shooting both for about six months, I found the R6 II’s EyeAF to be vastly superior.
GroovyGeek wrote:
Kits in stock left and right but bodies are rare. Someone at Nikon Marketing will have questions to answer for missed revenue opportunities.
I've seen on Facebook that some people already got theirs and have reviewed them. Someone said that the low light focus was absolutely stellar.
Jimmy G