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 p.3 #1 · Is Nikon AF (Z9/8) really that much worse? | |
Short version: It is about the lenses.
This has been an interesting read.
The last time I shifted systems, for “better” AF, was in 2018. We had replaced my wife’s flooded D7000 cameras, in late 2017, with a pair of D500 cameras. I was playing with one of the D500 cameras, and its AF beat my Canons’ AF with a stick. (7D II & 5Ds R.) in 2018, after a modest, one-time, post-retirement financial windfall, I bought a D5, and then “hers & his” D850 cameras, plus, one final Canon model, a 5D Mark IV. (The Canon Macro Ring Lite II makes it very much worth it, to keep using Canon for macro field work, which is why I “shifted,” rather than “switched.”)
Not that we are luddites; my wife occasionally uses a Z6, and, there is, probably, at least one Z9 and one Z8 in our not-so-distant future. We have gravitated to macro/close range, and the larger, slower birds, so, cutting-edge AF has not been as important lately.
Ultimately, it is about the lenses. Nikon lenses’ zoom rings work in the “correct” directions.  And, of course, my wife is not going to switch, regardless. Happy wife, happy life. If Mama ain’t happy, nobody is happy.  (She is the senior photographer, by far.)
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