p.3 #3 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
I had to laugh thinking about FW 2.0 dropping the week you bought into it...those poor day 1 shooters have been thirsting in the desert for months for these new features that the rest of us Z shooters have been enjoying on lesser models
p.3 #4 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
RoamingScott wrote:
I had to laugh thinking about FW 2.0 dropping the week you bought into it..
Same day my camera arrived, in fact. I had just gotten the battery charged and thought 'I should see if there are any updates'. I took it as a good omen that the update had only been posted minutes before.
p.3 #5 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
MikeEvangelist wrote:
Same day my camera arrived, in fact. I had just gotten the battery charged and thought 'I should see if there are any updates'. I took it as a good omen that the update had only been posted minutes before.
One difference you'll notice from Sony is that Nikon improved the AF box usability without requiring you to pay $5000 for a new model
p.3 #7 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
rob_ww wrote:
I do wish Sony would add the green box option to their cameras too. Sometimes you need to be watching the whole scene while focusing and choosing the moment, and that is disrupted by magnification. The green box would mean you can get it approximately right by eye, then have the accuracy confirmed by the AF sensors.
This is the thing that bothers me with focus magnification on Sony. Is there a setting to have mag view timed a few seconds or only by pressing the mag button twice to return to full screen view?
Thanks,
JayT
Aug 27, 2025 at 02:23 PM
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p.3 #8 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
Sirfishalot wrote:
This is the thing that bothers me with focus magnification on Sony. Is there a setting to have mag view timed a few seconds or only by pressing the mag button twice to return to full screen view?
Thanks,
JayT
Yes, I have magnification set to a push of the joystick and a second push brings it back to the full view. So I move the focus box to where I want to focus with the joystick. Push the joystick for magnification and focus and then push it a second time to go back to the full view. With the beautiful big viewfinder of the A7r V, I find that works really well for manual focus.
p.3 #9 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
Why not just use the shutter button half press to exit? That way you're primed to take the shot the moment you come out.
Aug 27, 2025 at 03:12 PM
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p.3 #10 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
RoamingScott wrote:
Why not just use the shutter button half press to exit? That way you're primed to take the shot the moment you come out.
Some might like that, but I don't like the shutter button half press assigned to anything as I find I activate that too often when I don't want to do so, but that is just my preference.
p.3 #11 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
Steve Spencer wrote:
Some might like that, but I don't like the shutter button half press assigned to anything as I find I activate that too often when I don't want to do so, but that is just my preference.
The other gripe I have about the 7CR is that half press of the shutter. It feels like it’s so heavy like you’re almost have to press all the way down.
Aug 27, 2025 at 05:00 PM
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p.3 #12 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
Sirfishalot wrote:
The other gripe I have about the 7CR is that half press of the shutter. It feels like it’s so heavy like you’re almost have to press all the way down.
I agree. I have a hard time half pressing and not making it a full press so I just assign nothing to the half press.
p.3 #13 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
Sirfishalot wrote:
This is the thing that bothers me with focus magnification on Sony. Is there a setting to have mag view timed a few seconds or only by pressing the mag button twice to return to full screen view?
Thanks,
JayT
One of the few things I miss from the Pentax K-1 is CIF (catch in focus) for manual focus lenses.
You could set it to only trip the shutter when your focus point was in focus, meaning you could for example on a manual focus macro just set min focus distance and lean in until the focus point lit and press the shutter. Or, in other situations you just press the shutter and lean in until your subject came into focus and the shutter trips itself.
Super handy and flexible for all kinds of manual focus situations and really made focusing with old glass easy. I wish Sony could find a way to implement something similar. (or if I'm missing the feature someone please point it out to me!)
p.3 #14 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
Congratulations.
I think Nikon does its users good.
The price to performance for Nikon bodies are better than anyone else.
If I had to start all over again right now, I would probably buy a Nikon.
But, inspite of this I think the Sony A9III is probably the best all around camera I have used across any brand.
I purchased one pre tariff, to see if the combination of a global shutter 35 mm sensor and Sony’s latest 5th generation body was any good. It turned out to be an incredible combination with it’s global sensor specifically tuned body and firmware. This is an incredibly cohesive combination.
This is significantly better than the A7RV that I have. The slow scanning sensor of the A7RV greatly hobbled the excellent 5th generation body.
But if you wanted to spend on one body, the A9III is the one to do it for.
p.3 #15 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
mudlake wrote:
Question - could you compare using manual focus on your A7R5 and the z6iii? I’m curious how much better the viewfinder is in the A7R5 and if the eye detect feature is accurate in manual focus mode in the z6iii. If you could compare them that would be great!
Just tried this out with an ancient screw-mount 50mm Mamiya lens, on a dumb e-mount adapter, then on the Megadap. The Nikon detects eyes in the frame and the focus frame turns green when you hit focus. Seems quite accurate and easy.
Hard to say about the viewfinders after only a couple days use, but the Nikon is certainly very good.
p.3 #16 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
RoamingScott wrote:
Why not just use the shutter button half press to exit? That way you're primed to take the shot the moment you come out.
That's exactly how I've been doing it from day one.
p.3 #17 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
Well, nine days into this Nikon journey, I think I need a Z8. The Z6iii is really fabulous, but I miss the crop-ability of my A7Rv. And the extra sharpness that comes with no low-pass filter. The Z8 should address both those gaps.
Meanwhile, as I ponder that, I'm having a lot of fun learning a new system.
It's incredible being able to use my e-mount lenses so effectively, thanks to the remarkable Megadap ETZ21 PRO+.
p.3 #18 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
just sell your Sony bodies at this point. Currently, I am using an A1 on loan from Sony support to try it out, and there's no way I would sell my Z8 for one, ever.
p.3 #20 · After 13 years of all Sony, I'm trying Nikon
3catsinky wrote:
just sell your Sony bodies at this point. Currently, I am using an A1 on loan from Sony support to try it out, and there's no way I would sell my Z8 for one, ever.
The A1 is much older, isn‘t it? Not bad that you have still considered it.
