Andre Labonte wrote: EB-1 wroteThe D850 sure was not blackout free. The AF was considered good at the time, but nowhere near today.
If you already have a Z9/Z8 then the purpose of the Z70 is the extra reach. But you apparently opted for the D850 over the D500 so probably a harder sell for you.
EBHBut to be fair, DX is just a crop factor, not really extra reach. There's nothing stopping a Z9 shoot from going into DX crop mode and getting the same impact that a theoretical Z70 DX would bring. The real DX play is cost. The D500 gave high performance for its time in a less expensive DX body.
That said, as a dedicated DX DSLR shooter, I really wish Nikon would give DX some mirrorless love with a D500 replacement in Z-mount and maybe a decent f/4 WA that goes to 10mm. The 16-50 f/2.8 seems decent though. I'll take the DX resolution vs. a Z9 or the ISO hit vs the Z6 if I can get the pro-level AF and frame rate at a lower cost than the Z6-III.
If Nikon did that I would jump to mirrorless. As it is, I will run my DSLR to death and make the jump to mirrorless then. That will be years of lost sales. I suspect I'm not the only one in that boat....Show more →
Same. I can't justify a Z8 or Z9 on what I make on shooting.
Andre Labonte wrote: EB-1 wroteThe D850 sure was not blackout free. The AF was considered good at the time, but nowhere near today.
If you already have a Z9/Z8 then the purpose of the Z70 is the extra reach. But you apparently opted for the D850 over the D500 so probably a harder sell for you.
EBHBut to be fair, DX is just a crop factor, not really extra reach. There's nothing stopping a Z9 shoot from going into DX crop mode and getting the same impact that a theoretical Z70 DX would bring. The real DX play is cost. The D500 gave high performance for its time in a less expensive DX body.
That said, as a dedicated DX DSLR shooter, I really wish Nikon would give DX some mirrorless love with a D500 replacement in Z-mount and maybe a decent f/4 WA that goes to 10mm. The 16-50 f/2.8 seems decent though. I'll take the DX resolution vs. a Z9 or the ISO hit vs the Z6 if I can get the pro-level AF and frame rate at a lower cost than the Z6-III.
If Nikon did that I would jump to mirrorless. As it is, I will run my DSLR to death and make the jump to mirrorless then. That will be years of lost sales. I suspect I'm not the only one in that boat....Show more →
I care about reach. If Nikon made a Z8 II or whatever with ~92MP then the 41MP DX crop from that would be fine. Of course that would require a much more performant Expedia and be a quite costly camera.
Nikon should make a 16-80/4 to be the equivalent of the 24-120 and also an ultra-wide to fill out the range.