Congrats Suteetat Fun times! Finally some real world comparisons and appreciate your perspective as you have the A7rIII to compare properly. I am not after eye AF either as in the A7rII as my hit rate in medium complex lighting was 80% and marginally slower. Much quicker to define a point or area and you approach 100% success.
I spoke to my good friend in Brisbane this afternoon and my Z7 is also available to pick up. He is also a professional wedding photographer and needs video capabilities alongside. In his testing of the Z7 so far he also found the AF in both AF-S and C modes to be excellent and the video functionality to be superb. He loves the FTZ adapter as it is really is seamless. He has the D850 and D5 and was about to opt for the A7III for videos. For his work I think he will opt for the Z6 rather the Z7.
Fun times as we start to see how the Z7/Z6 truly perform!
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Charles, I am sure you will enjoy your Z7 very much. Are you back from your trip?
I will go to France next week so Z7 arrived just in time
rico wrote:
With two paragraphs and no images, I already know more about the Z from suteetat than all the captive professional reviewers and their doublespeak. Love our FM community. Looks like Nikon has worked hard to get this first iteration to hit the ground running.
Thanks Rico. I think Nikon rushed too quickly to launch the product before they were ready for lime light. I had no idea whether all those people were trying in NY tried the same FW that I played with last week at a local launch or not. All I knew was that last week, I also tried a pre production unit and AF while not in D850 league was pretty reasonable and I had high hope Today, I think at least in AF-S
mode, in good light it is much improved.
Play a bit more this evening. In low light using Sigma Art 50/1.4 on Z7 and A7r iii has 50/1.4 Sony Zeiss, @F1.4, ss1/50 iso 3200-4000, both are very impressive. Sony came a long way from A7r, A7r ii
in low light AF. However, I think Z7 matches A7r iii easily and appears a bit faster as well but I think I am splitting hair here. A7r iii did AF hunt once or twice more than Z7 in 10 shots (Z7 did not hunt at all).
For a person who shoot mostly AF-S, I could not be happier (I leave AF-C, tracking to my D850 mostly).
The rain finally stopped right before sunset time but I am too lazy to go out now so just a quick shot from my apartment with 35/1.8s.
I should mentioned one annoying thing. Snapbridge! One thing that Nikon still cannot get right
At least bluetooth connection if I set up for the camera to send small jpg automatically to my android phone appears to be quite reliable. Actually, this is also the case with D850. However, I cannot test wifi connection as I think Snapbridge just does not work well when they are 10 different wifi available. At least on D850, wifi is a bit better when there are no other network around. May be it is the same for Z7 but at my apartment, I only managed to link Z7 to my phone for remote once and after that it failed every time. On D850, I find that the best way to transfer picture reliably to my phone is by selecting pictures on the camera and send a few pictures to my phone at a time via bluetooth.
Now this option is gone from Z7 (at least I could not find it yet). One guy from my local shop told me earlier that he found Z7 wifi more reliable when he turned off bluetooth. Go figure. However he is at Fotokina now so I will have to wait for him to return to ask what he meant by that.
I have been playing with the camera for about 6 hours now and took 200 pictures with airplane mode off,
battery is down to 3 bars from 5.
Sep 27, 2018 at 07:28 AM
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