amci4 wrote:
So what tips do you have for shooting with the camera? What have you learned that made it easier to shoot with?
OwlsEyes wrote:
For those wondering if the Z6 can be used as a professional tool in the harshest of environments, you might enjoy this video by Morten Hilmer:
For those who do not know him, Morten is a Danish Wildlife Photographer who specializes in cold regions of the world. He is a story teller, so some of you might find the video long or boring... others (like me) will love what he does and how he presents it.
For the record, I am now using the Z6 as my one FX camera. When I do not need the crop of my D500's, I use the Z6 for my wildlife work... it has take some work to learn how to shoot it best, but things are getting better with time.
- One thing has been linked to developing muscle memory. The buttons are a bit tight when compared to the D500 and D810. I find that I toggle between my back-button AF and Display button quite a lot and have practiced feeling these buttons especially in cold weather.
- I have learned to ignore the focus joystick and just work with the selection disk. The selection disk acts like the joystick but is in the same location as the D500's. As a result, I can move the joystick around seamlessly.
- Electronic front curtain has eliminated any of the unsharpness that I was getting when shooting from a tripod. My photos are now very crisp even with my telephoto lenses. I rarely shoot above 1/2000 of a second, so I am not limited by this.
- I do not rely on the auto AF, face-detection, wide-area... I use single-point or dynamic in AF-C. While it is not perfect, it tracks movement as well (maybe better) than the D810
- I shoot high frame rate but not the highest... as I said, this is not my action body. I use it for slower moving organisms.
- Other than landscapes, I never use the back LCD. I rely on the the capacity to access information inside the viewfinder and thus rarely take my eye away from the camera.
- All of my User Settings are geared for repeated settings that I normal use. I have a landscape setting that presets everything to ISO 100, manual exposure, and f/11. U1 and U2 are wildlife settings with higher Auto ISO limits, Aperture Priority and easy exposure compensation set to one of the control wheels.
hope this helps a little.
cheers,
bruce
Mar 19, 2019 at 12:19 PM
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