A very level headed, non polarizing review and without the hyperbole, that was posted over at DPR. :
What I wanted to point out here and why the Jared Polin review was so polarizing. His opinions about what lenses Nikon should have delivered is just his opinion but he makes the statement as if it were absolute indisputable fact. The trouble is, he is coming from a complete professional shooter which is fine if those are the lenses you need as a professional shooter, but most of Nikon's user base is not after those absolute professional lenses. The reason I say this is that the whole point of the first iterations of the Z system was to be a *point of difference* and that is that it is small and light, for people to move to a smaller and lighter system in the first instance. The statements made by all those that buy into the system was that they love the small and light form factor, especially for travel, hiking and general street photography. Big fast heavy lenses are not that system and there would have been very few on the uptake if that was the case. Personally, I think Nikon's lens line up is the correct one so far. He *states*, "Nikon must get better glass out" as if this is a major flaw in their system. Sorry, the S mount glass *is better* and is right up there with the best by Zeiss and anyone. How much better can it be? At least he states that this is for his professional use and has to be taken in that context and that is the point, he is only looking at it from a professional's point of view, which he needs to make a bigger point of. Most of us who own our cameras are not in that boat and thus don't need f1.2 glass at this juncture. Yes, it might be nice to have but not right at this point in development, it is better to have the basic lenses and get the high end stuff later. Jared is asking to put the cart before the horse as far as lenses are concerned.
He also says that the new 70-200 f2.8S will be big, but I wonder if he really knows and as it has not come out yet he shouldn't be making a *statement* as to why it is wrong because we don't know what it will actually be like yet!
In his Bernie Sanders shoot, I still can't believe he made out that the one card slot was an issue. Also swapping lenses with the FTZ, I mean, does he really only shoot with one camera as a professional? Really? I am sure he'd have at least two and be using S mounts on one and FTZ on the other. F1.8 lenses as opposed to f1.4 lenses in low light is an issue? Really? Come on. Whatever, it is isn't the issue he makes it out to be.
The video above talks about IBIS being better on the Z6/7 than the Sony's but Jared doesn't even broach the subject as far as I can see, yet this may be more critical to many people. I find it incredibly good and great for my birding in very low light.
He is being way too polarizing, too hyperbolic.
Dec 30, 2019 at 05:30 PM
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