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Re: Jared - one year in on Z6 / Z7
JohnBrew wrote: 1bwana1 wrote:
Ownership is not a qualifier for participation here on FM.
No, but non-ownership shouts TROLL.
I haven’t been happy with the AF on my Z7 since day one and only became more concerned the longer I used it.
It is now of limited use for me and only taken out for pure landscape excursions. I may just sell it and leave Nikon altogether.
As to lenses, the 50 is absolutely incredible. However I find my need for outstanding lenses to be less and less as I shoot more abstract photography. Hell, I have under consideration buying back into a Df just to use my 105 2.5 Ai more. I consider adapted lenses on the Z7 to be a failure.
It may shout it but it doesn't mean it is so.
I chose to not buy a Z6 or Z7 based on data points. First, Tony and Chelsea's original review was one. Gary Irvin's initial assessment on DPR was another one. The video in this thread is a data point, though long after the fact, so kind of moot at this point. Your assessment above is another one backing up my decision not to buy.
The one card slot, while not a deal breaker for me is a negative and didn't help Nikon's sales. Even though my three bodies have two card slot capability, there's generally only one in there. The XQD doesn't give me any more feeling of comfort though, than an SD or CF. But Bieber, being from just outside Toronto, if I happened to see him hooking up with Selena on the side down on Avenue Rd, I think then I'd want two cards - one main; one backup. Some things you don't want to take a chance with.
Also, I consider adapted lenses a failure. We are not the only ones. So that becomes one big vicious circle for me. I'm not buying Zee lenses. I'm not using an adapter. No solution for that.
The only think I could think of having a use for, for ML, was as an ML Df. However, you can't use AI and AI-S lenses without an adapter, and even with an adapter you have to use stop down metering or a work around, and I think?? no EXIF. So there's that circle again.
So Nikon has a dilemma. The Z6 /Z7 II has to be a major upgrade. AF for sure. And the perception that in 2020 cameras come with two card slots will have to be addressed. Not sure that would be enough to get me in the door, but it might bring in a lot more than is buying them now. I think the adapter would still be a deal breaker for me. Can't see a work around or fix for that.
Anyway....................................
Jan 01, 2020 at 08:29 PM
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