Re: Nikon unveils the highly anticipated Z8 camera!
Spectro wrote:
If the Z90 does materialize I’ll be surprised.
I owned a D500. A great camera that arrived before the D850. When I moved to the D850, I could make it operate essentially the same as a D500 with the only major difference to me being the somewhat crippled viewfinder which was masked in dx mode.
Now with a Z9 (and I assume the Z8) firmware, I can tap one button (I programmed the video button) to move between fx and dx with a full dx viewfinder display. In the middle of an action sequence this is a big deal to me.
Unless they make the Z90 at a lower price point of significance or in a much smaller form factor I don’t really see the justification. My opinion only.
I can mostly agree with your points, but I would like to differentiate this a bit.
It was little simpler with D850/D500, D850 in crop mode is about the same MP's as D500.
If that happens again with Z8/Z90, I would definitely go for Z8, but I'm expecting Z90 to have at least 26MP, or even 32.
If you take for an example 600mm at 20MP as a base, 26MP would make it like 685mm with extra cropability.
If it becomes 32MP, that would work like 758mm, huge difference.
That would make some difference, especially if the price would be close to X-H2s by Fuji.
Re: Nikon unveils the highly anticipated Z8 camera!
Spectro wrote:
If the Z90 does materialize I’ll be surprised.
I owned a D500. A great camera that arrived before the D850. When I moved to the D850, I could make it operate essentially the same as a D500 with the only major difference to me being the somewhat crippled viewfinder which was masked in dx mode.
Now with a Z9 (and I assume the Z8) firmware, I can tap one button (I programmed the video button) to move between fx and dx with a full dx viewfinder display. In the middle of an action sequence this is a big deal to me.
Unless they make the Z90 at a lower price point of significance or in a much smaller form factor I don’t really see the justification. My opinion only.
I can mostly agree with your points, but I would like to differentiate this a bit.
It was little simpler with D850/D500, D850 in crop mode is about the same MP's as D500.
If that happens again with Z8/Z90, I would definitely go for Z8, but I'm expecting Z90 to have at least 26MP, or even 32.
That would make some difference, especially if the price would be close to X-H2s by Fuji.
May 16, 2023 at 08:45 AM
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