Re: Nikon unveils the highly anticipated Z8 camera!
Max Power wrote: Ai_Print wrote:
Finally got to use the Z8 on a job today, left the Z9 and Z7II in the trunk. I used the 24-70 2.8 and 50mm 1.2 which balanced much better on the 8 than on the 7. Overall it did great, pretty much as the Z9 would have but in a smaller size.
Speaking of build, I’m not sure what everyone is going on about here regarding the build quality of this thing, it’s fine. I have been using Nikon cameras for work since the F3 days and have never been disappointed by build quality, ever. I am not brutal on my cameras but they do work hard, out in the elements, occasionally get bumped or fall.
I find how amateurs talk so critically about build quality so much to be quite comical really.
Have you ever owned a D600? Or an early D800?
Build quality is a thing. Don't get arrogant about it.
Of course, the 800 and the 610, they were great, held up fine for well over 100K frames each. The only issues I have ever had was a shutter going on an F4S at 280k cycles and one on a 750 going at 45k.
Other than that it would be things that I did to cause some issues like having an F3 mount tweak because I leaned it and a 400mm 2.8 against a rail in a dugout when it slid and hit hard on the back of the body. Then there was the time I was 70’ feet up in a harness photographing a welder on a freeway column doing earthquake repair work and the sparks hit the front my my 15mm 3.5 and wrecked it. Or how about when my FM3A’s strap caught on something other than me and slammed it hotshoe first into a rock face on a climb….then later that year I slipped on ice and it did the same thing, lol!
The stuff holds up fine…
Jun 02, 2023 at 09:59 AM
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