If it was just your personal opinion then why not qualify it as such, rather than categorically state Sony is unmatched without any real evidence?
I suspect it's because no amount of evidence, no matter how overwhelming, will ever convince some people on this forum that Nikon is not the absolute best at everything.
That and they don't uphold this standard themselves. There is an actual word for that...
Replace Nikon by Sony in the sentence above and we have a more relevant depiction of what’s happening here…
I only brought up the a9II because of the claim made that even older Sony bodies were superior.
I also notice that the person I replied to based his BIF assessment on an old Z9 firmware he didn’t want to share and what appears to be a single instance of the Z8 missing focus on people.
I note a mention of the Z8/Z9 missing focus on the pupil of the eye by someone not owning either cameras… but this is not what I experience.
Having first hand experience with all of these cameras except the a7rV I know full well that they all miss focus sometimes, including the Z8 and Z9. Sony is far from being as perfect as it is claimed and the Z8/Z9 is an outstanding performer in absolute terms. Now probably as good for BIF, a weak point originally, and still brilliant for people as it always was, which is by far the most important use case all things considered.
Going back the Z8, wouldn’t it be reasonable to admit that until we compare the cameras we can’t convey any relevant assessment of it’s AF performance vs other bodies?
If it was just your personal opinion then why not qualify it as such, rather than categorically state Sony is unmatched without any real evidence?
I suspect it's because no amount of evidence, no matter how overwhelming, will ever convince some people on this forum that Nikon is not the absolute best at everything.
That and they don't uphold this standard themselves. There is an actual word for that...
Replace Nikon by Sony in the sentence above and we have a more relevant depiction of what’s happening here…
I only brought up the a9II because of the claim made that even older Sony bodies were superior.
I also notice that the person I replied to based his BIF assessment on an old Z9 firmware he didn’t want to share and what appears to be a single instance of the Z8 missing focus on people.
I note a mention of the Z8/Z9 missing focus on the pupil of the eye by someone not owning either cameras… but this is not what I experience.
Having first hand experience with all of these cameras except the a7rV I know full well that they all miss focus sometimes, including the Z8 and Z9. Sony is far from being as perfect as it is claimed and the Z8/Z9 is an outstanding performer in absolute terms. Now probably as good for BIF, a weak point originally, and still brilliant for people as it always was, which is by far the most important use case all things considered.
Cheers,
Bernard
Oct 24, 2023 at 11:51 AM
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