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This is copied from the Zf reference guide, but I'm sure the Z6III is the same. To enable subject detection during manual focus, select an option other than [MF subject detection off] for [MF subject detection area] in the photo shooting or video recording menu ( 0 128). If [Auto] is selected...

Is there a type here? D700 is a full-frame model and the 18-55mm lens is DX. You would be shooting in crop mode 27-78mm equivalent. Makes a lot more sense if the camera is a D7000, but a D7200 would be far more preferable for only a little more money on used market. Really you are bidding on...

7-10: 75 mile drive for work and just could not come up with a more interesting photo shoot stop. Sauk City, WI riverfront. Using Kodak Portra Picture Control profile.

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Trying to understand here. You must update firmware to use CFExpress? And you are putting the firmware file on that new CFExpress card to write the new firmware (which is required to allow the card to be ready)?

Also investigate your Z8 picture controls. I think "Charcoal" "Binary" gets you fairly close to being the pen and ink style.

Try inverting to a negative image and it will look like an ink-engraving. I remember doing one of those back in high school art class.

Only thing to impress is this is shot with a nearly 50 year old 500mm mirror lens handheld.

07-05: A little bored this afternoon, did an almost 50 year old lens challenge. Fixed my 500mm f/8 Reflex lens to the Zf and attempted some wildlife in the back yard. Only a robin played along. Manual focus handheld on a songbird is no minor feat.

I liked so many photos this month...

I am going to be under rain clouds most of the weekend. But there have been significant corona mass ejections happening this week and it could be beneficial to be ready to go to a darker sky location and photograph aurora. Even when you cannot see anything with the bare eye, camera sensors do...

I really didn't want to choose.

On 6-22 I revisited the Whitewater railroad depot at lunchtime. Worked the other side.

Don't forget the other lesson about opening the aperture full wide and put the fence as out of focus as possible.