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BF Hammer 2026: Me and my Zf
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<blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 847089" data-attributes="member: 48483"><p>On 8-3-2026 I tried a Milky Way landscape photo. Problem was, I had forgotten about a quirk in the Z camera bodies when shooting a time-lapse with the built-in feature. Nikon will not allow you to have manual control of shutter speed. You must select P or A mode to do the time-lapse. This was not an issue so much with my Z5 as I own an intervalometer that uses the camera remote shutter release port. Z5 has that port, Zf does not...</p><p></p><p>After scratching my head a few minutes I tested in A mode and found a way to get 8-second shutter, where my tests had me wanting 13 second. I ran the time-lapse and hoped for fixing in post. First attempts for the weekly challenge was not that great. Now I ran through a series of options in Sequator to get the exposure-stack better.</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]430621[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Original attempt:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]430622[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>It had been 3 years or so since I last tried this, so forgetting things obviously did happen. <s>Weather and the moon-phase tonight will allow me a new chance for a do-over later in the night with less twilight glow working against me</s>. This time I have tested with NX-Tether and I will regain manual control of shutter being tethered to my PC. Wish the Zf had better compatibility with DigiCamControl like the Z5 did, maybe that will happen in the future. Astronomy tool in that software is better. Have hazy sky in all directions except straight up. More wildfire smoke? I'll check that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BF Hammer, post: 847089, member: 48483"] On 8-3-2026 I tried a Milky Way landscape photo. Problem was, I had forgotten about a quirk in the Z camera bodies when shooting a time-lapse with the built-in feature. Nikon will not allow you to have manual control of shutter speed. You must select P or A mode to do the time-lapse. This was not an issue so much with my Z5 as I own an intervalometer that uses the camera remote shutter release port. Z5 has that port, Zf does not... After scratching my head a few minutes I tested in A mode and found a way to get 8-second shutter, where my tests had me wanting 13 second. I ran the time-lapse and hoped for fixing in post. First attempts for the weekly challenge was not that great. Now I ran through a series of options in Sequator to get the exposure-stack better. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Patric Marsh Rev D.jpg"]430621[/ATTACH] Original attempt: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Patrick Marsh Stacked 2026-08-03.jpg"]430622[/ATTACH] It had been 3 years or so since I last tried this, so forgetting things obviously did happen. [S]Weather and the moon-phase tonight will allow me a new chance for a do-over later in the night with less twilight glow working against me[/S]. This time I have tested with NX-Tether and I will regain manual control of shutter being tethered to my PC. Wish the Zf had better compatibility with DigiCamControl like the Z5 did, maybe that will happen in the future. Astronomy tool in that software is better. Have hazy sky in all directions except straight up. More wildfire smoke? I'll check that. [/QUOTE]
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