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<blockquote data-quote="blackstar" data-source="post: 830267" data-attributes="member: 47518"><p>I am a z6ii and z8 user. From my experience, you won't regret of owning z8 considering for wildlife photography. You have already experienced its superior AF capability. Congratulations!!! What I want to suggest is also based on my experience. Right after I acquired z6ii, I got the FTZ adapter to use my Sigma 200-600 and got mostly unsatisfied results. Soon I started get rid of my old DSLR body and F lenses and got two S line z lenses. Then I was lured to Steve's forum for wildlife photography. Finally got the z186 (12 months after placing order) to try with z6ii. It was ok and definitely better than the Sigma. However, I couldn't hand-handle it because of its weight and my old body. Got a gimble head and a stronger tripod to go with it. Same as you, found z6ii's AF capability is less than making work easy and satisfying. When time's up, z8 came to rescue. I was surprised it makes your photo shooting so much more effective and easier. I was happy with the combo except z186's weight. I researched a bit about z600pf with a conclusion that it will give better IQ and most importantly it is lighter than z186 (a hint that I probably can handhold it). I ignored its shortcoming of less versatility. So I sold my z186 to a local photographer (member of Steve's forum). When the guy tried to handle it, he was shocked and said this thing is feather light to him!!! It's a happy business done. Then I bought the z600pf and a tcx1.4. Now I use the combo (z8+z600+TC1.4) with a shoulder strap to go hiking around and shooting. Very happy. However, as of recently, I found z600 is still bit heavy for me when the photo session (especially for BIF) is long. My panning skill is not even close to perfect. So it kind of hit me on letting z186 go. I see many high quality images (definitely comparable to z600) online shot by z186. This is my recommendation if you go z lens: get z186 first. (BTW, it costs you much much less $. Very valuable!!!) GL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blackstar, post: 830267, member: 47518"] I am a z6ii and z8 user. From my experience, you won't regret of owning z8 considering for wildlife photography. You have already experienced its superior AF capability. Congratulations!!! What I want to suggest is also based on my experience. Right after I acquired z6ii, I got the FTZ adapter to use my Sigma 200-600 and got mostly unsatisfied results. Soon I started get rid of my old DSLR body and F lenses and got two S line z lenses. Then I was lured to Steve's forum for wildlife photography. Finally got the z186 (12 months after placing order) to try with z6ii. It was ok and definitely better than the Sigma. However, I couldn't hand-handle it because of its weight and my old body. Got a gimble head and a stronger tripod to go with it. Same as you, found z6ii's AF capability is less than making work easy and satisfying. When time's up, z8 came to rescue. I was surprised it makes your photo shooting so much more effective and easier. I was happy with the combo except z186's weight. I researched a bit about z600pf with a conclusion that it will give better IQ and most importantly it is lighter than z186 (a hint that I probably can handhold it). I ignored its shortcoming of less versatility. So I sold my z186 to a local photographer (member of Steve's forum). When the guy tried to handle it, he was shocked and said this thing is feather light to him!!! It's a happy business done. Then I bought the z600pf and a tcx1.4. Now I use the combo (z8+z600+TC1.4) with a shoulder strap to go hiking around and shooting. Very happy. However, as of recently, I found z600 is still bit heavy for me when the photo session (especially for BIF) is long. My panning skill is not even close to perfect. So it kind of hit me on letting z186 go. I see many high quality images (definitely comparable to z600) online shot by z186. This is my recommendation if you go z lens: get z186 first. (BTW, it costs you much much less $. Very valuable!!!) GL [/QUOTE]
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