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Z6/Z6ii
Two Months With The Z6
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<blockquote data-quote="spb_stan" data-source="post: 699628" data-attributes="member: 43545"><p>From reports by the techs who have taken apart the Z6/7 to check sealing and construction the consensus has been been that it was the best built of the current corp of cameras..It sure feels solid and confidence inspiring. I originally bought a Z7 after the first of the year but traded it for a Z6 when they first became available here. I felt I had more need of a high gain camera with smaller files as a general purpose camera for walking around and travel. I have really enjoyed it so much my D850 and D800 sit on the shelf and even commercial shoots I have been doing with the Z6. For one thing, in AF-S mode is focuses more accurately than DSLRs even such good ones as the D850 because of the variability of lens fine tuning. If I place the focus point on an eye, the Z6 nails it every time. </p><p>The bad reviews at first caused a number of youtube "gurus" to lose a lot of credibility. Very few of them are actually knowledgeable or even decent photographers. There are very few who's opinion I would rank about the average guy on the street.The false hysteria over the single XQD just shows how ill-informed they are about the significantly higher Mean Time Between Failure for the whole card system, preferring two very unreliable non-error correcting failure prone SD card. The difference between the data protocol of the PCIe+ bus of the Nikon Z cameras is like preferring 2 5.25in floppy disks than 1 PCIe+ SSD.</p><p>This last Monday I did a session in a home with a bunch of speedlights, sort of a glamour session and I took the D850 and D800. The 800 might be old in digital years but I still really like the color and it is a sweet spot in the resolution range. The client liked them but when I pixel peeped it was obvious there were a lot of frames with weak eye focus that would not have happened with the Z6. I called a friend who was envious of my D850 and offered it to him as fair price and he accepted it. I figured I should sell it before a new model comes out and crashes the used market. The plan is to get another Z7 for the studio and environmental portraits and catalog shooting so I can justify investing in the new pro glass coming out now in Z mount. The future of Nikon is definitely the Z mount, every lens out so far, despite the modest prices, it the sharpest len available at that FL. The 50 1.8 S and 24-70 f/4 are just too good to replace any time soon. I have the 35 1.8 which is also class leading but it is not a FL I use much. Maybe next week I will get a body only, I don't need two FTZ adaptor. I am not sure there will be any rush for long lenses on the Z mount because the distinct optical advantage of the Zmount mid and wide angle shines through. The D850 is the best and only camera I ever sold. </p><p>The AF upgrade this month has been separated from the upgrade of the CF Express that might happen next month after the first CFExpress cards are out on the market. Maybe I will get a used D850 after a new one is released when the price drops. It is a very good camera but for what I do, a Z6 paired with a Z7 and Z mount lenses are the future proofing that Nikon claimed before they were released. The plain fact is, after using the lower cost Z mount lenses it is obvious the F mount is go going to be phased out. For long glass however the advantages of the Z are less, but still present. The mid and wide range is where the advantages are dramatic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spb_stan, post: 699628, member: 43545"] From reports by the techs who have taken apart the Z6/7 to check sealing and construction the consensus has been been that it was the best built of the current corp of cameras..It sure feels solid and confidence inspiring. I originally bought a Z7 after the first of the year but traded it for a Z6 when they first became available here. I felt I had more need of a high gain camera with smaller files as a general purpose camera for walking around and travel. I have really enjoyed it so much my D850 and D800 sit on the shelf and even commercial shoots I have been doing with the Z6. For one thing, in AF-S mode is focuses more accurately than DSLRs even such good ones as the D850 because of the variability of lens fine tuning. If I place the focus point on an eye, the Z6 nails it every time. The bad reviews at first caused a number of youtube "gurus" to lose a lot of credibility. Very few of them are actually knowledgeable or even decent photographers. There are very few who's opinion I would rank about the average guy on the street.The false hysteria over the single XQD just shows how ill-informed they are about the significantly higher Mean Time Between Failure for the whole card system, preferring two very unreliable non-error correcting failure prone SD card. The difference between the data protocol of the PCIe+ bus of the Nikon Z cameras is like preferring 2 5.25in floppy disks than 1 PCIe+ SSD. This last Monday I did a session in a home with a bunch of speedlights, sort of a glamour session and I took the D850 and D800. The 800 might be old in digital years but I still really like the color and it is a sweet spot in the resolution range. The client liked them but when I pixel peeped it was obvious there were a lot of frames with weak eye focus that would not have happened with the Z6. I called a friend who was envious of my D850 and offered it to him as fair price and he accepted it. I figured I should sell it before a new model comes out and crashes the used market. The plan is to get another Z7 for the studio and environmental portraits and catalog shooting so I can justify investing in the new pro glass coming out now in Z mount. The future of Nikon is definitely the Z mount, every lens out so far, despite the modest prices, it the sharpest len available at that FL. The 50 1.8 S and 24-70 f/4 are just too good to replace any time soon. I have the 35 1.8 which is also class leading but it is not a FL I use much. Maybe next week I will get a body only, I don't need two FTZ adaptor. I am not sure there will be any rush for long lenses on the Z mount because the distinct optical advantage of the Zmount mid and wide angle shines through. The D850 is the best and only camera I ever sold. The AF upgrade this month has been separated from the upgrade of the CF Express that might happen next month after the first CFExpress cards are out on the market. Maybe I will get a used D850 after a new one is released when the price drops. It is a very good camera but for what I do, a Z6 paired with a Z7 and Z mount lenses are the future proofing that Nikon claimed before they were released. The plain fact is, after using the lower cost Z mount lenses it is obvious the F mount is go going to be phased out. For long glass however the advantages of the Z are less, but still present. The mid and wide range is where the advantages are dramatic. [/QUOTE]
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