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| Posted: Mon Jan 20th, 2025 22:04 |
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jk
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How goes the Z8 testing and use? Still holding off for the Z7iii (still to be announced by Nikon) as I hope it is a smaller and lighter Z8 but I need to decide before September when I am off to Namibia.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21st, 2025 14:25 |
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Iain
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jk wrote:How goes the Z8 testing and use? Its going fine Jonathan just sometimes refuses to focus, if I turn it off and on again its fine. Some people are saying they sent theirs into Nikon and they said they couldn't find a fault but it never did it again. Mine is on the latest firmware so will wait and see if it does it again.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22nd, 2025 08:20 |
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Eric
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Iain wrote:Its going fine Jonathan just sometimes refuses to focus, if I turn it off and on again its fine. Some people are saying they sent theirs into Nikon and they said they couldn't find a fault but it never did it again. Mine is on the latest firmware so will wait and see if it does it again. I had a similar fault with an earlier Nikon and it turned out to be a dirty contact on the lens/body interface. I found releasing the lens and reseating influenced it but cleaning the contacts solved it. Probably not same issue on new camera kit but makes you wonder if Nikon ‘finding no fault’ involved Nikon removing the lens, wiping it and replacing it?
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22nd, 2025 14:53 |
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Iain
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Eric wrote:I had a similar fault with an earlier Nikon and it turned out to be a dirty contact on the lens/body interface. I found releasing the lens and reseating influenced it but cleaning the contacts solved it. Probably not same issue on new camera kit but makes you wonder if Nikon ‘finding no fault’ involved Nikon removing the lens, wiping it and replacing it? I think I'll give that a try. It will do no harm.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22nd, 2025 14:57 |
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Iain
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Just cleaned the contacts on the camera and lens and was surprised that there was some grime come off both.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22nd, 2025 22:40 |
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Eric
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Iain wrote:Just cleaned the contacts on the camera and lens and was surprised that there was some grime come off both. Could it be that simple? Hope so. Time will tell eh?
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23rd, 2025 12:40 |
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Iain
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Eric wrote:Could it be that simple? Hope so. Time will tell eh? Used it today and it was better in that it never refused to focus and locked up. It refused to focus twice but I just moved the focus point and it focused. We will see. The only other thing I have noticed is that at high ISO, i.e above 6400 it produces more noise than the A1. Not a great problem in that there is plenty of denoise software to deal with that.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 23rd, 2025 23:10 |
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jk
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Iain, have you used a Z7 orZ7ii in the past? If yes then how does the AF speed of the Z8 compare with a Z7?
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| Posted: Fri Jan 24th, 2025 12:55 |
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Iain
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jk wrote:Iain, have you used a Z7 orZ7ii in the past? If yes then how does the AF speed of the Z8 compare with a Z7? I've never used a Z7. I've used a Z6, and the Z8 is a little faster I think, it's hard to tell. I think it was Steve Perry of Backcountry Gallery that did tests on them and found that the Z9/8 were the quickest and the Z6/7 were a bit slower. I have noticed that when shooting birds with the bird capture selected the Z8 I quick at focusing on the bird.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 24th, 2025 17:26 |
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Eric
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Iain wrote:Used it today and it was better in that it never refused to focus and locked up. It refused to focus twice but I just moved the focus point and it focused. We will see. The only other thing I have noticed is that at high ISO, i.e above 6400 it produces more noise than the A1. Not a great problem in that there is plenty of denoise software to deal with that. That’s interesting because I feel the Sony raw files are quite noisey, especially colour noise. IMHO there has been little noise reduction improvement in any cameras in the 3000 - 6000 iso range. Manufacturers seem to have worked more on getting acceptable levels in the 10000+ regions rather than extending/applying the low noise levels seen at 400 to 4000. UK wildlife photography routinely requires us to compensate for dull lighting with higher ISO than the average photographer in brighter sunnier climes needs to use. If I had a camera that required NO denoising below 10000iso, it would be far more useful.
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