Thanks. I think I’ve realised that I need to not use single point when in AF and subject detect I’ll check it out later.Hi Trevor
See manual focus, halfway down the page in the link below.
Focus
onlinemanual.nikonimglib.com
It mentions subject detect in mf.
Got that mate, I was unable to get subject detect in AF. sorted now, I've selected something other than single point,(obvious blonde moment)
You also cannot use one of the dynamic modes; subject detection only works in WA, 3D, and Auto. Which you choose doesn't make a lot of difference unless subject detection fails to find anything.
Who's on approach ? by Trevor, on Flickr
Glad you like them. Gotta say the Zf makes manual focusing much easier.
I’ve not had chance to get out with mine yet, but just round the back yard it seems made for m/f.
That’s right. With the help provided by Ai subject detection it’s absolute voodoo. Great fun too.
He's a very handsome boy.
Just be careful re compatibility. I have a Smallrig EN-EL15C ( great to be able to charge it direct) and whilst it works on the Z5, the Zf throws up an error that it’s not a genuine Nikon battery.
Personally, I'd stick with genuine Nikon ones, you never know when a firmware will make 3rd party ones useless. The 3rd party ones seem very hit and miss for compatibility, the smallrig has a handy USB-C port, I use the Nikon MH-34 for on the go USB-C charging of genuine EN-EL15C batteries.
Terrific. Is this with Animal detect ?
Yes, subject detection set to Animal and 3D tracking mode. I was impressed it managed to pick her out through all the foliage.
It depends on what you shoot. If sports/wildlife in lengthy bursts in loseless RAW then the buffer can fill quickly. Doing this can also heat the card. So a minimum sustained write speed of 1400MB/s is recommended.
It really is ridiculous that these companies tout high speed / professional tool blah blah then restrict the performance of the back up slot, if it truly is a professional tool then make both slots the same......rant over.
It does hinder it, but if you don't want the expense of buying 1 or even 2 CFexpress cards or require it's speed, the SD card is a cheap and widely available format.
Hi, I do have a Lexar 2000x 64GB and Sony TOUGH 32GB v90 to use in the 2nd slot as additional. Thank You, Russ.
It's not really the speed of the second slot that slows things down; it happens on my Z9 even with the fastest CF cards in both slots.
Yes but it would cost very little to make both slots the same speed, they only restrict / hold back features to be able claim that the next generation is better, the tech exists, a better faster processor wouldn't cost anymore to produce. It's a deliberate act to force us down an "upgrade" path. I bet if Apple wanted to they could produce a camera that would wipe the floor with all camera manufacturers, of course they play the same game with their products but are usually several steps ahead of the competition.
IDTS, both slots in the Z9 and the single digit DSLRS are the same. And the SD slots are as fast as available at the time of development. There are reasons why one would prefer to have a slower SD slot; I use that as primary with my D850... ever see a computer with a built in CFE card reader?
Won't happen because CFE won't last long enough, something will supercede it in the near future, always feels like a stop gap solution to me. I also transfer pretty much everything either wireless or via USB C these days.
Panamoz.
Unless you don’t want grey, in which case LCE are usually competitive. But I got my Zf from Panamoz with, as usual, no issues and quick (less than a week) delivery.
That's the main reason I use the SD card slot on the Z8 because I don't need anything faster most of the time and it's more convenient to read SD cards.
Not even got the camera yet but got a cfexpress card so bought https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0982XBWCQ?ref=ppx_pt2_dt_b_prod_image
The Zf claims 8 stop IBIS, but I've not had chance to try it yet. In fact, I've not even been out with thr damn thing since I bought it.Got to laugh, on a number of other Photography forums people are actually moaning about the V5 firmware and complaining that the Z9 is garbage as it doesn't have all the features the lesser Z8 has (i.e. pixel shift), or that Nikon still hasn't implemented Raw capture in the pre-capture modes etc. (which no Nikon camera has yet).
To be honest, the pixel shift feature doesn't interest me one bit, and I very much doubt Nikon think the Z9 is the camera of choice that people will use for this type of photography (landscape and architecture photographers would most likely be carrying the smaller Z8 size camera than the larger Z9). I have it on my Z8 (with firmware 2.0) but never tried it as
a) you need a very steady tripod (and it's been years since I carried a tripod).
b) from all accounts even the slightest movement can ruin the shot (more so than say on Olympus with it's high res shot mode due to the smaller sensor).
c) personally I have no need for nearly 180mp images and the file sizes that represents. Of course I understand other people's requirements will be different.
Now if Nikon could implement a system like Olympus and Panasonic on their Micro four thirds cameras where you have a choice of either tripod mode (for the biggest resolution jump) but also a hand held version for say a 100mp image without have to lug around a tripod and having the "merge" done in camera rather than having to combine the images in external software, that would be worth having. However, I expect the reason we haven't yet seen that on a FF camera is due to the large sensor size and the challenges that represents ?
In fact (shock horror), if Nikon could magically becomes the FF equivalent of Olympus and add in their version of Olympus's Hand Held High Res, Live ND, Live Time, Live Composite, Live GND and Raw in pre capture mode, and an IBIS system capable of 7-8 stops, then I honestly think I would sell off all my Olympus Micro four thirds equipment and go 100% Nikon Z. If I'm being honest, whilst I don't use all those aforementioned features all the time, I use many of them enough on my Olympus cameras to still keep them.
We are a fickle bunch aren't we
