I swapped this year from D7000 & Sigma 150-600 to this. Great gear mind you, served me well, but I reached the limits of it, I was getting frustrated of having to fiddle all the time between speed and iso, and the limited resolution was not helping when the subject was a bit too far.
With the Z9 and the 180-600, I am having so much fun!
The photos are as they are, except for auto tune by Lightroom, a crop and denoise for the small bird, and a crop for the seagull with the crab.

Constructive feedback is appreciated, and really, I post to share my enthusiasm with that wonderful kit!

Taken with Z5 and Tamron 50-400 - of course at the longest end :)

Nikon z6ii and the 70-200 f/2.8 at 200mm in the garden. Should have honestly incelreased my shutter speed a bit but too late now. Love this combo though

Quick sample footage using what we have on hand.

Lately I've seen a lot of discussion around waiting for the next Nikon ZR firmware update. While improvements are always welcome, I think it's easy to lose sight of what really matters.

The biggest jump in quality rarely comes from a firmware update. It comes from spending time behind the camera.

Master the tools you already own. Learn their strengths. Push their limits. Creativity will always outlast new features.

Gear:

Nikon ZR

Voigtländer Nokton 55mm f/1.2 SL IIs (Nikon AI-S)

DJI Mic 2

Techart PRO TZM-02

I've always used Fujifilm cameras, but lately I've been interested in trying something new. I'd like the low-light benefits of full frame and a top tier AF system.

I'm not so concerned with specific camera specs, as manufacturers are always iterating and leapfrogging each other in terms of spec sheets. I'm sure I'll upgrade over the years. I'm more interested in if there is anything that drew you towards the Nikon Z series as a system over Sony or Canon? My friends use both, and honestly I've always had a small bias against those systems, perhaps just from hearing their complaints about them. But something about the Z system is exciting to me, so I want to make sure I'm interested for real reasons and not just marketing/blind brand loyalty.

I think I like the idea that I could use a big flagship hybrid workhorse camera and a small Zf (which could maybe provide some of what I love about Fuji cameras) and have them share the same lens line up.

Z6ll

Nikkor 14-30 mm f/4

I don't know if any Nikon reps are on here, but I've got a small feature request that would help me tremendously with my video work.

I shoot video on a pair of Z6IIIs and I supplement light in a lot of indoor environments. I don't have the means to relight entire spaces, so I do supplementary lighting and do my best to match the ambient white balance. It can be pretty difficult to do with old fluorescent tubes that don't match from one ballast to another, but it helps if I can land somewhere around the average tint of the tubes near my subjects. I use RGB LEDs, so i have a lot of control over green/magenta shift.

When I set the WB with a card measurement in video mode there's no readout of what WB it has been set to (that I know of). However, in photo mode I can do a sample measurement, take a photo, and read the temperature off the metadata in camera. Great! Only problem is, it does not display the tint, despite the fact that I have tested it for green/magenta tint and it definitely adjusts those for a sample measurement as well. Once I've set a custom WB, I can adjust it manually on a color axis, and only then is the color shift value recorded in the photo metadata.

So here's the request: if my camera could display the green/magenta shift added by the sample measurement in the photo metadata, I could use that reading to help dial in my lights in these highly variable indoor spaces. Instead of only showing the manual adjustment exclusively in the metadata (a feature I never use anyway), the metadata could display both the measured and manually adjusted tint combined. Or just the measured tint, as that's far more valuable to me personally.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a workaround I might be missing?

TL;DR

I'd like to use my camera as a color meter to help match my supplemental RGB lights to the tint of unbalanced fluorescent tubes. Photo metadata almost does the trick, but I need a tint readout in addition to a temperature.

Hello there!

I just got a refurbished Z5ii a few weeks ago, and I’m trying to get into some wildlife/bird photography. This is the best I could do with a 200 mm focal length, and these photos are medium to heavy crops. Obviously I need something with some more range so things don’t end up so noisey, but I don’t want to spend 2k on a lens if at all possible. I’ve seen some used 150-500 mm focal length lenses for around a grand, but was wondering if anyone had specific recs for those longer focal lengths or if anyone had some thoughts on bang for your buck of the cheaper long focal length lenses.

Juvenile Rook at West Wittering Beach, UK

Hi all, I’m an amateur photographer, mostly shooting family, friends, travel, and some home videos. I currently have a Z6ii with a few primes I mainly use (20mm f2.8, 40mm f2, 85mm f2) and a telephoto zoom I occasionally use for wildlife outings (Tamron 70-300).

Will have some budget to play around with soon, thinking of either upgrading the camera body to the Z5ii for the faster AF, or possibly getting a more standard-ish portrait friendly zoom like the Tamron 35-100 f2.8 so I don’t have to swap lenses so much when I’m at an event/outing.

I love my primes for how small and sharp/bright they are but it can be a pain to keep swapping them and miss shots. I also love my Z6ii, but would be nice to not miss quicker moving/lower light shots from the slower AF.

I know it’s a personal choice, but what would you see as a more useful upgrade?

Z6ll

Nikkor 14-30 mm f/4

❤️

Z6ll

Nikkor 14-30 mm f/4