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Of course, getting started is daunting. The configuration tables I had to develop for my book are, well, extensive. I noted earlier that Nikon went a step further, so I should explain. But Nikon snuck in another option: AF-area mode.
Yep, you can instantly just switch AF-area mode via button. Indeed, one of the first updates to my book will likely be expanding on the customization sections of the book. The permanent vertical grip comes with some changes that are welcome, some that might not be. The welcome change is that Nikon has finally thought through the vertical grip button placement and made it better match up to horizontal grip button placement.
You can have the on-screen reminders and icons move when the camera is rotated, too, though some of Nikon's vertical position choices I might quibble with the histogram position seems too high and centered to me, for example. I noted in my Africa blog that my hand position felt a bit off on the Z9. I've adjusted to that over time, as usual, but I've noted quite a few people who start to use their Z9 talk about the grip.
Interestingly, some like it better while some like it less than previous grips. Which just goes to show you that there's no perfect grip; hands come in all shapes and sizes, so someone is always going to complain, it seems. Still, for small hands, I suspect you'll feel like you're trying to get your hand around a dodgeball, not a softball.
Personally, I feel secure in holding the Z9, even with big front-heavy lenses, though I slightly prefer the D6's grip and hand position. The card door lock mechanism is going to come up in any Z9 handling complaint list. It might even be the number one complaint. Basically, you have to push down on a switch while pulling back on the door.
It's not comfortably or reliably done with one hand. It's near impossible when the camera is wet mist or you're using gloves in cold weather. Indeed, my recommendation is put the camera down on a table, pull down with your right thumb and pull back with your left thumb.
I don't think that was what Nikon was intending. Some people complained about the old flagship mechanism of a small door hiding a release button. They'll stop complaining about that old method and ask for it back the minute they try getting a card out of the Z9. So how do you get to them? Which also lets you set all the other functions. So why again did we need the dial? Again, the new Release mode button comes at the expense of the metering button it replaces it in the button cluster at top left.
I doubt that this whole release mode change was run by working photographers. C30 and C belong on the dial if the dial is to live on. If the release mode button is the preferred way to set modes, then drop the flimsy dial and its annoying interlock.
All while removing a button a lot of people used. Then you have three somewhat related buttons in the bottom panel under the Rear LCD. But the one thing I would have liked the most—the ability to flip the screen so that it faces the camera and is protected during travel—is not part of the design that Nikon came up with.
The Rear LCD is more vulnerable and not as toughened as on previous Nikon flagship cameras, in my opinion. The problem with all these handling glitches, particularly the physical ones, is that they make the Z9 feel less robust than previous Nikon flagships. The card door, release mode dial, adjusting LCD mechanism, and even some of the controls, such as the thumb stick, all feel cheap and somewhat flimsy. Perhaps the frame inside is sturdier, but the exterior needs an upgrade.
I avoid the release mode dial, do as little LCD tilt as possible, put on a more substantive hot shoe cover, and programmed a lot of customization to bring controls back to where I want them to be.
How's it Perform? By that, I mean that Nikon has overpromised to reality. That promise is incorrect. Or, I should say: has a number of limits to it.
The Z9 is smooth and provides excellent timing response at high shutter speeds. The EVF data stream that Nikon talks about being in parallel with the image side is actually in parallel with the autofocus and metering stream, not the actual image stream. Thus, at the longer shutter speeds in this range you may see some blackout between EVF updates, while at the faster shutter speeds in this range, you may see jitter or repeating frames in the stream.
However, using the Z9 at slower shutter speeds is definitely different and noticeable. The fact that I can describe this but Nikon marketing cannot or will not should be embarrassing to them. Moreover, it has the consequence, once discovered by the potential customer, to make that customer doubt all the other claims Nikon makes.
Thing is, Nikon has done better than Canon and Sony with the Z9 real-time EVF for most situations, in my judgement, but then is taking their claims too far. That will come back to haunt them. Buffer : Beware, a can of worms is about to be opened.
Short version: avoid XQD cards, and if buffer size is truly important to you, get CFexpress cards with high sustained throughput. Long version: The Z9 has a bit of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde personality when it comes to buffer. This generates the largest files the Z9 can create, and has the only substantive buffer restrictions you might encounter.
With an XQD card, 20 fps, and Lossless compressed NEF you might get images or less on slow cards before the buffer fills and the camera slows down, way down. Emphasis on "might. On those latter cards, the frame rate will drop, maybe to between the fps range while the buffer is full. So you probably want some good news. Okay, try this: set the camera to 12 fps or 15 fps.
All I did was slow the camera's frame rate down a bit. This actually increases the buffer for some reason. I tried to work out the math of how that might be, but couldn't lock in on a variable that might suggest why you get this increase. If you use XQD, the worst case tends to be around frame buffer. So what are the right cards? These cards have labels on them that claim MBps the read speed. That brag number on the card label is the maximum speed for reads, or sometimes for a very short burst.
The Z9 is so darned fast at pushing data out to the card, it needs high sustained rate cards, just like video cameras do. Even then, the card size you choose may still produce differences in actual buffer size.
Yes, those card lines are more expensive than the other lines, even from the same manufacturer, but you pay for performance at this level. That's going to be particularly true when the Z9 eventually supports bit internal raw recording. All your other cards should just be whatever CFexpress Type B card you can pick up at a reasonable price, though do check the sustained right speed if you can and avoid the slowest ones. Keep your XQD cards as emergency backup or to store setup files on, but retire them from primary use if buffer is important to you.
The CIPA battery rating was really developed for consumer cameras and casual camera use. It really is a stress test for the amount of time the battery will last. So the worst case number from CIPA testing is really saying the Z9 can photograph for about five hours before exhausting the battery if you dribble out images. Judging from the numbers I was seeing, a full charge probably would have lasted me at least two days, and I was taking longer and more bursts than I usually do because I was testing the camera.
The answer is mostly "not much". So you might gain some time charging with higher wattage sources, but not a lot. Interestingly, plugging the camera directly into a USB PD source also saw a small boost over charging the battery in the MH assuming the camera was off and you were using something other than the EH-7P.
But that only happens when the battery is nearly empty. Focus : Let me state right out front that there is no perfect autofocus system. Moreover, as focus systems have gotten better, I've noticed more and more people complaining about focus when it's actual something else that's triggering their issue.
So all those quotes, all those YouTube videos, and all that marketing that says "it just focuses right" are dead wrong. All the above samples are from long burst sequences where I let the camera do all the focusing. Focus systems are a tool that allow you to get the results you want easier. In that regard I believe I can safely say that the Z9 will help you do that better when compared to almost any previous camera. But if you think the Z9 is now effectively just a "point and shoot" camera, you'd be wrong, and you're likely to be eventually disappointed.
Let's start with automatic subject detection and humans. I can easily say that the Z9 is the best Z System camera to date at finding and focusing on human subjects. It's darned good at it, does it at a greater distance to the subject than previous cameras, and dials into the pupils more accurately than before. The Z9 doesn't have any real problems tracking a human.
The issues you might have begin to come up with multiple people in the frame. The Z9 is going to pick one person to concentrate focus on, and it will also put a faint box on the others it sees which you can activate as the new subject by using the Direction pad.
Frankly, this starts to require a lot of user input in a number of situations e. And my reacting and pressing the Direction pad is a "lag" that, in some cases e. Yes, you can narrow the area over which subject detection is done. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that most people using those modes don't understand them.
The box you see in those modes is not a box in which the subject has to be completely contained. If you're using these modes you need to be aware that the subject detection can and will often occur outside the box. The large variant of Wide-area is thus also sometimes problematic if it can see parts of two subject's simultaneously.
As I suggested with the Sony A1's automatic focus detection: if you're struggling to get the camera to focus on the subject you want, narrow what the camera can see. This is absolutely true with the Z9, as well. Of course, once you go completely narrow, you now have to start moving the box or camera to keep up with the subject.
That's not "point and shoot"! The combination of subject, color, and pattern detection generally provides really good follow focus, even on fast or erratic motion. However, I've seen instances where for some reason it gets confused and begins to be off in its tracking.
In sports, I've seen it jump to another part of a player, probably because of a light shift on the color of the uniform, or once even to another player. With animals—particularly ones that are not well recognized by the subject detection cases—I've seen it jump to another part of the animal or even the background. Beware of subjects that are the same color as the background, which is sometimes the case of birds in flight dipping below the horizon and having a natural clutter behind them instead of sky.
I know I'll get pushback on this, but I personally prefer the guarantee of closest subject priority in Group AF on my D6 to any of the Z9 choices in certain situations. There's no such "certainty mode" on the Z9, as it has the same tendency as do all Nikon and Sony mirrorless cameras to lock onto bright, contrasty backgrounds when it gets confused. Is the camera still focusing on the eye?
Finally, there's the question that even NikonUSA seems to be somewhat confused about: low light focus performance. The problem with that answer is that apples are being compared to kumquats. Yes, sometimes the Z6 is the better low light camera in terms of focus. I'm talking about real low light levels, below 0EV. The reason has to do with having a bigger photosite than the Z9 and Z7 models.
But it's a little trickier than that. Maybe it finds a little short axis detail that the Z9 doesn't, and that's enough to lock on. The kumquat is the the Z6 doesn't have the focus horsepower that the Z9 has. I'm not overly concerned about a Z9 in low light, though. I will try to make sure that it has areas of contrast to focus on, though. I could see in some pre-dawn situations with elephants, for instance, that the Z9 wasn't finding anything it could recognize to focus on, and I had to help it.
Everyone should be setting their Z9 up with some form of hybrid autofocus. By hybrid, I mean that the camera is normally set for one way of invoking focus button and area , but you've got controls configured to immediately override that. But at the press of another button you can do a lot of things: switch AF-area mode , or cancel Subject Detection , for instance the latter is a kludge, but it can be done.
Image Quality : tl;dr: think Z7 II. The Z9 clearly has a unique version of the image sensor, and we're still all scratching our heads about how a I have a theory, now, though I can't prove it. That's that the extra photosites that don't show up in the image data are used as black reference. A lot of black reference. They're masked from light and provide a great deal of information about low level pattern potential.
Nikon's still doing their usual things in the background, but the results are different. Not that there aren't hot pixels, but they are remarkably restrained, and I couldn't find any measurable amp noise, which tends to push images magenta. And not that there isn't fixed pattern noise, but again, like the D6 it is remarkably constrained.
I believe that Nikon has added extra non-light pixels on every row that gives them the ability to detect how the image sensor is changing with long exposure and heat. Landscape photographers using strong ND filters and astrophotographers are the primary beneficiaries of the good long exposure tendencies of the Z9.
For landscape, still life, and macro photography I have no reservations about the Z9's image quality. For astrophotography, it's quite good for a standard camera with no filtration alteration. When shooting portraits for example the system pays attention to the upper body, too, maintaining focus position when your subject briefly turns away from the camera or moves out of view.
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Quite a contrast to most of the wackjob comments below. I think most people below would agree with PPierre. I think, included myself, many are annoyed by the biased overall score. I do not think anyone is questioning that Nikon did a great job for a first.
It's easy to generalize and claim the Z7 is an A7rII competitor because of some aspects of the Z7 AF system but when you consider things like the Z7 better battery life, better EVF, better rear LCD, top LCD, much better weather sealing, better grip, and overall better build quality you can see that it is a lot more than the A7rII especially if these are things that you consider to be important for your needs.
Clayton comparisons are often done at performance level. Considering that right now you get an A7RII for almost half the price of a Z7, well I do not know if the advantages you are talking about buy the difference.
So when you look at value for the money I am not so sure which one is better. The Z7 battery is significantly better in the real world vs the A7rII. It isn't really close in my experience. I agree about the value to performance, that really depends on your own needs. They are all really excellent cameras. Clayton why the Z7 and not the D? You do realize you are paying a premium for the Z7 I hope.
What sort background do you have in photography gear? What have you owned so far? What is that you primarily shoot? But the sad thing is, they misleading their readers, and those who are standing before buying a new camera.
Because based on the points, they take their expectations with the level of D and a7RIII, if so, they will be very disappointed with the Z7. I hefted the Z7 at Glazer's today. Well, 'hefted' isn't the right word since it felt nicely balanced and not too heavy. It also felt quick and responsive and the EVF was fantastic. I don't have any XQD cards or reader so sadly I couldn't bring the pics home for a pixel peep :- but the camera playback looked great.
I've tried them both now, and I think I like the Nikon a little better than the Canon. Probably the control layout of the Nikon is a little closer to the Fuji and Olympus that I'm used to-the twin dial shutter speed and aperture control versus on the lens aperture ring felt very Olympus. In order to achieve top rating should have something truly special to offset the shortcomings. I do not see anything truly special about this camera.
Just a good camera and understandable that the shortcomings might be irrelevant to many yet a rating is based on its value compared to the competition. If the camera doesn't suit you, that's ok. But WHY do you need to try to convince other people, that they shouldn't invest in that system?
Or do you need to vent your post-purchase rationalization? There are several cameras out there that match or surpass that, some of them are cheaper too. Someone needs to be pretty blind or requiring very selective needs i. None of the new Z lenses are a draw to the system differently from the Eos R system. Again I am not questioning if the Z7 is a good camera but its value in the current market. The Z7 will not get even close to the success of the D, yet same rating?
I Believe there is lots of solid ground on my questioning, indeed I am not the only one here disagreeing with the overall rating. I am not in the market for either the Z7 or the D, so maybe I see things a bit more objectively here than people more invested in either or? So compared to D, and from personal experience as well as reading all reviews and watching all videos.
I even asked the Nikon guy to show me any short cuts or helping tips to make it easier, and they couldn't, because there isn't. Now they say, who said it makes a big difference. Actually you did, and for a very long time!! All these problems or drawbacks are already in the review.. It is not testing what it should test, and it is shown to be unreliable in comparing cameras.
This is a matter for DPR to re-visit, and perhaps get a good statistician to advise. They are doing a good job testing, but using dubious measures and methods, which produce a completely invalid and un-reliable score.
For potential buyers, go out to the shows and shops and try it out for yourself and make that decision out for yourselves.. It is unfortunate that the Z7 is so expensive, if it was considerably cheaper I think people would look at the comparison between the D85 and the Z7 differently. I do not shoot Nikon, but if I did I would currently stick with the D and wait for at least one iteration, unless you are a hybrid photographer really needing the Z7 AF and possibly the 10 bit files. No matter the short comings, this is a great camera and a lot of people will produce amazing photos with it.
So thanks for the review DPR. Should be for the price. Not so good in my humble opinion It is indeed a great camera, but at this price point, why people would prefer it over the D? Unless portability is critical I really do not see any valid reason to get the first iteration Z7. Things would be different if it was considerably cheaper.
Have you now upped the ante and requirements for achieving a gold rating? Just asking. Yes, same score as the D Why only a Silver??? Or, better yet, how come a silver with all those CONS??? I think that question has been asked and answered too many times.
There is no correlation between the score and award. They indicate two different things. You focused too much on the negatives that you entirely missed the big picture and that is Z7's advantages over other cameras. DPreview got it right. In fact, the score could have been higher if not for the auto area AF. Good for you, they are on sale now. You can get your 2nd body cheap. Deal with it. Sleep well at night knowing your Sony can still make great pictures tomorrow.
You don't have to feel the need to defend any camera from me. I'm neither buying a Z7 or A7. My response was only to the questions about why a score of 89 does not result in a Gold award. I was pointing out that the score and award are not directly related. Mared They gave it that score because they felt it obviously deserved it. Much better build Much better weather sealing Better viewfinder Better touchscreen implementation More megapixels Better user interface I know subjective, but they DPR prefers it.
Better ergonomics Capable of 10bit 4. That was for for one store sales in Japan only - nothing like conflation and lying. Also - if you looked at that data, Z7 sales were miniscule - all of the dent in Sonys dominance was a temporary spike in EOS R sales. Examples: - "No need to micro-adjust lenses" No Kidding, it's Mirrorless!!!! That hurts really bad if it happen.
That's my understanding anyway.. SD is just about maxed out in speed capability, but XQD has a lot of headroom left for expansion. Meaning the Nikon might get faster at high FPS as its memory cards get faster. Sony is supposed to be a camera company making lenses unlike Nikon which is a lens company making cameras. This is what I'm reading between and not so much between the lines in every, single, ef-ing review.
As a stupid Nihon follower I have about any camera they have ever made, but usually they got better. This whole AF mess on the z series I don't understand since all 1 series where better. The rest of the camera is mostly superior to the current FF mirrorless cameras that have poor ergonomics and no weather resistance and lack lenses.
And no 2. Oskar P The a9 has no 2. As a fact the A9 is generally under valued and under understood by the majority. In simple words the Z7 looks like a petty attempts to mirrorless when you compare it to the shear performance of and A9.
I find it funny how you keep on clinging on the poor Sony environmental sealing, clearly it is the only thing you can hang on.
Petty you. But trolls keep say it can't do that! Shouldn't we believe those haters who never touched the camera? The camera looks to be very capable. And unlike another mirrorless brand can shoot faster than 2. This camera has a much wider choice of lenses. Autofocus and one card slot, even image quality What happened to the proper scoring.
If you look at the short comings of the Sony, you can say the same thing. In fact, other than AF, the Sony has more short comings than the Nikon. Please look at it both ways and not open your eyes only to the system you already have.
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Login Register. Best cameras and lenses. Now reading: Nikon Z7 Review comments. Previous 1 Introduction. Tags: review , instagram-feature , mirrorless , nikon , nikonmirrorless-launch , nikon-z7 , z-system-impressions. Next page. Nikon Z7. Discuss in the forums See full product details View sample images. Support DPReview. Shop with. Nikon Z7 results on Amazon. View Comments Comments All Olymguy I have shown the almost identical similarity of Z7 and D sensors but with a different approach which quite matches to the above results.
Chrisc41 It is time for me to choose a new camera as I am still using my ancient Minolta kit. Sanchocam As a long time user of video viewfinders and having struggled with the D OVF focus I welcome the z7 EVF Will be testing one this weekend If your eye is secure against the eyepiece you should not Have any issues with shooting in broad daylight In low light you should be able to turn on peeking Camera operators who must always hit focus have been dealing with EVFs for 40 plus years A huge plus is being able to analyze exposure without looking At the rear lcd especially in broad daylight As motion picture cameras switched to video sensors and EVFs so will Stills cameras.
It arrived at last in Z7 and Z6. Mared No he won't. DavidMartin55 he wil! Golan Z I bought the Z7 kit with and adapter.
Golan Z i had the a7r3 and now own the z7. OMG, also Sony? When will you finally get smarter? NordquistSNY I am not really sure about the arguments.. Deepest condolences. Fiduratur Sorry Nikon I can't get over that banding at this price. Fiduratur I had it on previous cameras I hope this clears things up.
Put on your glasses. NordquistSNY Only problem about the Z7 and Z6 reviews and being awarded gear of the year, is that it makes me, and possibly many other readers extremely skeptical about the DPReview reviews now and in the future. Richard Butler Our annual awards are a selection of the cameras we thought were best in each category, based on our time reviewing then. Richard Butler The a7 III won its category and won the overall award, because it's a better all round camera. Unhappy childhood?
Great review! Got a feeling the DPreviewers are biased towards Nikon over canon. Alexturton so How can Nikon z get a higher score than eos r when the Nikon AF is questionable unreliable? The Wifi app is far behind all the other brands So in these examples, the Nikon does a better job. HenryDJP worldaccordingtojim "Their weather sealing is the worst on the market. HenryDJP worldaccordingtojim.
Mr Bolton Lot of hate going on for a shooter who sold all his Canons and L glass to shoot Sony-so you could say he's a fan-then dares to suggest some areas where Sony could improve. Hans J I'm worldaccordingtojim. Sony has a lot to improve. HenryDJP "a case nikon does it with his eyes closed. Lightright This is a Z7 review but he shot with a Z6 camera. Golan Z but best image quality on the market.
DrEvil Sony huggers think that success with one camera model is all you need to take over the market. PVCdroid Not when Sony is years ahead of any other manufacturer in sensor tech.
Jase You can have the best engine in a car, but if you don't have all the other components on point you won't be the best. Larawanista We know the dominant brands being used by most professional photographers. Richard Butler Bear in mind there are multiple factors investment in lenses, familiarity, pro-service membership that contribute to inertia, preventing pros switching brands.
Larawanista And thanks for reinforcing the fact that professional photographers pick the system that gives them the best results. Clayton Noogy NexLupus I would say you came away with wrong conclusion as the Nikon Zs received a Silver and 89 vs.
If you need the best continuous AF for sports, it is not the camera for you you. NexLupus BluBomber Yes, scoring is skewed towards image quality. BlueBomberTurbo Unfortunately, the huge list of negatives, which encompasses nearly every major point of the camera, says otherwise.
NexLupus Blue Yet none of those negatives were enough to detract from the score of 89 or the Silver Award, or the opening statement. M Lammerse The Z7 and Z6 are early adapter machines, for those who like to use mirrorless full frame camera's and a handful of professional photographers who are on the sponsor list of Nikon.
Tomek This camera is just amazing. I own it, and I am so glad with that buy :. CanonSharpShooter Too expensive for what it offers! Class A A DSLR with such a high price tag that shared the Z7's weaknesses, such as compromised dynamic range due to banding, sub par AF due to less than stellar low-light sensitivity, mediocre AF-C performance, not a single cross-type AF sensor they are all linear , failing in pinpoint AF mode, borderline battery life, and serious ergonomic issues, would be heavily criticised.
Bob Jameson What major problem? Benjamin Kanarek Hear, Hear! Benjamin Kanarek Yes, exactly. Craig from Nevada What are you missing? Craig from Nevada "When asked why they said they only test cameras that deserve the Recommended or better ratings. Pedro Courelas Nikon buy Sony sensors. Thematic Z8 and z9 are coming.
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