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Fun With Nikon Images 2025
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Elderly
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I've just moved back to Nikon (my last Nikon was an f100), it's going to be a steep learning curve for me;
I'm certainly not at one with this camera ..... yet.
I've just spent a few days in Krakow and felt that I had to visit Auschwitz Birkenau;
a very difficult place to be and a difficult place to photograph avoiding the usual clichés.
I'm certainly not at one with this camera ..... yet.
I've just spent a few days in Krakow and felt that I had to visit Auschwitz Birkenau;
a very difficult place to be and a difficult place to photograph avoiding the usual clichés.
Elderly
Well-known member
I don’t really know Bart …..
My EM1 mk2 body was getting rather ‘old’ in many ways and I fancied a change.
An OM-1 mk2 seemed a lot of money considering that I don’t do the kind of photography
that it was best at.
I’ve watched Micro 4/3 get larger over the years and full frame get smaller.
A Nikon Ziii with its Olympus equivalent focal length lens cost me less, weighed hardly more
and was only a fraction larger.
However, I’m not totally convinced that I’ve made the right decision ………
My EM1 mk2 body was getting rather ‘old’ in many ways and I fancied a change.
An OM-1 mk2 seemed a lot of money considering that I don’t do the kind of photography
that it was best at.
I’ve watched Micro 4/3 get larger over the years and full frame get smaller.
A Nikon Ziii with its Olympus equivalent focal length lens cost me less, weighed hardly more
and was only a fraction larger.
However, I’m not totally convinced that I’ve made the right decision ………
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Knorp
Well-known member
I don’t really know Bart …..
My EM1 mk2 body was getting rather ‘old’ in many ways and I fancied a change.
An OM-1 mk2 seemed a lot of money considering that I don’t do the kind of photography
that it was best at.
I’ve watched Micro 4/3 get larger over the years and full frame get smaller.
A Nikon Ziii with its Olympus equivalent focal length lens cost me less, weighed hardly more
and was only a fraction larger.
However, I’m not totally convinced that I’ve made the right decision ………
Mm, seems like a good choice to me though ...
Hi IanI don’t really know Bart …..
My EM1 mk2 body was getting rather ‘old’ in many ways and I fancied a change.
An OM-1 mk2 seemed a lot of money considering that I don’t do the kind of photography
that it was best at.
I’ve watched Micro 4/3 get larger over the years and full frame get smaller.
A Nikon Ziii with its Olympus equivalent focal length lens cost me less, weighed hardly more
and was only a fraction larger.
However, I’m not totally convinced that I’ve made the right decision ………
You just made the right decision!
Nikon is just so simpel to operate and so trustwearthy
By "Ziii" I guess you mean Z6III.
Nothing can go wrong, and the lenses are just superb!
A lens to "do it all", not perfect, but still surprisingly capable, is the Z24-200mm
KR Thorkil
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Elderly
Well-known member
Whoops ….. yes I missed out the 6.
I’m not yet finding it that simple; I bought Thom‘s guide which runs to nearly 1300 pages !
The 24-200 lens is the one I bought;
the Olympus equivalent 12-100 was used for about 90% of my shots and so the Nikon lens choice was easy.
I understand that it’s not a great lens, but for me it’s more important to be able to grab that moment, than to have technical perfection.
I’m not yet finding it that simple; I bought Thom‘s guide which runs to nearly 1300 pages !
The 24-200 lens is the one I bought;
the Olympus equivalent 12-100 was used for about 90% of my shots and so the Nikon lens choice was easy.
I understand that it’s not a great lens, but for me it’s more important to be able to grab that moment, than to have technical perfection.
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Instead of reading 1.300 pages (thats 2 x Dostojevskij's Crime and punishment!) use the Nikon manual and Nikon video-tips
Z6III | Digitutor | Nikon Consumer
and instead of Tom's reviews as a first option, use the Photographylife.com's lensreviews as first-to-go-place
Lens Reviews - Photography Life
This page contains all hands-on, detailed lens reviews that have been published by the team of proessional photographers from Photography Life.
photographylife.com
Nikon Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR Review
photographylife.com
I sold much of my Z lenses and just kept:
Z14-24/2.8, super, super splendid, but not much used
Z14-30/4, very very handy and splendid and superb wideangle for light travel/walking
that silly z28/2.8 if I want to go superlight (well, never used, but funny to have)
still have the FX 70-200/4 + FTZ adapter while the drawing from this is fantastic, but never used in the later couple of years,
but as mentioned nearly almost always the z24-200.
and bought a used Z400/4.5S for deer shoting
But look at Alan's pictures, the Z24-120 is a dream, if you look for a more stellar option in that 24-120 range, and look here
Nikon Z 24-120mm f/4 S Review - Page 4 of 6
The Nikon Z 24-120mm f/4 S has been one of the most highly anticipated Nikon mirrorless lenses yet - but it almost didn’t exist. In early versions of the Nikon Z roadmap, a 24-105mm was shown instead. Thankfully, Nikon scrapped that plan and eventually went with the 24-120mm design we have today.
photographylife.com
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Just shot, only read what you need, when you need it. Life is too short to read.Many wise words Thorkil - thank you.
I’ve now even more to read!
The Guide from the Nikon download center is only 968 pages.
Yes, I’ve always admired the quality of Alan’s images, but I want that extra reach, and a lighter weight than the 24-120
for my everyday carry.
Then the perfect set for you seems to be the z14-30/4 and your 24-200. And looking forward.
Thorkil
jlancasterd
Active member
My travel kit is a Zf, the 14-30/f4 and the 24-200. It covered all my needs for a recent 10 day trip by train from UK to Sweden and return, including indoor shots in museums.
4season
Well-known member
A 3-image panorama, shot with the Zfc's built-in "Charcoal" effect. I liked how the diffuse midday light accentuated the shopping center's wavy roof, and I think the filter did a swell job at preserving a sense of the silvery light. Not a simple monochrome mode, it also reduces contrast in a way that I haven't quite figured out how to replicate using traditional Contrast or Curves adjustments, or Lightroom's Shadows slider. As the resulting JPEGs have gentle contrast, they're generally easy to work with as-is, or with light adjustments. Charcoal also makes for a pleasing viewfinder image, and has gotten me more excited about shooting monochrome again.
The 16-50 kit zoom lens is a computational optic, in the sense that distortion, vignetting and aberrations are automatically corrected in camera, for both JPEG and raw images, and there's no option to switch off these corrections. And for the most part, this strategy works very well.
It might be hard to see at this scale, but the white car is "glowing", but this is under brutally bright and contrasty light.
Bokeh-wise, I haven't noticed anything jarring, but with a maximum aperture of f/3.5 - 6.3, I was expecting more of a snapshot lens rather than a bokeh monster, and it does excel at high quality snaps.
So far, I'm finding this camera + lens combo charming as heck: The size, weight, the way it fits my hands, even the shutter sound are very pleasing to me.
The 16-50 kit zoom lens is a computational optic, in the sense that distortion, vignetting and aberrations are automatically corrected in camera, for both JPEG and raw images, and there's no option to switch off these corrections. And for the most part, this strategy works very well.
It might be hard to see at this scale, but the white car is "glowing", but this is under brutally bright and contrasty light.
Bokeh-wise, I haven't noticed anything jarring, but with a maximum aperture of f/3.5 - 6.3, I was expecting more of a snapshot lens rather than a bokeh monster, and it does excel at high quality snaps.
So far, I'm finding this camera + lens combo charming as heck: The size, weight, the way it fits my hands, even the shutter sound are very pleasing to me.
4season
Well-known member
It appears that Nikon's Expeed processor performs more in-camera adjustments than I had supposed, so much so that my Zfc operates without an optical low-pass filter, yet to date I haven't been bothered by the aliasing artifacts which I would've expected from a 20 megapixel sensor. Whereas with Sony E-mount and RX-series cameras, the emphasis is more on speed and subject recognition/tracking, while the raw files are more "raw". Is one philosophy better than the other? I am undecided.
