Re: I was completely wrong about DX crop mode and a question about 70-200 for macro...
LarsHP wrote:
Regarding the types of autofocus challenges you will face in the various things you photograph, I highly doubt you will experience any issues with a Nikon Z6 or Z7 camera. Particularly if you already have good results with your current setup.
So, try not to laugh, my action shooting method is extremely rudimentary. I use spot focus and generally just have the spot and subject in the center and do my framing later via a crop. If it's something I have more time to anticipate, I might move the spot elsewhere, but generally it stays put. I got into the habit of doing this since I never had decent results with any of the auto/smart modes. Granted, this was back in the D70 and D200 days, but I guess the old habits just stuck. Bottom line, any of this "the camera knows what you want to do" kind of stuff would be all uncharted territory for me, so I probably won't be too hard to impress. That said, if one system is "exceptional" and another is "good", I suppose I'd rather go for the better of the two if I'm starting from scratch.
On the macro stuff, you mentioned that I wouldn't need beyond 1:1. If we take an average watch case to be around 40mm, I can see how I wouldn't need more than 1:1 if I'm taking a shot of the entire watch. But there are some great shots which show a single marker on the dial, with a hand above casting a shadow, or which just focus on the brand name on the dial, things like that. In those cases, the subject is more like 10mm x 10mm, so on a FF sensor, wouldn't a 1.4:1 be preferable to a 1:1?