**This week with your Z camera, Apr 20-26, 2024**

This weekly topic serves as a place for forum members to share recent work with our Nikon Z cameras. It's OK for Z owners to dazzle us with images made with other cameras, but the idea is to allow owners with similar cameras to compare notes, chops, and sensibilities.

Using Threaded View helps to keep each person's contribution and responses linked in a tree-like structure so replies/discussions are easier to follow.

To begin:

1. Add your contribution for the week by responding to this, the first message in this topic.
2. Change the Subject of your message, then embed your image into the reply with whatever you’d like to say about it. (Embedding makes it easier to participate, easier than a link to an image located outside the forum - but links aren’t a great offense).
3. In order to make things easier for our cellphone users, please limit the number of images in one post to fewer than 10, and don't quote images in your replies that are extraneous to the points you're making.

If you especially want C&C (criticism/critique) or technique feedback, say so. It’s assumed one does want such feedback, but direct requests may garner a more studied analysis/response. If you don't want such feedback, say so, and others will respect your wishes.

If you feel you've been ignored, select your post, reply to it with a brief note to the effect of "Can I get some feedback?". Not getting feedback on a post isn't uncommon, so don't feel offended - no one is charged to ensure all posts get attention (we're not organized enough for that). If you want particular feedback (composition, exposure choice, etc.), saying so can be helpful for the potential respondents as to what your needs may be.

It is courteous and advisable that, should you post images for feedback, you also make comment on at least one other contribution. Respectful acknowledgment of everyone is the goal, and it’s requested that all participants assume some responsibility to that end.

Eurasian Eagle Owl in an Owl Cafe - largest owl in the world.




Results from my Ramen Class




Tokyo Tuna Auction - shot through glass.





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Thanks for your help, Michael

I have spent some time doing further work on my images from the April 8th solar eclipse which I observed in Quebec. Unlike my quick images last week these are all processed in more time consuming ways (at least for me). There are some new things to see, though by now these may be more about photoshop than the Nikon Zs they were captured with. I used two cameras, a Z8 with a 600mm prime S and a Z7ii with a 20mm prime S lens. For a couple of these images I have combined shots from both taken at exactly the same instant with two remote release cables. EXIF likely lost to processing.






Totality over Cours d'eau Shonyo near Magog, Quebec, the planet Venus is visible






an HDR stack done manually in Photoshop combining exposures from 1/40th to 1/12,800 second (four of them) to bring out more texture in the inner and outer corona and retain the visibility of the solar prominences. All taken with the 600mm






the end of the eclipse, the so called diamond ring, as normal light returns to the landscape.






BTS iPhone selfie of my location and setup

Z6, Tamron 70-300mm @300mm/F8. Edited in Capture One



Thank you for looking!

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Jonathan

cool shots, the Ramen looks absolutely delicious

birdofthegalaxy said:

cool shots, the Ramen looks absolutely delicious

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Had no idea of the complexity of the dish. Was fantastic three hour experience with a tasty outcome.

Love the outcome….and the T-Shirt. You went for it!

Testing a strange animal (the new Z 28-400mm superzoom) on another strange animal in the neighbourhood last night. At least it wasn't moving ;-)

OOC JPEGs, slightly cropped. Moon handheld, at well, F8. Indoor use requires high ISO.

28mm seems to have some heavy vignetting; 400mm seems sharp enough (for an all-in-one travel zoom). Need to test more, and in better light, to draw any real conclusions.

"Promising" I'd say for now.

Very nice shots, and I like your t-shirt

Took my 7II and Z 24-70 mm f/2.8 for a walk on a cloudy day in Chicago and this colorful scene caught my eye:







On closer examination the statue turned out to be Mexican art, "La Catarina" by Jose Luis Martinez Pasillas (b. 1980). The tulips are courtesy of the City of Chicago:



Edited in ACR and Photoshop.

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Kind regards
Kaj
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WSSA member #13
It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.- Elliott Erwitt

My first (interchangeable lens) mirrorless, bought for adventure/travel photography. Took it away for a week's hiking. All handheld, with one lens (18-140).




Roseberry Topping




St Abbs




Glencoe




Kinlockleven Silver Birches (ICM)

My Eastern bluebird parents continue to shuttle food to the six chicks.













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Joel

Very nice images. I think you're going to like that camera.

Den

Earlier in the week I visited Standing Stones Hill. This sits to the South East of Round Loaf (an ancient Bronze age bowl barrow) on Anglezarke moor, part of the West Pennine moors here in Lancashire. The name of the hill is peculiar as there is no evidence or historical record of there ever being any standing stones upon it.

It was my first time exploring this particular part of the moor, making it an interesting walk on a pleasant evening and I was enjoying myself so much I decided to hang around for sunset.

All images taken hand held with the Nikon Z8 + 24-70 f/2.8S or 100-400 f/4.5-5.6S. Processed from single raw files in Capture One Pro 23.


1. Looking back towards Lead Mines Clough as I leave for the open moors.




2. Winter Hill. The winding valley in the foreground contains a stream that feeds into The River Yarrow prior to its capture in Yarrow Reservoir.




3. Blackpool Tower. The silhouetted hill in the foreground is Round Loaf.




4. The sun descends over Round Loaf.




5. On the summit of Standing Stones Hill looking towards Darwen Tower (AKA Jubilee Tower) with Pendle Hill looming in the distance. Note the distinct lack of any standing stones. I'm not sure that collapsing dry stone wall counts.




6. Rivington catching a bit of colour from the setting sun.




7. Looking towards Wigan we see Harrock Hill wearing a slightly less than authentic palette.




8. A rare sight in Lancashire, the sun actually dipping below the horizon. Usually there's an omnipresent fog bank over the Irish Sea that sucks the colour out of many a sunset before they have a chance to get going.




9. Walking back across the moors in the dark. The car is about three miles away in this direction.



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JimKasson said:

This weekly topic serves as a place for forum members to share recent work with our Nikon Z cameras. It's OK for Z owners to dazzle us with images made with other cameras, but the idea is to allow owners with similar cameras to compare notes, chops, and sensibilities.

Using Threaded View helps to keep each person's contribution and responses linked in a tree-like structure so replies/discussions are easier to follow.

To begin:

1. Add your contribution for the week by responding to this, the first message in this topic.
2. Change the Subject of your message, then embed your image into the reply with whatever you’d like to say about it. (Embedding makes it easier to participate, easier than a link to an image located outside the forum - but links aren’t a great offense).
3. In order to make things easier for our cellphone users, please limit the number of images in one post to fewer than 10, and don't quote images in your replies that are extraneous to the points you're making.

If you especially want C&C (criticism/critique) or technique feedback, say so. It’s assumed one does want such feedback, but direct requests may garner a more studied analysis/response. If you don't want such feedback, say so, and others will respect your wishes.

If you feel you've been ignored, select your post, reply to it with a brief note to the effect of "Can I get some feedback?". Not getting feedback on a post isn't uncommon, so don't feel offended - no one is charged to ensure all posts get attention (we're not organized enough for that). If you want particular feedback (composition, exposure choice, etc.), saying so can be helpful for the potential respondents as to what your needs may be.

It is courteous and advisable that, should you post images for feedback, you also make comment on at least one other contribution. Respectful acknowledgment of everyone is the goal, and it’s requested that all participants assume some responsibility to that end.

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This clip records the efforts of a small group of volunteers working to protect a vulnerable species of native bird North Auckland, New Zealand. Please don't fixate on the technical aspects, it represents a combination of many clips recorded on everything from an old cell phone to 8k on a Z9. It was output at 1080p. It is intended to be viewed on phones and 720p projectors.

However I would be interested on any feedback WRT to the sentiment and feeling conveyed by the piece. It is a field I am interested in and since my partial retirement, one in which I am interested in attempting to develop further skills.

A few from 4000+ taken. Z8 and Z9. Lenses used were;

14-24, 50 1.2, 135 1.8 and Tamron 35-150















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travelfoodphoto said:

Very nice images. I think you're going to like that camera.

Den

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I think you're right. I'd tried a Peak Designs Capture clip in the past with my SLRs and they were too heavy - not for the clip physically but they bounced too much to be comforatble over long diatances. The Z50+18-140 is 700g - perfect to have ready to use at any time - see black blob on left rucksack strap.



I've owned a D500 in the past so I wasn't worried about the sensor, and I'm pleased it still delivers.

Two things I will change when Nikon call me and ask my opinion for the next iteration - a lock on the mode dial - not sure how but I kept knocking it from A to S, and an option to completely diable the "+", "-" and "disp" areas on the touch screen during shooting. I'll probably get better but searching for the D-pad with the camera to my eye often led to me touching one of those. I use them so infequently, I may tape over them.

Planning to buy another Z camera later in the year, either a 45MP FX which would then progressively take over from the D850, or possibly a Z50ii if such a thing materialised and improved on the Z50 without getting heavier.