Unless you use FX glass as I intend to, in which case you more than double your resolution.
Day to day, the only menu option I use is format card. Everything else is on a physical control or the I menu.
Likewise, I’ll take EN EL 15s and CFe cards which I already have for my Z8.
I don’t see the complications you do but maybe I’m overlooking something.
IMO, for landscape and travel, you really can't do much better than the Z7. After seven years of using my Z7, I still haven't found anything I'd rather travel with.
So the Z7 arrived today, not bad given that delivery was included in the £999 price. The actual line up looks like this size-wise.Looking at the sizes and weights of the Z50ii and the Z8 and comparing it to the original Z7 gets me this.
Z8 is a brick - I have to repeat this to myself every day ;-)So the Z7 arrived today, not bad given that delivery was included in the £999 price. The actual line up looks like this size-wise.Looking at the sizes and weights of the Z50ii and the Z8 and comparing it to the original Z7 gets me this.
My F5 was a brick.Z8 is a brick - I have to repeat this to myself every day ;-)So the Z7 arrived today, not bad given that delivery was included in the £999 price. The actual line up looks like this size-wise.Looking at the sizes and weights of the Z50ii and the Z8 and comparing it to the original Z7 gets me this.
The Z8 less so but it’s bigger than I’d want for long mountain hikes.
Not at all. Wouldn’t have bought one if that was the case. Not sure why you thought that.
I would say it only depends on how much better the AF/cont. shooting of the Z50 II is on dynamically moving targets compared to the Z7 and if you think that you require this improvement in a small camera for your use cases.
I would honestly just take the Z50II, a 12-28 and whatever other lenses you want, and call it a day.I'm off to the Dolomites in June and then around the world in November/December. Both trips will be a mixture of cities/general tourism and hiking. I currently have a Z50ii for hiking/biking and a Z8 for everything else.
Given that the Z7 will be used solely for landscape and travel, what is "everything else?"
A 12-28, 16-50 and 50-250 is 125g heavier on a Z7 than a Z50ii. The great thing about the Z7 is that it provides 45MP and IBIS with FX lenses but can still provide 19.5MP and IBIS when paired with DX lenses for those times when the weight needs to be bare minimum. Feels like win-win to me.
Not considering 24-200, already have it. And since I started this thread, I've also found a Z7 and it arrived this morning (see post earlier today).
And me with my D500, Z50 and Z50ii over the last 10 years. But they've always played second fiddle to my D810, D850 and Z8 over that same period. The Z7, despite being first gen, feels like extraordinary bang for the buck.
