Year ago, when I became tired of waiting for Nikon to release some "fast compact body" (z6-3) I switched from z7+d4 to fuji h2s and while I'm happy with stacked sensor (no blackout, no rolling shutter issues, no problems with electronic shutter in artificial light) with macro 80, 200/2 and 150-600+tc1.4 setup, I feel several limitations in Fuji system:
): clean high iso + fast af + comfortable operation (I really prefer dials, not because of fancy look but because I am used to see and change settings from top panel and not from back display) + rather compact size and ability to add extra grip when needed (I am ok with wooden grips)
So, is ZF with non-stacked sensor and limited to jpeg-only pre-release option suitable not only for travel/street (50% of my intereset) but also for amateur sports (hockey) and wildlife (no question about grip issues, I understand them)?
As I understand, ZF has "blackout-free" evf only with 8 fps in raw with efsc, but what about blackout with pre-release that requires C30? Will I get only 30fps in EVF and is it usable for, say, birds in flight? On older olympus bodies there was 40 or 50 fps "slide-show" in evf in "pro-capture" (same as "pre-release" but with raw support) mode because while 40 fps "is ok for viewing because movie's 24fps is" all shots are usually made with very fast shutter speeds (and not "1/(2*fps)" as movies) leading to huge strobe effect
And what about high iso jpeg performance? As pre-release is limited to jpegs, are iso 6400/12800 jpegs are usable for slight cropping?
With 180-600 replacing my current 150-600+tc1.4+cropped sensor setup I'm ready to loose "cropped sensor" magnification, but I plan to use 180-600 with TC also to stay at least in 800mm+ league that will lead to rather high ISO (and no ability to use raw ai denoisers) and some need in adequate in-body sharpening to crop a little bit - are these results comparable to raw processed in c1/lr with default nr/sharp settings?
Can Nikon's latest "smart af" track insect's eyes? Fuji, to my surprise, is very nice in bugs eye-tracking (but it is not perfectly usable due to af-c limitations with stopped down lenses) and does 105/2.8 have limitations while working with TCs?
If I will use F mount lenses with FTZ, can I use Z teleconverter or I have to get both - F for FTZ adapted lenses and Z for native?
Comparing to Z8:
- As I understand, Z8 is also limited to jpegs-only in pre-release?
- is Z8 blackout-free in pre-release (C30+) modes?
- is 180-600 sharp enough to get extra crop from Z8 sensor? and can Z8 control noise at iso 6400/12800 good enough to give advantage in "cropability" compared to ZF sensor?
- is there any advantage with Z8 sensor in single-shot macro works with 105 stopped down to /22 or diffraction makes them equal in terms of detail?
- no "short fast tele prime" with fast af for in-doors action (all versions of 56 are "portrait oriented" and actually terrible in af department with 50/1 also being on very af-slow side)
- no real replacement for 70-200/2.8 - Fuji 50-140 is nice compact lens fitting in large jacket pocket, but I really need full version sometimes
- 23/1.4lm is not as fun as 35/1.4g :-(
- terrible way of af-c working with lens stopped down - even in slow drive mode (<8 fps) af works with aperture closed all the time (in af-s it works as expected opening aperture during af operation between shots) making af slooow even with 200/2 when it stopped to /8 and almost unoperable with 80 stopped to /16
- terrible way of auto-iso working with "per shot" exposure metering - while iso is calculated ok, there is no visible information WHAT exactly it is metered showing only auto-iso top limit (with metering only for first shot it shows calculated value as expected but locked AE is wrong choise for most action I shoot)
- while fuji provides nice "pre-shot" mode ("pre-release" in Nikon terms) it drops af speed with pre-shot at 20 fps and makes af almost unusable at 40 fps
- also, while I use pre-shot a lot, half of the time it is actually very limited due to slow /8../11 (with tc) 150-600 lens that is perfect for stationary birds but in low dim light (typical for my place) unusable for bif
- while SOOC jpegs from Fuji are really nice in low-iso range, they are so-so from 1600 and useless at 6400 (except for black and white Acros but I am not a huge lover of b/w) so I still have to dig raws
- with af-c made a huge leap in h2s compared to T3 I used before, it is still not a thing I would blindly relay on like it was on my D4
- to my surprise a perfectly working ibis+ois in photo mode is a joke in video leading to huge image jumps while filming action - in some scenarios it is perfect, in some - awful :-x
): clean high iso + fast af + comfortable operation (I really prefer dials, not because of fancy look but because I am used to see and change settings from top panel and not from back display) + rather compact size and ability to add extra grip when needed (I am ok with wooden grips)So, is ZF with non-stacked sensor and limited to jpeg-only pre-release option suitable not only for travel/street (50% of my intereset) but also for amateur sports (hockey) and wildlife (no question about grip issues, I understand them)?
As I understand, ZF has "blackout-free" evf only with 8 fps in raw with efsc, but what about blackout with pre-release that requires C30? Will I get only 30fps in EVF and is it usable for, say, birds in flight? On older olympus bodies there was 40 or 50 fps "slide-show" in evf in "pro-capture" (same as "pre-release" but with raw support) mode because while 40 fps "is ok for viewing because movie's 24fps is" all shots are usually made with very fast shutter speeds (and not "1/(2*fps)" as movies) leading to huge strobe effect
And what about high iso jpeg performance? As pre-release is limited to jpegs, are iso 6400/12800 jpegs are usable for slight cropping?
With 180-600 replacing my current 150-600+tc1.4+cropped sensor setup I'm ready to loose "cropped sensor" magnification, but I plan to use 180-600 with TC also to stay at least in 800mm+ league that will lead to rather high ISO (and no ability to use raw ai denoisers) and some need in adequate in-body sharpening to crop a little bit - are these results comparable to raw processed in c1/lr with default nr/sharp settings?
Can Nikon's latest "smart af" track insect's eyes? Fuji, to my surprise, is very nice in bugs eye-tracking (but it is not perfectly usable due to af-c limitations with stopped down lenses) and does 105/2.8 have limitations while working with TCs?
If I will use F mount lenses with FTZ, can I use Z teleconverter or I have to get both - F for FTZ adapted lenses and Z for native?
Comparing to Z8:
- As I understand, Z8 is also limited to jpegs-only in pre-release?
- is Z8 blackout-free in pre-release (C30+) modes?
- is 180-600 sharp enough to get extra crop from Z8 sensor? and can Z8 control noise at iso 6400/12800 good enough to give advantage in "cropability" compared to ZF sensor?
- is there any advantage with Z8 sensor in single-shot macro works with 105 stopped down to /22 or diffraction makes them equal in terms of detail?
