TOF guy

Congratulations!

It won't continue: it's a one time restructuration cost (likely most of it is compensation for workers being laid off.) I've worked for the same Company for 25 years and "survived" through 7 major ...

I have to thank my iPhone spelling checker for a smile :-) Yes, we've had that conversation already. It's still worth repeating because the O/P may have not read the older threads on this subject. ...

The intrepid rate: it’s a good deal but only if you plan pay the balance before interests kick in. Which the bank behind the card makes easy to do.

Based on? Is there some law of physics that says that Nikon cannot design AF as well as any of its competitors? Certainly not based on the significant improvements that Nikon has already made with ...

How many years it took for Nikon to stop offering the F6? And what is the current share of Z sales compared to F sales? I sincerely hope that dSLRs are not "close to be eliminated" anytime soon, ...

Optically the f4 is a visible \notch below the last 2.8 in particular in the corners.

Inferior in which way? The ability to focus using a focus point anywhere in the viewfinder?  The Z cameras win. No need to calibrate each lens? The Z cameras win. Eye-AF? The Z cameras win. It's ...

Then they are stupid (not!): they've developed the Z9 sensor that no sensor of the D6 family can compare to. So much for "never make an MILC camera that beats its flagship DSLR". No, they are not ...

Not in the vast majority of the pictures you will take Totally disagree. Nikon understands that the Z9 is the D6 successor and will make sure its AF is as good if not better than the D6 and the A9II.

There is no reason for this and IMO is not correct

One of the teaser could be for a lens that is going to be announced at the same time as the Z9. So that would be 3. ;-)

Not the body since it is not updating its firmware and changing anything to itself. Just remove the lens and the camera is back in business.

Okay but S lens  do not need an FTZ adapter, so that's off topic

Nikon's approach in the "stacking" may not suffer the same penalty in DR and high ISO noise as the A1 It would be a very capable camera, and a more affordable version of the Z9.

One would hope this is just a temporary situation, one after shock of the Covid-19 crisis, which will dissipate within a few months and a year at most. But maybe I'm being optimistic.

Sure but that's not the choice that Nikon made for the Z9. In the Z9 sensor's case it's not Sony. Volume and low pricing is one way to generate profit. That's what the Z fc is for. Lower volume and ...

Yes Yes To get more precise mapping from raw values to image Yes Explanation here Yes White balance coefficients are multiplicative factors that compensate for the lighting being not neutral, or as ...

Yep! I would not :-) but I'm not holding my breath ...

How about this one ? Lens can have their own firmware, Nikon may have performed a "silent" update on the firmware during production. So depending on when one buys the lens the problem may show up, ...