Virtual Photon

Not completely sure what you are asking. Are you shooting RAW or jpeg? Are you saying the deep shadow tones are clipped to black?

Did you buy this used or was the Z6 an upgrade from your previous body? What do you have the Vignette Control (in the Shooting Menu) set at? I looked at your gallery (nice shots btw - I like the ...

Well you've got me there as I don't do A/B comparisons checking midfield and corners at 100% over multiple stops at close focus and landscape distances. Life is just too short.  And frankly Jim ...

I've been using the CV65 and CV35 f2 apo on the Z6.  I also have the 40 1.2 in an adapted E mount.  Really fun lenses to use and the IQ is stellar.

I had the m-mount version of the CV40 1.2 and wasn’t crazy about it.  I missed the exit data and didn’t care for the adapter.  Because I was using Sony I ended up with the E version of the CV40 ...

Fully agree.  The lens profiles often hide these issues.  As I remember, Nikon was exceptionally quick to get the VRII version out in the face of some criticism of what was supposed to be one of ...

A pretty wide ranging question - I mean there are an awful lot of permutations you are asking about . . .  And really 'image quality' is not just one thing - bokeh, micro-contrast, flare handling, ...

To your credit it IS an FX lens - just a problematic one.

Agree about the 85 1.8S.   Yes if you need AF, you need AF.  Sigma is rumored to be coming out with a Z line so that may be interesting. It's great to have different tools.

You should take a look at the Voigtlander 40 1.2Z. I had the 35 but only rarely used it wide open.  When I compared it to my 24-70 at the smaller equivalent stops, I could see little difference. ...

Are you using a lens hood?

You gotta love the internet.  Ask three people and get four answers. If you need f2.8, save your money for the 24-70 2.8s.  Right now there probably isn’t a better lens in Nikon’s lineup. If you ...

Using the TZE-02 with the CV 40 1.2, the manual aperture on the CV automatically updates the camera (and is recorded in the EXIF).  I assume it is the same for the 21.

Not with my Techart-02 combined with a Voigtlander FE lens . . .

I don't know what SkyRunR above is using, but on my Z6 using the Techart-02 and a Voigtlander 40mm FE lens, with the Z6 set to MF mode, S release mode, I have full time highlighted/green box ...

Well this is a Nikon Z forum so . . . Seriously, I shot Nikon DX and FX for a number of years (and yes, film before that), then switched to M43 for size/traveling convenience, then switched back to ...

+1 to John Isaac's 14-30 suggestion above, if you are a wide shooter. In my thinking, the expanded FL that a 14-30 provides is more useful than the one stop (or so) advantage that the 24-70 ...

Four years and not surprisingly the horse still ain’t moving.

Definitely maybe. I know that sounds flip but it is hard to give a definitive answer. I've traveled with an RX100 variant but not the FZ300 so take that into account. The Z50 provides higher ...

I had the Z50 16-50 50-250 combination but I actually prefer the Zfc. The advantage of the 24-200 for me is that it starts you at the 35mm (FF equivalent) which I find a much more useful range for ...