Craftsman70

I love these threads about comparisons threads where we aren't just talking about two similar products of a similar generation and price range but when we take two similar products of completely ...

I didn't look too deep into it.  The point that was being made was there would "be no more advancements or firmware updates".  I was just pointing out that there still are firmware updates.  What ...

That's not true. Nikon has been updating DSLR firmware throughout the past two years when DSLRs have long been declared dead: - D5/D6 - June 2022 - D780 - Aug 2023 - D850 - January 2023 - D500 - ...

I wonder if your problem is similar to the problem with the 18-200 and the VR power cable...  The cable is routed near a rotational point which could damage the cable if the cable came out a few ...

As with all mechanical things and all people, some mechanical things will get slightly out of tolerance or even borderline tolerance and that's where people come into play as some can work that ...

Nikon, as well as many other OEMs, seems to have a strange philosophy regarding features and pixels. In the low consumer end, Nikon fixes pixel count across series but differentiates the model ...

Lenses have the same issue.  I have a Sigma 10-20mm lens that works perfectly on the D200 and the like.  But once we get into the D7000, it completely fails in Live View.  Do I blame the D7000?  ...

Realistically, Metz knows flash so as long as the compatibility is there, I would expect the Metz flash to be as good or maybe even better than Nikon.  The key is the compatibility.

I disagree that it's a Nikon issue as there are ZERO reports of this type of issue with Nikon branded flashes so it obviously works when using all Nikon equipment. Profoto claims that it's fully ...

It's really not that much newer in camera years.  Besides, the Z6 was released in November of 2018 while the D780 was January of 2020 so there is really only about a year and two months difference. ...

I find that auto-everything modes have been vastly underrated for at least a decade or more now. Yes, one can typically do better in many circumstances by having some level of manual control but ...

One has to remember that the used market for equipment is really market-driven where products still in high demand sell at a higher price vs ones that aren't.  The fact that the D780's used price ...

One must remember that they are two vastly different classes of cameras, so there's no big surprise that the Z9 nailed it. What would have been a big surprise is if the Z9 got similar results to a ...

Correct. I've owned a D780 since pretty close to when it was introduced.  As you pointed out, the camera is a great allrounder and really shows that Nikon put a lot of the previous best practices ...

You are going to get a whole lot of opinions with the main point that the D7200 is old and why spend the money on it.... IMHO, that's the WRONG way to look at it.  It;s not like you don't have ...

I'm in agreement about the price as well.  But then again, prices for lenses have really gone up over the years.  Yes, they have gotten better but I doubt that they have gotten that much better to ...

Nice! But can you imagine if Nikon went nuts and put out a PF version of a 180 or 135?  The lens might be the size and weight of a 85mm or smaller lens and all of the image qualities of the PF ...

I believe Nikon believes (and to a certain extent, rightly so) that by putting out a more capable FTZ, they would just be killing future high-end (ie high-profit) lens sales. Yes,  by all accounts, ...

That would have been nice as well but Nikon kind of missed the boat on a whole bunch of possibilities! I would have been happy with an f/2.0 version of the 135mm or the 105mm and if they threw in DC...

Completely agree. Nikon has been very strange on how they approach transitioning older popular designs into the next generation (no I'm not talking about F->Z but just D->AF-S). Yes, they made a ...