Now I no longer have any DSLR. cameras I have actually started to pry off the chips I glued to some of my lenses :-( Or should I leave them on? In the forlorn hope that Nikon will find a way to enable IBIS on Z ….

Richard, you don't have to remove the Dandelions. According to my chart at the top of the page, use the FTZ and Dandelion for focus confirmation, if you want image stabilization, just use a "dumb" F to Z adapter. If you want both, then ETZ adapter would do. Then you could remove the Dandelion.

Buying photography gear is by no means a purely rational decision but rather a lot of psychology […] the mood and mental support […] and systems are about theoretical potentials, knowing that one can buy a say 800/6,3 has more influence than the people that actually will afford the lens -or in our case having  more potential with older "lens personalities"

Making products to please people who would like to see them in the catalogue, but have no intention of buying them, is not good business. Nikon has been burnt before making things people said they wanted, but then didn't buy (the FM3, Nikon 1, D500, eg). A good used D610 already costs less than the FTZ2, and an FTZ3 with AF-D support would be more expensive still. Why would someone who likes older lens personalities not use them on a digital or film SLR, when it is cheaper and for the uses for which those lens personalities were defined works just as well? For example, it is perfectly reasonable to prefer the personality of the 85/1.4D for studio portraits, but for studio portraits how is a Z9 is superior to a D850? Maybe there are killer ideas to marry the personalities of older lenses with the capabilities of the Z cameras, but in seven years no one has suggested any. 

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Cheers Hugh 

Nice one Hans.  Your B&W treatment suits this one well I think.

Exhaust stack of Melbourne's new under-river tunnel.

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excellent timing and super colour