It is also interesting to look at the (IMO) not at all convincing reasons they give for why people who want to use AF-D lenses should buy an adapter to use them on a Z camera, instead of just continuing to use them on the dSLR or the film camera they have always used.

Perhaps the main reason is that a number of F-lenses perform better on a mirrorless camera.  (less disadvantages, sharper, better focussing)

From the Monster website: "The current firmware does NOT include autofocus support for AF-I, AF-S, and AF-P lenses, nor support of EMD electromagnetic aperture and lens VR. Please pay attention to future firmware update notifications, but we do not guarantee that all these features above will be supported."

So this adapter is and may always be an adapter for AF-D lenses only (and manual focus, but for that it has no advantage over the FTZ). 

It is also interesting to look at the (IMO) not at all convincing reasons they give for why people who want to use AF-D lenses should buy an adapter to use them on a Z camera, instead of just continuing to use them on the dSLR or the film camera they have always used.

Thank you Ian, she is luminous 

  That warm-cold light is what we were aiming for. Late evening with the twilight as background. The lights were unexpected. The bars at the beach -we call them Chiringuitos- started to turn on and I tried to include them. I'm so happy it all can be part of the your viewing experience!

 

I hope faster cards are less stressed, run cooler: maybe/maybe not? Transfers to a computer takes less time.

I dabble in video. I want clean, sharp video at 60hz. I have spent zero time exploring the Z8's video capabilities at this time.

Better cards have better warranties. The longer the warranty period the more confident the maker is of the quality of their product (or so I surmise).

I've never had an SD card fail but I've had a Crucial 0.5TB 2.5" Internal SSD fail. It gave slight warning. I managed to back it up to an HD then I tried macOS disk utility> firstaid> in recovery mode and then Diskpart in Win10 CMD and nothing helped. The backup to an HD was the last time I could read from the drive. I was surprised that the backup completed.

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Thanks for the advice on SD cards.

Dave

Yes, I already noticed it but also wait till it's fully developed.

The AF-D 50/1.4,  135DC, 200/4 and 70-180micro see now mainly use on F camera's.