Thank you Paco!

February 4

this mornings' clouds

Z fc  Viltrox 9mm f/2.8

Can you tell us

• How you're getting on with your Z8 overall?
• Two or three things you're really pleased by?
• Anything you don't yet find as "good" as on your previous gear?

There is a lot to learn with the Z8 given that there are more options for customizing controls. I'd like one more programmable button for locking the shutter speed and aperture. I've assigned the auto bracket button to that function. I found with my D850 that I sometimes accidentally changed the shutter speed when shooting on camera flash in a PJ/PR fashion as photographing guest at a reception. The flash might go into PF sync mode due to a short shutter speed, e.g. 1/500, 1/1000 and recycle times were too long for my style of shooting.

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I had a weird problem with manual video where aperture preferred (A) was fine but switch to manual (M) the shutter speed was 1/3200? Rolling the command dial to select a slower shutter speed was normal down to 1/1000 but then it was read out something like 9983.3 (e.g.) and the increments were very small. My thumb got tired rolling down to a setting of 60.3 or such. I tried to find what setting I might have changed that caused this. Then I tried Photo Shooting Menu "D" and when I switched to the D bank and changed the mode to "M" the shutter speed was 1/30 and I could change it to whatever I wanted e.g. 1/60. I've solved the problem but have no idea what caused it.

The Manage feature allow not only renaming but copying a bank so I copied the D bank to A. I really like the Manage feature.

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With video set to 8-bit, 4320p at 30 frames sec. at room temperature I was able to record 11 min. 30 sec. before a warm card indicator was displayed. The card felt warm but not hot. what ever the sustain write speed of the SanDisk 128GB card is it's just OK for that amount of data. When I can afford to I'll pass that card to my D850 which isn't a demanding as the Z8. One video I viewed suggested shooting video in M with the shutter speed of 1/60 for 30 fps.

I definitely want a faster sustained write speed than my current SanDisk 128GB. I bought it because if the second Z8 had a problem with EXexpress card sticking I wanted only one merchant involved.

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I'm bird sitting a pesty cockatoo just now and she wants a head scratch. I hope this post makes sense.

Dave

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Does anyone here know of any good tutorials for, I guess mid-level video shooting?

February 3

green light

Z fc  Viltrox 9mm f/2.8

 Fons, that steep wide angle perspective and the traffic light presence and placement works very well here.

Beautiful shot, Gil.   And great examples in your Flickr-album.

Luckily I found a very good sample of this lens. 

White horse

Is it white or is it a thrush?