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Michael Erlewine:
Ming Thein has further review comments, quite detailed, on the Z7. Well worth looking over, IMO. He includes free color and monochrome profiles, which so far are IMO VERY good.

https://blog.mingthein.com/

I had some questions for him, which I will post here in case that some readers here have thoughts or comments on them.

Thanks for this detailed report! And thank you for the profiles. Would you remind us, please, how to install them?

I do have some concerns of my own about the Z7.

I have purchased M42 and M39 adaptors and the Novoflex Adapter set for Visoflex II/III to Leica M. This gives added focus range to lenses like the very interesting Nikkor “O” CRT lens, and others.

I am VERY interested in the announced NOCT S 0.95 lens, although it will be very expensive I fear. Since I do close-up stacked images, I am imagining that this COULD BE a key lens for my work, which involves very sharp wide-open fast lenses and kind of painting focus where I want it (like blocks of focus) and letting the rest of the image go to bokeh. Do you agree with my assessment of this forthcoming lens?

And along with this new NOCT, do you believe that a very thin extension (Z to Z) (whenever they might appear) would allow me to move closer with the NOCT than it natively does without too much quality-image damage. I know. We will have to see, but just wonder what your thoughts are on this.

I have the 50mm S and 24-70mm S lenses. I am pretty pleased with the 50mm and not-so-please with the 24-70mm S, but use it anyway because it is convenient. Anymore thoughts on the 24-70mm S.

How does the Nikon NIKKOR Z 14-30mm f/4 S Lens look in your opinion. I pre-ordered it, but fear it will be more like the 24-70mm than the 50mm S. Any thoughts?

As for L-Brackets, I have tried several and have settled on the RSS-L-Bracket for the camera and the Markins L-Bracket for the FTZ adapter. These two adapters allow me to do horizontal and vertical work with both attached. Plus the RSS allows me to adjust the 90-degree vertical side so that I can have HDMI or various other remotes, etc. without interferance.

Once again, thank you for sharing your experience and, as you can, would like to understand better how far we can push this camera for using the various “exotic” lenses I use with Z-Z adaptors or what other adapters you see that will be useful.

Lots of questions, but others may also be interested in some of these.

chambeshi:
Thanks for posting. I come to value Ming's reviews all the more. His informed and mature assessment of the Z7 makes much sense

Birna Rørslett:
I found very little new in the blog regarding the Z7. Only confirms that individuals have their own expectation of any hardware item.

Michael Erlewine:

--- Quote from: Birna Rørslett on January 12, 2019, 12:06:20 ---I found very little new in the blog regarding the Z7. Only confirms that individuals have their own expectation of any hardware item.

--- End quote ---

I see it differently. Confirmation from someone like Ming Thein and the fact that he is using the Z7 for considerable work tells me something. In the history of my own experience with gear, the most influential and valuable "experts" have been yourself, Lloyd Chambers, Ming Thein, and Thom Hogan. I'm sure there are others too, but these have most helped me.

Jan Anne:
I'm just curious what you are looking for in other people opinions on gear you already own, is it conformation that you bought the right equipment?

I do value reviews and such while looking for new gear but once I have it in my hands I know very quickly if a camera or lens is suitable for my specific use, after I determined it will work for me I really don't care what other have to say especially nowadays where some "reviewers" live on reporting bad things instead of focussing on the new possibilities that the latest tech can bring to the table.

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