NikonGear'23
Gear Talk => Camera Talk => Topic started by: Øivind Tøien on February 26, 2025, 09:22:40
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Z8 v. 2.10
https://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/download/fw/550.html (https://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/download/fw/550.html)
Installed without problems. Note that shooting mode of each bank is set to P immediately after install per Nikon's description, just takes a few seconds to set back to original preference.
Z6 III
https://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/download/fw/549.html (https://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/download/fw/549.html)
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thanks for the head up
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Yes - Thank you! Will try out the Z8 update
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A further comment that the reason for the shooting mode of each bank being set to P immediately after install, is that there are now separate parallel banks for video and stills, which is a great improvement but important to be aware of if one switches between these two modes:
While without much preparation taking a few shots during a dance performance at the Anchorage museum this week with my Z8 (https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=11160.msg205945#msg205945 (https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=11160.msg205945#msg205945)), I started out shooting video, and made note that the 85mm f/1.8 was wide open as intended for subject isolation. But when I quickly switched to stills I forgot that the A bank was at f/7.1 while video bank A had also been set to P mode by the firmware upgrade and thus kept the lens wide open to accommodate the low light levels. Thus I did not get the intended subject isolation for the stills. So during processing I grabbed some jpgs of the frames of that dance performance from the video shot in 4K 60p, which after all worked out well.
It is also worth noting that a switch of shooting bank in shooting mode will also switch to the parallell bank in video mode and vice versa.
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A further comment that the reason for the shooting mode of each bank being set to P immediately after install, is that there are now separate parallel banks for video and stills, which is a great improvement but important to be aware of if one switches between these two modes:
While without much preparation taking a few shots during a dance performance at the Anchorage museum this week with my Z8 (https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=11160.msg205945#msg205945 (https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=11160.msg205945#msg205945)), I started out shooting video, and made note that the 85mm f/1.8 was wide open as intended for subject isolation. But when I quickly switched to stills I forgot that the A bank was at f/7.1 while video bank A had also been set to P mode by the firmware upgrade and thus kept the lens wide open to accommodate the low light levels. Thus I did not get the intended subject isolation for the stills. So during processing I grabbed some jpgs of the frames of that dance performance from the video shot in 4K 60p, which after all worked out well.
It is also worth noting that a switch of shooting bank in shooting mode will also switch to the parallell bank in video mode and vice versa.
Thank you for the heads up on that 'feature' ;)
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Installed without problems. Note that shooting mode of each bank is set to P immediately after install per Nikon's description, just takes a few seconds to set back to original preference.
The shooting mode didn't change at all when I updated my Z8
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The shooting mode didn't change at all when I updated my Z8
Same with me.
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Interesting, it definitely did change to P mode with me in all the banks. The different banks were in A and M mode beforehand.