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Images => Themes, Portfolio Series, PaW, or PaM => Topic started by: elsid on December 26, 2021, 00:33:36
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I received the Z9 in late afternoon on Christmas eve. On Christmas day I felt an itch in my hands, got out for 45 minutes and I took some pictures.
What follows is jpeg out of the camera, with no, or minimal, pp. I bought the Z9 because I shoot, mainly, wild life. My first impressions: I never had a tool like this in my hands, it is my first flagship camera.
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I received the Z9 in late afternoon on Christmas eve. On Christmas day I felt an itch in my hands, got out for 45 minutes and I took some pictures.
What follows is jpeg out of the camera, with no, or minimal, pp. I bought the Z9 because I shoot, mainly, wild life. My first impressions: I never had a tool like this in my hands, it is my first flagship camera.
Congrats on the new camera. The pictures are beautiful but you would take the same beautiful pictures with your previous camera, I am sure.
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Congrats! Looking forward to many more wonderful images!
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Zang, Tim thank you for commenting. Zang, I might, but not with the speed, the ease, and keep rate I can do it with the Z9.
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Amazing color and sharpness. Congrats on the purchase of an unstoppable toy, Elias!
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Thank you very much Akira. It is unstoppable. I forgot to mention the lens used, the 500mm PF.
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Congrats on the new camera Elsid - I really like your photos
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Thank you Daniel for your comment.
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Hi Elias
Wow, what a Christmas gift.
Looking forward to your review of the Z9.
Happy Christmas
Bent
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Elias, your Z9 has chosen a great home for itself! :)
Enjoy!
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Congrats with this beautiful christmas gift. Great results with these birds !!
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Bent, Hugh and John thank you for your comments.
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Congrats on the new flagship you acquired. Put it to good use and you both will be happy :)
Still waiting for my delivery of the Z9. Oh well.
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Congratulations on the pictures … and the camera!
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Elias congrats on the new camera!
You know now we have higher expectations from you ;D
Happy shooting!!!
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Congratulations and thank you for sharing it!
Looking forward to more of your work and experience with the unstoppable ;)
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Thank you Birna, Bruno, Nasos, Paco for your comments.
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A camera to lust for, thank you for sharing, E..
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Thank you Fons for your comment.
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Congratulations Elsid
I'm sure we'll all look forward to seeing more of your images.
I'm not sure of all the species you've captured here (apart from a Goldfinch?)
but you've caught some lovely preening & feeding behaviour.
It is unstoppable.
I forgot to mention the lens used, the 500mm PF.
The Z9 and 500mm PF sounds an amazing combo, with maybe some BIF to follow once you've got the AF set up the way you want.
Enjoy your journey of discovery
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Congratulations ! Nice pictures. The 500mm f/5.6 E PF is a well known companion (about 40’000 clicks). As Birna, still awaiting my copy. ;)
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Those images of those nice little birds are brilliant. It looks like as here got the right person his perfect tool. Congratulations. thank you for sharing the birds with us. Have a good time. byebye richard
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Colin, MFloyd, fentriss thank you for your omments.
I wll try to convey my experience I have had with the Z9 the last few days. This is not a review, as my "mileage" in photography does not qualify me as a reviewer. What follows is my impression about the camera.
The subject I have used the Z9 for are birds (and planes). I noticed:
1. As expected, the speed of focus acquisition depends on a number of variables, like light, subject color, distance, what surrounds the subject. I have used auto, so far, for subject recognition. It works fine.
For stationary birds AF areas single point, wide S, M, L were used with no problem. When a small bird is far, better to use single point AF. Also, when the head and eye of the bird are black the focus is on the body
(this happened when I tried to shoot a small bird at some distance, the end result, though, was successful due to the size of the bird). Planes are, almost, instantly recognized and focused upon, even in cloudy skies.
2. BIF: Subject recognition auto. AF area auto or wide L. What I found impressive is the tracking capability of the camera. In a series of about 60 continuous frames only the last 2 were a bit out of focus. Referring to my
pictures below, I was in my car waiting for a bird to appear among some short bushes when the female circus cyaneus flew over me, showing her rear. Focus was fast and the camera never lost it, except at the end. The first and second photos are uncropped. The third and fourth are cropped. The last is uncropped, just to give a measure of distance.
The camera I was using before the Z9 was the D500 and it is a good camera (I am keeping it). But I am beginning to get spoiled using my new toy.
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This is one of the last pictures I shot and it is uncropped. The fifth picture in the last post is cropped.
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Congratulations! Looking forward to see more ;)
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Sylvia melanocephala, fringilla coelebs
Rainy, heavy clouds, Z9+adapter+TC 1.4 III+500 PF, f/8, 1/640, ISO 12800, single point AF, recognition AUTO, shot in jpeg, handheld, no pp, no crop.
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Accipiter nisus, sturnus vulgaris,
AF area AUTO, recognition AUTO.
From my short use, so far, seems that recognition AUtO works fine. AF area either wideL or AUto is the best for BIF. AUTO seems to work better for faster moving birds.