Is the Nikon Zf Good Enough for Landscape Photography? 

Hope you enjoy it and thank you!

Thank you for watching! I think that Canon trying to develop their own sensors, (or at least they did in the past) has hurt them as a company. I think of the big four are going to be great cameras no matter what though so no insult intended to Canon.

Thank you! Yes, I am wanting to hit that 1k mark for sure. That is the first goal of many, right? Yeah, I am back and doing it pretty much full time right now while working on the new (to me) house here in Maine. Stay tuned!

You have no idea how much it means to hear that my work is helpful to you. These videos take a massive amount of effort and when just one person shares thoughts like yours it makes it all worth it! It’s one of the reasons I miss university teaching so much. I think the Zf is going to be fantastic for birding and bird in flight photography. The tracking system on it alone is quite advanced. At some point if I have the time, I want to get out and do some BIF photos and make a video about its abilities as a wildlife camera. Thanks for dropping in and I hope to see you around these parts again! :-)

Glad it was helpful! And thank you for watching!

Thank you for watching!

Thank you so much! As for the camera, I don't think you can go wrong with it. It really is an astounding piece of equipment.

I'm happy that I provided useful info! Thanks for dropping in.

As much as I wish I could say I did serve, alas, I did not. The best I have done is being a fire fighter. My wife’s family was the military side. Thank YOU for serving however!

I'm working on that video as we speak. Soon... Thanks for watching!

Yeah, the exchange is messing it all up. You'll love it though! Thanks for watching!

I just haven’t bought anything smaller for it since I primarily use it for landscape work. I am thinking that 28mm 2.8 Z looks pretty nice though.

Oh and awesome that you decided on this beauty. You won’t be sorry.

Thank you for your kind words! The L-raker thing is weird. It looks like universal l-brackets are the only way if you want an l bracket. Thanks for watching!

Ah the D3X. That was a wonderful camera. At least in memory. I remember picking up a D850 recently thinking it was one of the best cameras I've ever owned and being horrified at how it felt. LOL Yes, Topaz is a wonder and even Lightroom now has a scaling facility that is quite good if you need to use it. As for pixel shift in the Z8, I think the resolution alone would make it somewhat prohibitive. With so much more density on the sensor, getting the ibis to be that precise may be problematic and the files would be monstrous. LOL Who knows though. I am pretty much speaking out of school on this one. I don't really know what the tech is capable of. Thanks for the comment!

No, it's not. I believe you might be seeing my white polaroid SX-70. Maybe? Thank you for watching though!

I believe that is the Nikkor 24-120 F4. Its an excellent lens! I have a review for it here on the channel. Thanks for watching!

I’m looking to get an L bracket as well. This was the early in option for the Zf. I believe there are L-bracket potions now however.

My mistake. I swear I knew this when I was looking at the Z8. LOL ah well… Thanks for the feedback!

You are welcome! Thank you! I need to track that L-Bracket down!

Yeah, the video cage is quite nice. I do wish that Small rig would figure out a way to make them so that you can mount the camera vertically. The added benefit would be that if you shot vertical content for any of the social media sites or RU-vid shorts, it would allow for that as well.

I believe the Z6III will come. Nikon has a pretty long cycle so I expect to see it next year I hope.

I think you can’t go wrong with the Zfc. I have both and I use the Zfc which is a really really good camera to shoot the videos. It’s an excellent stills camera as well but, if you can manage it, the ZF is a pretty large step up. Thanks for watching and hope to see you again!

@@ThomasPetzwinkler thanks Thomas

I will be covering focus stacking on the next Zf video. Stay tuned. I have a video or two coming out in between but fear not, I will be covering it.

So I went and looked in to it. The atoll for “select mirrorless cameras” should in theory work fine with the Zf.

I did. Pixel shift works well as long as there is no movement at all. I need to find a good landscape situation where it will work well. I will cover that in a future video. Yes, Maine looks like nowhere else! I love it here.

So another viewer suggested using camera import in Lightroom and he says it solved the noise issue. I’ve given it a try and will report back.

So, this is a little different from some other brands. You want to go in to the custom settings section of the menus and then go to d6. That setting is called “Extended Shutter Speeds (M)” set that to on. Then set your shutter dial to “1/3 STEP” and now you can select up to 900 seconds shutter speed. Hope this helps! Thanks for dropping in!

Yeah, I agree with you on all fronts. I know in the past there have been L-Brackets for flip out screen cameras that had a cut out on the side but I can’t see that working on this body so using an L-Bracket will mean either off axis mounting or not opening the screen 100 percent. We will see what come. Thanks for watching!

Yeah, I think I knew this to begin with. Its been a while since I looked at the Z8 again. Anyway, thanks for the feedback! My bad.

@@ThomasPetzwinkler Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

So, on the Zf, you are out of luck for a wired shutter release unless you want to use the screw in release on the shutter button. Nikon and third party producers are selling a blue tooth remote that takes care of shutter release. The model is ML-L7 from nikon. Thanks for dropping in!

I can confirm now. I have 4 different cables and not one of them will trip the shutter. I guess the hole is just for a screw in shutter button. Seems odd doesn't it?@@jerryinsc

Did you watch the video?

@@ThomasPetzwinkler absolutely. I understand sensational and controversial titles suck in views, but come on. Any modern camera can be good enough for landscape photography or any other type of photography. And we all should know as professionals or amateurs that any print is good viewed at the proper viewing distance. Do you pixel peep billboards along the highway?

​@@darenaubiephotography8570 I'm not sure why you are offended by a quality video based on an idea that people have. Not everyone knows as much about the subject as you and I and therefore appreciate a video that lays out why megapixels are not important for quality photography. Assuming people know this and will make good decisions based on such wisdom is plain wrong. Just look at the sales of Z8 and Z9 cameras for people that are not professionals and are likely using them to photograph their kids sporting events. No one needs that sort of camera for that activity. Its massive overkill. In the landscape realm, look at the amount of people that are buying a Z8 because they think its the most expensive with high megapixels so it must be best are completely unaware that the Z7II has better image quality and is far better suited to landscape work. I don't think my video mislead or even sidetracked anyone in to thinking otherwise. I include the print section as a way to show the results of that finding. Thank you for your concern however and I hope you have a nice weekend!

I don't know what you are asking this about. I think I said I really liked this camera. Refresh me because I cannot see what you are responding to. That said, I bought (yep, I do own this beauty). this camera for a bunch of reasons. I wanted another 24MP camera to replace my Z6 which I had sold. I loved that Nikon finally had a retro styled camera. I wanted a class leading video camera from Nikon. I wanted a camera that had the crazy good autofocus of the new Z cameras. Those are the four main reasons. I did the landscape video because so many people love to claim you can't shoot landscape with a 24 MP and I wanted to show them how wrong they are. Anyway, I look forward to hearing what you are asking this question about and why. Thank you for watching!