My Camera Doesn't Need Me Anymore - NEW Nikon Z9 Firmware 4.0 & Z8 Firmware 2.0 

Very well explained. Lots of detail, easy to follow and great samples of your capture. Keep up with a great work.

thank u for explaining the size and speed stuff. i was lost too.

well explained! Probably one of the best features for me I've seen in awhile

Fantastic presentation Alan, I now can only hope that Nikon introduces a similar update to my Z8 which is about 3 weeks old.

Great presentation Alan. Look forward to seeing more.

Great explanation and examples. Simple and to the point .

Best video about auto capture so far

The autonomous capturing worked well , will love to see the 3D focusing too on the subjects moving forward and backwards from the focal plane of branch

A very informative and well shot video. You have yourself a new subscriber 👍

That is nuts, in a good way. Nikon is really delivering with their firmware updates. Thanks for sharing this.

Great vid. Thanks. Well done - Love it.

Amazing!

Nicely done! I can't wait to try it at the a shoreline. The Nikon N90 with MF-26 data back was able to capture in a defined spot, not as slick, however.

Excellent tutorial video. Wish you explained a little bit more about the pausing time. Thank you so much for sharing.😍

The towel not only protects from bird poop it helps keep the camera cool if it’s in the direct sun.

Hi, thank you for the interesting videos! About Auto capture: Did you notice, that the minimal distance, which can be set is not (!) the minimal distance, which you have for the particular lens for regular use, but seemingly the 20x of the focal length for the so called „prime“ lenses (not zooms)? As I tested, the minimal distance to set with auto capture is with the Z 800mm f6.3 16m(!) instead of regularly 5m. (With TC 2x 32m instead of 5m…) The corresponding values for Z 105mm MC 2,1m (instead of 29cm), for the Z 24-120mm 0,4m at 24mm, but it grows gradually to 2,4m up to the longest focal length for 120mm (which regularly allows to focus 0,4m to. For this lens zooming back to 24mm the minimal distance does‘t change again automatically to 40cm. It seems an allowed closest distance to set for the (not wide angel focal length) possible with auto capture limited by the software to the 20x of the particular (not wide angel) focal lens independently of its regular near focus capacity, which is much closer as that for auto capture (as I wrote the individual values for lenses I tested above). How do you think about? I mean, even if auto capture is generally a very good feature, at that point there is a very relevant limitation for wildlife photographer, with potential to improve this issue. I find it interesting, that up to now no reviews as Ricci and others) mentioned this issue. Even in the manual („addendum“ to firmware 4.0 there is no word about the limitation of the closest didtance, which differs from that, which the particular lens itself allows. Best regards Josef

Can you put a copy of your final menu settings online so we can download it 😊😊😊😊

Really nice presentation. Imagine if Nikon also add auto frame like from Sony’s latest feature, that would be epic. Thank you and hopefully a firmware update for z8 will come much sooner :)

If you automate it, is it photography?

Hi interesting video thank you I have a z9 but only f type lenses. But they dont appear to work. Have you tested any of your f type lenses and which ones work?

I see this feature has now been removed from the Z8.

What's the point if your not taking the photos?

How is the battery life while in auto/capture mode?

What were your video settings?

I was joking the other day with a friend. "Soon," I said, "cameras won't need us at all! Ai will do everything. We will just program them, and send them out on a drone, while we get fat and lazy watching Gilligan's Island reruns and munching bon bons!" Maybe it wasn't a joke?

It's so difficult for a Japanese camera maker to do the tiny trick and even release it as a major update. All these kinds of things are simply a third party app if the camera is running on a true OS.

it,s that in jpeg ?

Caution! I recently downloaded firmware for the Zfc from Nikon. When I hit the upload, the camera shut itself down and would not restart. Nikon support told me it would have to be sent to a service center. I mailed it, at my expense. After a week, I got an estimate for repair. Almost $ 300.00. This camera was just over one year old, purchased directly from Nikon and had less than 1,000 actuations. The camera worked perfectly until I tried to upload the firmware. Note - I own over two dozen Nikon cameras including four Z series and I am very familiar with the update procedure. Has anyone else had this problem? Got the camera back. They had to replace the Main PCB. Less than 1,000 clicks and worked perfectly until I tried to update.

Get rid of those starlings!!

I think Sony is the flagship killer maybe

leave it on SF street and see if it needs you or not 😂