Nikon Z 85mm f/1.2 S | Create Photographic Mood | Cinematic Perfection & Rain | Samples | Matt Irwin 

So true! I love mine too.

Thank you GW :)

Thank you so much 😀

Thanks D, for the hats. The 1.8 is an outstanding lens for the price point. Congrats. Cheers Matt

Glad you enjoyed it!

Couldn't agree more John :) Are you thinking the 85 1.2 ?

@@MattIrwinPhotography while gorgeous, that lens will have to wait for some future Black Friday sale in a few years. I'm still fleshing out my Z glass, and just snagged a Nikkor Z 70-200/2.8 on the Nikon Refurb store. But I can dream!

Yep it sure is something :)

@@MattIrwinPhotography I have the Z9 and use the Z 24-120 f4S superb lens.

@@MrDucatiPenigaleV4s Love my 24-120 F4 S

@@MattIrwinPhotography Me too. I'm really looking forward to the Z8 coming in early May.😉

Yeah Chuck, what a stunner it is. And hopefully we will see another body in the not too distant future we can throw this lens onto. Talk soon :)

Thanks a lot Duncan :)

Thanks so much Brucester. The 50, 85 and 135, I deeply enjoy creating with them :) What is your go to lens/es?

Yes those shades of grey. Delicious. Please let us know Garry how you are finding the 85. I would love to hear your journey :)

@@MattIrwinPhotography so far I absolutely love it but not had much of a chance thus far to use it due to a loss in our family. So far just taken some photos of my wife Natacha and our new puppy but off to a vintage shoot next Friday and Natacha may use it on Monday when she’s the apprentice in the Nikon magazine here in the uk. Only been taking photos for 5 years and left it very late into my early 50’s so trying hard to pack and learn in a short space of time. We set up a small photography business last year and slowly taking on a few minor jobs around our day jobs. Loving every minute of it but just sorry I didn’t do it earlier in life. Oh well better late than never 😅

So sorry to hear of your loss. Glad there is a puppy. Good luck with the business and congratulations to Natacha. You sound busy. 😀

Thanks Jeff, I would have kept going longer as the conditions were perfect from my perspective, but I had to get up early for the kids. Very much my happy place. Thanks for watching. Cheers Matt 😀

Thank you so much Kevin, yeah great idea. :)

Thanks Ted. Means a lot.

Sounds like a plan JP, let me know a few images from this shoot I could process, lets say three, and I will give it a spin :) And yes I agree it is time again to do some large format printing.

@@MattIrwinPhotography The Coda B&W image with the smoking guy The Coda colour image with the car coming The back ally with the graffiti (e.g. 3:21) You want contrast, detail, and a wide colour gamut, and to be able to test the raw processing AI for how well it does in blurry areas. Adobe Camera Raw tends to get grainy in there, IMO. For printing large, I would also test an upsampled to the max variant from Topaz's Gigapixel AI - I tested that with an A2 print once with the free download that you can use for a month and it made me buy the Topaz bundle of then 3 now 4 apps. You mention "dynamic range" in the end of the video. Note that DxO Mark's dynamic range is just the operating range of the camera for registering light - in the same way the camera has a temperature operating range. What, in my language, we would call "contrast envelope" was the dynamic range that could be captured in one image. I think your question about dynamic range pertains to the latter. Yes, Nikon is really very good at that. And our Z 7(ii) and Z 9 cameras without anti-aliasing filter give the most of the sensor's/camera's contrast envelope. Another thing to never forget is the f/number. I have heard loads of Canon DSLR shooters say they bought their 1.2L lens because it is so fast. Well, the f/number is just the geometric relation between maximum entry pupil and focal length (and generally only correct at infinity focus). So this f/number says absolutely nothing bout "how fast" a lens is. Look at DxOMark for these 1.2L lenses and check their "T stop" which is an aperture number like number but now corrected for how fast a lens is. Well, these 1.2L lenses of that generation had a T stop of 1.5 and that's equally fast as a Nikon 1.4G with a T stop of 1.5. Then they said they bought it for the 1.2 Depth of Field (DoF). Well, DoF depends on the Circle of Confusion (CoC) and varying that CoC has a big impact on the DoF (punch the formula into a spreadsheet and play with it, to verify my point). That CoC combines sensor/film resolution, lens resolution, processing, print/depiction size and resolution, and print/depiction distance to its viewer. Each of these impacts CoC and through that DoF - which is a perception thing. So, as that 1.2L generation was not very sharp, its CoC - ceteris paribus - was not so small and hence its DoF relatively deep. An F 85/1.4G on an old D800E may have less DoF than an 85/1.2L on a comparable resolution Canon (that still has an anti-aliasing filter). All because of that CoC. However if you process images from both in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) then the Canon may come out better because ACR does not do well with cameras without AA filter. My prejudice, at least above A3 size.

Good call, need to crop them perhaps :)

@@MattIrwinPhotography - or heal/retouch them away. Note that they represent a visual block for the "reader" of the image that throws them back into the image. This increases "dwell time" and consequently people judge the image as better. This may be the reverse in cultures where writing goes right to left, by the way.

Thank you Fel. Where did you see z6 II update? 😀 I can’t seem to find it.

@@MattIrwinPhotography I think they moved my link, unless you can't add links on youtube... but it should be on the Nikon USA Firmware Update website

Awesome what was the firmware number?

@@MattIrwinPhotography It was 1.50

@@MattIrwinPhotography Sorry, someone just told me firmware 1.50 came out in Nov... 😅 sorry about that, I guess I totally missed that update lol