Nikon Z6ii and Z7ii Wildlife Photography Review 

I pretty much ONLY watch Steve's videos. He walks the walk and talks the talk. Plus, he's a great presenter chock full of insight and no bull commentary. Thank you Steve and thankfully you get back healthy quickly!!!!

Just a quick note. I'm currently recovering from COVID - you can read bout it here: bcgforums.com/index.php?threads/im-back.6679/ (This video was put together before I went into the hospital). Please forgive any delays in responding to comments, this thing has really set me back.

YES!! Waited for this so badly Steve, great to have you back and hope you get well soon! 🙌📷

So glad you are well and getting better Steve. Was so sad to hear of your experience. You do so much for us all. I hope you know how much we appreciate you and your advice 💛

Good you are back! And wish you all the best for a full recovery.

Steve - welcome back. Wishing you a speedy recovery!

So happy to see a new vid from you Steve (especially about the latest Z's!). Even happier to see you back home on the road to recovery! ❤️🙏🏻

Hope you are recovering well, Good to hear from you again!

Wish you full 100% recovery Steve. You provide us with great information and I really look forwars to all your video postings.

Wishing you a quick recover Steve and appreciate the quality unbiased content you put out! Take care of yourself.

As always Steve answers all the questions I had about a new Nikon release. Thanks and hope you have speedy recovery to full health.

Hi Steve. I was very moved by your experience with COVID-19, and I'm very happy that you're on the road to recovery. It will take time. My thoughts are with you, Rose, your children and the rest of your family.

Yes good to have you back!!! It must have been a bummer to be down and out for such a long time.

Glad you're back Steve! Stay well and I hope you have a swift recovery!

Hi Steve, thanks for the very useful video. Sending prayers your way for a speedy recovery !

Amazing recovery! Great to see you are right back at it helping us all to learn and grow in our photography! I know I have benefited from these videos and books. Greatly appreciate your honest and straightforward approach.

That's very interesting thanks Steve. So very glad you're on the mend, best wishes to you and your family.

Love your videos Steve! Praying for a speedy recovery!!

Steve, very sorry to hear about your COVID-19 experience and glad you're on the mend. Your videos are the ones I look forward to watching as they are full of relevant information. Bought the e-Book and looking forward to putting this to use with my new Z6II. Get better soon, and take it easy!

Sooo glad you are back and have overcome this serious disease! All the best, Steve!!!

Wishing you a speedy recovery mate, and as always appreciate your videos.

Great to have you back Steve! Picked up the Z6ii the other week and I know what book I'm going to buy.

Glad to hear you’re on the mend! Best wishes to you & your family. Stay safe.

Great review Steve! I just broke my D500 on vacation and managed to get a Z6II, absolutely love it! I think the AF works absolutely fine in most situations, as long as you know how to use it, no problems so far. Videos are great, EVF is fantastic, and I think the silent shooting is a must to photograph some really shy wildlife (an absolute necessity to photograph wolves in Italy!)..finger crossed for the Z8 and Z9, hopefully we’ll get something like an R5.

Mate, I have been waiting for this review. In terms on wanting to understand AF performance you are the baseline.

This video had perfect timing as I was definitely looking to buy into full frame with my stimulus. Thank you Steve!

Great video as always Steve. Let me just echo the other comments and say how nice it is to see you back here, after the forum. Wish you a speedy recovery, take care!

Glad you are on the mend! Another info packed video! Thanks Steve!

Thanks for another great summary, Steve. Much appreciated. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Our whole family are in healthcare and have a good idea of what you’re going through - cheering for you and looking forward to you being behind your camera again. 👍 \

Thanks Steve for this review. Am looking to upgrade from the Z6 to the Z7ii. Hope your recovery is full and speedy.

Get well soon! I'm very happy that you're on the road to recovery.

Welcome back, Steve! Glad you are on the road to recovery. I will be heading over to purchase your Z AF book. Hope it helps! Both of us! 😉

Welcome back Steve!! Get better soon!

Thank for the sharing. I have been waiting for your words for these two camera. Wish you 100% recover soon. Stay safe.

Glad to hear you are on the rebound!

Love this review and have been waiting for this review for a long time.

great video as always, steve! get well soon!

Thanks for your review. I purchased a Z6ii and have shot with it for 2 weeks. I am coming from a D500 and have been impressed with the autofocus. I have shot a high school track meet and had many more keepers with the Z6ii than I normally did with the D500.

So glad to hear you're feeling better.

Great insight Steve! Thanks for your honest and transparent insight!

Mr. Perry, your camera reviews Rock! Always practical, clear, logical and useful for me! Much better for me than some other sites that get stuck in details that may not matter in big picture (no pun intended).

Again Another fantastic, detailed video. Thank you, Steve.

THE review I’ve been waiting for... Thank you!

Thanks Steve for another great review, I just ordered a Z6ii this morning to go along with my D780 dslr. Looking like I have your video to rely upon for the learning curve.

Another comprehensive report and comparison of the Z6 and Z7 derivatives and FTZ adapter Thanks so much

Hope your feeling much better today Steve, great video as always. Your videos and tutorials have helped me to benefit so much more from my Z6 ii. Truly hoping the new native super telephotos will be better for wildlife photography. I use a sigma 150-600 lens with FTZ adapter for my birding but it’s a real challenge to get a consistent lock on fast moving objects.

Great comparison and review of the improvements Steve. I have the Z7ii with the new grip and I am also finding it great for wildlife except for fast action where I still use my D850. Looking forward to the Z8/Z9 releases and the telephoto Z lenses 8^)

Excellent video! I just bought the Z7II (on backorder), but am keeping my D500. I do crop quite a lot so the higher MP will definitely help. Hope all goes well with your recovery.

Welcome back and hoping you get better.

Excellent, Steve. I currently have a Z7 (Version one) and and a Z6 II, so I was happy to hear your opinions about the Z7 II. Thank you!

Hope you continue to heal and feel better, Steve!

Thank you. I'm excited to get my Z7 II but I've never had any assumption it'll replace my much loved D850. Glad you're better!

As close to a perfect review as possible. Thanks, Steve.

Good to see you back..

Steve hello from Greece! I wish you get well soon and come back to us in full recovery! Sending you my thoughts and prayers!

Very informative video, as always,. thanks Steve!

A great real world review! Thank you. One note though is that there are many shooting situations where the Z7II/Z6II are at least as capable as competing cameras from Canon and Sony.

Get well soon Steve. You are in a class of your own. I have made a contribution to help. Best wishes.

I really like how Nikon cameras allow for more specific ISO values. It's so weird to me in the mirrorless world how we can't use an analog slider of sorts to dial the iso in exactly where we need it, instead of 1/3rd stops

Great comparison of the two models and I hope the newer Z models will meet the wildlife needs. As you mentioned, I will keep my D850 with power grip for a while longer. Great info as usual and glad to read your feeling better!!!🙏

Great review, thanks for sharing your knowledge!

This is exactly the info i needed!! Thanks

Sorry to hear you have been so unwell. Wishing you the best of health for the future

Welcome back!

Thanks Steve, top quality information as always. These are obviously excellent cameras but reading between the lines I don't see enough here to shell out £1500 plus the D500 that I have, it still does the job for me and many others I suspect 👍

Thank you so much , I was waiting for your input regarding z6ii.

I’m glad you said the D500 probably gets better keeper rates. I contemplated going mirrorless and ended up with a D500 over that. Big upgrade from a d3500

Thx! What a great review. You made me take a breath and wait for a proper replacement for my D850 in regards to autofocus.

Hope u feeling better and recover 100% brother. I think we all enjoy your reviews and content. Im a bit mix with the Z6ii or D780 for wildlife and ocasional family "get togethers" once everything goes back to normal. 👍🏽

Steve you are a legend, what ever god you ascribe to must give you back to us. Stay safe my friend and get back where you belong soon. ❤️👍

Oh wow I did not know that you had covid, I wish you a good and speedy recovery.

Hi Steve, My prayers for you. Wish you a speedy recovery. Regards 🙏

Thanks for the review. Good job!

Bloody hell Steve! Sorry to hear you have been really unwell. Great to hear you are on the mend. Scary to think of someone as young and healthy as yourself (although you probably don't feel that way right now) could get so ill. Get well soon!

Thank you Steve. I'll stick with my D850. Can't wait to see what the Z9 has to offer.

Glad you’re on the mend!

Glad you're on the mend.

Glad you are on the mend 👍

Thanks Steve for another good video. I am still using my Nikon d4s and d810. I have so much F mount glass. I am interested in mirrorless but so far not ready to pull the trigger. However, at 68 years young maybe in the near future a lighter camera body maybe useful. So far the keeper ratio is good and in the warm, muggy and wet Mississippi environment I have no complaints with my current set up. I do not need the speed of the D4s anymore, the D810 is rather slow. Kind of on the fence to be honest to make the move.

Currently I use 2 D750 for rodeo or some other equine events and I have been really interested in the auto focusing system on the Z6ii and your info Steve is helpful,but lacks the certainty I'm looking for.

nice! I was just checking your channel last night to see if you posted this yet. score.

Thank you for such informative insights ... wish you have a full recovery ...

Excellent & Honest Review..Thanks

Nice video Steve. I will stick with my trusty D850 and D500. Will wait for the next Z iteration from Nikon.

Great movie and beautiful shots 📷👍

Right now I'm thinking about upgrading from my Z50 and your video did make my decision easier! My greatest concern was losing the crop factor. That is why I thought as well that the higher resolution of the Z7II would come in handy. Because if I get the Z6II and start cropping I'd probably end up with a smaller resolution than I have with my Z50. At first I was hoping to get a successor of my Z50. Or maybe a pro APS-C body like the rumored Z90, which was supposed to be something like a "mirrorless D500". But since Nikon seems to have a heavy focus on 35mm sensors and a fetish for unergonomic retro cameras with no successor to the Z6II or Z7II on the horizon, I figured I might as well buy something now since it really feels like I have outgrown the Z50 at this point, it started to hold me back a little :)

Very valuable video. Thanks a lot Steve. Love from Sri Lanka

Hey Steve.. great review as always. In your opinion, which mirrorless camera can replace Nikon D850 (mainly for wildlife)? Thanks!

Another great review. Hope you recover soon.

Hi and thx Steve for now I'm really looking forward to the 6iii as video is really my priority so I hope the next model will be awesome as the Z8 are a bit out of my budget at the moment. Doug

Hi Steve, excellent video presentation! I am very interested in what the April 26th firmware updates will deliver to improve the action focus tracking abilities of the Z7ii to at least equal the D850 or aiming higher to that of the Sony a9. Best wishes to you and your family, keep safe!

Hi Steve interesting review and great shots from both but I wonder if and how these bodies have improved in 2023 with the latest updates regarding to the negative things you've mentioned. Be nice to see an updated review, but for now I just feel like I need more from the z6ii for wildlife. I'd like to do video and great enlargements but the z8 is just out of my budget at the moment. I either have to wait for the iii models or save more towards the z8 or look at Sony, but thx again

Steve hope you get well soon and recover 100%

Nice review as always. When can we see Sony A1 video lol. Speedy recovery get well soon

Thanks for this, Steve. All the info, non of the BS :) Been waiting for this; going to add the Z7ii to my bag, as backup to the D6 but also as my prime portrait and landscape camera. And glad you're on the mend!!!

Great job as always. Thanks

Very nice presentation, thank you !

Hi Steve, so glad to hear you are recovering from Covid, and I am very sorry you got it. I hope you will recover promptly and go back to "normal" soon. Whenever you can answer, if you can answer. I need an opinion (advice) from a professional like you. I want to buy a Nikon camera to start doing event photography mainly (that means working sometimes in poor light conditions), but I would like to do wildlife as well time to time. I was considering the Z6II or the D780 for that purpose. I don't care much about the Megapixels, I just need a camera that will focus well and be reliable and consistent regarding autofocus when I find my self working in lowlight situations. I know Nikon DSRL cameras are pretty good with autofocus in regular/good light conditions, but I have my doubts about the new Z line for lowlight autofocus. My other consideration is to buy a used D850 which I think is still a fantastic camera in 2021 for both event and wildlife photography. A good condition used D850 with approximately 35k shots can be found for around USD 2,100 nowadays. I will love to hear your opinion about this. Thank you Steve and have a good recovery.

Never seen such clear reviews. Usual youtube reviews are complaint boxes. You are to the point 👉

Hi Steve I have z7 and just got the z7ii I used my d500 for my wild life but now I use my z7ii I’m looking for more set up and tips more in depth on your videos thank doug