{"id":1367,"date":"2018-08-28T13:57:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T12:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2018-08-28T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T13:01:35","slug":"my-take-on-the-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/28\/my-take-on-the-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"My ‘take’ on the situation – NIKON Z series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the recent announcement of the NIKON<\/strong> mirroless cameras, the Z6<\/strong> & Z7<\/strong> I’ve read, with a certain amusement, the various on-line\/forum\/YouTube ‘experts’\u00a0 and I have to thank the authors – it’s quite amazing just how far from reality people will take the tiniest tit-bits of information.<\/p>\n

Aside from The Angry Photographer (TAP), who is a complete card-carying idiot (who owns \u00ab\u00a0at least 300 Nikon lenses\u00a0\u00bb – yeah – of course you do\u2026) and the only person who believes in what he says, most of the commentaries have started off fairly quietly before becomming hugely theoretic and oft-times frankly fantasist – it’s clear that 95% of the people writing A: have little competance to comment, and B: can’t actually write anyway.<\/p>\n

A recent \u00ab\u00a0Anonymous post\u00a0\u00bb over on the NIKON RUMURS<\/strong> blog was 100% right – but the forum members then proceeded to tear his comments to shreds.<\/p>\n

A popular subject is Nikons choice to equipe the new cameras with just a single memory card slot. To must intelligent photographers, this is a very minor inconvenience – to the forum members this is almost the end of the world. It has to be understood that a large percentage of the forum members don’t actually practice much photography, but are very prolific commentators – so their argument was \u00ab\u00a0oh no, we can’t back up our data in the camera – what happens when I photograph a wedding and the memory card goes bad????\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

Well most, if not all, serious photographers would have a second (or third) camera with them – it’s unlikely that they would rely on a single camera, and it’s far easier to have multiple bodies each with a different lens etc.<\/p>\n

The \u00ab\u00a0oversights\u00a0\u00bb from NIKON are listed, page after page of errors – they didn’t include this, they didn’t include that…total rubbish but for the forum members it’s important to show you are up there and Following this nonsense – please don’t ask me why.<\/p>\n

One question which seems really obvious to me, but as yet no-one has even asked, let alone tried to answer, is why the new Z series lenses are so expensive?<\/p>\n

The existing 50mm f\/1.8 AF-S<\/strong> is a perfectly capable lens, sharp, light, etc. and costs 200\u20ac – the new Z series lens with the same optical formula is 679\u20ac – yes, of course, I can use the new one without the FTZ adaptor, but one I have the adaptor I can use it with all my older lenses. The 35mm AF-S<\/strong> is another example – the original AFS costs 489 for the f\/1.8 while the Z series equivalent costs 949\u20ac<\/p>\n

The camera bodies are not, in my opinion, particularly expensive – so are Nikon trying to recup some of their development money in pitching the new lenses at a much higher level?<\/p>\n

Gotta go – there are some new comments on the blogs that I’m watching – cheers up a gloomy afternoon!<\/p>\n

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Since the recent announcement of the NIKON mirroless cameras, the Z6 & Z7 I’ve read, with a certain amusement, the various on-line\/forum\/YouTube ‘experts’\u00a0 and I have to thank the authors – it’s quite amazing just how far from reality people will take the tiniest tit-bits of information. Aside from The Angry Photographer (TAP), who is … <\/p>\n

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