{"id":2490,"date":"2022-06-22T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2022-12-14T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:16:38","slug":"low-light-camera-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/22\/low-light-camera-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Low light camera settings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The original article was written for the Z9 but in fact can be applied to any of the Z6\/7 series camera<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zsystemuser.com\/nikon-z-system-news-and\/z9-bits-and-pieces.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.zsystemuser.com\/nikon-z-system-news-and\/z9-bits-and-pieces.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thom Hogan<\/strong> recently published a short response to people having problems with focussing in low-light &#8211;  I think the article is worth reading &#8211; the link is above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interesting part is this: people very rarely play with the &lsquo;Picture Control&rsquo; (Menu Camera, Set Picture Control) as, like me, they probably don&rsquo;t understand what it does, despite Nikons explications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thom Hogan<\/strong> was trying to figure out why some of his readers seemed to have a lot more problems than him in focusing in low-light, and on further investigation came to the conclusion that this could be influenced by the Picture Control setting. He &#8211; possibly the only human to actually A: know what it means, and B: being someone who fiddles with EVERY setting (Thanx Thom) suggests moving from &lsquo;Auto&rsquo; to &lsquo;Neutral&rsquo; with an increased Sharpness value (default is 2) &#8211; I&rsquo;m trying 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember to click OK after selecting your sharpness value, and if you want to store the values in one of the 3 presets, do that immediately afterwards or the setting will revert to the default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original article was written for the Z9 but in fact can be applied to any of the Z6\/7 series camera link Thom Hogan recently published a short response to people having problems with focussing in low-light &#8211; I think the article is worth reading &#8211; the link is above. The interesting part is this: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/22\/low-light-camera-settings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Low light camera settings&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}