A tale of two bodies – The next day: Living without a D by Thanos Deligiannis: “Having to travel for business and staying over for the weekend, it’s hard to justify taking more than one camera, so I took the Z.” Chapter 1 – Some background for understanding. Before someone reads, I want to highlight that this is my personal journey, doing things as I usually do with any electronic device. I did not read the manual as part of the first use and in the same spirit, I did not read the Z7II manual beforehand. I note though that I follow multiple experts who have posted reviews, “what’s new”, workarounds, and other similar topics and I have a good understanding of what to expect in terms of new features and operations as well as how they operate. I consider such experts much more competent, are also presenting actual use examples, together with commentary of what to actually anticipate, including real-life performance, quirks, pros and cons. I further took a deep dive into the menu to familiarize myself with the contents and options and customize things like the “i” button, fn buttons, shortcuts, etc. My experience of almost 20 years is 99% on Nikon cameras of all kinds (incl Coolpix and 1) so familiarity with the ecosystem is there, consequently any difficulty identified, is mostly what this writer felt was not intuitive to him to use. For example, having assignable fn buttons, but not having the same opinions in...
Published By: Nikonrumors - Saturday, 6 January, 2024