Nikon Z8 Coming Soon?
re: Nikon Z7
The Nikon Z7 offering is now nearly 4+ years old, ancient in the digital camera market. The minor tweaks of the Nikon Z7 II in 2020 don’t change that assessment at all.
The Nikon Z9 is state of the art but big and heavy and really a sports and video camera, apparently fantastic, but not a move up for most photography and I am not keen to lug it around for landscape when the Sony A7R V already does an outstanding job.
Nikon tends to move slowly and deliberately—could something nice be coming soon?
Lagging badly in terms of sales volume, the Nikon mirrorless system runs the risk of steadily fading from relevance. Nikon needs to make itself relevant again.
Rumor has it that a 60-megapixel Nikon Z8 may be pending. Dare we hope that Nikon could give us the following?
- 60MP sensor, ideally with both color or monochrome sensors.
- 4-shot pixel shift done right with precise alignment of shift, lossless compressed raw, a handheld option, options for in-camera DNG and/or separate captures, etc.
- Built-in frame averaging for arbitrarily low noise generating both single-shot raw and averaged-frame raw.
- Focus bracketing (focus stepping) for focus stacking as good or better as now done in the Z7, which is best of breed already and actually works reliably, unlike Sony and Fujifilm.
- ETTR exposure mode.
- Specially-tuned real (not "Lo") ISO of 50 or so, as was done in the Nikon D810.
- Intelligent support for manual focus (which does not yet exist in any camera). Along with super accurate AF mode.
- High-res EVF.
None of the above are difficult except perhaps for handheld pixel shift, but Pentax already offers that feature in the Pentax K-1 II, so an existence proof is already there.
Of course, we might just end up with a smaller version of the Z9, with more of the same boring 8K video blah blah blah features already there that all the other brands do just fine. That’s not relevance. The whole 8K video thing bores me to tears—huge storage, huge workload, tons of extra gear to do it right. A shit-ton of work with no practical way to use or display it. A solution in search of a problem for still photography.
Why is there no camera on the market today that is tuned to the needs of landscape and still photography?
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