10:15 for in camera grain, try disabling noise reduction completely in the shooting menu and shooting with a very high iso setting, 16000+ for example. You’ll be surprised at how good the grain looks. I love it. Let me know what you think. Love your videos.
Wonderful, video. Thanks for your experienced, insightful tips and direct, genuine style. You are one of my favorite channels now. Love your Zf content in particular--how to get the best balance of ease of shooting and best IQ for travel and casual shooting, without excessive complexity.
@@luischavezphoto Luis, i believe you mentioned you mostly use the focus and recompose method with your AF-S or AF-C setting, by half-pressing the shutter button, and do not use the AE-L/ AF-L back button to hold focus or exposure, right? I am now setting up my new Zf and wonder how one adjusts the exposure compensation dial to darken or lighten exposure while also half-pressing the shutter button? Maybe you could even do a brief video on how you focus and recompose with your Zf, or use the back button focus, and how you use the exposure comp. dial while holding the exposure and/or focus? I have assigned both AE-L and AF-L to a half press of the shutter dial to keep things simple at the start, and have locked my single area focus point in the center for ease of finding quick focus. I also have assigned highlight weighted metering ON/OFF to my AE-L/AF-L back button, when I need to protect bright highlights. As an experienced pro, I'd love to hear your thoughts on how you hold focus and exposure and recompose in your travel or casual shooting.
@@RBRowe7 Great question! Yeah, I mostly stick to focus and recompose. I rely on half-pressing the shutter button to lock focus and exposure. I’ve never really been a back-button focus person it just feels more natural this way for me. For exposure compensation I usually set it beforehand based on what I’m seeing in the scene. For example, -0.3 in bright light or +0.3 in shadows. Your setup sounds super clean, especially locking the focus point in the center and using highlight-weighted metering on the AE-L/AF-L button when you need it. That’s a really smart move for tough lighting.
@@luischavezphoto Thanks so much, Luis! Super helpful, fast feedback. I want to keep my settings and controls as simple and intuitive as I can, especially staring out with the new Zf, and free my mind to concentrate on the composition. I'm glad to hear a very experienced wedding and travel photographer like you, with many months of great experience using the Zf, is perfectly happy using simple focus and recompose, without BBF. I also want to free up as many precious function buttons as I can on the Zf.
On the ZF, I like that the ISO dial can be used to override the max auto iso. If you set your Auto ISO to a Max of 200 in the menus, the dial will override any value you set it to above 200. When you're shooting outdoors in the sun and have your Dial set to 16000, it will only ramp up the ISO to what it needs to expose, up to the Dial setting. If you set it to 100 on the dial it will use the 200 ISO in the menus as the max ISO. So if you're trying to shoot 100(on the dial) in low light, it will ramp up the ISO to 200(or what you set it to in the menu). In order to get 100 ISO, you'll just need to have the light or you can turn off auto iso.
Are you able to set an Auto ISO range like you can with Sony? I usually set ISO Auto from 100 - 6400 for fast street photography so it's one less thing I have to think about.
10:15 for in camera grain, try disabling noise reduction completely in the shooting menu and shooting with a very high iso setting, 16000+ for example. You’ll be surprised at how good the grain looks. I love it. Let me know what you think. Love your videos.
i love your videos! you are one of my favorite photo people! :)
That's so kind of you to say, I really appreciate it!
Just got mine and was looking for a video like this, perfect timing. Great video very useful
Thanks for watching! I hope it was helpful.
Wonderful, video. Thanks for your experienced, insightful tips and direct, genuine style. You are one of my favorite channels now. Love your Zf content in particular--how to get the best balance of ease of shooting and best IQ for travel and casual shooting, without excessive complexity.
Thanks so much, I appreciate the feedback!
@@luischavezphoto Luis, i believe you mentioned you mostly use the focus and recompose method with your AF-S or AF-C setting, by half-pressing the shutter button, and do not use the AE-L/ AF-L back button to hold focus or exposure, right? I am now setting up my new Zf and wonder how one adjusts the exposure compensation dial to darken or lighten exposure while also half-pressing the shutter button? Maybe you could even do a brief video on how you focus and recompose with your Zf, or use the back button focus, and how you use the exposure comp. dial while holding the exposure and/or focus? I have assigned both AE-L and AF-L to a half press of the shutter dial to keep things simple at the start, and have locked my single area focus point in the center for ease of finding quick focus. I also have assigned highlight weighted metering ON/OFF to my AE-L/AF-L back button, when I need to protect bright highlights. As an experienced pro, I'd love to hear your thoughts on how you hold focus and exposure and recompose in your travel or casual shooting.
@@RBRowe7 Great question! Yeah, I mostly stick to focus and recompose. I rely on half-pressing the shutter button to lock focus and exposure. I’ve never really been a back-button focus person it just feels more natural this way for me.
For exposure compensation I usually set it beforehand based on what I’m seeing in the scene. For example, -0.3 in bright light or +0.3 in shadows.
Your setup sounds super clean, especially locking the focus point in the center and using highlight-weighted metering on the AE-L/AF-L button when you need it. That’s a really smart move for tough lighting.
@@luischavezphoto Thanks so much, Luis! Super helpful, fast feedback. I want to keep my settings and controls as simple and intuitive as I can, especially staring out with the new Zf, and free my mind to concentrate on the composition. I'm glad to hear a very experienced wedding and travel photographer like you, with many months of great experience using the Zf, is perfectly happy using simple focus and recompose, without BBF. I also want to free up as many precious function buttons as I can on the Zf.
I love my ZF so much. I would never sell it unless I’m literally starving.
One of the best releases in years!
Nice take on the Auto ISO/manual ISO switching. Thanks 🙏
Glad it was helpful!
On the ZF, I like that the ISO dial can be used to override the max auto iso.
If you set your Auto ISO to a Max of 200 in the menus, the dial will override any value you set it to above 200.
When you're shooting outdoors in the sun and have your Dial set to 16000, it will only ramp up the ISO to what it needs to expose, up to the Dial setting.
If you set it to 100 on the dial it will use the 200 ISO in the menus as the max ISO. So if you're trying to shoot 100(on the dial) in low light, it will ramp up the ISO to 200(or what you set it to in the menu).
In order to get 100 ISO, you'll just need to have the light or you can turn off auto iso.
That’s really helpful, I’ll definitely use that!
Thank you! Very helpful!. I have a lot of Sony lenses, I got the Adapter, works flawlessly. Sold all my Fuji Gear also.
I love using Sony glass on mine!
Fantastic video my friend
Appreciate it Tyson! I hope you enjoy your new ZF!
Very helpful video, going to use the auto ISO trick.
I’m glad it was helpful!
Great video! New sub.
Thanks for watching!
Are you able to set an Auto ISO range like you can with Sony? I usually set ISO Auto from 100 - 6400 for fast street photography so it's one less thing I have to think about.
On mine I've set the record button to ISO in photo mode, more or less like how my old D750 was set up. On the D750 the record button was used for ISO
That’s a great idea!
I just set it up for AE mode like I used to on film camera. I don't use any other functions except for the B+W switch.
I find the camera to be best when I don’t mess with too many settings. Thanks for watching!
I really badly wanna try one still, can you come visit so I can try it??
Or you can come down to socal
Come to socal Jofo! Then we can all hang out