Nikon Z9 Just Got an Insane Upgrade: Firmware 4.0 Revealed!
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- We will take a peak at some of top features in firmware 4.0 for the Nikon Z9 camera.
Firmware:
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Supplementary Firmware Update Manual:
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Great detail overall
Thank you for watching - as always
Great video Joe. Very helpful. I look forward to your in-depth video about the new auto-capture feature.
Thank you - it's coming...
any chance to get itr on the Z8 ????
Rumor has it - there probably isn't any technical reason - it is just a matter if things like auto capture will be reserved for Nikon's high end press cameras, in this case, the Z 9.
Always on top of the latest updates! Appreciate it, Joseph! Exposure delay is great for real estate photographers like me. I've sent every remote I've used over the years to an early death, so I've used it for the past 6 years. The slow-mo add on looks fun!
Thank you for watching - I use the 2 second self timer for real estate since the timer will take a full series of AE bracketed photos. I find it handy so I don't miss a photo. Have you tried the timer for real estate?
Where are Zebras? I get the feeling they are never coming to the Z9.
and the giraffes... 🙂
Good question! Zebra stripes would be useful for stills too.
@@dominiclester3232 Exactly. Most of the pro photographers I know say this is one thing about the A1 they find was a game changer. They can ETTR without fear because you can set the sensitivity of the warning to approximate RAW ceiling.
Hey Joe, thanks for your video! A quick question on your field monitor, how do you have it mounted to the tripod leg? I've been mounting mine to the Z9 cage but having it on the tripod at times would be great.
I use a clamp similar to this... amzn.to/3JmW0pU
nice, thanks for the update , going to d/l it now
Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you. Very informative Joe
Thank you for watching 📸
I updated my firmware to 4.0 went to motion settings and when I press start my display goes dark. Nothing happens. After many different tentatives still the same black screen I decided to reset my menu settings to default. Now I can get into the "start" and change the settings. I put on the same settings you did yours and when I press the record button to start motion detection then start shooting nothing happens. The camera senses nothing. What a pain in the rear. What about the default menu settings that is not making the camera start shooting when a subject moves into the frame I have no idea. Beautiful on theory. 😅😅😅😅 real world, zero results. Very frustrating
I have neither a Z 9 nor a Z 8, but a Z 7ii. Curious to see what Nikon did to this firmware. Well, Mr. Nuzzo, Joseph, your overview goes in depth and is the best I have seen so far. Calm, collected, well presented.
As there are differences between Z 8 and Z 9 firmware, it seems that different teams of developers have been working on each.
One of the Nikon-affiliated presenters promised that Nikon would iron out the differences in another release in the near future.
So my hopes are up that Nikon may finally have human resources available for an upgraded Z 7ii release that makes it a lot better in the way the Z 7 got a lot better with FW 3.4, not too long after the Z 7ii was released. Competing with improved firmware may be a lot cheaper than developing a new camera, bottom line.
That would be great if they do improve on the z 7ii. I'm not sure what will happen with those cameras. It seems to me Nikon has a lot of cameras with the same sensor now dating back to the D850. I would hope we see a 60 mp z 7iii some day, but who knows. There are a lot of features we can have via firmware if the desire from Nikon is there. What would be your top pick if you could have one option via firmware?
@@ShutterSpeak - Thank you once more - now for the reply. My response. No, I don’t need 60MP necessarily. Human vision, cognition, brain “see’ image quality in linear quality differences. That’s why “we” measure resolution in linePairs/millimetre (a linear unit). As MP are an area unit, we need to linearise MP differences in order to predict perceived quality differences. This works as follows: if we want double the resolution of a sensor of X*Y=MP, then linearly times 2 we get 2X*2Y=4MP. So double (or there is no point in it) 45MP needs 180MP and 60MP is a negligible difference to our eyes. This is all under ceteris paribus assumption and lenses that can resolve both. This does not universally apply as ceteris paribus can be violated: (1) some cameras have an AA-filter, others don’t. And (2) the quality of raw processing available to your camera may be better or worse than for mine.
However, the 60MP do load data storage and processing more and can become a burden in that sense. I had to rebuild my workstations when I migrated from 24MP to 45MP - two of these now draw 3,000 kWh per year. A lot more than a powerful €/£/$ 2,000 notebook of 100W.
No, these sensors are really not the same. Hybrid AF photosites. Gross photosites - the Z 8 and Z 9 have many more rows and columns outside “effective” (likely for IBIS, in the sensor plane, in software that can be a lot better than mechanical), electronic shutter, stacked components, and the scan speed they facilitate. Note that Nikon design these in a CAD program and then sends that CAD file to a “foundry” (simply put, a “chi printing company”) where the logical design is converted into physical design that next is printed.
As to ceteris paribus violation (1), the AA-filter was devised of, invented with the purpose, to make raw processing easier. As I still see a lot of noise in Adobe Camera Raw’s raw processed images, Adobe has not fully adapted to the absence of the fuzzy filter. Noise - colour noise and luminance noise - in darker and blurry zones is really failed raw processing. Now Adobe released their AI Denoise and it is not as good as Topaz DeNoise AI or DxO DeepPRIME (in PhotoLab and PureRAW). And ACR has annoying detail loss that becomes worse when you sharpen. How this works out depends on the presence of the AA filter: anti-aliasing to smoothen jagged edges and help a bit with banding, and disperse a bit of light at above the sensor level. The latter reduces contour sharpness, reduces colour space, reduces contrast envelope, reduces dynamic range, reduces low light sensitivity, and increases vignetting. But raw processing - wild-assed guessing of missing colours - is easier. Nikon Eliminated the fuzzy filter - as I call it - from the D800E version of the D800 for the first time, ten years or so ago. I am still not impressed with how ACR handles this (ACR does all raw processing in both LrC and Ps).
As to (2), try upscaling your 45MP image in Topaz Gigapixel AI to 32,000 on the long side. You get 682.7MP at 3:2 ratio. Compare with what LrC and Ps (max 200%) can do. You may see - as I really have - details that totally had gotten lost in ACR/LrC - with weird deepest level details. Raw processing hi-res images can only be done swiftly with basic AI. This will teach you about (a) camera MP and (b) software being critical to success.
My top pick? What I want? My biggest pet peeve is that “AF” is specified by Nikon to work to some negative EV, but actually eye/face recognition in my studio becomes unreliable at some 8EV higher. You may want to switch on more light, then? Well, the amount of light in a room determines the dilation of a human’s pupil. Less light, more dilation. More dilation, sexier. Too much dilation and the iris seems to almost disappear. Too much light and contraction makes less sexy. So, like anything else in life and photography, this is an optimisation problem. And I would want between 1 and 2 EV more dependability. My belief is that that would be a firmware thing. Nothing else.
I may be stupid, in the sense I made the wrong settings in the camera’s menus. As you illustrate with the ½ or 1/3 EV precision there are dependencies between settings. AF gets negatively impacted by connecting a HDMI display to the camera - I don’t do that. In my defence, I worked through the menus and options several times, listed them in an Excel and don’t see that I did anything wrong.
My second pick would be to have a form of face recognition and tracking Auto AF when we use the self timer.
My third would be to have numerical support for depth of field. My Z 105/2.8 S lens gives some insight, but that’s not good enough. As with the 105S, with all lenses I want to be able to see the real distance number, and with a Circle of Confusion number that I can set, be presented with the DoF numbers for the lens, aperture, and distance in use. I would want the split screen viewfinder to facilitate me tapping the front edge of sharpness in one half, and the rear end of sharpness in the other. The camera then can tell me if and how that can work. Why? Because focus stepping causes time parallax between the individual frames.
Feel free to ask me about any detail here, or, yes-but me if you think differently.
@@jpdj2715 Thank you for that very well thought out reply. Some great insight here.
Thank you Joseph I am now very much looking forward your dedicated vid on * Auto Capture*
Yes - I will start working on that one - There is a lot to go over with that new feature. Thank you for watching!
Your videos are improving. I like the fact that you have a real microphone.
I try...