Z9 photo thread

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Starting to think a new location would serve me much better than a new camera :ROFLMAO: I spent the entire day (1hr before sunrise until sunset) outside Saturday looking for some action to test out the camera. Nothing other than some perched bird shots (and an otter 100yds away). Spent another 5hours yesterday and all I got were a couple of cormorants and a few gulls at a distance.
 
So the shots are basically throw-aways, because who wants a cormorant shot anyway, especially in bad light and at a distance with atmospheric haze? lol
Also - these are with my 500PF + 1.4tciii and cropped more than 1/2

but.....I got to test the tracking a little bit anyway. Saw the cormorant (dark colored bird against a mostly dark background) at around 125yds away or so and started clicking. I didnt hold it down the entire time, but took 10-20 shots, then another 10-20, then another 10-20. It was going to my right at first, turned directly towards me, flew towards me maybe 50yds, then banked to my left when it was 75yds away or so (all of these are cropped)

I was in Wide Area L.
I'll go ahead and say it definitely did better than m D500 or D850 would have in that same situation.

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I don't know if this is worth sharing or not but I was out with my Z9 on day 2 and saw a male anna's hummingbird putting on a courtship display. He would fly up about 20 feet in the air, hover for a second, fly to about 60 feet and then dive to the ground faster than my naked eye could track him.

Anyhow, I thought I'd try the 3D focus option to capture an image at his first hover location. The tricky part was that he would fly to different places and heights each time so I could point the lens in the general direction but I had a split second to compose the image, focus and take the shot. Attached are two versions of the same image that was saved as RAW on the camera. One cropped heavily and processed through Topaz DeNoise, the other not cropped so you can see hummingbird in the context of the full image. Of course, the cropped image is nothing to write home about but the fact that the Z9, coupled with my 200-500mm zoom managed to get it reasonably in focus at that distance was cool imo.

(Nikon Z9+200-500mm @500mm, 1/2500sec at f/8, auto ISO (1400), handheld).


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