How good is the Z9? Well, it is excellent.
I don't see the limitations that others describe on this forum. But, I don't shoot BIF. I mainly shoot humans.
With all the problems described here I recently have been trying to see if I can replicate these focus searching problems for the event and performance use cases and I cannot.
It can shoot precisely focused eyes of moving musicians through a maze of cables, microphone stands and flying drumsticks. It can pick individual eyes out of a jostling gaggle of people. All this often at above ISO 3200 at f2.8 or even f1.2.
Whereas with previous cameras I would need to push a single-point focus spot around the frame to achieve a desired composition (with many lost opportunities) , the Z9 finds and tracks the eye automatically. Or, locks on with 3D tracking if there are choices.
For humans I find the Z9 hard to stump.
Makes me wonder if the training set for eye detect for humans was just better than the one for animals.
I don't see the limitations that others describe on this forum. But, I don't shoot BIF. I mainly shoot humans.
With all the problems described here I recently have been trying to see if I can replicate these focus searching problems for the event and performance use cases and I cannot.
It can shoot precisely focused eyes of moving musicians through a maze of cables, microphone stands and flying drumsticks. It can pick individual eyes out of a jostling gaggle of people. All this often at above ISO 3200 at f2.8 or even f1.2.
Whereas with previous cameras I would need to push a single-point focus spot around the frame to achieve a desired composition (with many lost opportunities) , the Z9 finds and tracks the eye automatically. Or, locks on with 3D tracking if there are choices.
For humans I find the Z9 hard to stump.
Makes me wonder if the training set for eye detect for humans was just better than the one for animals.