Yes, we understand you want light cameras. Not all of us do. I would hate a super light camera, especially with the bad ergos on sony bodies.
Not really.
Some people. Most of us don't care, or are willing to wait for nikon to get the next set of bodies out.
That's a bold assumption, and probably not accurate. Nikon isn't sony.
No?
It wasn't, but alright. Tons of people wanted that exact camera, so I'm not sure why you're making it out to be something it's not (well, I am, but that's a different post...)
The z9 was better than nearly everything out there across the board, and still is better than nearly everything. Nikon is doing fine
We get it, you love sony. My opinion is you're making them to be much better than they actually are, and nikon to be much worse than they are.
Enjoyed your response, thank you for you time and opinions.
Its Sunday morning here and i am having a cupa catching up with emails quickly, will be stepping out the front shortly for a quick surf as the wind will be picking up soon.
I have always been a Nikon owner because of the brilliant service which is close by and especially the image files.
My favorite camera is still the D6 and D850, yep DSLR, LOL.
I have a Z9 now for two years, still a D850 as a back up, had the D6 i love, D5, D4S, right back to a D70..........i only have one Z lens and that's a 50mm 1.8s, i rent mostly anything exotic i need and will do for a while. I still rent a D6 from time to time for really critical low light challenging shoots.
I hear the Z9 latest up date has improved especially for smaller birds. I will be getting Nikon to update my Z9 shortly along with have the D850 sensor cleaned.
I am not a Sony owner, i did a long time ago use a A9 100-400 70-200 2.8 all at full courtesy of Sony, i found the 100-400 main strength to be light and complemented the lighter A9.
The 100-400 and A9 combination gave me extreme agility, fast panning capability making nailing of subjects so incredibly easy, BIF in particular, sports moments all hand held with a reasonable keeper rate using the 20 fps which i did often wind back to 10fps. Like i do with the Z9.
You see i use a camera and lens as a tool, get in get the kill shots get out.
Yes the smaller bodies of any camera doesn't feel as nice ergonomically as a D4s D5 D3X D6 or Z9 but its a compromise worth making to peel of nearly 1.4 kgs for 675G especially to compliment efforts when using say a 600 Z PF lens.
The camera industry is working towards lighter and smaller where possible because it has to. Consumers and many pros are wanting this as i am preferring it especially for traveling and hiking. Where some companies are struggling to get there YET, is because of there level of technology development. Sony is doing in full frame largely what the 4/3rds market like Fuji and Olympus are doing. Nikon is dropping in some tid bits in the ZF that are not in the Z8 or Z9.
I just respect any product regardless of brand, for what it does, i equally express my disappointment or concern regardless of brand or product for what it doesn't do as claimed.
I feel Sony has had less QC issues according to the people i know who actually have them currently. I also know people who actually have had the QC issues with the Z9 Z8, my self included.
Which brings me to my next requirement, reliability, the past two years have been frustrating for some but not all Z9 Z8 owners, when you have had your camera back into Nikon 3 times over 18 months, you begin to wonder, yet other owners never and issue. When you see a multitude of different issues some reoccurring even in a subsequent model you question are there QC issues or is cost cutting to much taking an effect.
You don't expect issues so much in flagship products. Yes they can occur, Nikon does deal with them, lifting QC standard practices and proticaols is easy if your seriouse.
Personally $30,000 for a trip half way around the world for two, and on day one you have to put the your Z9 into your luggage bag and borrow a 5DmkIII and a 70-200 from a pool then skip the stop overs as far as photography goes all because of software gremlins.
Going forward,
lighter cameras and lenses, reliability, capability are all i want at a fair cost.
Is Sony leading the industry in full frame mirror less, well its indisputable that they led the industry out of DSLR and i feel there about to do it again.
Will i give up Nikon for Sony No, do i respect Sony for raising the bar, absoluitly yes. Will i give up Nikon more than likly as deciding to be a videographer or not is on the table, as well as even staying with photgraphy as i have done, i am attrateced to Drones and Iphone 15.
Only an opinion
