Nikon Z-7ii no TIFF capabilities

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Recently received my Nikon Z-7ii and started putting it through it's paces and immediately discovered the FTZ adapter was not functioning and had to get a firmware up date from Nikon. Absolutely no mention anywhere in literature. The manual is 50 pages long with no significant information. When using the camera yesterday, I wanted to shoot TIFF quality because certain publishers want TIFF
inmages rather than RAW or JPG's as they want as much info as possible. TIFF was not listed, I checked for another firmware for TIFF, not there. I called NIKON, spoke to a rep who gave me this response.

"Thank you for calling Nikon this afternoon.
We would like to let you know that the Z 7II does not have the option to shoot in *.tiff. If there is no option in the image quality menu for *.tiff, then it isn't possible."

What's going on with Nikon
 
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I honestly didn't know any Nikon camera had the option to shoot in TIFF. Anyway, as others have said, shoot in RAW and convert and you are good to go and you'll use a lot let disk space, as well.
 
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Nikon likes to pull features they don't think people use. The Z6/7ii don't have TIFF and they dropped the rather useful "Create Focus Peak Stack" option from the Focus Shift Shooting menu. I'm sure there are other changes, but I've mostly been looking at autofocus related options as I finish my mirrorless book updates.

Just remember...

Nikon's not happy until you're not happy! :D
 
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It's frustrating and I was thinking about how this isn't the first instance of this after mI posted. Lately, Nikon has been deleting features from a given series of camera when they release the new model.

A couple quick examples off the top of my head:

D7500 - dropped to a single card slot, removed the grip option, and lost compatibility with older lenses.
D6 - lost spot metering custom program option
D780 - lost grip option
Z6/7ii - lost TIFF and Create Focus Peaking Stack option

I'm sure there are other examples as well.

My issue is that when you use a "series" of camera you tend to expect the next camera in that series to carry over all the features of the last one and add new / improved features. Instead, we get new and improved features, but lose features that some depended on. I was hoping the Z series would be immune to this, but I guess not (heck, even the D6 isn't immune).
 
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aolander said:
You'd get as much or more data shooting RAW and converting to TIFF than shooting TIFF. TIFF files in camera would take up a lot of card space.
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Except when I'm doing stacked images of 20 to 120 and they must be processed in Zerene or Helicon. Not much fun interrupting your workflow when doing numerous
high magnification macro stacks for scientific imagining
 
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Steve said:
It's frustrating and I was thinking about how this isn't the first instance of this after mI posted. Lately, Nikon has been deleting features from a given series of camera when they release the new model.

A couple quick examples off the top of my head:

D7500 - dropped to a single card slot, removed the grip option, and lost compatibility with older lenses.
D6 - lost spot metering custom program option
D780 - lost grip option
Z6/7ii - lost TIFF and Create Focus Peaking Stack option

I'm sure there are other examples as well.

My issue is that when you use a "series" of camera you tend to expect the next camera in that series to carry over all the features of the last one and add new / improved features. Instead, we get new and improved features, but lose features that some depended on. I was hoping the Z series would be immune to this, but I guess not (heck, even the D6 isn't immune).
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I can somewhat get it when it's hardware related and they are trying to stay within a certain price level (I said somewhat because I don't think 1 or 2 card slots is material in cost of production, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt), but a lot of those features are software related - I don't now that there is any material savings in removing them (maybe on the development time...). And clearly, it's not to drive people towards a higher model, if it were, the D6 would have all the features ever developed, and I can't imagine anybody would upgrade from D780 to D850 because of the lack of grip...
I have to say, global marketing at Nikon and Canon has been a source of puzzlement to me over the past few years - to be honest that's what I'd expect to see if you moved your strategic product decisions to junior product managers without much experience - maybe that's where the real cost savings happened and we are all innocent collateral victims.
 
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BruceJ said:
Just a quick note the Z6 II and Z7 II manual that comes with the product is only a cut version of the PDF manual you can download from Nikon's site.
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I grab a PDF manual for everything I buy (and often for items I intend to buy). I can keep in a convenient location, and best of all, they’re searchable. Saves hours of my life looking for information. Indexing documents is a lost art. Many are lacking, if not missing entirely.
 
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My local (Idaho Falls, Idaho and West Yellowstone, Montana and I live in Boise, Idaho) brick and mortar camera store owner was doing a facebook live video first impressions of the Z6II when he got it and shot it a bit and he looked in the camera and addressed one of the Nikon engineers by name saying "put back TIFF I want to shoot, download and send to my pro print lab with no other steps".
 
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I submitted a support request on the Nikon web site along the lines of where has the "Create Focus Peak Stack" option gone on the menu for my new Nikon Z 7II and will it return in the next firmware update? Also added a note I would have expected the feature to have been improved in the new camera e.g. by adding support for non-Z lenses and not removed.

I had a nice reply saying that they would submit my feedback to Nikon product development.

If you like to see the "Create Focus Peak Stack" feature return or need TIFF file format it is worth submitting a Nikon support request. The more feedback Nikon get the more chance these features will get added back.
 
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