Just briefly a reply (a replay is something else): "Results from the past are warranty for the future." well, then the information of Nikon rumors.com should be rather promising. May I ask you about your personal encounters with Nikon seniors? "Nikon have smart senior guys with huge experience they made a bunch of meetings, risc analyzizs etc. etc At least 100 smart guys ware involved with mirrorless transition" - you know any to these 100 guys personally? Or you just guessed a number?
Nikon maybe suffered of these old dinosaurs pretty much although it's a good thing not to run after each new fashion. There's a Df with a questionable target group and a questionable concept of usage. The new compact class was cancelled. Although the 1 was a promising system, the old guys failed to keep track with attractive features: Two new features in, three good features out - that's not the way buyers deserve to be treated. Then a couple of mishaps like badly aligned AF modules, a new 58/1.4 with outstanding field curvature, a 300/4 PF with terrible problems with VR, oil on the shutter, white spots on the picture, all battery grips are more expensive than chinese cheapos, unfortunately not of better value. The old senior brigade is, as in a lot of other industries often the source of wrong decisions - or worse, no decisions.
No one has to buy an adapter. No one has to buy the Nikon FX MILC. No camera - DSLR or else - will stop working on August 23rd. I'm very interested in it but as they bring it in 2 different, but same bodies, I'm not in a hurry and like to decide after trying it. A couple of cameras I bought as they were announced and it was well worth the fun. This time I hope to be a bit more patient. A couple of them I still own - why should I give away the D810 and loose 50-60% of money? It's shutter is outstandingly silent in normal mode. Why should I give away the D850, as it's the best all-round camera I ever had? To lose again 50-70% of money?
And let's not forget an important economical thing: We amateurs and hobbyists usually finance a new item by selling an old one. The D810 is currently at half the price I paid for and the D850 will soon go the same path, if not worse. My question is, even if the Z6 and Z7 get good reviews and are truly worth their money: Are they worth a big financial loss, too? Who's gonna buy "outdated" and yesterday's state of the art DSLRs? Not to mention the older ones? Will they become inhabitants of dusty second hand vitrines? Probably yes - but thanks to the adapter the more expensive glass will still work.
What I read about the first impressions of beta testers was, the AF is on par with the latest of Sony.
Nikon maybe suffered of these old dinosaurs pretty much although it's a good thing not to run after each new fashion. There's a Df with a questionable target group and a questionable concept of usage. The new compact class was cancelled. Although the 1 was a promising system, the old guys failed to keep track with attractive features: Two new features in, three good features out - that's not the way buyers deserve to be treated. Then a couple of mishaps like badly aligned AF modules, a new 58/1.4 with outstanding field curvature, a 300/4 PF with terrible problems with VR, oil on the shutter, white spots on the picture, all battery grips are more expensive than chinese cheapos, unfortunately not of better value. The old senior brigade is, as in a lot of other industries often the source of wrong decisions - or worse, no decisions.
No one has to buy an adapter. No one has to buy the Nikon FX MILC. No camera - DSLR or else - will stop working on August 23rd. I'm very interested in it but as they bring it in 2 different, but same bodies, I'm not in a hurry and like to decide after trying it. A couple of cameras I bought as they were announced and it was well worth the fun. This time I hope to be a bit more patient. A couple of them I still own - why should I give away the D810 and loose 50-60% of money? It's shutter is outstandingly silent in normal mode. Why should I give away the D850, as it's the best all-round camera I ever had? To lose again 50-70% of money?
And let's not forget an important economical thing: We amateurs and hobbyists usually finance a new item by selling an old one. The D810 is currently at half the price I paid for and the D850 will soon go the same path, if not worse. My question is, even if the Z6 and Z7 get good reviews and are truly worth their money: Are they worth a big financial loss, too? Who's gonna buy "outdated" and yesterday's state of the art DSLRs? Not to mention the older ones? Will they become inhabitants of dusty second hand vitrines? Probably yes - but thanks to the adapter the more expensive glass will still work.
What I read about the first impressions of beta testers was, the AF is on par with the latest of Sony.