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If this camera lacks a mechanical shutter, the Metabones BMPCC 0.64X speed booster is an obvious choice (as long as it doesn't hit the sensor filter). Also, the excellent Meike M4/3 cinema line that bottoms-out at 8mm is worth consideration. Meike has still versions of these lenses, but they seem to be the same price as the cinema versions. I only wish this camera had a way to sync strobes.

ZR ctl or Paralax Monitor is great. Interface is good and allows to change practically any major video related setting. For somebody like me who is not familiar with Nikon menus it is a great help. Connectivity with the camera is breeze too. Just plug the USB cable. It solves also another problem which Z6 III has - lack of LUT support. It is important for me as I use LUTs to set exposure. Using a LUT is by far the best and easiest way to set exposure for video and also save lots of time in post. Kudos to the creator. Megadap ETZ21 Pro+ is the first adapter that I know which allows you to stack electronically two adapters ! Any A-Mount Lens + LA-EA5 + Megadap ETZ21 Pro+ can autofocus on Nikon Z bodies. Same with Canon EF lenses and Metabone adapter + Megadap ETZ21 Pro+. Almost any Sony or third party lens for Sony E mount works (can autofocus) with Megadap ETZ21 Pro+ on Nikon Z bodies. Practically I can use all the lenses that I use on Sony. Of course there will be some penalty with continuous autofocus but I rarely use it anyway. Nikon Z mount cameras have some quirks too. For example they lack the third wheel that most mirrorless camera have. You need to push and hold a button and keep it pushed while changing ISO. Assuming that for video we lock the shutter at 2x frame rate, 2 wheels will do the job. Nikon however don't give the option to assign ISO on some of the wheels. You can only switch them - one for shutter and one for aperture and vice versa. I bought Nikon Z6 III instead of Zr. Z6 III has full size HDMI and great EVF plus a physical shutter for photos. Flip out screen being small or big is not that useful for me. A monitor or smartphone that serves as a monitor and sits on top of the camera and slightly in front is much better. Price second had is now around 1600/1500 E mark. Low enough to get it and scratch this internal RAW view itch 🙂

Very soft but cool none the less!

Thanks for your comments. I'm looking forward to mounting the ils to a fd 500mm mirror lens which will sit on a sky watcher mount for moon shots. i could add in a 2x teleconverter but i prefer a 1.4 converter. They just seem to have an edge to me. Which is something i don't have at the moment. Isn't it ironic, how companies decide on how to implement features. Some critical thinkers might go with the word crippled but i like to be more polite usually.

Honestly i thought i was generalizing, i don't believe i was accusing you of piracy. Apologies to you, if you thought that. Well not a music concert but we just had kylie Minogue do the half time entertainment at the afl grand final. I would expect out of the 100 000 crowd probably 95000 filmed that section with their smart phones. I doubt any of them would be accredited, I would have too, if i'd been there... 🥰 Hopefully the emoji displays properly as i been having issues with those little suckers.. I presume there would be licencing agreements and financial arrangements between the afl and tv stations about video copyright. I suppose neither group like the idea of having potentially a 100 000 smart phones or a smaller amount of cameras at the event but there's probably not much that can be done about it within reason. I could certainly see them getting agitated at someone wandering in with a 600mm lens without prior arrangement and i don't have a problem with that. I suspect a 600mm lens comes under "professional use" rather normal use or casual use. Personally i can see three use cases, for cameras at events, maybe you can think of more. 1) I can show my friends and family without issue that i was there having a good time 2) I could take a ten second selfie of my ugly mug and a very small pixelated kylie strutting her stuff in the background for a vlog, again no real issues. 3) I could conceivably somehow sneak a small monopod, a modern mirrorless camera with two forms of stabilization and a 10 times zoom and have at it, without paying a large chunk of money to either company and reproducing it on my social medium of choice. How to make money out of it, i have no idea. Maybe its not about the money, it could be the likes i guess or even giving the finger to the establishment. What people do and why, continues to amaze me at times. But i think we could both agree, due to intent, option 3 is wrong (probably on many levels) Initially i read this and had no idea what you were alluding to. Blame linguistics. semantics, continental drift.. In hindsight i missed the emoji as it didn't display for me properly, i now suspect what you said was tongue in cheek, it seems i misunderstood your meaning and jumped to the wrong conclusion, which may have led to the piracy issue you raised, sorry about that. Any time there is money involved or to be made, people are going to get antsy if they think their missing out. I suspect if you hosted an event free or otherwise and were the only person organised to cover that event and expected a financial return from publishing online and i rock up with my 8k gopro on a gimbal and wave it around and you find my video online for a small fee or even free later that evening, you'd be a little agitated, your not going to give me a medal.

some client work i did this year that switches between nicer video camera - iphone and minidv: i think the artifacts from minidv are really cool in an age of constant video recordings from phones and mirrorless cameras. the built in super long zooms on these old camcorders are also super useful.

Trim support for NE finally landing in the SDK is nice, been waiting on that one. Now it just has to actually show up in Resolve, those updates always seem to take forever lol.

took long enough for trim to land, my drives are gonna be way happier once resolve actually picks it up.