Nikon Zr is coming

[MrSMW]

3 hours ago, zerocool22 said:

 

This looks like a great camera to me. Too bad the ibis isnt as great as the lumix camera's. But looks better then fx3, has a better screen, takes better stills. Never had an nikon before. So might end up buying one. The big monitor sounds like a win, as it makes so much difference in the process of enjoying making video's. External monitors are somewhat a drag.

 

I’m considering it myself…

Seems to get a pretty long run time out of a single battery and overheating despite not having any active cooling doesn’t appear to be a problem.

Perhaps I should have waited before going all in on Lumix 🤪

I still want to see what it can do for stills and would want to test it first, but a trio of these might work as I have the adapters for the Sony lenses and the Tamron zooms are the best in my experience.

I’m moving towards a pair of Thypoch Simera C’s also and as these come in native E Mount, also has appeal going fully Nikon.

Love the RED colour science from what I have seen and the camera itself including that rear screen is what I have always wanted and hoped Lumix might do.

I still think what I have is super great, but always open to other options if they might suit me better and trimming down even further to 3 small bodies and just 4 lenses has a lot of appeal.

6-7 months to think about it and meantime, Lumix might pop out something similar and that might swing things back in favour of L Mount.

Certainly not rushing into anything or blindly jumping ship but musing on options… 

[eatstoomuchjam]

51 minutes ago, MrSMW said:

I’m moving towards a pair of Thypoch Simera C’s also and as these come in native E Mount, also has appeal going fully Nikon.

I really like my Simera C's in M mount.  I like my Leica M's more, but the M's are a lot less consistent.

You might consider going the M mount route, if for no other reason than you can get an autofocus adapter for it - and then they'll be portable to any system that you might move to in the future.

[MrSMW]

3 hours ago, eatstoomuchjam said:

You might consider going the M mount route, if for no other reason than you can get an autofocus adapter for it - and then they'll be portable to any system that you might move to in the future.

I’m looking at M-L for my current system but that won’t happen for about 6 months or so even if I do not flip to Nikon because my season is over in less than 2 weeks so other than some play time (and nothing really compares to actual work) so too soon.

I didn’t know there was an AF adapter or rather I think there is for Nikon but is there for L Mount? It would be useful but not 100% necessary.

If I went Nikon, I’d go E Mount though as it would make more sense as all my glass would be adapted.

I have looked at every cine lens going and based on; price, size, weight, sharpness, character, shorter than normal focus throw, close focus distance, they are a clear winner for me.

I have some final manual focus tests to do with my AF Lumix lenses next job first but other than having just one camera designated to AF duty, currently my S9 with zoom, I’d prefer to go MF on my hybrids as I’m not 100% happy with the AF hit rate with pics and stickiness with video…another area where based on my experience with the Zf, Nikon is better than Lumix and it can pick out faces at something like less than 3% of the screen which is bloody good!

[eatstoomuchjam]

1 hour ago, MrSMW said:

I didn’t know there was an AF adapter or rather I think there is for Nikon but is there for L Mount? It would be useful but not 100% necessary.

I don't know about L mount.  There are a few for E mount, though.