Nikon Z9 : the day after part IX

“ Like a good optical finder, the Z9's EVF is basically transparent. It offers what is possibly the most natural-looking electronic viewfinder I've yet seen, showing its full resolution regardless of what the camera is doing (focusing, shooting, in playback, and so on). You basically forget it's an electronic viewfinder while still benefitting from all the advantages that it brings over an optical one.

Blackout-free shooting with the electronic-only shutter obviously helps here, but this isn't the first time we've seen it: Sony first offered that in a full-frame camera back in 2017 with the release of the a9. But there's more to it than that. Sony has recently upped the ante with the 9.44M-dot finders in its a7S III and a1 cameras, and in some scenarios, like playback, they look fantastic. But when I used the Sony a1 after the Nikon Z9 for actual shooting, I was underwhelmed.

That's because the Sony drops in resolution while you're focusing, regardless of what your display quality settings are. And when you've stopped focusing, the resolution rises again and the sensor stabilizer seems to hiccup and do a bit of a reset.

With the Z9, what you see when you first look through it is what you get. No resolution changes, no hiccups, no jolting. Just a smooth experience that allows for better focus (pun intended). Same resolution, same frame-rate, all the time.

There are even advantages when compared against the Canon EOS R3's electronic viewfinder as well. While the R3's 'OVF Simulation' mode takes better advantage of the HDR-capabilities of the viewfinder panel than the Z9 does (despite the Nikon's panel being capable of even brighter output), some of us found its UI to be a bit cluttered.

Basically, if the EOS R3 sees a face in the scene, it draws a gray box around it. And if there are lots of faces, well, there are now lots of boxes floating around over them. On the Nikon, you only see identified faces or eyes when they reach a certain proximity to your starting AF point. In other words, when it's the face the camera will actually focus on, as opposed to also showing you all the faces it won't focus on. It's a cleaner visual experience. „

“ ma Nital il prezzo lo ha dato formalmente o no? „

“ That's because the Sony drops in resolution while you're focusing „

“ Questo si sapeva.....una volta lo dissi in un 3D, mah....si sono girati dall'altra parte fischiettando...MrGreen
La max res funziona in AFS....pero per il paesaggio è ficoMrGreen „

“ appena mi arriva la z9 devo mettere l'occhio nel mirino della a1 „

“ e lo stabilizzatore del sensore sembra singhiozzare e si resetta un po „