The Z6 II is the King of low light photography. I’m doing a lot of concerts and festivals, and that little magic camera coupled to dxo photolab never let me down.
Igor
April 7, 2023 12:38 pm
Nasim, thank you for yor excellent review. May I ask a question. How fast and convenient is the Z6 II in AF-S and AF-C (Dynamic Area) modes compared to competition? I mean catching fast moving or fast changing objects provided the photographer is up to that task.
Komar
March 15, 2023 7:12 am
Thank you for this comprehensive review Nasim… Bought this camera after read this review. Last week tried to take stage photography combined with Z40mmf2 and AFS70-200vrii. Got 700 shots for a single battery. And less than 3% missed focus. Not bad for an amateur…
Thomas Herren
January 3, 2023 3:29 am
I bought the Z6ii as an addition to the Z5 when the price dropped to the deepest level ever in my country. I am a people photographer, and I find that AF eye tracking is better (longer distance, maintains focus longer when head is turning) than on Z5, but not to a large extent. Since the firmware update, the eye tracking on the Z5 is remarkably good. A great advantage of having two bodies now is to be able to switch body/lens combination instead of changing lenses. I use 40mm/50mm on one body, 85mm/105mm on the other.
Robson leme
November 24, 2022 10:55 am
Que analise top.. Tenho minha D850 e agora comprei a Z6ll e estou amando faço tudo com ela e se sai tao bem quanto minha D850.. Parabéns mais uma pelas análises…
Bek
November 5, 2021 9:53 am
Nasim, privet — still considering buying either used Z6 or Z6II – do you think it’s worth going straight to Z6II?
Any robust comparisons of autofocus? Competitors at same price point are Sony A7iii, Sony A7C, not Canon R6 (50% more to buy, but lots of comparisons elsewhere)
Thomas Wilczek
October 27, 2021 5:13 pm
Nasim, just bought a Z6II and while very happy with the camera I did run into a potential deal breaker for me: no H(extended) drive shooting with Flicker Reduction. I bought this to help shoot boxing and basketball this winter and was looking for a mirrorless companion for my D850 with a slightly higher frame rate (contact shots in boxing are hard to time I don’t care who you are), but got very frustrated the other evening trying to shoot a night game at my local high school with all the banding. I did get some better results fiddling with the shutter speed to time the Hz of the lights, but it didn’t work terribly well either. So I guess the question is, to your knowledge has this been addressed in the Z9 and do you think a fix will make its way down to the Z6II and Z7II via firmware update? Thanks.
Gyalbo Bhutia
September 6, 2021 11:11 am
Thank you for this in-depth review! Cleared my hesitation and I am going to buy Z6II now. Upgrading from Dx ecosystem to Z lenses by selling all of my Dx lenses and D5600.
In fact the review is very honest one and I would second it with my own experience after using the Z6II for nearly five months paired with 200-500 lens. I have now decided to buy the same camera for my second body also to be paired with 70-300 AF-P E ED VR lens as suggested in the photography life.com.
Sebastiano Rametta
June 11, 2021 10:06 am
Thank you for this in-depth review! Can you explain why Z cameras cannot use a similar dynamic area mode as in DSLR? In DSLR you choose a point a surrounding AF points set (e.g. 8) to help tracking the subject in focus. Why can’t we tell the Z camera to use more and specific points, without scanning the whole image within a selected box (wide area)? I think this would allow a more reactive behaviour and less battery drain.
P.s. hope also to see a “Z6II inside” into an upgraded D780, which share the same sensor with Z6/Z6II but is limited to a single Expeed. If Nikon could also add to a new D780 IBIS, D850’s 155 focus pts and the more Z6II like reactive AF-C mode when framing via the rear LCD I think all the owner of AF/AF-D lenses (count me among them!) wouldn’t need any upgraded FTZ.
The Z6 II is the King of low light photography. I’m doing a lot of concerts and festivals, and that little magic camera coupled to dxo photolab never let me down.
Nasim, thank you for yor excellent review. May I ask a question. How fast and convenient is the Z6 II in AF-S and AF-C (Dynamic Area) modes compared to competition? I mean catching fast moving or fast changing objects provided the photographer is up to that task.
Thank you for this comprehensive review Nasim… Bought this camera after read this review. Last week tried to take stage photography combined with Z40mmf2 and AFS70-200vrii. Got 700 shots for a single battery. And less than 3% missed focus. Not bad for an amateur…
I bought the Z6ii as an addition to the Z5 when the price dropped to the deepest level ever in my country. I am a people photographer, and I find that AF eye tracking is better (longer distance, maintains focus longer when head is turning) than on Z5, but not to a large extent. Since the firmware update, the eye tracking on the Z5 is remarkably good.
A great advantage of having two bodies now is to be able to switch body/lens combination instead of changing lenses. I use 40mm/50mm on one body, 85mm/105mm on the other.
Que analise top.. Tenho minha D850 e agora comprei a Z6ll e estou amando faço tudo com ela e se sai tao bem quanto minha D850.. Parabéns mais uma pelas análises…
Nasim, privet — still considering buying either used Z6 or Z6II – do you think it’s worth going straight to Z6II?
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Any robust comparisons of autofocus?
Competitors at same price point are Sony A7iii, Sony A7C, not Canon R6 (50% more to buy, but lots of comparisons elsewhere)
Nasim, just bought a Z6II and while very happy with the camera I did run into a potential deal breaker for me: no H(extended) drive shooting with Flicker Reduction. I bought this to help shoot boxing and basketball this winter and was looking for a mirrorless companion for my D850 with a slightly higher frame rate (contact shots in boxing are hard to time I don’t care who you are), but got very frustrated the other evening trying to shoot a night game at my local high school with all the banding. I did get some better results fiddling with the shutter speed to time the Hz of the lights, but it didn’t work terribly well either. So I guess the question is, to your knowledge has this been addressed in the Z9 and do you think a fix will make its way down to the Z6II and Z7II via firmware update? Thanks.
Thank you for this in-depth review! Cleared my hesitation and I am going to buy Z6II now. Upgrading from Dx ecosystem to Z lenses by selling all of my Dx lenses and D5600.
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In fact the review is very honest one and I would second it with my own experience after using the Z6II for nearly five months paired with 200-500 lens. I have now decided to buy the same camera for my second body also to be paired with 70-300 AF-P E ED VR lens as suggested in the photography life.com.
Thank you for this in-depth review!
Can you explain why Z cameras cannot use a similar dynamic area mode as in DSLR? In DSLR you choose a point a surrounding AF points set (e.g. 8) to help tracking the subject in focus.
Why can’t we tell the Z camera to use more and specific points, without scanning the whole image within a selected box (wide area)? I think this would allow a more reactive behaviour and less battery drain.
P.s. hope also to see a “Z6II inside” into an upgraded D780, which share the same sensor with Z6/Z6II but is limited to a single Expeed.
If Nikon could also add to a new D780 IBIS, D850’s 155 focus pts and the more Z6II like reactive AF-C mode when framing via the rear LCD I think all the owner of AF/AF-D lenses (count me among them!) wouldn’t need any upgraded FTZ.