[Leica] Uluru

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Howard,
It is really very good, and being a Nikon shooter I had no difficulty
adapting to it - the menu, controls as well as the placement of the buttons
are virtually identical to the D500/D850. The kit lens is fantastic value
when purchased as a bundle, with an implied cost of US$500 or so, it is
easily the best "kit" lens I have used, and that, too, at a weight and size
that can be carried around the whole day long. I have also purchased the
Nikkor Z 24-70mm f2.8S (which Alastair has, and I tried out on our trip to
South Georgia), which will reach me by mid March (bought in the USA,
currently reached Singapore!) for my street photography use. The next
purchase will be the exemplary 85mm f1.8S, followed by the 70-200mm f2.8,
which has been announced as well, and going by the lenses that Nikon have
already released for the Z system, should be extraordinary. I think it is a
very good system to enter - Nikon is really hitting the ball out of the
park in relation to the quality of lenses they are releasing for the Z
system - Zeiss Otus quality for a fraction of the price and bulk. The one
thing they have to improve on, as with all mirrorless systems (including
Sony, despite internet chatter) is focus acquisition and tracking on
continuous mode, and a larger buffer. No doubt that will come in the next
generation.

I will either sell my Nikon D850, or more likely convert it to a monochrome
camera. One of our Print Exchange members has had it done, and claims that
he gets 2 stops of additional DR and around twice the resolution. This
month is a large print month (A3+), and he is sending a print shot with the
converted body, for us to judge. At US$2500 for the conversion, it seems a
great deal compared to buying a new Monochrom or a Phase One:

https://www.maxmax.com/maincamerapage/monochrome-cameras/nikon-d850m

Cheers
Jayanand



On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:42 PM Howard Cummer via LUG <lug at 
leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Hi Jayanand,
> These are just wonderful. The Z7 obviously suits your shooting style very
> well.
> Any problems with it that bother you? Congrats on your 7 continent count.
> Not many are not that peripatetic.
> Bests to Neela,
> Howard (and Esther says hello)
>
>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:26:45 +0530
> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com <mailto:jayanand at 
> gmail.com>>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org <mailto:lug at 
> leica-users.org>>,
> PSM
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> Subject: [Leica] Uluru
>
> Neela & I had gone to Australia for a fortnight in January, marking the
> seventh and last continent to visit for me - now I can say that I have
> visited the seven worlds of our planet. In between our sojourns in Sydney
> and Melbourne we spent a day and a bit at Uluru, the vast monolith that
> rises from the scrub deserts of Central Australia. The first set is
> relatively straightforward, but the second, which I will post in a day or
> two, will be more experimental.
>
> To kick off, here is Uluru bathed by the warm rays of the morning sun, a
> few minutes after sunrise, accentuating the red sandstone. Remember,
> January is the height of summer, and even though Uluru is thousands of
> kilometres away from the bushfires, it reaches 40C very early in the day.
>
> All photographs taken with my new toy, a Nikon Z7 with the Nikkor Z 24-70mm
> f4 S kit lens. The best "kit lens" I have ever used!  Together, they make a
> fairly compact, lightweight combo that can be carried around the whole day
> without effort - it fitted comfortably in a Billingham Hadley Small with
> space left over for my Ipad Mini, mobile phone, dark glasses, reading
> glasses and a small bottle of water. The perfect travel combo, IMHO. :
>
>
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