This is one in a series of posts on the Nikon Z9. You should be able to find all the posts about that camera in the Category List on the right sidebar, below the Articles widget. There’s a drop-down menu there that you can use to get to all the posts in this series; just… [Read More]
Nikon Z7 shutter transit times
The Nikon Z7 has three shutter modes. The first is the old fashioned mechanical shutter (MS), with physical leading and trailing curtains. The second is a version of that where there is no physical first curtain. In that mode, electronic first-curtain shutter (EFCS), the function of the first curtain is replaced by a rolling reset… [Read More]
More on Nikon Z7 EFCS exposure variation
In the previous post, I looked at how the electronic first-curtain shutter (EFCS) in the Nikon Z7 caused exposure differences from the top to the bottom of the frame. A reader pointed out that the optimum electronic first curtain timing depends on the lens exit pupil. I don’t have a lot of lenses that I… [Read More]
Nikon Z7 scan time and exposure variation in EFCS and MS
I’ve done a lot of work on the way that electronic first curtain shutter (EFCS) works on the Sony a7x cameras, but I never did much with the EFCS in the Nikon Z-series cameras, except to measure how well the did at reducing vibration and the associated image sharpness. The reason was that I somehow… [Read More]
Nikon D5 and Z7 sensitivity
Over on DPR, when I was talking about the noise tests on the D5 and Z7 that I posted the day before yesterday, I remarked that the camera sensitivities appeared to be different, referencing a study I did on the Z5, a7RIII, and D850 some time ago. In that post, I found the D5 to… [Read More]
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