Well, if you say it in a southern US accent, and pretend you're in a western movie, it would sound something like "thets uh mighty fahn Knee-con you've got thayure bhoay, but its naw match fahwar mah Sow-knee!"
Nikon officially announces the Nikon Z 9, and it’s a remarkable $5499
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In Scotland it is Son nay. English people likely pronounce it differently, their language is 'lighter'.
As Nikon has a single k following the i one would expect the pronunciation in English to be ‘nigh con’. As Nikkor lenses have a double k following the i it should be pronounced ‘nick or’, at least if it was an English word.
Codebunny is more more correct. Knee con is the Japanese pronunciation; in the UK, we shorten the ee somewhat to be closer to nick on; and our transatlantic friends, who are even more linguistically challenged than us, say nigh con. Three Laphroaigs would give me real pleasure, and not pain, as it one of my favourites.
As a Nikon executive once diplomatically stated “we don’t care whether you call us Nick On or Nigh Conn”, (just as long as you buy our cameras
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Sometimes it seems that it is all they care about.As a Nikon executive once diplomatically stated “we don’t care whether you call us Nick On or Nigh Conn”, (just as long as you buy our cameras
I don’t really agree with that, they do of course have to keep themselves in employment and satisfy the lust of their shareholders, but I’m sure that the various manufacturers take a great deal of genuine pride in producing high quality products and that they enjoy embracing new technology.
I carefully qualified what I wrote with "sometimes". There are plenty of me-to or second-rate products on sale everywhere so buyer beware. Some companies specialise in them, others have some such lines in their portfolios. A few companies, like Zeiss in the old days, did try to produce the best in whatever they did. There is a law in economics that there is always someone who will try and make it cheaper and worse.
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After a Laphroaig or three the next thing you should do is have another laphroaig. Or maybe just go all out and bump up to an Octomore.
The EOS R was good enough that I put my R5 money all into glass like the RF 85mm 1.2 L and one extra Zeiss lens. Right now, used EOS R can be found for $1200 to $1600. Best Canon body for the money.
About the Nikon Z9 .... there's a couple values for camera bodies. What does it cost now, and what can it be sold for in a year or two. Unless someone is 99% certain they will keep it for a long time.
All preliminary reviews (dozens on YouTube) say rolling shutter and banding etc are thus far a non-issue with this camera...
Well, no one in the industry offers low res RAW anymore at this point, which is probably caused by the evolution of image compression algorithms.
Nikon's new high efficiency "raw" is actually based on Jpeg XS, a standard aiming for "visually lossless compression" developed by intoPIX.
Yes. Even though they claim it's near-lossless at Nikon's compression rate.
I suspect that within about 3 years, all new high end MILCs will feature purely electronic shutters.
Mechanical shutters are DOOOOMED.
I think the mechanical shutter in the R3 is there purely for the more conservative users that aren’t trusting of the electronic shutter. Frankly not having a mechanical shutter is making me a wee bit nervous with the Z9 and that all the RAW is compressed. But in saying that, I am sure I’ll get better images from it than from my Z6 or at least as good and with so many shots over ISO 1000 to get high shutter speeds it’ll be irrelevant if it is 12bit or 14bit or 14bit lossless compressed for me. If I want more IQ I can shoot at ISO 64.
Yes, undoubtedly there will be some users who don’t want to be solely reliant on an electronic shutter, and that may have influenced Canon’s approach to the R3.
I’m sure there are some scenarios (e.g. fill in flash in bright sunlight) where even a very fast readout electronic shutter can’t sync fast enough, and there may be other scenarios that don’t immediately spring to mind.
My R5 doesn’t allow exposure bracketing with electronic shutter, it has a fixed (maximum) burst speed of 20fps, and it doesn’t have any means of producing a volume-controllable fake shutter sound. If those issues didn’t exist, I’d be absolutely happy to have an electronic-only shutter.
The faster Nikon brings the advancements of the Z9 (mainly the processor and AF) to their Z6 and Z7 the better off they will be. Biggest problem is they are beholden to Sony sensors and you know Sony cameras always get them exclusively 6 months in advance!
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