- 8K/60 Raw video capture
- Capture up to a second of action before the shutter button is fully pressed
- Waveform displays
- N-Raw video capture
- ProRes RAW at up to 4.1K/60p
- Many improvements for video shooters
- 120fps viewfinder mode
- Custom-sized Wide AF zones when you know your subjects will be in a certain format
- Motion blend function for composite images
- Timer for bulb shooting mode
- Viewfinder dimming to reduce the impact on the photographers night vision
- And many more improvements for download on April 20th
Z9 firmware 2.0 adds many features
April 14, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Nikon Z9
October 28, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Nikon Z9, Nikons new mirrorless flagship is announced:
- 45 Megapixel
- RAW files of a third the size
- No mechanical shutter so so endurance drastically improved
- Up to 120 pictures per second
- Autofocus for humans, birds, bikes, cars, trains, planes with automatic switching
- Video 4K at 120 fps and 8K at 30 fps for up to 2 hours
- ISO 64 – 25.600
vBulletin ignores Youtuber with 1,1 million followers
May 6, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Youtuber Louis Rossmann from Rossmann Repair Group calls out for help in a video to 1,1 million followers that his commercial forum hosted by vBulletin gets no support since January. His support ticket shows that he waits days, sometimes weeks for an answer and the issue still gets no meaningful answer.
Lightroom and AMD Ryzen 3900X
October 24, 2019 by Leave a Comment
A field report after upgrading my Lightroom PC to the brand new CPU Ryzen 3900X, a beast of a CPU featuring 12 cores and 24 thread. Let’s compare the configurations:
- Old configuration: Ryzen 1700X (8 cores, 16 threads), 32 GB RAM, 1 M2. NVM SSD, 1 SATA SSD
- New configuration: Ryzen 3900X (12 cores, 24 threads), 64 GB RAM, 2 M2. NVM SSds
The performance gain is very noticable! On the old PC I often faced brief delays when scrolling through a heap of pictures. The delay was always very short (< 1 sec) but it was very annoying and destroyed the fast workflow. My wife even started using Photomechanic for doing a preselection as PM is very fast.
On the new PC all delays are gone and the import is blazingly fast. I tested 100 RAW files (Nikon Z7, about 56 MB per file) and the import was done in 2 minutes 26 seconds – including rendering 1:1 previews.
Why fast M.2 PCIe SSDs? Of course the difference to regular SATA SSDs isnt noticable during daily routine, but the surcharge for M.2 PCIe is getting cheaper every day and there are big performance gains during backup or copying large files.
Why 64 GB RAM? Currently RAM is extremly cheap and RAM that isn’t used by Lightroom will be used by Windows for caching.
What graphics adapter? In my experience this doesn’t matter much. Performance gains are minimal and from time to time this LR feature isnt very stable.
A Sony A9 II without innovation
October 3, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Sony has announced the A9 II, successor to the leading A9 mirrorless pro camera. Same 24 MP sensor as its predecessor, no EVF improvement, but better AF tracking. Nikon and Canon will be relieved.