I wish OM Systems takes the popularity of the Zf as a clue to the latent demand for cameras that appeal to the classic feeling cameras. They really need to release a Pen-F mk2! It would be sooooo popular.

If PenF II does not come in the next months I am going to buy Zf. And yes there is definitely a retro camera market. All new cameras are great... but style is important for many buyers.

I love my Zf - especially with the Voigtländer 40mm1.2 and its amazing capability to use the AF for manuell lenses - its so easy now to focus with manuell lenses.

Some wonderful photos in this review, Jimmy.

Thank for the review of this camera.

love my blue Zf! a piece of art ❤

Great review, thanks Jimmy. Good to see more retro style gear in the market. I love my Pen-F because of its tiny size, build quality and unique looks, but the Fujifilm X series gets my vote for the best retro system thanks to its range of small classic styled lenses, including pancakes all with clicky aperture rings.

Thanks Jimmy a beautiful camera - I’d actually be v interested in a review of the om systems 12-40 f2.8 pro II that we saw a little footage from in the IBIS comparison.

I definitely stay tuned. I like the new vintage camera look. I also start with the film and the reason why I bought the one em5 is the old original style.

I have used the Zf professionally in partnership with the Z8 and it is great. With the grip it is comfortable with the 24-70mm 2.8. If you are having problems it could be a technique issue. I have to keep an eye on the exposure compensation know now you have highlighted it. The only real problem I have is the lack of the "Recall Shooting Functions" option that it's bigger siblings has which lets you set up a function button to 3d Tracking without Subject Detection so you can lock onto any target without the focus moving to a face. You can do this, or a variation of it, on all Nikon full frame mirrorless cameras and gives complete control.

I'm most impressed by the fact that you used the camera for 3 months before doing the review. (Oh, and my D7500 has a flimsy flippy battery door also.)

I looked for Z f too but chose Z fc mainly because it was lighter and half the price. I just wast ready to replace EOS R5 to similar heavy Z f. I wanted my camera lightweight. I know Z f is better in tech specs so if I get into Nikon more heavily, I might get into Z f or whatever is hot next time buy camera. Great review and also that jeans jacket was cool.

I had a Nikon F3 with a number of manual focus Nikkor lenses. Now my nephew, who is a film nerd, uses it. I mostly use the OM-1 with the 12-40/2.8 and the Panasonic-Leica 100-400 when I walk around outside. I often leave the primes at home.

I got cash tucked away, since I’m so disappointed with OMS I’m considering selling it all and getting this camera with a few lenses. But I’m going to give OMS until the summer to see what happens with them.

thanks for the video and for using the camera for a few months before making it. One question that jumped out in your comparison with other cameras: there was no mention of lenses. Was your comparison photo correctly captioned? Did you use an APSC Sony F1.8 E lens?

I got a Pen F when it came out, and love it. I use a lot of vintage lenses, just for fun. I rarely use video, not a deal breaker for me. I must take some time to dig more into all the functions I havent tried out yet. I would like to have it weather sealed and a built in GPS. I still miss aperture ring, it feel so natural to me to adjust the aperture with my left hand, but I admit i use more and more of the program modes. A Z f is tempting though.

Wish Canon would make retro style camera also. Like Canon AE-1. Other option would be full frame Fujifilm X100VI style camera with leaf shutter lenses and internal memory. If ZF had Z8 specs and bigger retro style lens selection, I would have bought it. I just need more than 24 MP myself.

Question, isn't for example 200 ISO on full frame really equivalent to 800 ISO on M4/3? Because don't you double the focal length and ×4 aperature and ISO to truely compared M4/3 to FF?

Another great review! I'd love to hear your thoughts on how the ZF would compare to the beautiful retro looking Fujifilm X-T5 , that is if you can get your hands on one.

I love my Zf. I have an all black with the small rig grip. I am mostly shooting with older adapted lenses with my fave being the Zeiss 35mm distagon. While everyone is going for the clinically perfect high megapixel setups, I am zagging with older character-filled lenses. The manual assist on the Zf makes it a breeze. I originally hated the iso control but now I adjusted to how it works. It is not perfect but is one of my favorites. If OM ever gets off its butt and creates a new PEN I could see a resurgence for them and I would get one.

It's a terrible shame that OM Systems did not read the market correctly and introduce a Pen F replacement. The market for retro cameras are just taking off and Nikon is reaping the benefits of foresight and great marketing strategy. Fujifilm meanwhile had been forced into a company restructuring due to continued financial losses, resulting in the X100V, X-E4 and the X-Pro3 camera ranges being dropped from the lineup. The market for retro cameras is virtually open to Nikon!

Thanks for the video. I just realized my Nikon Df has the same battery door lol

Excellent stuff! What adapter for Sony did you use?

Great review as usual. Any recommendation for manual lenses for the Nikon Zfc.

The Df is a great camera. I also have the Zf but the Df is what I use most of the time.

Yea when researching cameras you did trash the Zfc. Saying “a camera nobody wants.” I brought the Zfc. And I completely disagree. Too me the build quality is great! And I paired mine with the TTArtisan 23 & 50 mm retro lens. Gorgeous & extra beefy

Well, I must admit this Zf really is a thing! 🤔 It was love at first sight ❤ and I will probably have to go and buy it. That retro styled 40/2 would be a must + something more universal like 24-120/4S and that would be it 😃 Thanks for Your review Jimmy and cheers from CZ! Vaclav

😂 Hay Jimmy, i see you joined the many U tubers that purchased the Nikon ZF orange Halloween edition, i bought the all black body, i agree with much of your video, the one thing that puzzles me is that Nikon chose to package this camera with a 28 and 40mm f2 lens that got a slight cosmetic update but kept the plastic lens mount and body. I think that lens selection is where Fujifilm beats Nikon for the retro style of camera bodies. The glass that I went with for my Nikon ZF is the Nikon 50mm f 1.8 and 28 - 75 f2.8. Viltrox 28 mm f 1.8 and the 15mm f4.5 MKIII and 40mm f1.2 Voightlander, the two Voightlander lens are by far my favorite lens for the Nikon ZF.

Just bought mine a couple days ago, sadly had to settle for the black one since all the other colors were on backorder. As an Orioles fan, that orange one is amazing, I'm very jealous 🤣

how does the Sony adapter perform with AF on the Nikon?

How about more videos on the Zfc?

Your mic is very treble biased, but I enjoyed the video.

I have the Zf. A FM2 it is not, larger, heavy and a different experience, a bit of a brick if I am honest. Need some time to see if it works for me.

Good review Jimmy. I had high hopes for this camera but the handling for me is a massive let down as it feels and looks too bulky and awkward compared to an original FM2/3. The lack of effective weather sealing and the build quirks pretty much seals its fate for me.

How to convert the NEF files to DNG though? Using Lightroom Classic CC here

One of the most beautiful cameras I have ever owned

If I get this camera, I’ll most likely just use primes for cleaner low light shooting. For now, my Olympus Pen cameras are doing just fine.

Maybe OMS will get the frickin hint. Hopefully Jimmy reviewing it is pointing to the future of OMS's next camera. They would be stupid to not go with what people are asking for, rather than being stubborn and releasing the e-m5 mark 5, if they release an om5 I think that will point to the end.

I thought the Zfc and the Zf would really bring me back to Nikon. But the Zfc is too plastic like and has the huge z-mount with an APSC-sensor? While the Zf feels mainly premium but for a MFT-User just too big and heavy. So I keep the good gear I have and rather try to have fun and improve my skill.

Since nobody dares to ask the one question, I will. Did you buy the coat after or before you got the ZF? And I want to thank for pronouncing the name correct, ZED EF not like those other youtubers who all say ZEE EF, so horrible.

Hopefully one day Nikon makes one in silver. It'll pair nicely with the silver Df.

I've been using Olympus cameras since 1975 starting with the OM1n. I now use an E-PL6 and E-M5ii, and waiting for a Pen-F replacement with updated sensor, ND and GD filters, etc. I doubt that OM Systems will ever bring one to the market, so I've resigned to replacing my well loved Olympus cameras with the Zfc and Zf cameras. I can continue to use my wide angle AF-D lenses from my D200 and D750 too. It's goodbye to Olympus and OM Systems after being a loyal customer for 50 years.

You hit upon some good points the Nikon missed. I hope the next version addresses these little things - maybe even weather seal it! BTW, the Nikon 40 F2 is a nice combo

Just sold mine. Simply couldn’t live with the auto iso implementation . Especially the auto iso icon constantly flashing in the viewfinder. Yes Nikon might change this in a future firmware update

Nikon ZF is a great camera with good AF and good FF image quality. For less money than the OM System OM1. And all those ZFC lenses will work on the ZF when upgrading.

It needs the tiltable rear screen like the X-T5, flippy screen is not retro to me. Otherwise a good looking camera

Cheers Jimmy , this is Sean in Atlanta. I just made the switch from micro 4/3 to Nikon, but I chose the Z5 for a number of reasons. First, I wanted two SD cards. I have been learning photography for the last seven or eight years, and I have never heard of a modern camera company utilising a microSD card. Their excuse was that they didn’t want to make the body larger at the grip area, but then they contracted with Small Rig to make a grip for it. That’s just stupid to me. Then, they said this was going to be a photography-centric camera and promptly put on a video screen, instead of a flip screen! Yes, I totally agree with you that it is beautiful, but it is so poorly designed that it just makes me gag! I am totally happy with my Z5, and totally disappointed in Nikon… Sean P.S. I really am happy with full frame, and I think I started following you almost the day after I started learning photography using KZfaq! Thanks and I wish I could have purchased the Zf, but I don’t think their left hand knows what their right hand is doing!

I've tried BIF with the ZF and it's obviously not designed for it. I wouldn't even call it 90%, more like 60-70%. For fast action stick with the Z8/9. The stacked sensor has the edge with AF performance.

He sounds like a South Park character..

❤ Fantastic that your business goes well. I know it makes us get less KZfaq content, but i know you will stick by us too.

No fault on that condensation though, someone just wrote about an OM-1 doing the exact same thing;)

If it has tilted up screen, I would buy it yesterday.

Too bad that Nikon forgot to make lenses for it. But with the current lens line-up you are better of with the normal Z camera's. Better go all modern than mixing styles. If they would make a couple of primes with an aperture ring on it, you could actualy use it.

Retro cameras are what people want, I qoute my daughter, why would I want a DSLR when I have my phone? It takes great photos, I can order a pizza with it and open my bank account, or even upload live to her Facebook? This is what the camera manufacturers now have a problem with, getting new photographers your average shooter to put down their phones and actually use a proper camera, But they want convence and style? While convence is never going to work, style is a must and the Zf has buckets load of style, and probably why it's sold out, and yes my daughter loves it.... So in this case nikon has achieved a new market to sell not only the normal photographer's but new comers that didn't really want a DSLR boring style, and as a bonus nikon and canon shooters a lot always had a fuji too, today in our camera club 4 outta of the 10 fuji shooters now own a Zf..... That's got to tell you a lot about this camera, By the way great video

I wish Nikon luck with he camera. I stick with MFT and Olympus/OM System due to price, size, hands and my heart. Wish for an upcoming PEN F. But Nikon have made a great kamera

What a shame that OM is not weather sealing its 1.8 primes to go with the OM5. The Flippy screen on the Nikon ZF put me off. I am sticking with my compact x100v

Great review, looks like great camera. Come on om solutuons get your act together before its too late.

I'm a bit conflicted... It all comes across as if you no longer have faith in the Micro system... It's all a bit mixed up now... It must be beautiful image quality, but I went for small myself. ..Now those big bricks around your neck come again.... Question: Did you buy the jacket after you got the camera...?

Orange Man Bad! 😉

If neither OM system or Panasonic takes the clue from Fujifilm and the ZF cameras that retro style is a truly important aesthetic in the market.. they're shooting themselves in the foot and the wallet. I'm actually more of a fan of the GX-8 than the Pen f.. but take it from the guy who spent the 80s and 90s with FMs,, FEs and FAs.. if I wasn't neck deep in MFT gear.. more than likely I would be in line for one of those new Nikons right now!!

You call this full frame camera “quite pricey”, yet it’s significantly cheaper than your precious micro four thirds OM-1 Mark II. I don’t recall you ever mentioning that the OM-1 was “quite pricey”. I guess when you’re being paid by OM Systems, nobody could expect truly fair, unbiased reviews from you.

Making the bottom plate plastic was a big mistake.

Thank you, suibbed...

No camera is perfect. I have m43 camera but it is not comparable to FX in picture quality.

Dont get OM instead of giving us Firmware update and a new PEN II body ... they did this OM1 II .

Bloody battery door ! 🤣😂

I dont understand the old camera look hype. It does not benefit me at all. I want a modern looking camera with great ergonomics and features. This nikon is just a z6 with worse ergonomics.

my Zf broke after just 18 days, very upset

Nice review, but why are you screaming all the time? : I

It’s a great camera. But it has nowhere near the looks, portability and low weight of the Olympus EM-5.

To be honest I’d rather shoot a Samsung or iPhone over anything Nikon atm. They are far behind.