Wtf? Nothing he said has anything to do with the z8. He should name the video…I forget stuff and sometime need to buy stuff.

I went from the D850 to Z8.All those differences you mentioned i experienced as well. I did some research on the camera and i knew of the differences.Not issues. I loved my D850. Z8 blows it away.

OMG! You got a lens with a bigger front element and complained about needing larger filters. You got a camera without a mechanical shutter and complained about the (configurable!) electronic shutter sound? Really? Try reading the manual! It's not easy to master a modern pro camera body but the sooner you start the earlier you'll succeed!

Thank you. For those of us on a limited budget who might want to splurge on this upgrade, it gives us addtional information we should consider.

TO EACH HIS...HER OWN !!! YOU🫵 ARE YOUR OWN CRITIC !!!

Hi, welcome to the Z cameras. I appreciate your dislike of the generated "shutter" sounds. I was an early adopter of the Z system, starting with the original Z7. A year and a half ago I bought a Z9 and I have been loving it. I prefer to shoot my Z9 with no sound in most cases. I don't need to hear a sound to know I have made an exposure. You will come to appreciate the visual cues in the viewfinder. The only exception to shooting silently, is when I am photographing portraits in natural or constant light. The click is the subject's clue that they can give me a different look. I don't even bother turning it on if I am shooting flash. BTW, turn off the sound in the setup menu - camera sounds. Don't use the silent mode right below the camera sounds control. if you select that, Nikon left that in as a legacy from DSLRs for some reason, and it will shut down triggering of flash. Anyway, the learning curve is a bit daunting foe the Z cameras in general and for the Z8 and Z9 in particular, but it will well worth it. Cheers.

Sorry for your friend going to Sony... Your gain though.

It is really said that the world isn't as it supposed to be. But it's good that you get your frustrations out here instead of kicking the dog.

Had a D850, and bought filters to use with my largest 82mm lens thread, then have step down rings, no issues, the batteries I had were 15c . I bought a z8, no issues with lenses, via adapter, download PDF for manual onto phone no issues, photoshop updated camera profiles no issues.

Love the honesty! I jumped ship from Nikon to Canon, can you imagine those changes! A month in, I'm still looking for basics, setting the volume, stand by timers, metering control, auto ISO.....

Thanks for the reminder...:)

Cmon man, all those things you mentioned are basic research BEFORE you buy a NEW camera!! I honestly don't think your points are valid and, it seems you're trying to bash the camera. Let me ask you, if have an older car.. say 5-10 years old and your buying a new car, wouldn't you research the new car for all details.. maybeeven test drive? Same principle applies here.. New camera = new accessories, possibly new lenses, new lenses = possibly new filters, new storage cards, maybe even a new computer.. that's why you RESEARCH! cmon now.

I have also been debating going into the Z line from a D500. Battery life alone has stopped several late at night 'pay now' button clicks. Glad to get some clarity on some of the other little things that would push this from few dollars of unplanned expenses to a significant budget deficit.

That shutter sound is a little off to me as well. But even if the shutter sound mimicked the Nikon F3, it still wouldn’t be right because there’s no tactile or haptic feedback of that mirror moving. I guess this is just where cameras are heading. The Z8’s shutter is a little more sophicated than people give it credit for though. For instance, take a 1-second exposure and you’ll hear that it’s actually a 2-part sound. So after training your ear by hearing the long shutter, it makes the faster shutter sound less of a static click, and more of a 2-part…………static click. OK, so it’s still a static click but it’s different. Try it and tell me what you think. LOL

Waiting for the Z6iii to come out so I can “enjoy” stepping up from a D7500😂

Talk about growing pains, wait until you see the manual! Over 800 pages! I haven't really done much photography for a number of years. I set up a D-90 then a D-750 for my wife to use. I used it a few times on trips, but it was her camera. We have retired and I decided it was time to get back to photography, but I wanted my own and wanted to go mirrorless. Since we have Nikon, I decided on the Z8. I have only had it about a week and spent a few hours watching setup videos and looking a the manual, then going through the menu. I have just started playing around with it and poked around a bit and changed my profile, ok menu bank, from A to C without realizing it. Now I am looking and wondering why I am shooting JPG and went back through the menu and seeing all the settings were back to factory. I finally saw the change from A to C and put it back. So, the learning curve, at least for me, is going to be like Mt. Everest! It will take me quite a bit of time to get comfortable, especially since the weather is going to be down into the single digits here in the Southeast. I will also have to bread down and get a flash, something I haven't used since my film days. So, I feel your pain and the struggle is real.

I love your rant. I shot with D750s for several years. I love Nikon, but didn’t think the Z6 was good enough to switch to mirrorless. I didn’t want to just toss my investment in Nikon, so I patiently waited. Then the ZF was released. I love this camera. Great shutter sound, BTW. First thing I discovered was that my godox flashes weren’t working in TTL mode. It required some IT gymnastics and a new usb-A micro cord to update the firmware. I have the same tether issue as well. I’ll get a new cord eventually. Don’t shoot tethered enough to replace it right away. My G1 Tamron lenses were iffy with the FTZ adapter, so I replaced those. And my extra 3rd party batteries, which I kept as backups do not work with the new ZF, so had to get a new backup. Good luck with the z8! I would love to find someone willing to sell me theirs for a song.

I have the Z8 since the end of May now. What annoys me the most is that the camera isn't really compatible with most studio flashes when using HSS. My portable flashes (Rollei HS Freeze 6 and 6s) don't really sync with the strobing flashes so that you can see the electronic shutter and/or banding on each photo. That extremely limits my creativity when it comes to flash photography.

There's is no shutter sound.. it's not real... Just don't use it.. After watching this I just have to say it's like your whining like a lil baby. IT'S NEW GEESH

My migration to the Z system has started with the Z50, now with the Z5, and planning to get the Z9. My main DSLR shooter is the D500 which I will never get rid of. The Z system takes a bit of getting used to. I hear the same growing pains from people who have gone to the Z8/mirrorless from the F body without having done a progression through the lower-spec Z bodies and taking time to learn the Z system.

I see a lot of cameras being blown away and floating in the air. Lets get some context. A few yrs back I was craving to get the D5 and I had my 300 f2.8 for wildlife with TC's. The the D850 came along and I bought it for at the time a massive price. I had young and old wildlife photographers with lesser gear in envy. 5 yrs later, people still shoot the D5 and D850 others mover on to Z9/8 and new Z mount lenses. Those who aspired to the D5 and D850 now buy these cameras at bargain prices. They produce fantastic images, them might not have the speed or the eye detection of other stuff, but man the IQ remains fantastic. So I can buy a D850 with a 300 f2.8 vr with TC 1.4iii used in top condition for 40% of the price of a Z8 with the new 400 f4.5. So we sit in a hide or somewhere here in Africa and both photograph a pride of lions or Cheetah hunt etc. we get home, process and print our images. and the differance in IQ ?? Depends on the skill of the photographer yes but both are crazy sharp lenses, both bodies have the mp files, the D850 might require the photographer to use more skill focusing on the eye. So who blows away who? This constant, Z blows away A or C or F? really?

Z8 is my first serious camera, before this i had a z6 which i still have but i just love the way the z8 feels in my hands. Z6 is a lot smaller and at times it gets painful. I have a cage on the z8 and the grip is just sublime! Its an absolute delight to grip this camera. This camera has brought some serious changes in my workflow. I now edit videos right off the cf express card. Dont want to fill up my hard drives on daily basis🤪

I have never seen an orange Nikon cable, What is the Nikon product id on that cable?

When i got my first mirrorless (eos R) a few years ago my d850 friend made fun of my wimpy shutter sound, i told him at least i hear my shutter all he hears is a mirror slapping around

Change always requires some adjustment. Such is a fact of life. One doesn't have to like it but adults, especially professional photographers, need to accept such and get on.... Stop winning and read the bloody manual...you will be a better version of yourself for the effort.

Welcome back to Lightroom btw haha.. I also bought a perpetual license for capture one only to realise it’s outdated and year later! 😡 I also have to sit down and figure out how to save battery by having the lcd off when not in use, mucked around the options and it was getting the evf off or the other way round lol

Do you think that you'll eventually sell the DSLRs? It's not necessarily an easy choice, of course.

The complaints are mostly from the uninformed and the ones that bought a camera they are not skilled enough for. Totally invalid gripes.

Filming video on a Z camera vs a d850 is night and day! But agreed the shutter sound is BRUTAL on z cameras. There are a couple on Z9 that are not bad, but the correct move would have been and still continues to be to release a TON of historical DSLR nikon shutter slaps and let people nostalgia out and pick the one they like. That is the move. Still hoping for it.

Says more about you than the camera

I was interested in this video but I have to say, I'm a bit flummoxed. Someone wearing a Rolex Submariner in a video like this complaining about the follow up cost of switching to what amounts to basically a new system? That's ... interesting. Also, some really weird assumptions - there is ONLY an electronic shutter on this camera. You WILL get artifacts in specific conditions. The Z8 plain doesn't have a mechanical shutter. Maybe this video should have said "I should have thought about it before switching to a new camera" - there seems to be nothing that the camera is actually responsible for to create your frustration. It really seems to come solely from lack of thinking something through ... That would have been a more honest title for the video.

Yeah but how do the images look? 😅

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 So you don’t know how to use the camera and that gives you buyers remorse?

I respect different viewpoints and perspectives. However, this seems a VERY SHALLOW list of petty complaints that have nearly nothing to do with the specific camera.

40 years ago I was thinking which system to get into, Nion or Canon. I tried Nikon and found the menu was horrible.. So I went the Cannon way... 40 years later Nikon still making those horrible menus...

Are you ill?

I’m sorry but these aren’t problems with the Z8, all these problems could be avoided if you did your research before buying the camera and it’s pretty obvious that you didn’t do your due diligence before going to your shoot 💀.. sorry mate but I think you might have to rename your video tittle

Its ok the mk 3 and 4 will soon bury it , disposable crap ! Keep your d850s guys

i sold my d850 for a z6 ,,,,,,,,, then i sold the z6 an bought another d850 its more hype you really think sony will make better cameras than a company that is a camera maker with nikons pedigree ?? i have a d4s as well the mirror less thing really is over hyped .

Wireless tether!!!!

You are really getting roasted in these comments? I find the outspoken level of dismissiveness to be surprisingly funny because other youtubers have dogged the Z8/Z9 as well, and were not dragged this badly. Maybe it's just you, bro. What did you to the people to make them so prickly towards your video? LOL. BTW, the Z8 is quite spectacular.

I recently rented a Z8 to take photos at an airshow for the 20fps. Despite watching numerous setup videos, I only had a day to practice with the camera before the airshow. I brought my D850 batteries (2), plus the battery that came with the Z8 rental. However, even with three batteries, they ran out with 30+ minutes left of the Blue Angels performance. To my disappointment, when reviewing the photos, they didn't match the consistency of previous airshow photos taken with my D850. Lesson learned: shooting with a mirrorless camera is not the same as a DSLR, and ample spare batteries are a must.

Buyers regret? Click bait 😂

And the Nikon fanboys actually stopped watching and just downvoted. Nikon fanboys really are the most insufferable people in the entire photography world.

What an ancient!! I thought you were to complain about overheating or something, not about being from a different generation. Not informative at all.