Impressive firmware update from Nikon (4), maybe the best ever !!

Just came to this video. Recently purchased a Z8 and as you know with firmware 2.0 we have auto capture on the Z8. So excited to try this in the field. Thank you for the very well explained description of this amazing feature.

This is cool. I haven't done it for a while but I set my D850 & 70-200 lens with the lens hood hard against my window inside. The birdbath is about 3 - 4 metres away. Sitting on the lounge chair I would just reach over and shoot (live view) when birds visited. I was pleasantly surprised that my double-glazed window just had no ill effect. Cleaned spotless inside and out of course. Now I have the Z9. Recall the old saying? "Look Mum, no hands" LOL. Can't wait.

In addition, the Auto Capture will work in conjunction with Pre Capture, exciting indeed!

That would be really fun to use in my blind at my backyard setup. And I do have a electrical outlet for external power so I could set up while still dark and go back to bed 😴😆

Great intro to auto capture Scott. What a great new feature to give my Z9 even more value.

I think this is pretty amazing. Nikon seems committed to improving their cameras with updates. The only limitations right now seems to the the Nikon auto focus but that has been steadily improving.

I can't wait! My Z9 arrives in two days and I have all kinds of birds at my feeders.

Very interesting video! I’m going to try it this weekend to see if I can get good photos of butterflies, moths, bees, and dragonflies. These insects can be challenging because they’re small and fast moving.

Your quite right to be excited the possibilitys are endless, nearly ...

Change the setting to higher ISO and faster shutter speedand even set to f4, there will have very gregarious photos came out, the function is awesome

Pretty awesome and feel your excitement. Here in Hertfordshire, England we have tons of red kites. It would be cool to capture one of those guys

I tried it at the hummingbird feeder - worked well. It just came to my mind that maybe I haven’t been thinking about this fully enough. I could see this working pretty well for crouching shots where we try to get at eye level of waterfowl, etc. also could use this on a pole/monopod hanging the camera down at levels or up at levels while viewing the tilt screen and just concentrating on getting the animal in the screen. This would handle the focus and triggering for us which can be a pain when in awkward positions.

Very exciting, looks very versatile. Can’t wait to try. I have an Anker 535 power bank which I charge the battery with or just leave it hooked up and shoot.

the possibilities this opens up is pretty awesome! Game changer

They've almost given you a free trail cam !! .

Could be great for hummingbirds

Using this feature we also have the chance to capture some unusual behavior. During the last week, since AC was introduced, I have been using this on the Northern Flicker nest in backyard.

Thank you for the information, Scott!!

Probably shutter speed was less in auto capture mode 😊 But pretty amazing feature … thanks for sharing 🙏🏻

I tried it for capture some hummingbirds… they seem too fast to be captured 🤯

Dont know if anyone mentioned this but how about trying to capture Lightning with this? there are some 3rd part ones that do work well with lightning but having this built in could really be cool.

(Support Scott✌) My Nikon N90 with the MF-26 data back and MB-10 had trap capability which I played with for butterflies. This feature is a lot more evolved. You mentioned that testing is half the fun well, I think the hunt and capture is the other half.

Looks like a great feature and I hope they bring it to Canon and Sony with firmware updates. I wonder why it didn't remain focused on the perch even after and before the shots. It seemed to default to a different distance to focus, possibly all the way up close?

Cool video!

If only you could have the subject/eye detect take over focusing after the initial trigger...

Nice video. What do the speed and size numbers mean?

I’ve been using this for taking photos of my dog playing frisbee and also backyard birds and it works great, I always use Auto Area AF though, only problem is with the settings I was using it takes way to many photos I ended up with over 7,409 photos of backyard birds LOL

A question regarding auto capture. I tried to use it today and it was complete failure! I set up with auto area af and then No matter what settings I tried, every time I started the process, the scene would go completely out of focus and if I tried to re-focus manually, the focus mode would switch to Manual focus, which would not track the subject. Should I have just left the scene out of focus? EDIT, FYI, I just tried again and it worked fine, didn't switch to manual focus? Glitchy! Humm?

I updated my firmware to 4.0 went to motion settings and when I press start my display goes dark. Nothing happens. After many different tentatives still the same black screen I decided to reset my menu settings to default. Now I can get into the "start" and change the settings. I put on the same settings you did yours and when I press the record button to start motion detection then start shooting nothing happens. The camera senses nothing. What a pain in the rear. What about the default menu settings that is not making the camera start shooting when a subject moves into the frame I have no idea. Beautiful on theory. 😅😅😅😅 real world, zero results. Very frustrating

I think Sony is sleeping!! Been waiting for major Sony a1 firmware update for sometime now!!

Wish canon woke up with the pre capture on the R3 This is very cool, but for long deployments it will be pretty hopeless.

Is there a dust on the sensor?

great test. do all images captured in jpeg format or raw?

Great video! So I got the Z9 a few days ago as am into wildlife photography. So I set up on a tripod to capture some birds. After a short while the LCD went black and autocapture didn’t work. This video says he was set up for 2 hours. Can anyone help? What am I doing wrong?

On my z9 auto capture is gray and I can't activate it. Anybody knows what's going on?

Where would this be on your 1 to 10 wildlife scale? 😏

At least f4 to 5.6 for this. Way to tight & how about setting it up for some in-flight captures.

Sony users punching air right now, other Channels on KZfaq show how to tweek this feature.

EXCITING - but I have an R5 - 😠

If you go for animals: trigger for animals (not cars or people) - the Z9 will better hit the eyes. Your depth was too shallow, better use an appropriate aperture and speed. Nice first try.