Z9 Complete Setup Guide: Action Setup / Bank B (Video 2 of 4)

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(LINKS BELOW) This is video 2 of 4. In video one, I walk through all the Z9 menu settings and establish some basic shooting parameters used throughout these videos. I highly recommend you watch video one before watching this shorter video where I tweak the settings to set the camera up for action photography in bank B of the shooting and custom settings menus and then back those settings up.
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LINKED TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Intro to Z9 Setup Video 2
00:27 This is video 2. Video 1 is foundational.
02:05 Setting you Z9 for action using banks and saving it
05:02 Customizing the shooting bank B for action photo and video
05:15 The Photo Shooting menu bank B settings for action
06:17 Custom Settings menu bank B for action
Z9 Setup Part 1: (Standard A banks): • Nikon Z9 Complete Setu...
Z9 Setup Part 3: (Landscape C banks): • Z9 Complete Setup Guid...
Z9 Setup Part 4: (Astro D banks): • Z9 Complete Setup Guid...
Z9 Action Hybrid Autofocus Video: • Approaching the Scene ...
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@davearchbell9921 11 ай бұрын

Hudson, I just bought Z8. Your tutorials are an absolute godsend in showing me how to get started. Thank you.

@eddyexpo 11 ай бұрын

Wow, this is absolutely the best tutorial series anywhere on the internet hands down….

@jclark136 6 ай бұрын

This series breaks down a very complicated camera setup beautifully.

@TheAgora123 2 жыл бұрын

Hudson, a masterful series of video content for all Nikon Z9 camera owners. In a way, you become the reference source for optimal use of the Z9. camera.Thanks

@ianmackenzie8584 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Hudson, saved me a lot of time. Maybe see you in Scotland in 2024.

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Hope so!

@macmcmillen6282 2 жыл бұрын

Super helpful, Hudson, so thanks a lot for producing this video. Others out there charge for such information, so I greatly appreciate you making this information publicly available for free.

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

I have such a fabulous crew of workshop attendee friends. I tailor a lot of content to what I know they need. Plus it helps in the field when we all are on the same page. I'm having a blast in the Palouse with a great crew right now. :)

@arimatlick3757 2 жыл бұрын

Godsend! Just got it...following along but is a little tough to do quickly. Would pay dearly for a printed settings guide so I can do this on my upcoming flight. Love your stuff!

@tgschmidt3 11 ай бұрын

Hi Hudson! Thanks for this video series. I thought I was a pretty smart guy until I watched you go through this. Thanks for the help, I really needed it.

@ronaldpollard8990 2 жыл бұрын

Yo Man You are A real Blessing: Thank You very Much for making time to do this Sir!!!

@chocloditelensman Жыл бұрын

You are not kidding. He is truly blessed in explaining detail with simplicity. I love the Z9 -

@ThePinoyAggie Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Hudson for all 4 videos. I know the videos are for the Z9, but currently applying the same settings on my new Z8. You are the best!

@HudsonHenryPhoto Жыл бұрын

Currently redoing them with updates for the Z8 if you hang in there. ;-)

@archrobertson8468 Жыл бұрын

Great instructional videos! Holy cow! They have helped me a ton. Thank you for taking the time to make it.

@canvasartplus 2 жыл бұрын

Greatly appreciated - watched Part 1 as well - Thank you! I know how time consuming it is to put this video together.

@bfqywqd 2 жыл бұрын

Best videos for setting up the Z9. Thanks you!

@AndyMillerPhotoUK 2 жыл бұрын

These are quite possibly the best explanations I have seen.

@princesphotographystudio 2 жыл бұрын

I have shot wildlife for years and just got my Z9 last week and I have to say this set up for wild life tracking is amazing using the shutter button to lock the target and then the AF-On to 3D tracking is Genius!

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks George. The camera is amazing isn't it?

@princesphotographystudio 2 жыл бұрын

@@HudsonHenryPhoto Extremely so!

@cyberr2k 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the setup guide. The hybrid focus method for action is master stroke. Keep rocking !!

@x4g1706 2 жыл бұрын

Once again, great video, continuing the series. I love the Action set up here and can see myself using it immediately. The Hybrid setup is brilliant and so easy to use, along w/ Fn2 to change Image Area for a 1.5x factor.

@gaperklake 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the work you put into these series of videos, and for sharing your expertise. I will watch this one again, since I found out today that my Z9 is being shipped!

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

awesome! You'll love it. :-)

@paulhabgood7928 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Henry have been in touch and told Nikon about the stopping down 5.6 only and this is what they said 👍

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Paul. First name is Hudson. No big deal though. They gave you a thumbs up? 🤔

@ladyart2400 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! I was on hiatus, then kinda retired photographer. Desiring to come back to my 1st love and finally bought the Z9. Heck mirrorless cameras wasn’t even a thing when I had to stop shooting. My biggest fear was, will I be able to figure out all that this camera can do? You have helped my fear go away. Thanks for the time you put into this video. Can’t wait to watch your other videos!

@Interbeing_CDN 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I just sold my beloved D500 after getting the Z9. I love your recommended AF quick switch setup. Thanks for putting this together Hudson!

@lauramacky4083 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for these great videos! The way you explain things is so clear. I’m getting the z8 this week and I think this will be very helpful. Thinking they will be almost the same.

@HudsonHenryPhoto Жыл бұрын

I'll do a setup video for it too very soon.

@lauramacky4083 Жыл бұрын

I figured out how to use it. I feel so dense. Of course I know how to use it! I think I was just burned out after doing all those tutorials. Everything works wonderfully!

@terrykellyphotography6171 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this excellent action setup video! I appreciate your knowledge and the time you take to make these videos. I'm looking forward to watching all your videos!

@HudsonHenryPhoto Жыл бұрын

Thanks Terry!

@stanpiper8158 Жыл бұрын

This series is a master class. Well done H.

@V8AM 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant stuff Hudson, this video and the others in your Z9 mini series have been incredibly helpful in me getting to grips with the settings

@phphoto 2 жыл бұрын

Great help Hudson, really cool 💪🏼

@renaes5262 2 жыл бұрын

Went out birding this morning. Using B Banks mounting my F500mmPF grabbing song birds and shore birds in flight, in both FX and DX and I think I can sell my TC1.4 iii and TC2.0 I mean WOW. going from 500mm to 750mm in seconds, tack sharp when I'm on the subject, decent hit rate. When I missed it was me not the camera.... I LOVE THESE SETTINGS.

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that ReNae!

@danielkestly8353 Жыл бұрын

This is a great video series on set up. I was setting up my camera for the action bank and went into my "ISO Sensitivity" setting and changed my Min shutter speed to 1/1000....just a thought

@HudsonHenryPhoto Жыл бұрын

I would never do that myself, because I often like to slow my shutter much lower than that to purposefully pan with my subject and blur the background.

@danielkestly8353 Жыл бұрын

@@HudsonHenryPhoto Thank you for the comment. You are absolutely right. I did not fully think of how that setting would effect me in other ways, thanks

@mrchasman 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing you knowledge!

@RawDog82 5 ай бұрын

Hey @hudson, thanks this tutorial was a blessing! I have a question and i feel that you are the only one who can help. after using the z9 for months, i decided to pick up my d850.. i went to straight to AF-C 3D and noticed that my tracking wasn't tracking subject and i am at a mind twist, can you please share your wisdom to fix this

@frankberlin8084 2 жыл бұрын

Your work is so 👍👍👍😎😎

@bennycallewaert8756 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, a lot of pauze/play to get the settings in the camera :-) , but with your explanation it all makes sense. I only made a few minor changes to my personal preference. Many thanks for this FREE tutorial, as mentioned by a lot of other viewers, it's a great reference to get started and I can't click on like enough to thank you! One question on the MODE settings, as it's only briefly touched and I probably overlooked it in the first video. If you are using AUTO ISO, is there a specific reason why you don't put the camera in Manual? Same question for the first video actually, as you mentioned in this one, you setup to Aperture priority for the STANDARD mode. Is this also using AUTO ISO. Keep uo the good work!!!

@dennisgowan Жыл бұрын

Hudson, do you have a list or spreadsheet of the Fn button settings for each Bank? I have a problem locating these settings in the video and trying to write them all down. Thanks for your videos, they are a great help.

@mrchasman 2 жыл бұрын

Hudson, great idea to save the menu settings to a card for reloading as needed. Is there a way to move the saved settings to another card to allow cards to be formatted occasionally?

@mrchasman 2 жыл бұрын

I think I found an answer: Place a memory card (MC) with Saved Settings in Slot 1; load Saved Settings to Z9; replace MC in slot 1 with a different MC; save settings; repeat process for each Settings Bank A thru D, assuming all banks have saved settings.

@renaes5262 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrchasman That is what I did, I saved settings all once I was finished to a XQD 64 and tucked it away, then saved again to my big CF B normally in slot 1 for day to day use. Great idea.. But I have a followup ? for all. during the Save settings action, are ALL setting being saved in an NFSET*****" camera model specific file? It looks like it in the manual, I assumed all were being saved in a single file, we only save as we go to safe guard our workflow in progress? YES?.

@frankcruz8068 Жыл бұрын

Nice work. New to your channel, thank you.

@archrobertson8468 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@HudsonHenryPhoto Жыл бұрын

Many Thanks Arch. I'm about to publish an addendum this week in light of the latest firmware updates. :-)

@manfungyu934 Жыл бұрын

hi, when open the photo shooting menu, the first item appears is "reset photo shooting menu" instead of "shooting menu bank". How can I get to the "shooting menu bank" ?

@UrsusArctos8 Жыл бұрын

How do you backup your compact flash card settings? I'm not seeing the Bin file that everyone is talking about that should be on the Compact Flash card?

@johncapino3988 2 жыл бұрын

About your hybrid focus suggestion. assuming we have pressed the AFON button(3D +AF ON).. then you need to take the shot, pressing the shutter will then engage the Wide area AF mode before it takes the image? Does this keep the 3D tracking the same time the wide AF focus is engaged?

@victoriamannina8933 2 жыл бұрын

I have this question too.

@johncapino3988 2 жыл бұрын

@@victoriamannina8933 it will not loose the focus point if you turn on the focus persistent option in the custom setting. Just tried this “hybrid” method, but i would use another button instead of the shutter button to engage the wide area AF.

@blackrock2712 Жыл бұрын

Hi Hudson, and thanks for all the great content you provide! I am having an issue where when I switch between Bank A and Bank B they get “out of sync”. It seems to be just the @back button” AF-ON focus area. I have that set to single point only on Bank A, and 3D tracking with eye detect on Bank B. If I switch from Bank A to Bank B, it stays at single point. Alternatively if I start on Bank B and switch to A, it will stick with the 3D tracking. SO frustrating. I only have a week left to decide if I’m going to keep it. Do you have ANY idea what I could be doing wrong or what might be happening? Thanks in advance!

@HudsonHenryPhoto Жыл бұрын

Did you watch the video I did on how the Banks work as bookmarks, not set points? They are very different from user modes on the earlier cameras.

@thodorissiorikis8791 2 жыл бұрын

Perfect-Τέλειο!!!!!

@romanhar4151 2 жыл бұрын

Hello Henry, thank you very much for your great Videos. I would also change VR to Sport mode. For Playback. I configured Playback to Fn1, In Playback I assaigned Zoom to Fn1, and Histogram to OK :-) I used Fn1 because I have to do it the same way on Z6. --- With this configuration I can change to Playback with Fn1 and use the same button to zoom-in/out. With OK i can temporairely show a big histogram (It is only assaignable to OK. and its not a RGB histogram)

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

I find sport mode overkill unless I'm shooting from a moving vehicle. I have a "level and histogram only" view configured in my display rotation so no need to burn a button at all. It's on the Display button. All that is described in my settings Bank A video. First name is Hudson, but no big deal.

@romanhar4151 2 жыл бұрын

@@HudsonHenryPhoto Sorry Hudson I appologize. :-) In the "Play" mode, there I have a lot of free buttons I can use. - Today I did some test with soccer. Its incredible how good the focus is even on wide open lenses. :-)

@johnvaleanbaily246 2 жыл бұрын

Hudson, thank you, but I still find Banks confusing... compared to U1, 2 & 3 on Z6/7's. The Banks can be set to retain various settings - but they can be overridden if changes are made to camera settings. What then are Custom settings and how do there interact with Bank settings ? I don't get it.

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Just think of them as 4 different groups of menu settings. Shooting bank remembers the state of both Video Recording and the Photo Shooting Menu. It is seperate from the Cutsom Settings banks which only remember the state of the Custom Settings menu. All the menus below custom settings are unaffected by them (Playback through User). If you are working in Custom Setting Bank A and switch to Custom Setting Bank B it will pick up right where you were the last time you were in Bank B. Switch back to Bank A and it will be where you left it then. That's why I have you back up all your camera settings to your memory card so you can return to it even after manipulating settings. Nothing is locked. Just think of it as four separate menu states for both the custom settings as well as a combined set of Video and Photo shooting menu settings. It remembers where you were when last in that bank for that menu.

@johnvaleanbaily246 2 жыл бұрын

@@HudsonHenryPhoto Hudson, watched the four videos again and finally 'got it'. Great series. Thank you.

@raysanders332 2 жыл бұрын

Where do I go to change the focus point color?

@KissMyKite Жыл бұрын

Hudson, I'm a 1DXMKII & III owner coming over to Nikon and I followed your setup and Action supplement and I can't get the Z9 to stick to a person's face. I'm trying to set it up so it follows a model down a fashion runway and I'm getting a lot of hunting, back and front focus and I did upgrade to ver 2.1 on the firmware. I also wanted to activate following/lock by half/shutter but can only do so with the back focus button. I know the Z9 is sophisticated. But using the 1DX1 2 & 3 for so many years I'm sure, it must be me. Would you change any setting(s) to meet my fashion runway needs to differ from your excellent videos? Which I greatly appreciate!! Thank you, Tony KissMyKite

@HudsonHenryPhoto Жыл бұрын

hmmmmm, I'd certainly be using 3D or wide area AF for that. It should lock a face if it's large enough in frame and keep it even if they turn their head away and back. If there are multiple faces in the frame, then it might hop to the next face when the tracked model turns away. The wide area (or even small area) could help with that by telling the camera that only subjects inside that box matter. If you followed this bank setup video it should put wide area on the shutter half press and 3D on the back button. You could reverse those easily. Just go into custom settings controls and change the settings on the AF-ON button to be Wide Area Activate and then change your main mode to 3D tracking and that would put 3D on the shutter with Wide Area a back button away. You could also assign a function button to put single point on the shutter with a function button press. You'd go into your custom settings controls and map a function button to be Recall Shooting Functions Hold and change only the AF area mode to single point. Then when you hit that function button your shutter will switch from 3D to single point until you press it again. I do that sometimes for small backlit birds that aren't getting picked up by 3D or wide area. I'm planning to include that tip in next week's Z9 focused video. Hope that helps. YOu can always email me for more advice. hi@hudsonhenry.com. I sometimes miss replies here.

@daneyer8734 2 жыл бұрын

maybe it's because I have been listening and setting up the Z9 all day but I'm a little confused on why there is a shooting bank and a custom bank. Why isn't there just one that includes both. It seems when you go to shoot, you need to go to the "I" menu and make sure both say "B"s are checked to get things right . . . I know this is getting to you late, but if you could explain this, it will clear my head! Thanks

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Nikon makes slow and incremental changes to menu structure age controls. That's good and bad. It's been that way in pro dslrs forever, so...? I actuality think 4 banks that remember all the menus in total would be much better. You're not crazy. It's awkward, but it's what we have to work with. I wish I had a better answer.

@lindaitken3321 Жыл бұрын

I've set up the banks as shown in this series and when using bank B (action) for stills, the histogram doesn't seem to work. No matter what I do to the shutter speed or the aperture, it just sit there displaying the ideal "centered mountain" display. It seems to work fine for video. Have I missed a necessary setting?

@HudsonHenryPhoto Жыл бұрын

Auto iso is keeping exposure set. You can toggle that with a press of the iso button near the shutter while clicking the front control wheel one detent.

@lindaitken3321 Жыл бұрын

@@HudsonHenryPhoto Found the problem. d10 was set to ON. When I set it to off, things were back to normal. Thanks for a great video.

@sophiaschade8957 Жыл бұрын

Help -- I just change my control Fn2 to FX/DX but when i hold the Fn2 doown and rotate the back wheel nothing is changing what am i doing wrong

@HudsonHenryPhoto Жыл бұрын

Hmmm, double check that it is set correctly. Something sounds off. :(

@sophiaschade8957 Жыл бұрын

@@HudsonHenryPhoto you are the best - it is now working you rock

@UrsusArctos8 Жыл бұрын

What about 120p for Action Video? Now that's Action. If your like me I'm going with 120p! Thanks! ;)

@johnsimpson-wb1kq Жыл бұрын

enjoying your vidos but this doesn’t take in the latest v3.10

@romanhar4151 2 жыл бұрын

What a pitty, that the Fn2 is not on pressing toggling between FX and DX, if the possibe selection is limited on this two image area modes. Nikon has really to improve their user interface.

@EugeneMaynard Жыл бұрын

👍🏾🙏🏾

@warwickatkinson2558 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this but past bank A you lost me.

@SwanSycorax 2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for the great set of Z9 set-up videos. I have now been using my new Z9 for just over three weeks and found them very helpful - especially the on for Action/Wildlife. This helped me get started with birds in flight and I have referred to yourself and your video in the description for my own latest video which features a number of birds in flight images - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLyDrbCQmqqzloE.html

@MDanceInc 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure glad toilet paper isn't this hard to figure out how to use....!!

@LightPointSoftware 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this. There are a lot of options, but your video explained them extremely well. As for the save file, that can be copied from the CFExpress card to a computer so it is not lost. Hook it up using a USB cable and copy the file. NC_FLL.DAT

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Of course, but that's no help in the field.

@LightPointSoftware 2 жыл бұрын

@@HudsonHenryPhoto I meant as a way to back up your changes when you get back to a computer. If the card is damaged, corrupted, or reformated, you can keep your setup.

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I use an old XQD I keep with me for that, but sure keeping a copy in the cloud is a great idea too.

@LightPointSoftware 2 жыл бұрын

@@HudsonHenryPhoto I'm going to use your setting for a local event this weekend. Wish me luck!