The Nikon Z9 is supposed to be able to work using USB power. And it appears to – if you have a battery installed that’s not flat. Otherwise, it refuses to function – showing a “Shutter release disabled. Recharge battery” message in the viewfinder for a second or two before turning itself off again. I… Read more
Nikon Rumors recently ran my Nikon Z9 second impressions as a guest post on their site. That was very flattering. It was also a novel experience for me – generally nobody reads what I post here on my blog, and it’s as much for my own benefit as anything else (e.g. a form of “rubber… Read more
I’ve been out using my Z9 every weekend, but a bit behind on actually going through all the photos. Just now I was reviewing some and was surprised to realise there were no GPS coordinates. In any from that day. Where I was outdoors for hours in a flat grass field. I then discovered that… Read more
Google had (has?) a tongue-in-cheek achievement system built into the employee directory. Anyone can define a new achievement and award it to whomever, provided they can create (or pirate) a neat little icon for it. Lots of people have over the years – there must be thousands of distinct achievements possible, at this point. It’s… Read more
More observations from my time with the Z9 (see also my first & second). It’s now been over a month and I’ve taken several tens of thousands of real photos with it (and something like fifty thousand more while doing burst performance testing 😆). This’ll probably be my last post in this series of ‘impressions’.… Read more
I’ve only used it a few times thus far, over the course of a week or so. It’s a fairly “boring” lens by nature, so there’s not a whole lot to say. So far I’m happy with it. I’ve only used it on the Z9 so far, but I’m thinking it could be a great… Read more
