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Awesome shots Thomas. I just bought the ZF and am awaiting these exact 2 lenses. Cant wait to try them now thanks to this video. Cheers!

Awesome shots Thomas. I just bought the ZF and am awaiting these exact 2 lenses. Cant wait to try them now thanks to this video. Cheers!

Love this!

Very interested to know about the lens cover you pot on and off!

Hi, great vid. Just an observation - you mentioned lots of viewers leaving at the end of the location video and missing the rest of the content. I’ve noticed on a number of the location vids you have left in the “outro” typically with a “please comment, like and subscribe, and I will see you in the next one.” I have almost switched off at that point myself a few times.

Thank you for nice review. Is this lens works with Nikon D5500?

I have had this Lens about a year and a half. It is not Perfect, but it is very good. It is usually on the Camera when in the Bag. Too bad it is such a massive Air Pump, sucking Dust into the Interior of the Lens, and onto the Sensor of the Camera. My Z9 is very good at Astral Photography, making Stars, even with the Lens Cap on, with several Dozen Hot-Stuck Pixels, at any ISO above 125 and 1 sec shutter speed. A few days before Xmas in 2022, I did an Outdoor Modeling Shoot. This little Asian Honey wanted to pose outside of a very heavily decorated House, in her Birthday Suit. It was -25C, that night but she insisted, so at about 1 in the Morning... The Z9 and the 24-120 both performed well despite it being much colder than what Nikon speced. She was quite happy with the results too, but was complaining about having some Frostbite

Just watched this video. Excellent content. Loved all your images. After well over 6 months of deciding between sensor formats and brands, you have cemented by choice. It is APSC with the Fuji X-T5. Thanks again for your awesome content 🙌

"The bokeh thing is a nice trick": you just summed up what I believe has been a key motivation behind this strange hobby of ours, and why f/4 seems to many of us like an unacceptable limitation for portrait work. Ultra fast apertures used primarily for background blur are nothing but a lazy gimmick, and, as a gimmick, its mass appeal is relatively recent: I date it back to when DSLRs started becoming mainstream. Before that, fast apertures were purchased to be able to shoot in lower light at higher speeds with lower grain film, DESPITE narrow depth of field, not BECAUSE of narrow depth of field. We collectively need to snap out of our fascination for bokeh and re-learn what makes a portrait interesting. This 24-120 is a perfect tool for that, indeed!

How do you find the ZF pixel shift?

Love this 😊❤

느낌있네요!👍🙃

Causing the mind to create and look deeper to compose, you are right. Totally agree. And i have to say, i agree with dudewelder, hope to see that Zf being used again. Good job on the video, love the nature walk.

Great video !!! kinda wished he used the ZF......maybe next time.

Is that a cool Kodak instamatic lil box jewel of a cam on back? (On your right shoulder...)

I bought it today. I’ve loved the The 24-70 f4 however it will be sold.

Excellent!

I tried this lens this weekend. I have a ZF with 24-70 f/4, i like the 24-70 f/4 but the 24-120 f/4 will replace it. Thanks for the review

Good points. I am not against editing pictures but it's getting to the point where everything looks so manufactured. Everything can be changed digitally and with AI tools it will keep getting more extreme. I don't mind if that's the point, for example a matte painting in a tv show that needs to look a certain way but when it's supposed to be real, I tend to lose interest with all the editing. It feels like a product that is being made in a factory.

Thanks for the great video. As a former owner of a D750, and D850 and a current owner of two Z8s, the menu banks are very annoying. It is ridiculous that Nikon has refused to allow the menu banks to function like U1, U2 settings on the D750. I am continuously messing up the menu banks and have no way to go and reset them. I love my Z8s but hate the menu banks and that there is no way to lock the settings.

Hi Thomas. We seem to have similar size channels and views. And some similar thoughts about photography and art. I recently began trying a concerted effort to “grow my channel” and have been frustrated that when promoting it on FB, the images I am most pleased with appear to be, at worst, the least liked, or, at best, only do well by some random chance or because they are of a location that is well known. Grrr! This is especially true of my nightscape images - they take a huge amount of planning, patience and technique, but they are not well-received by “the algorithm”. I have decided, however, to pursue what I enjoy doing, not what FB or Insta think I should do. BTW, I recently produced a video discussing whether photography is art, which you might be interested in.th-cam.com/video/eB57xsHX-Wg/w-d-xo.html

“Fed to me to make me like it”, that is a top fact. (My opinion, of course). You’re right, i think this AI art stuff has really reached its brain washing hands to a LOT of younger people. It’s almost like that book by Neil Gaimen “American Gods”. New age art is slowly taking over, i feel a bit sad about that, i miss the original art from just the picture taken of a physical form, I personally do not want anything to do with the AI stuff. I will edit, but not add anything that isn’t there. Sometimes, i wish we could go backwards. And sure, I’d love to make money from what i do, and today, that’s becoming so hard to do, from what i can see. Give me original work. I agree, its not lost, but I feel it’s definitely being weeded out. Thanks for the video, really enjoyed it!

Another thing to consider is the cameras themselves. There isn't as much difference between the various brands today when compared to 10-15 years ago. We've nearly reached the saturation point concerning how good modern digital cameras can be with 40-60-100 MP, backlit, IBIS, sensors. Throw in the multi-coated, IS/VR lenses, and the market begins to blur together. Add whatever can be don in post these days and, yeah, everything begins to blend into one. If you really want your images to look 'real' and/or 'true' to the scene, go back to shooting film. Simple enough.

I started to take photos a couple of years ago, no prior experience but I watched a lot of TH-cam, I started to post on instagram, I dis well in the first month amassing nearly 2k followers, I started to fall into this rabbit hole of likes and attention, I also started to dislike why the photos I liked the most wouldn’t get as much attention as the ones I liked the least, started to obsess about it a little too much I watched a video similar to this and realised I was taking pictures for the wrong reason, now I don’t post(except for Flickr, I don’t see this as bad as other platforms), I take pictures for me and my walls, I print my own and I believe I have grown more and stress less I have no social media presence anywhere these days and never been happier

Thomas, this is exactly how I feel about Modern Landscape photography, over the last few years I have been withdrawing from many of the sites you mention. Initially, you are presented with so-called Wow photos in the likes of 500 px and yes, initially they seem to be amazing images, but they just seem to go on and on with the same massively overprocessed feel. Some photographers readily admit they can spend hours on just one image with many dozens of layers being used. How can they possibly be a representation of what they actually took?

Wow! You really made me think in this video! I actually watched this twice since these concepts are new to me and I am eager to learn, especially from a seasoned photographer/professor such as yourself. I suppose when I look at a landscape, it's already so beautiful to me, so the goal of my photography is to replicate that beauty. I'm a birder, and sometimes when I see a bird, I am literally overtaken by its beauty. The adrenaline flows and endorphins peak, and I strive to capture that feeling in my shots, if that's even possible. My photography, so that I can stay true to myself and be authentic, must always come as close to the level of excitement I felt observing that bird in nature doing what it does. That will probably always be my "style". And I guess amateur photographers can stay true. But with professional photographers, I can fully appreciate the competitiveness that happens on social media, and I bet many really good photographers can't sleep at night feeling discouraged that they adhered to a standard, acceptable, sameness format (selling out) rather than letting their natural talents take over and dictate how they share their art. I'm so eager to hear what others think.

Can you list the photographers that you mentioned?

Great shot

Has anyone use this lens for weddings?

I enjoyed this informative video Tom. When you were speaking about sensors I detected some indifference towards Canon cameras. Having one I have found it not so easy to have affordable good lenses. Thanks again for the presentation of this new camera.

Awesome work .. very colorful and cinematic

Absolutely agree on the 70-120 range. Until tried a plena i never felt the need for another z lens. But that's going to take a lot of savings so until then very happy with the 24-120

You look like you're ready for just about anything! The only things I would add are lipstick and hard candy. LOL Good video. Thanks.

the optical formula and new coatings with this lens are the main reason why differs so much to its F mount counterpart. In the Z system, even at f4, the image you get is pretty good even when the light dims down

Best wishes for the One man show. I hope you get chance to make a video on it.

your amazing your views photography and discussion regarding this post has me buying one soon thank you for details on this lens finally someone who clearly explains lens like you do much appreciate your time and your skills in what you do best

Thank you for this video. New subscriber here.

The background music is really not a good idea. Maybe not well chosen? Too repetitive?

Was this recorded in ProRes raw?

Thanks for making this video. I do agree that this is a great lens.

Hi, I’m shooting with Fujifilm gfx100s but it’s not for all types of photography, and it seems Z8 is! Just I’m not sure if I switch, could I take high quality photography with Z8 (in 14bit) versus 16bit in gfx100s?! Please advise.

Thanks!

Honestly, Tom, this is the first video I have watched where we were taken through the process. As a new photographer, I had no idea how it all went together with settings and filters, etc. I can tell it was a fun project for you to do. Really love your enthusiasm. You had me laughing. And your images were stunning! Sharing. And please have a coffee on me. Excellent work.

I drove 6 hours to see the totality. I think you will change your mind when you see one.

Absolutely, I think we were supposed to get like 2% so we didn't even go out.

So much better when you can do that in your own backyard. Awesome!

Hi Tom - Great video. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I was shooting similar scenarios that you were. I was originally planning to fly to TX from CT (plans that I had set in motion 2 yrs ago with some friends from TX) but cancelled my flight last week due to the weather forecast and pivoted to VT/NH area. I ended up in a field on the side of the road in Bloomfield VT and found a spot by a small river. I had the D850 w/500mm PF shooting the closeup shots. I then planned a wide landscape shot that I was taking with the Z9 with the river as a foreground. The plan was to shoot at somewhere between 14mm and 24mm to capture a foreground and then capture the different phases of the eclipse as it traversed across the sky and stack them all together. However, I came to realize that at 14-24mm the sun will be so small that you won't be able to discern the different phases of the eclipse in the overall composition, so decided to shoot the eclipse images at 105mm (maybe somewhere in between would have been better?). Unfortunately, this meant that I couldn't capture the complete traverse of the moon from start to finish all in the same field of view, so had to reposition the camera for post totality. Haven't had a chance to put it all together yet so not sure if it will even work out. And finally, I had the Zf set up to shoot a video. The close up shots in totality were amazing. The solar flares were very cool and the fact that I could see the corona AND a solar flare projecting out.... with the naked eye.... from 93 million miles away, blew me away. This was much better than the 2017 total eclipse that I saw in Madras OR (with 100k of my closest friends). I am completely non-religious/spiritual. I'm just in awe at the sheer size of it all... that I could see the corona that extends for millions of miles, and a solar flare so clearly that is dozens of times bigger than the Earth.... as you mentioned with regard to your experience to seeing the Grand Canyon, it's hard to explain. Hopefully you'll get a chance to experience a solar eclipse in totality at some point. One word of caution, once you do, they can become addictive. We're planning for Spain as well... and Australia in 2028.

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Appreciate your honesty.

Thanks for the video - very helpful. But please…. Stop winding the lens in and out a thousand times…. Very distracting.

😂Thanks for your great reviews. I also go to the 24 to 120 F4 as my primay lens. Love it. Also backed up with 14 to 30 f4 and 100 to 400 f4.5 to 5.6 and add the 105 mc for maco. All great on a Z8.