Thanks for the video. Will be taking delivery of my Z9 today! I too use Topaz Sharpen and this is the first mention I heard of it not playing nicely with the High Efficiency* mode. Given your video is a year old, as I’m watching it, do you or anybody here know if that incompatibility has been resolved? Also, what are the other programs you found didn’t work well with that file type? Thanks.
Topaz hasn't been updating Sharpen, Denoise, or Gigapixel for months. All they update is Topaz Photo AI. As far as I can tell, none of first three play nicely with Nikon high efficiency RAW files.
At 5:29 you say the "Image Size refers to the RAW files". Is that a mistake ? Does it not apply to your JPEG files ? When shooting just RAW, the menu item is grayed out on my Z8 . RAW files are always the same size....the max MP size. Can you clarify ?
Hi! I’ve binged watched your videos and really enjoy them. I’m trying to gather a lot of the info given, but also thought I’d just straight out ask. Just a mom wanting to get good basketball photos of her kid and his friends lol. I have Nikon d3500 and just the original lens. Can I get a zoom lens and that be enough or do I need to really look into a new body too. I have maybe $500 to spend on this, but I’d be pushing it at that. But he has been in ball for two years and all the photos I have of him or just a blur off my phone. Bc I wasn’t sure if the dslr I had e would work. Thank you for your time!
The D3500 is an entry-level DX camera. It’s great for learning photography, daylight photos, or maybe indoor with flash. But, it’s going to struggle under lowlight conditions like indoor basketball. It’s especially handicapped with the kits lens. You really need a lens that will open up to f2.8. You also need a lens in the 55-100 zoom range (or 70-200 with FX cameras). You’re talking more than your budget of $500 - even if you buy used. At this point, I’d say invest in a better lens than a new camera body. If you stick with this, you’ll eventually want a more advanced camera.
What's working well for Cards. I love that you can make it not go black when you shoot bursts, I like having some sound and the green bars. The viewfinder and shooting feedback made a big difference. The Focus area is interesting. what sports works best with 3d I'm not having great luck with it on soccer? This has been a big help thanks again.
Jack, I suppose I could have asked you this question in the Z9 Pro Users group, but since it is 9 months down the road, and following FW 3.1 release, I was hoping you could share what you think your preferred AF Area mode would be for Ice Hockey? As a wildlife shooter, I've finally settled on a custom setup that is working extremely well for me. As a former hockey player and competitor in dance, I am aware of the limitations on the venues. AUTO-FOCUS AREA MODE: If I had to guess (on settings), I would think that dynamic small for Area Focus Mode would still be the best choice. If shooting the goalie, after initial acquisition, custom area 1x1 might work well. With the speed of hockey, I was curious if a Custom Area Large as could be - to mimic Auto-Area AF - but limit it some- might be good on break-away attempts. AF-LOCK ON: Set to 3, 2 or off? VR: I would assume for panning and movement on even with high shutter speeds? Yes? Ultimately, it will be what works best for me, but I appreciate your knowledge and input.
I'm going to do a "year in review" video soon with my latest settings. They've changed as I've grown with the system and with the new firmware updates. But to quickly answer, I've dropped the Dynamic modes completely and am now almost exclusive using the Wide Area and C1,2,3 depending on the situation. The ability to track faces now is so much better with the latest firmware updates.
@@JackBeasleyMedia Appreciate the answer. I went and shot Ice Hockey yesterday. The plexiglass was more of the obstacle - never cleaned - than the focus area modes of the Z9. That said, I did go to dynamic small except on break-away shots (3D) because I found while the Z9 was good at picking up a face and even eye of a player, the action was so fast, with players crisscrossing in front of each other (and the refs as well) that it would jump to unwanted players or refs. if not for that, it would have worked. I was thinking the Sony A1 might not have done that. I do use the Custom areas a bunch for other things. Curious how you avoid the issues I just raised after switching from Dynamic area modes. Thanks in advance.
Thank you Jack for going through this. Interesting incites on some of the functions. I've tried to use banks in the past but I never liked the way they were implemented. If I understand them correctly if you move to one of them and you change a setting, even just aperture or shutter speed, it updates the bank with those new settings. Maybe I'm alone in thinking this way but I wish Nikon would give us the option to lock them in so even if you make changes while in a bank the next time you go to it, it goes to what you saved them as and not what it was the last time you used it. If I'm completely miss understanding them please correct me. I bounce between landscape, sports and portraiture so I'd love to be able to use them. Great content as always and look forward to new videos in the future.
Personally I set release focus having spent close to three hours in a small French town sitting by the road on a warm day waiting for the tour de France to come through I was ready Nikon D3 in hand with the Nikon 80 200 zoom attached and the camera set to focus release the pelaton came around the corner I aimed at the lead rider and pressed the release nothing happened overwhelmed the camera failed to lock on anything 30 seconds and no pictures later they were gone , now I have learned my lesson and always use release focus that way even if the first shot is out of focus the next shots will be and the camera will actually take pictures having gone from D3 to D4s and now Z9 the set up is the same and I never fail to get pictures.
@@JackBeasleyMedia thanks for reply! not noticing any dust spots, but there's a small piece of debris. I wouldn't be shocked if a squeeze of air does the trick.
Great video. When i shoot in horizontal mode and have focusing set for auto area AF with people, it shows me those settings in the viewfinder and the focusing points move all around. When I switch to vertical mode, it does not show auto area AF and people in the viewfinder and there it just one focus point. Am I missing some setting to use both auto area AF and people in both portrait and landscape mode?
I'm guessing that you have your vertical and horizontal modes and focusing points set differently. Look for a5 Store points by orientation in the custom settings menu.
Hey Jack, Loving the content. I recently picked up a Z8 and was watching your Z9 videos trying to get some ideas. I am coming from a D810 using Back Button focus with AFC single point. The wide small mode kind of reminds me of a single point just bigger. Lol. Definitely a lot more going on with this then a D810. I think I heard you say you evolved since making this video. I would love to see an updated one that talks about your evolution as well as setting for night time team sports. Anyway, thanks for everything and look forward to diving more into your videos and seeing what come in the future.
@@JackBeasleyMedia thank you! I shot my first basketball game with the Z9 using 95% of your settings. It worked unbelievably well, although I accidentally moved the primary focal point several times. I need to figure out how to lock and then have an override when/if I need to move it.
My settings have changed somewhat as Nikon has upgraded firmware and I’ve learned to use some settings I had ignored before. At some point I’ll put out another video with that info.
@@JackBeasleyMedia Have you figured out how to set pre-determined focus points? They say you can setup Fn keys to quickly recall where you need to be but I can’t figure out which option it’s under. Ie. RH batter has focus point to the right side and LH batter on left side of the view finder. I figured out how to recall a focus point, but it only brings it back to the center. Having a preset would be much easier.
Sorry, no. Maybe when baseball season rolls around. The next techniques I'm working on mastering are shifting from one manual exposure setting to another with a single button push (brightly lit to darkened areas of a field) and a type of hybrid focusing where you have one focusing mode on the shutter button and another on the AF-On button.
Hi Jack. I have just received my Z9 and have a soccer match tomorrow. I thought I'd got most of my settings dialed in until I watched this video. How are you getting on with yours? Any changes that you've done?
Yes, lots, for two reasons. First, I’m learning more and more about what works and doesn’t work for me. Second, Nikon keeps upgrading the firmware and improving the autofocus. I’d say the biggest change is that I use the wide area AF modes almost exclusively now. Also, I’ve configured the function buttons somewhat differently.
Hey Jack. What do you use for high school basketball ? Typically I use single point. This last game, I tried 3D. When it worked , it was amazing. But with half a dozen faces in the shot, I found it jumping off my subject a lot. Any suggestions ? Thanks.
@@JackBeasleyMedia thank you for the quick response. I would love to see you do a full workflow video from the end of the shoot through final image output for delivery. Also, are you still using D5 or D850 as a second body?
That video is a bit dated. There have been several settings updates from Nikon since then. I recommend you try out this video: Recommended Nikon Z8 & Z9 Menu Settings For Sports th-cam.com/video/UEkrHIxnlRE/w-d-xo.html
I have to say just how awful the Z9 focus problem is shooting a motor sport event yesterday , a ( forest rally ) with one side of the road tree lined the camera faild to find focus until the cars were closer but then once they were performed ok. The second stage I was standing somewhere else and the road had trees either side the camera failed to find focus no matter what settings I used I switched to my D850 body which worked fine so this Z9 focus problem hasn't gone away with the latest firmware update.
Thanks Jack, for the last couple of months I have been using 3D tracking exclusily for sports on both my Z9 cameras but last Sunday I decided to opt for Dynamic S and extremaly pleased with the results as I captured my first American Football game (in Germany) this season, so this will be my default setting going forward. Many thanks, really enjoy your videos
Great video! I'd be interested in your settings for shooting banks B+C and custom bank B - how do they vary? Perhaps this is inspiration for another video!
Thanks! The variations are minor - a tweak here or there. Basically, it's things I would have to change manually every time I switch from one shooting condition to the next. For example, going from a bright sunny day to a poorly lit field at night - in those cases, it's white balance, ISO, noise reduction, flicker reduction, etc.
@@JackBeasleyMedia Thanks! Fwiw, my method for managing the Z9 settings banks: I save my standard settings onto formatted, empty cards in both card slots, then after changing them during a shoot, load the saved settings back into the camera before uploading the image files or reformatting the cards. I also back the .bin file up to hard drive and Google Drive. Works for me better than some of the workarounds I've seen on TH-cam.
Thanx for the set up walkthrough, great way of presenting them. Have D4s and D850 but feel Z9 has soooo many settings it can get a confusing at times 😊.
Hey Jack, again a great video from you. I expected nothing else 😅😅. Can you help me?: Do you know a memory card for the Z9 with which I can shoot permanent 20 RAWs/sec? I tested: SanDisk Extreme Pro after 70 RAWs the Z9 is stottering Delkin CFExpress Power after 80 RAWs the Z9 is stottering I recognize that the examples above are valid if the cards are cold. If the cards are getting more hot or the weather/hall is more hot, the values are more worse. For some situations in sport photography (Muay Thai Boxing for example) I need sometimes longer/permanent bursts. Yes, I need 20 pics/sec and yes I want shoot in RAW ;) Greetings from germany. :)
Hey Don, I'm afraid I don't have an answer for you. I have the same issue with my cards. If I see a test someone else has performed, I try to follow up with you. I'm curious about this myself.
@@JackBeasleyMedia If it is interesting for you?: I read a little bit on the internet. It seems that many cards have also an own buffer. So, a card can write "up to 1400Mb/s" ( a short time...somehow....sometime....). I test new: With the "ProGrade Cobalt 325GB" I can take min 160-200 HE* RAW shots before my Z9 start to stuttering. 160-200 shots are around 8-10 sec burst time, which is a good base for sport photography I think. I will get the "Sony Tough" on Thursday and test them, too. I sent the "Delkin cards" back to Amazon. For me they are useless for sports
RAW files are too big and too time consumer for turning around images fast. Getty and other wire type companies only want JPG files. How quick do your clients want files turned around. Mine want them almost as fast as they are shot
I have different clients who have different time frames. I have two clients that want images as quickly as I can crank them out and quality isn't as big a factor, so I shoot JPGs with them. I have another that demands near perfection but doesn't expect them right away - so those start as RAW.
Excellent instructional video Jack- well paced & covers a great amount of helpful info-much appreciated! Question I have is I went through all my settings, which were near identical to yours for shooting tennis players (both singles/doubles) and wanted to at least Try the AF "Sharpening" you mentioned associated w/the NL* setting, which I do not see nor can I get to appear on my Z9. Is there a setting change I need to make to make that appear so I can adjust & play w/the AF sharpening mode? Had all my settings identical to yours at that point.
Chelaru, you'd have to qualify this statement a bit. I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean the Z9 raw file? Picture profiles change the look of your JPG with baked in settings, but also the view in the EVF and look of the histogram in the EVF. Choose something like Denim Blue and you'll see it in the EVF. Choosing the picture profile could also, potential, change the way the files are imported into LR if it is set up for Camera Specific profile instead of Adobe profile. Many of the profiles add editing features (i.e. up the contrast or brightness or saturation) and therefore change change the histogram (which if you use it) which can cause you to clip highlights or shadows by altering settings of the camera, before you take the photo. So, the statement "Every picture profile" is the same in the Z9 is not true for the Z9, nor any other camera in the Nikon family that I have used.
Do you have Z9 settings that you really like for sports or a few tricks I didn't mention, I'd love to hear about them!
Thank you Jack. Just picked up a Z9. I shoot portraits and day/night high school sports. I appreciate you sharing these settings with us.
Your information on Nikon Z9 is very good, it helped me see things that I did not have on my horizon, your explanations are very good.
Thank you
Jack. Your You Tube videos of the Nikon Z 9 are awesome. Please keep up the great work!
Glad you like them!
Maybe cool to see a hypothetical day in the life with you and the z9. As you move through the settings
Good suggestion! I’m trying to do more BTS in the future.
Thanks for the video. Will be taking delivery of my Z9 today! I too use Topaz Sharpen and this is the first mention I heard of it not playing nicely with the High Efficiency* mode. Given your video is a year old, as I’m watching it, do you or anybody here know if that incompatibility has been resolved? Also, what are the other programs you found didn’t work well with that file type? Thanks.
Topaz hasn't been updating Sharpen, Denoise, or Gigapixel for months. All they update is Topaz Photo AI. As far as I can tell, none of first three play nicely with Nikon high efficiency RAW files.
At 5:29 you say the "Image Size refers to the RAW files". Is that a mistake ? Does it not apply to your JPEG files ? When shooting just RAW, the menu item is grayed out on my Z8 . RAW files are always the same size....the max MP size. Can you clarify ?
Yes, I misspoke. Good catch.
Hi! I’ve binged watched your videos and really enjoy them. I’m trying to gather a lot of the info given, but also thought I’d just straight out ask.
Just a mom wanting to get good basketball photos of her kid and his friends lol. I have Nikon d3500 and just the original lens. Can I get a zoom lens and that be enough or do I need to really look into a new body too. I have maybe $500 to spend on this, but I’d be pushing it at that.
But he has been in ball for two years and all the photos I have of him or just a blur off my phone. Bc I wasn’t sure if the dslr I had e would work. Thank you for your time!
The D3500 is an entry-level DX camera. It’s great for learning photography, daylight photos, or maybe indoor with flash. But, it’s going to struggle under lowlight conditions like indoor basketball. It’s especially handicapped with the kits lens. You really need a lens that will open up to f2.8. You also need a lens in the 55-100 zoom range (or 70-200 with FX cameras). You’re talking more than your budget of $500 - even if you buy used. At this point, I’d say invest in a better lens than a new camera body. If you stick with this, you’ll eventually want a more advanced camera.
@@JackBeasleyMedia thank you!
Color space sRGB is also only affecting jpg. Raw is raw so no settings, except for exposure setting, affect raw image.
What's working well for Cards. I love that you can make it not go black when you shoot bursts, I like having some sound and the green bars. The viewfinder and shooting feedback made a big difference. The Focus area is interesting. what sports works best with 3d I'm not having great luck with it on soccer? This has been a big help thanks again.
Jack, I suppose I could have asked you this question in the Z9 Pro Users group, but since it is 9 months down the road, and following FW 3.1 release, I was hoping you could share what you think your preferred AF Area mode would be for Ice Hockey? As a wildlife shooter, I've finally settled on a custom setup that is working extremely well for me. As a former hockey player and competitor in dance, I am aware of the limitations on the venues. AUTO-FOCUS AREA MODE: If I had to guess (on settings), I would think that dynamic small for Area Focus Mode would still be the best choice. If shooting the goalie, after initial acquisition, custom area 1x1 might work well. With the speed of hockey, I was curious if a Custom Area Large as could be - to mimic Auto-Area AF - but limit it some- might be good on break-away attempts. AF-LOCK ON: Set to 3, 2 or off? VR: I would assume for panning and movement on even with high shutter speeds? Yes? Ultimately, it will be what works best for me, but I appreciate your knowledge and input.
I'm going to do a "year in review" video soon with my latest settings. They've changed as I've grown with the system and with the new firmware updates. But to quickly answer, I've dropped the Dynamic modes completely and am now almost exclusive using the Wide Area and C1,2,3 depending on the situation. The ability to track faces now is so much better with the latest firmware updates.
@@JackBeasleyMedia Appreciate the answer. I went and shot Ice Hockey yesterday. The plexiglass was more of the obstacle - never cleaned - than the focus area modes of the Z9. That said, I did go to dynamic small except on break-away shots (3D) because I found while the Z9 was good at picking up a face and even eye of a player, the action was so fast, with players crisscrossing in front of each other (and the refs as well) that it would jump to unwanted players or refs. if not for that, it would have worked. I was thinking the Sony A1 might not have done that. I do use the Custom areas a bunch for other things. Curious how you avoid the issues I just raised after switching from Dynamic area modes. Thanks in advance.
Thank you Jack for going through this. Interesting incites on some of the functions. I've tried to use banks in the past but I never liked the way they were implemented. If I understand them correctly if you move to one of them and you change a setting, even just aperture or shutter speed, it updates the bank with those new settings. Maybe I'm alone in thinking this way but I wish Nikon would give us the option to lock them in so even if you make changes while in a bank the next time you go to it, it goes to what you saved them as and not what it was the last time you used it. If I'm completely miss understanding them please correct me. I bounce between landscape, sports and portraiture so I'd love to be able to use them. Great content as always and look forward to new videos in the future.
Yes, every time you casually make a change for the situation you’re in, the bank that was active is now changed. So yes, that’s kind of a pain.
@@JackBeasleyMedia I'm sure some like it that way. I wish Nikon would give us option to set it and forget it. So Nikon if you are listening..... ;-)
Personally I set release focus having spent close to three hours in a small French town sitting by the road on a warm day waiting for the tour de France to come through I was ready Nikon D3 in hand with the Nikon 80 200 zoom attached and the camera set to focus release the pelaton came around the corner I aimed at the lead rider and pressed the release nothing happened overwhelmed the camera failed to lock on anything 30 seconds and no pictures later they were gone , now I have learned my lesson and always use release focus that way even if the first shot is out of focus the next shots will be and the camera will actually take pictures having gone from D3 to D4s and now Z9 the set up is the same and I never fail to get pictures.
Do you clean your own sensor? Anything strange about cleaning the Z9 or same as any other mirrorless sensor?
I haven’t had to clean the sensor on the Z9, but I don’t believe it’s any different than other mirrorless cameras.
@@JackBeasleyMedia thanks for reply! not noticing any dust spots, but there's a small piece of debris. I wouldn't be shocked if a squeeze of air does the trick.
Great video. When i shoot in horizontal mode and have focusing set for auto area AF with people, it shows me those settings in the viewfinder and the focusing points move all around. When I switch to vertical mode, it does not show auto area AF and people in the viewfinder and there it just one focus point. Am I missing some setting to use both auto area AF and people in both portrait and landscape mode?
I'm guessing that you have your vertical and horizontal modes and focusing points set differently. Look for a5 Store points by orientation in the custom settings menu.
Hey Jack,
Loving the content. I recently picked up a Z8 and was watching your Z9 videos trying to get some ideas. I am coming from a D810 using Back Button focus with AFC single point. The wide small mode kind of reminds me of a single point just bigger. Lol. Definitely a lot more going on with this then a D810. I think I heard you say you evolved since making this video. I would love to see an updated one that talks about your evolution as well as setting for night time team sports.
Anyway, thanks for everything and look forward to diving more into your videos and seeing what come in the future.
Jack, thank you so much for the video and spreadsheet! Is there a way to download the spreadsheet, so I can open it in Excel on my PC?
In your browser, view the file. Then, File > Download > Excel
@@JackBeasleyMedia thank you! I shot my first basketball game with the Z9 using 95% of your settings. It worked unbelievably well, although I accidentally moved the primary focal point several times. I need to figure out how to lock and then have an override when/if I need to move it.
How do I change the fps 20 fps for bank A and 5 fps for bank B? At this monent when I change it it's the same for all (A,B,C,D)
Frame rate is set outside of the banks, so it stays the same even if you change banks.
Excellent video.
For the amateurs like me, would it be possible for you to put online the .bin file with these settings?
Thanks a lot
I'm waiting 😉😉😉😉😉😉😉
Hi Jack, just got my Z9 and have put your excellent settings into it, I will tweak them a bit but its a great place to start, many thanks, Ken
Great to hear!
Do you still stick by these settings now that we're on firmware 3.1?
My settings have changed somewhat as Nikon has upgraded firmware and I’ve learned to use some settings I had ignored before. At some point I’ll put out another video with that info.
@@JackBeasleyMedia thanks for reply. Look forward to it
Great video as always! I did not realize a couple options existed so this is great!
Glad you enjoyed!
@@JackBeasleyMedia Have you figured out how to set pre-determined focus points? They say you can setup Fn keys to quickly recall where you need to be but I can’t figure out which option it’s under. Ie. RH batter has focus point to the right side and LH batter on left side of the view finder. I figured out how to recall a focus point, but it only brings it back to the center. Having a preset would be much easier.
Sorry, no. Maybe when baseball season rolls around. The next techniques I'm working on mastering are shifting from one manual exposure setting to another with a single button push (brightly lit to darkened areas of a field) and a type of hybrid focusing where you have one focusing mode on the shutter button and another on the AF-On button.
@@travisc410 custom settings > f controls > f2 custom controls (shooting) > change either fn1, fn2 or fn3
Hi Jack. I have just received my Z9 and have a soccer match tomorrow. I thought I'd got most of my settings dialed in until I watched this video. How are you getting on with yours? Any changes that you've done?
Yes, lots, for two reasons. First, I’m learning more and more about what works and doesn’t work for me. Second, Nikon keeps upgrading the firmware and improving the autofocus. I’d say the biggest change is that I use the wide area AF modes almost exclusively now. Also, I’ve configured the function buttons somewhat differently.
Hey Jack. What do you use for high school basketball ? Typically I use single point. This last game, I tried 3D. When it worked , it was amazing. But with half a dozen faces in the shot, I found it jumping off my subject a lot. Any suggestions ? Thanks.
I’ve found the wide area small works well, after the 3.0 firmware
Jack, how did the shooting with Flat + extra sharpening work out? Does it speed up AF and the camera when shooting RAW?
I don’t know that it made a difference. The biggest change in speed and accuracy came with the 3.0 firmware.
@@JackBeasleyMedia thank you for the quick response. I would love to see you do a full workflow video from the end of the shoot through final image output for delivery. Also, are you still using D5 or D850 as a second body?
I plan my next video to be just that. I sold the D850 but kept the D5.
Thanks Jack, for settings. I bought this camera today
Sweet! Have fun!
where is the link to the spreadsheet?
That video is a bit dated. There have been several settings updates from Nikon since then. I recommend you try out this video:
Recommended Nikon Z8 & Z9 Menu Settings For Sports
th-cam.com/video/UEkrHIxnlRE/w-d-xo.html
I have to say just how awful the Z9 focus problem is shooting a motor sport event yesterday , a ( forest rally ) with one side of the road tree lined the camera faild to find focus until the cars were closer but then once they were performed ok. The second stage I was standing somewhere else and the road had trees either side the camera failed to find focus no matter what settings I used I switched to my D850 body which worked fine so this Z9 focus problem hasn't gone away with the latest firmware update.
Thanks Jack, for the last couple of months I have been using 3D tracking exclusily for sports on both my Z9 cameras but last Sunday I decided to opt for Dynamic S and extremaly pleased with the results as I captured my first American Football game (in Germany) this season, so this will be my default setting going forward. Many thanks, really enjoy your videos
Glad I could help!
Do you have a recommend settings for Sports video for the z9
Sorry, no. I haven’t used it for that purpose.
Great video! I'd be interested in your settings for shooting banks B+C and custom bank B - how do they vary? Perhaps this is inspiration for another video!
Thanks! The variations are minor - a tweak here or there. Basically, it's things I would have to change manually every time I switch from one shooting condition to the next. For example, going from a bright sunny day to a poorly lit field at night - in those cases, it's white balance, ISO, noise reduction, flicker reduction, etc.
@@JackBeasleyMedia Thanks! Fwiw, my method for managing the Z9 settings banks: I save my standard settings onto formatted, empty cards in both card slots, then after changing them during a shoot, load the saved settings back into the camera before uploading the image files or reformatting the cards. I also back the .bin file up to hard drive and Google Drive. Works for me better than some of the workarounds I've seen on TH-cam.
@@jamesneuger993 Great suggestions!
Good suggestion!
Many thanks for sharing your prefered settings
My pleasure!
Thanx for the set up walkthrough, great way of presenting them. Have D4s and D850 but feel Z9 has soooo many settings it can get a confusing at times 😊.
Hey Jack,
again a great video from you. I expected nothing else 😅😅.
Can you help me?:
Do you know a memory card for the Z9 with which I can shoot permanent 20 RAWs/sec?
I tested:
SanDisk Extreme Pro after 70 RAWs the Z9 is stottering
Delkin CFExpress Power after 80 RAWs the Z9 is stottering
I recognize that the examples above are valid if the cards are cold.
If the cards are getting more hot or the weather/hall is more hot, the values are more worse.
For some situations in sport photography (Muay Thai Boxing for example) I need sometimes longer/permanent bursts.
Yes, I need 20 pics/sec and yes I want shoot in RAW ;)
Greetings from germany. :)
Hey Don, I'm afraid I don't have an answer for you. I have the same issue with my cards. If I see a test someone else has performed, I try to follow up with you. I'm curious about this myself.
@@JackBeasleyMedia Well. That's ok. Then I know that I am not the only one 😅
@@JackBeasleyMedia If it is interesting for you?:
I read a little bit on the internet.
It seems that many cards have also an own buffer.
So, a card can write "up to 1400Mb/s" ( a short time...somehow....sometime....).
I test new:
With the "ProGrade Cobalt 325GB" I can take min 160-200 HE* RAW shots before my Z9 start to stuttering.
160-200 shots are around 8-10 sec burst time, which is a good base for sport photography I think.
I will get the "Sony Tough" on Thursday and test them, too.
I sent the "Delkin cards" back to Amazon. For me they are useless for sports
RAW files are too big and too time consumer for turning around images fast. Getty and other wire type companies only want JPG files. How quick do your clients want files turned around. Mine want them almost as fast as they are shot
I have different clients who have different time frames. I have two clients that want images as quickly as I can crank them out and quality isn't as big a factor, so I shoot JPGs with them. I have another that demands near perfection but doesn't expect them right away - so those start as RAW.
Great video! Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Excellent!!
Excellent instructional video Jack- well paced & covers a great amount of helpful info-much appreciated! Question I have is I went through all my settings, which were near identical to yours for shooting tennis players (both singles/doubles) and wanted to at least Try the AF "Sharpening" you mentioned associated w/the NL* setting, which I do not see nor can I get to appear on my Z9. Is there a setting change I need to make to make that appear so I can adjust & play w/the AF sharpening mode? Had all my settings identical to yours at that point.
NM Jack- figured out the Adjust button modifies those adjustments, which did'nt see originally.
Hey, you got one. Nice!
Nikon z9 лучше, чем nikon d6 для спорта?
D6 будет иметь лучшую низкую освещенность, высокую способность ISO. В остальном Z9 превосходит во всех отношениях.
@@JackBeasleyMedia Thank you
My z9 is the same in every picture profile.
Chelaru, you'd have to qualify this statement a bit. I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean the Z9 raw file? Picture profiles change the look of your JPG with baked in settings, but also the view in the EVF and look of the histogram in the EVF. Choose something like Denim Blue and you'll see it in the EVF. Choosing the picture profile could also, potential, change the way the files are imported into LR if it is set up for Camera Specific profile instead of Adobe profile. Many of the profiles add editing features (i.e. up the contrast or brightness or saturation) and therefore change change the histogram (which if you use it) which can cause you to clip highlights or shadows by altering settings of the camera, before you take the photo. So, the statement "Every picture profile" is the same in the Z9 is not true for the Z9, nor any other camera in the Nikon family that I have used.
@@dance2jam referring to the af performance. Tested them all in different conditions and I have the same af performance.
@@MadManTnT Ah. Got it. You were talking about AF, not the EVF or histogram.