It’s one of those ‘little big things’ that’s great to know you have.” With the Z 8 I can do it while recording. With my previous system, I had to stop, punch in close, then start up again. The subject may be moving around, or the lighting can be changing, and even when I know the AF is working, sometimes I just want to see if maybe I’m a little soft. “While I’m recording, I can punch in and magnify something or someone to be sure of focus. It never came off the subject.”Īnd if she needs to check focus, the Z 8’s zoom on/off control offers instant verification. “But the autofocus with the Z 8 is ridiculous-I was in situations where people would walk past my lens and the Eye AF on my subject didn’t budge there was no loss of focus, no hunting for focus. “With my previous system I didn’t feel the autofocus was reliable,” she says. That changed with the video she made with the Z 8. In her years of experience as a videographer she’d relied on manual focus, using focus peaking for confirmation. The Z 8 represents a big change for Sharrone, as she recently switched out her previous system for Nikon gear. “There was an instance of incredibly low light, and the camera was instantly finding the subject’s eye.” “I was blown away by the Eye AF tracking,” she says. Most important, though, was confidence-specifically autofocus confidence she never had prior to this camera. “As videographers, we’re sometimes carrying three or more bodies,” she says, “and with Z 8s, it’s going to be easy to carry them in one rolling bag.” The Big Benefit Wedding days are long lighter and smaller gear will be…well, let’s say a bit of a blessing for Sharrone and her crew. But in the hands of wedding videographer Sharrone Calafiore, the Z 8’s size and weight was just the beginning-but a significant one, to be sure. Yes, the Z 8 is 30 percent smaller than the Z 9, and 15 percent smaller than the D850-in case if you’re a DSLR shooter who’s been waiting to move to a Nikon mirrorless.
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