Adapted zoom lenses not as easy to use if you want stabilization

[crocus63]

On a Nikon Z camera, you have to enter manual lens focal length values to enable the IBIS to work correctly. With a zoom, you would basically have to use 3 to 4 slots to enable a range and have to change the setting when moving from one FL to another. Is there a trick to this that I'm missing? Maybe turn IBIS off and shoot without it?

 

[petrochemist]

Its not just ~Nikon Z cameras, it's down to how IBIS works. The degree of sensor movement needed to correct for camera movement is a function on focal length.
I'm not familiar with how the Z series enter the focal length for this, but with my Sony, & Pentaxes it's fairly easy to adjust the value.
If you turn IBIS off it will work, but having it on with a value that is close even if it is wrong give some stabilisation... However having a focal length of 500mm set while using a 60mm lens does make it worse than useless - I've now done that several times. At least I have the excuse that I've been using IBIS for over a dozen years.

 

[Tom Caldwell]

On a Nikon Z camera, you have to enter manual lens focal length values to enable the IBIS to work correctly. With a zoom, you would basically have to use 3 to 4 slots to enable a range and have to change the setting when moving from one FL to another. Is there a trick to this that I'm missing? Maybe turn IBIS off and shoot without it?

I guess that you can set it to the maximum focal length of the zoom if you like strong IBIS or to the minimum focal length if you can manage with less help - or simply to half way between max wide and max zoom for an easy medium.

Frankly I like IBIS for what help it offers but I would set it to the widest focal length of a zoom and 'live dangerously'

But IBIS can be a pest as Petrochemist noted if ser for say 500mm and you forget to re-set it for the next lens when it happens to be an ultra-wide. Then you will be IBISing all over the place. Camera brands that nag you to change the IBIS setting at switch on make it harder to overlook an incorrect IBIS for manual focus lenses.