Do you find that you re-edit images processed in the field when you get back to homebase?

[jfriend00]

I would agree the first processing looks too bright, but the second one seems too dark to me unless you're specifically trying to portray a lower light situation. You're also getting very different colors (not just saturation levels) which you can see in the colors of the grass.

It looks like there might be a mistake in processing the 2nd image because the background as seen between the cheetah's two front legs looks brighter and greener. It's as if a mask didn't include that when it should have.

 

[areallygrumpyoldsod]

Fixed by adding 0.33EV exposure and adjusting the masking -- and yes LRC's AI mask does seem to deal poorly with gaps like between the front 2 legs

• NIKON CORPORATION - NIKON Z 9
• NIKKOR Z 400mm f/2.8 TC VR S
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5
• 1/1250 sec
• Pattern
• Manual exposure
• 0.7
• ISO 450

 

[jfriend00]

Great shot, by the way. Nailed the focus and timing.

 

[areallygrumpyoldsod]

Great shot, by the way. Nailed the focus and timing.

Have a look at the YouTube vid I made from the sequence of shots

 

[jfriend00]

Wow, that's quite a commercial for the Z9 focus tracking and fps. Nice camera work to follow the action too. I was last in the Maasai Mara when the best available Nikon body was my D2Xs.

 

[areallygrumpyoldsod]

Wow, that's quite a commercial for the Z9 focus tracking and fps. Nice camera work to follow the action too. I was last in the Maasai Mara when the best available Nikon body was my D2Xs.

It was 5 years for me - this trip was 3 weeks and I have 20,000 shots and a fair bit of 8k vid footage.

 

[mga010]

I have quite a bright screen on my laptop (OLED, you know), so your darker images work much better on my screen. Nice captures, by the way!

My question for you is about calibrating. What does the calibration calibrate for? I could only imagine for printing. For the web, I'd say that most viewers have monitors on a brighter level. Calibrating for them (or for yourself) will yield too dark images on most printing services.

I actually do a separate version for printing on a virtual copy. I judge this version by selecting a preset of my monitor which I carefully have set to match the output of my printing service. So, I do not really have to calibrate with a professional calibration. I did that, but found out that it does not match the one of my printing service.

 

[dirk]

Have a look at the YouTube vid I made from the sequence of shots

This Autofocus of the Z9 seems to be really good!

 

[Quattro88]

When travelling, I bring with me my 10" laptop that I use in hotel after the day of shooting for transferring images to my small external hard drive. No post-processing during the travel. When I return home, I transfer all images from the portable HD to my main PC's HD and then start post-processing in LR CC. I export selected processed images as jpg back to PC and then upload them to my online galleries. Works well for me.

 

[areallygrumpyoldsod]

This Autofocus of the Z9 seems to be really good!

Yes it is incredible -- but it is the whole package that is great - the glass and bodies -- which is one reason why i placed orders for a pair of Z8 yesterday.

While i understand some folk may have had bad versions of the Z9 both of mine worked great out of the box and just got better the more i used them and adapted to each new firmware update. i did not suffer with many of the AF issues others did. I shoot manual focus in tall grass and one of 4 AF modes all allocated with AF-ON to buttons. I enable/disable Subject Detection on a button press -- with SD off the camera works no worse than a D6.