Z9 Firmware V5.0 - Improved Capture & Portrait options

More great updates, with one obvious omission...

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[ranjankmsphotography]

Really, we need the Pre Capture in please Nikon, bring this feature in Z9.

[frankcruz]

I just need the RAW pre-capture. I would pay for that upgrade, the most meaningful upgrade needed.

[ztmrtzu]

I agree with your pre-capture RAW recommendation to Nikon. I do not want to compromise quality!

[ericsmith]

Fully agree....As a wildlife photographer pre capture raw and at least 10 FPS !! 30 FPS raw and pixel shift would be nice as well....
Cheers,

[penchiselcamera]

Pixel shift, HEIF, open gate video, video shutter angle… hopefully some of these in a future update.

[Twobarpsi]

I really respect Nikon. If I didn't shoot Canon, Nikon would be my choice. I started my photography with Nikon, on 35mm film at 10 years old, believe it or not in the early 80s. My father got me started in photography.

[thomaschamberlin]

Yes, pre-capture in RAW is something I would use a lot. Also, why didn't we get pixel shift like the Z8 has?

[Photofreak]

I really hope the pre-capture raw is possible, and if so, I can't understand why it hasn't been part of a firmware update when so many people have been asking for it.

[ralfpassing]

Pre capture raw in star mode should be possible - I am fine with 10 frames

[agnethaladuff]

Awesome opening and cool firmware update news. Great video.

[mynameisben]

Nikon sure is on a roll with these updates! Perhaps there is benefit to updating them as they get to bolster the specs after the initial design phase, and this could attract new buyers as it makes the camera more competitive - meanwhile Nikon are amortising their initial R&D investment (into tooling, processes etc) and possibly even improve their margins due to other supply chain efficiencies.

[MultiAndAnd]

I have bought a d850 6 months ago. I will wait two or three generation of flagship mirrorless so that the used market really picks up and then change my d850 :)

I have much more fun than I thought, also playing with older lenses like the bigear 80-200.

[calebplumleeoutdoors]

I'd take 8-10fps RAW in precapture... or a frames limit (10frames?)... or a hard time cap of even half or quarter a second before release.

Just give us a lil nugget of RAW precapture!

[dancejam]

Feels like this was FW 4.3, not 5.0. Basics still missing: 1. Blinkies/Zebras in stills. 2. Subject eye detection in Manual Focus (i.e. Zf). 3. Pixel shift. 4. Pre-capture in RAW with more on the list - but start there.

[waveland]

As someone who quickly tired of the Mode stickiness problem when switching between stills and video, I’m very pleased they caught up and isolated the stills and video modes more completely. That had been the primary sign to me that Nikon firmware engineering remained stuck in the pre-video era where in the past a mode dial would/could override every other setting in the camera and it sort of made sense for the firmware setting to behave in the same way. Thankfully not any more. Progress! And as someone who uses timecode often, and who quickly discovered you could have BT timecode or the external grip—but not both—that’s a nice improvement as well. But we still don’t have fractional frame rates or shutter angles or at least a 1/48th shutter speed kludge. So it’s not a camera you can use for higher end film and commercial work. If the spec sheet says 23.976, then that’s exactly what you need to be able to specify in camera where sometimes a client is asking for straight 24p which is a separate frame rate. A pro video camera has to be able to do both. For personal projects it’s not a big deal. But if there’s a skilled DIT on set, you’ll get called out. And that’s not how you keep a good reputation in the film business. So half-progress, but progress in video nevertheless.

[ath]

Makes it very interesting to see what happens next with camera version will offer.

[johnhjic]

Hello Matt, Just like to say I have just replaced all but 5 of my F glass lenses and all but 1 of my Nikon DSLR's to now shooting just Nikon Z system ie Z9 and Z8. I feel that Nikon has done an amazing job in moving from a great system with their F mount, over 100 years of development to an even better Z system. Thank you Nikon. I to love the way that Nikon have been continually updating all of there Z system cameras with new firmware. I to would love pre and post capture to shoot RAW even limiting to the speed that we have now.

[GaryKFroehlich-jhmm]

Pre-capture RAW…that’d be nice. But where is the “one-button cycle through AF modes” feature that the Z8 just got?!?!?

I'm always happy when they come and bring a new firmware update. 👍😃

[odedia]

Good upgrade, though I was REALLY hoping for pixel-shifting now that it is available for the Z8. I wonder if there's a hardware difference that allows this to work with the Z8 but not the Z9?