Nikon Z6 & Z6 ii ISO Tutorial, The best ISO setting! Did you know this?

My Nikon Z6 and Z6 ii ISO tutorial and best settings video where I talk you through a little trick I have for getting the best ISO performance from your camera.
It seems that not a lot of people are aware of the dual native ISO feature in the Nikon Z6 and Z6 ii cameras. They both share the same sensor so the ISO sweet spots are the same then.

Similar to the Nikon Z7 and the Nikon Z7 ii cameras although their ISO sweet spot is different as it is a different sensor with a far higher pixel density so the ISO performance as a result is slightly weaker.

The website I was talking about in the video is directly below.....
All you have to do is to select your camera model on the right hand side and you will get all the details you need on screen in a very helpful graph.

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0:00 Intro
0:23 ISO and why this is different.
1:18 Second Native ISO setting for Z6 and Z6ii.
3:19 Website Source.
4:00 Capturing the photographs.
4:30 ISO 100 Photograph
5:17 ISO 200 Photograph
5:42 ISO 400 Photograph
6:12 ISO 800 Photograph
6:20 ISO 400 VS ISO 800
6:48 ISO 400 vs ISO 800 vs ISO 1600
8:07 The Wink.

[musiqueetmontagne]

Very accurately done and explained. These values are based on perfect exposures too, something quite rare. In the real world ISO 800 is just a tad noisier than 400 but good enough to use for anything giving a shutter speed buffer without using auto-ISO. In dim light the faster shutter speed will give you better image quality compared to 400 and a marginal SS unless on a tripod. For night shots around a city, for example, I'll shoot in manual mode
@ ISO 800 and keep an eye on the SS and what I'm shooting of course. Auto ISO often chooses an unnecessarily high ISO for static scenes.

On the Z8 this "second base" is 500 ISO.

[simpletech]

Nice video. Don't you think the noise level for ISO 400 and ISO 1600 should be same according to the data you are talking about from the website? And then the noise level for ISO 800 should be below for both ISO400 and ISO1600.

[PavelHoloubek]

Hi, do you have any idea how its possible, that my pictures of a higher ISO (above 2000 is a nightmare 😒). I have nikon z6ii and noise reduction is turn off

[paulbarrett]

interesting, so is this like a similar thing to astro cameras with a CMOS sensor where you have the optimum gain? for the least noise to signal

[benjamin_david]

What set up are you running in order to get the tethering to work so smoothly?

[stefanusrheeder]

Hi Kieran. I use the Nikon D610 as a second camera body, but thought of changing to the z6ii. Is it worth the upgrade, and is focus much better on z6ii than d610 and how does it compare to the canon r6? thanks for your tutorials.

[jcam]

New to your channel Kieran , I just picked up a refurbished Z6ll from Nikon a couple of days ago . Going to put it through it's paces and make sure everything is functioning well . Great tip with the ISO . Looking forward to more of your content on this camera, as well as the Z7ll . Was wondering if you've done any nighttime photography with the Z6ll, supposed to be great in low light .

[djteknovibe]

You said raising the ISO captures more light but it doesn't, the aperture size captures more or less light light depending on what aperture you use, shutter speed allow light into the sensor for longer and ISO increases gain. It's kind of like recording a low level audio signal and then using gain to boost that sound level, what you do is increase noise. I nearly always use ISO100-200 and if I need anymore light into the sensor I decrease the shutter speed a tad and increase the aperture. The only time I go above ISO200 is when I need an extremely fast shutter speed like when photography fast moving subjects, if something isn't moving and I need more light than ISO200 can give me then I use a tripod and a long shutter speed.