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Nikon Z Series Mirrorless camera[^]
Looks like an awesome machine, with a price to match!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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For real fans of photography, fine.
But for me... with that price...
I prefer to have a trip and get memories instead of pictures.
I paid less than that for my 7 weeks Asia tour some years ago, and I was not traveling as a bag-packer
M.D.V. 
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Where is that *drooling* emoticon ?
If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going
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Nice, but I'm quite pleased with the photo's of my mobile phone (which is a factor 10 cheaper  )
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What is the advantage of less mirror ?
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AFAIK, Less mechanical parts, mostly, so less vibrations.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Simplified:
You use the same type of throughput as 'normal' digital cameras (i.e, not DSLR) - the image on the sensor shows on the screen (or in eyepiece) and when you take the shot, it is captured directly, as is. A bigger better sensor (the norm for point-and-shoots is 1/2.3" diameter and the usual DSLR bells and whistles that Japanese cannot help but put on everything (K.I.S.S. is not in their culture).
The 'mirror' versions are really digital knockoffs of the film-based cameras with a digital sensor instead of film. In these, during the period when the film was being exposed, the view of the scene disappeared - there was also the vibration of the mirror which could, under certain circumstances, be a concern.
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The flip side of it is that running a digital display instead of using an optical view finder like in an SLR eats battery life faster.
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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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No argument there - but a little payback is you don't need to supply power to move the mirror. Probably not that consequential. If you're using the viewfinder, instead of the back screen, the power consumption shouldn't be bad for that little thing.
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Z6 for night photos!!!
Same full-frame sensor, bigger photocells = better light capture.
I'd rather be phishing!
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To me, it looks like the Z7 additional features are completely unnecessary, especially for the money (I mean, who can distinguish difference between 3+ and 3++ MPs anyway, unless when standing in front of a 40 sqaure meter wall). But I am not an expert.
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As in a lot of thing technological, high-end gears offer incremental benefits over lower/mid end gear.
For professional photographers, those changes can be a good shot vs. a bad shot.
For example, a lot of sport photographers will use a camera with a faster frame rate over the image resolution, or for a wedding photographer will decide choosing a camera with bigger photo-cells over resolution so they can take low-light pictures without flash.
For portrait or product or nature photographer they will decide to go with resolution over other considerations.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Too rich for my blood!
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Mine to but don't hurt to dream.
Like the old saying goes; "If you're going to rob a bank, rob a big one!"
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Mike Hankey wrote: If you're going to rob a bank, rob a big one get someone else to do it and then rake in your cut on the money laundering !
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If only I could find that winning lottery ticket...it must be around here somewhere...
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Earlier I saw the hamsters chewing something that looked suspiciously like a lotto ticket?
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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"Hamsters!", I exclaim, while shaking my fist in a Shatneresque parody
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Hamsters not Tribbles!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Much too rich for my blood. While I can see why some professionals might need those set(s) of features, I certainly don't.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A bit of a cynical reply, but they're playing catch-up with Sony. At this 'end', they've a rarified atmosphere as they get solidly into the game.
Until I can get an affordable "super macro" for a DSLR I'll be staying with my Kodak Z990 .
A Schneider 30x zoom lens, as in that Kodak, and your pictures are stunningly clear in its full range. Runs on 4 AA (NiMH) batteries, which is quite a plus, actually.
But, indeed, I do have a dream camera without any particular brand name on it.
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OK, so how many companies now make something called a "Z series"?
Anyway, as a "camera buff" as you say, most of my cameras are as old as me or older. And none are Nikon.
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A huge fail for me: only a single memory card slot in a pro camera is a massive error. Also, Canon color science is far superior so I'd wait for Canon to do something. The price point on the model with the smaller sensor is ok but, still, one card slot...
Bear in mind that most modern DSLRs have a live view function of some sort. In effect, your camera is mirrorless at that point. Canons has excellent live view - I tend to control my camera from my phone when it is on a tripod.
Yes, I'm a Canon fanboi.
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The End
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Nothing wrong with Canon........if you can't afford a Nikon. Yeah I'm a Nikon fanboi!
Yeah didn't notice the single slot and 46.7M Pixel it would eat up an SD card quick!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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I'm a Pentax guy (but not a fanboi), so my DSLR is a K-1. I use Live View with particular lenses. I actually found a use for controlling it from my phone once. It has two slots and I heard that the add-on battery has a slot as well.
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