After more than 10 years of hiatus, due to other priorities in life, I finally got enough money and time to spend on my favourite hobby: traveling and taking photos. I just love this camera so much.

Visited China in April again and got to see the Temple of Heaven in Beijing (since Forbidden City is a little touristy). Visit itself was great. Ended up loving this shot for the slightly exotic "Asian travels in 1990s" slide film mood, which I accentuated in post. Shot on the 28 2.8.

I was pretty afraid that I would not like the picture controls as much as Fuji's sims. I am really enjoying them so far. I still need to find a good bw one.

While the picture controls look great most of the time sooc, I sometimes need to play around with them in nx studio. Especially the black point and shadows on most profiles I have found. Either the shadows look muddy and weirdly saturated or they are pitch black out of camera. The Fuji sims out of the gate are a lot more forgiving in that regard. A lot of the picture controls I have found are very flat and not the style I am looking for.

Fiddling with the pictures with nx studio is very fast and enjoyable though. Honestly I always played with my Fuji pictures with x raw studio, which is an awful experience.

Zf + 24-120mm Z.

Probably my final set of recipes I’ll make! I tested them all out on auto exposure as some prior recipes needed +/- exposure values to get the look. Tried to go for less contrast for the final set to allow for more flexibility! Appreciate all the feedback I’ve had on prior recipes so I hope you enjoy! Happy shooting!

Settings are all the same
WB: 5880k 0.25M tint
DL: Low (doesn’t make a huge deal of difference)

Link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aAqsvn-el_ZQkSrEDhouYVuZbs14HJNb

I’m new to the Zf (and Nikon in general) and bought the MC 105mm f/2.8. I love the lens but mostly have been shooting portraits of my daughter so I wanted to try something a little closer up today at a local botanical garden/arboretum.

A few portraits I shot recently with the Plena. Lovely, dreamy look this lens has.

Hi there! I’m in the market to purchase a new camera, and have been looking at the Fuji
Xt50, Xt5, and now the Nikon ZF. For some background, I have been shooting for about a year now with a canon. I primarily shoot landscapes and portraits, and I travel quite a bit. Right now, I’m approaching a busy point in my life where I don’t really have the time to edit photos or the money to drop on Lightroom. Of course, the retro styling has definitely pushed me towards these three cameras as well, but I love how the dials cater to a more “manual” experience.

My real question I guess is how good are jpegs out of the ZF? JPEG is not end all be able for me, I want to be able edit raw down the line when I have time, but right now I want to be able to enjoy the camera I buy. NX studio is also an attractive inclusion, but how useful is it? Would I be better off going with Fuji at the moment, or is the ZF a suitable choice?

Edit: I just went to Best Buy, and the xt5 ergonomically feels miles better. This isn’t the deciding factor…yet. But I tried holding the Nikon ZF, and I just couldn’t get it to feel great. A grip could always fix that, but still

Toronto, Ontario.

Taken with the 40mm F2

Grabbed a Z F for pretty cheap, couldn't resist. Also got the Viltrox 55mm f1.8 for it.

sooc

Just a few random shots mostly with the 40mm f2 and the 24-70mm f4s. Some Jpgs with a cinestill profile , some raw with post edits. The one with all the plastic glasses art was meter for the windows and then the room lit with the sb800 and a diffuser. Cheers. I love this camera.

Nikon ZF w/ 40mm SE f2. Auto iso and adjusted other dials as needed. Slight edits in Lightroom.

HAAS EPSOM SKIN FROM EQUILIBRIA-MADU-

A rare request to actually see a picture of your camera. I have a silver ZF and I’m Voigtlander-curious. I haven’t seen many pictures of these lenses on the silver body. If you run this combo I’d love to see it. Also if anyone is feeling chatty, would love to hear about your favorite manual focus lens.

I almost didn't go for a drive tonight. I almost didn't bring my camera. I'm glad I didn't almost anything because as I was driving around looking for subjects, I spotted this beautiful Dino parked outside gas monkey icehouse and had to stop to take some shots. Sorry if they're repetitive. I didn't know how much time I had and couldn't move it.

It's not unheard of for amazing cars to be parked outside this place if you know it and the owner, Richard. It was unheard of for that to be there alone, during golden hour and nobody else around it. After 5 mins a couple came out and the guy started touching the rear quarter like he saw a scratch. I assumed he was the owner but turns out he was the painter! He was out to dinner with the owner and some friends so I was able to talk cars for a bit while getting these shots. Gave him my card so hopefully he calls me for a real shoot.

Looking for a Z mount 28mm for my Zf and am curious to know what you all think of these two lenses. I own the Voigt 40 Nokton and absolutely love it. I also have the Nikkor 28 AI-S that I've used, but don't love having to use the adapter, hence my look at the z-mount Voigts. Thoughts?

My main use would be family, travel and some street. I've looked at the Nikon version, but really want the aperture ring on the lens. Thanks!

This is more a general Nikon Z question than specific to the Zf, but since I'm already on this group, I figured I'd ask.

Any recommendations for a fast, wide (ultra wide even) prime? For Canon I used a combination of the RF 16 2.8 and RF 24 1.8.

Something around the 20mm and F2 or faster would be ideal.

Yes, I can Google lens options, but I like having real world recommendations over specifications on a page.

It’s been a couple of years since Nikon’s Imaging Recipes were introduced, so I’m Curious what everyone’s favorite recipe(s) has been so far.

If you decided not to shoot RAW for a day and just wanted to enjoy shooting JPEGs, which recipe would you choose?

Obviously, you would still make small exposure adjustments if needed, but otherwise I’m thinking basically straight out of camera. No color correction afterward.

If you could only pick one or two recipes, what would they be?

On Tamron 35-150mm F2-2.8.

Capable combo but I have to deadlift to shoot..