Z-7 terrible focus-point movement

[hofsethpaul]

more than a year later I still find the moving spot annoying both with the native zoomlens and with my library of manuals.

Especially with snow on the landscape; focusing on a branch in the corner of the frame is not ideal.

The remedy is to use more time and not trying to catch the moment using autofocussing lenses but to leave such at home. use proper manual optics and possibly refrain from exact expposure of the most interesting part of the motive and try the weighting systems built into most cameras-

p.

[hofsethpaul]

Leider in Englisch: no new software fom Nikon correcting the random focus point movement.

In the meantime I have found that the Leitz CL digital version has fewer buttons, is much more compact and equally useful for my manual lens library. Its excellent 11-to something zoom is as good, if not better than my manual wides on the same camera: except that this lens is autofocus with the same destructive focus point movement problem (which also makes spot light measurement unpredictable).

The CLs other drawbacks is that drastic reframing of snaps has less pixels to use, the manual enlargement function is not quite as efficient as that of the Z-7 while the Nikons stabilization of slower or longer lenses is very useful. So when light conditions demand, the CL stays at home.