![]() ![]() You feel spoiled for choice, and not always in a good way, and it’s the same with the hyper-busy AF menus. To save such scroll-fests, it would help if the lengthy menus defaulted back to the start each time you activated them.Īlso, on the Photo Shooting Menu, Nikon would be better off just displaying the most commonly used features and then partitioning-off rarely used functions like ‘Portrait impression balance’ etc in a sub-folder. Just trying to get back to Auto White Balance, for example, took me a full five minutes to figure out before I realised how to scroll back to it. ![]() It’s not that you can’t find stuff, it’s just that there are too many options crammed in there and it’s easy to get disorientated. Yes, I know I can bore for England on this subject, but compared to my beautifully streamlined Leica CL’s menu, it’s a dog’s dinner – even after coming to this camera from Nikon DSLRs. I don’t like the menu system very much, however. The quality viewfinder is very much appreciated when you’re out in a hot country shooting in strong sunshine (or conversely in the murky Scottish mist!) Can I (not) have the menu please?Īs well as the PASM dial, dials and buttons are kept to the minimum – just ISO, exposure compensation and video (buttons can also be customised). DSLR users will feel right at home, there’s a bright, clear EVF and top LCD, and a nice chunky handgrip. The addition of an SD card slot is also very welcome and the camera handles well, with a few caveats. ![]() I also took the Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens on my trips, and this felt more obtrusive and bulky than the actual camera. I’d never check-in my camera unless it was preventing me from boarding a flight, and the Z6 II is small and light enough to fit comfortably in hand luggage or squeeze into a larger pocket. Given my aching old back and shoulders, I don’t want to be lumbered with a big, heavy device – or one bristling with buttons and dials that can be easily activated by mistake when fishing the camera out of a bag. Which, when you are out travelling, tends to happen quite a lot. I tend to shoot in Manual mode (or sometimes Aperture Priority) and prefer to set and fine-tune Auto ISO, as my time as a wedding photographer taught me that it’s scarily easy to forget to adjust ISO manually if the light conditions keep changing. The 24.5MP full frame sensor is a good compromise, delivering plenty of resolution for decent sized prints, without eating up your storage, revealing every slight flaw in your focussing, or shovelling on noise as you push up the ISO.Īs we’ll see later, the ISO performance is very solid. It is a definite leap forward from the Nikon Z6 and Z7 which appeared in 2018, particularly in terms of AF performance. I’ve used the Nikon Z6 II on several trips to Southeast Asia this year, as well as covering a Zoom Tours photo workshop in the Scottish Highlands with Jeremy Walker, and it’s an impressive travel camera. I say ‘generally,’ as there were some reliability issues on the D800 and D750 DSLRs I used – including a terrifying episode where my D750 went on the blink on a day I was shooting a wedding – but things have come a long way since then and Nikon’s quality control systems seem to have improved. Back in the mists of time I took my first half-decent travel image with a Nikon D300s at a street market in Kuala Lumpur, and the brand (generally) served me well during my stint as a wedding and portrait photographer before joining AP. ![]()
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