In 2018, even Canon and Nikon strategically chose to make mirrorless their future. Just like with autofocus and digital, we had to wait ten years. Again this camera couldn’t impress anybody who was seriously involved with photography. One year after the Nikon D3, in 2008, the first commercially successful mirrorless camera was introduced: the Panasonic Lumix G1. Digital had grown mature and enabled us now to capture almost any moment imaginable (pun intended). The combination of very high performance at high ISO values, unlimited use of wide angles, and very fast burst speeds opened a new photographic world. It introduced gapless microlenses that caught more light but also were able to catch oblique light rays from the wide angles from the film age and combined that with effective yet subtle on-sensor noise reduction. The D3 solved the problems digital cameras still had. In that year the Nikon D3 was introduced. But again, after approximately ten years digital became better than film: in 2004 you’d buy a DSLR for around $ 1.000,- that offered an image quality higher than 35mm film. Much less sharpness, much more noise, and no or very bad colors. They offered an image quality that was vastly inferior to silver halide images. DigitalĪround ten years later we saw the first digital cameras. But we all know that after approximately ten years autofocus cameras arrived at a point that they were often faster at focusing than even the most experienced photojournalist. To beginners, who didn’t have experience in manual focusing, it was welcome. Cameras only had one focus point, so you had to focus and reframe all the time and even when you didn’t have to do that, autofocus was slow. Really, the first years of autofocus weren’t very memorable. With my Nikon F3 and FM2 I was able to focus much faster and more precisely than my colleague. I was surprised too – but I wasn’t impressed. The year was 1986 and Minolta had just introduced the first complete system of autofocus cameras and lenses, which was a complete surprise to the market. I remember very clearly the moment when a colleague showed me a Minolta 7000 AF (MAXXUM 7000/α-7000). New inventions at first don’t seem to offer much of an advantage, often even on the contrary. But this camera is not only better than the D6, it represents a completely new generation of mirrorless cameras. The fact that Nikon is confident enough to offer a mirrorless replacement of its fastest DSLR is impressive. The Z 9 doesn’t track, it leads The Nikon Z 9 is Nikons professional high speed camera, the successor of the venerable Nikon D6.
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