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Yeah this video was shot on the Nikon Z6III. By default the Nikons don't seem to have any built-in noise reduction in video, which is interesting, but the Z6III had even more problems as documented in the previous two videos 😅 I did at least mostly resolve the flickering when editing at least, but cleaning up all the noise slows everything down a lot more unfortunately.

Haha very rarely! I do sometimes shoot a landscape at 180mm at least. Sometimes use the midranges for birds in flight but even that’s not very common. A prime would probably make more sense but yeah the price difference is pretty significant!

Aaah yes this is a pain in the arse! Unfortunately Apple’s Camera RAW continues to not support Nikon’s lossless compressed RAW format, and it’s been going on for years now 😞 I’m not sure why they still don’t support it. Right now the best options are to either use something like Lightroom/PhotoLab etc to browse the files, or shoot in the uncompressed RAW format instead, which works fine in MacOS.

Also easily seen in HLG. I believe it’s under the surface in SDR too but harder to spot as the shadows are darker by default.

“Always bashing” == I’ve complained about Nikon’s matrix metering three times. If I don’t know how to expose then swapping cameras would hardly help now, would it? Only I don’t have the same problems on any of the other cameras I shoot, including older film Nikons or completely meterless cameras. Neither on the various modern cameras I’ve owned over the past few years. The matrix metering in modern Nikons seems to be quirky and works properly only in certain situations (it works fine for people at least), and Nikon won’t give you a medal for valiantly defending it online. Feel free to go check out any number of my well-exposed film photos on Glass.

I usually keep it in M just because I find mode switching awkward on Nikon bodies by default (as it's always on the left of the camera) and I often swap the aperture, but yeah shooting in S is just as viable and it's really nice to have the easy aperture compensation option! 😀

I'm coming around to the idea that it's all of them and some people just don't pick up on it easily, for whatever reason - I actually reported this to a larger publication recently and they were able to reproduce it quickly, but hadn't noticed it themselves beforehand. Hopefully Nikon can figure out a firmware fix of some description 🤞 The workarounds of applying specific types of noise reduction and deflicker in Davinci Resolve do at least largely fix it if you need to recover the footage (e.g. I had a bunch of shots in ruclips.net/video/qIJO0l3euXs/видео.html that needed to be repaired), but it's still a bit of a pain and slows down editing unfortunately.

@@robert_may If I were editing/coloring myself, I’d be less concerned. But for the gig I just shot and for a lot of my work, we hand files off to client’s in-house editors… I think they’ll probably make a stink about having to do extra work to fix an issue with one of our cameras.

Unfortunately it's visible in other software too - just checked with Quicktime. Interestingly Davinci is the only software that supports NRAW right now, I think, so you'd hope it'd have the best support 😅

Same in Premiere Pro unfortunately.

@@robert_may Thanks!

Ooh yeah - he has another video comparing that Leica and with the Sigma lens as well, and his conclusion is that the Sigma is the clear winner. I think the Leica might be a rebadged Panasonic due to how close his results are on the comparison with that. I've been really surprised by these Sigma I-series lenses as they're really, really good. If I get a chance before I send this 50mm back to Sigma I'd like to try a comparison against the Nikon 50mm f/1.8 S as that's also a very sharp lens, and I'd be curious to see how they stack up against each other 😀

Yes, that comparison with the Nikon 50mm would be great. Regarding the Sigma L series, I own the 65mm f/2 and it is an unbelievable good Lens!

@@xaviergut8232 Ooh yes the 65mm f/2 is really good too, and a very interesting focal length for photography!

Haha I think it really depends on hand size and whether you have a vertical grip on the camera. On a Z8 I don't think I'd have noticed it either - it's only on the Z9 that I find the placement super irritating 😆

@@robert_may Yeah its an A7iv I use so that might play into the ergonomics a bit.

Lemme know if they reply - I think a couple of people have contacted them now but not seen anything back from them yet.

Had to edit my question. I meant to ask have you spoken to Nikon about the issue

@@solidroc7entertainment49 Aah gotcha. No not personally, but I did get in touch with a larger publication and they have spoken to Nikon about it. No more info back from Nikon yet but I believe they are looking into it 🤞

Oh that's annoying. Yeah it's worked well for me across my devices. There's a few options around it when setting it up on the camera, might be worth going through those and checking they're actually configured correctly 🤔

The hoodie for the trip that never was 😭 Haha I'm good thanks! Do hit me up if you ever wanna chat 😀

I saw an anti-moire setting mentioned but I couldn't find it anywhere in the camera. I tried every other setting as far as I could remember, including different combinations of things. I believe lens corrections aren't applied to NRAW, but I might be mistaken. Yeah I've been wondering about the effect of different framerates, but I believe it is visible in all of them. If we're talking about electrical frequencies too, it would be a bit weird for a Japanese-made camera to be targeted towards 60hz regions, as bizarrely they use both 50hz and 60hz circuits in their country 🤔

@@robert_may I’m just saying the 1/60th was a standard shutter speed for a long time? And can see some standard timings being based on that. But that’s just a guess.

I do actually have the 50mm f/1.8 S now and that is a really nice lens. Not as compact but it's a ridiculously good performer.

@@robert_may they both have their place.

I did the moving through the ISOs as you did and saw a very slight purple tint which resets at 6400, but no pulsing and nowhere near as brigh5 as you4 video shows

I had mine at 4K25p for that shot, and the screen brightness set to Hi-2, which may have an effect 🤔

Tried that. With the brightness on that setting it's slightly purple (not like in your video) and I can just about see some flickering but it's faint.

That's interesting - I can just about make it out on your footage but it's significantly more subtle than on mine 🤔 Might be down to the scene being a fairly narrow dynamic range, or variances in the cameras. I've seen a few clips from others now and mine seems to have been the worst so far. I haven't contacted Nikon myself yet as their response time would have been outside my return window, but that could be worthwhile if they're not aware of the issue. You can at least largely alleviate the problem in Davinci Resolve by applying the Deflicker effect to the clips - it's intended for timelapses but it works pretty well for resolving this too.

@@robert_may I've just now flung them a support request after registering the camera with them - their website indicated 24-48 hours for a response, so I'll keep an eye out. And yeah, I did notice it is lesser of an issue than yours - but still there. I'm trying it out a little more right now, just for the sake of comparrison! :)

@@radiomoths let us know what they say!

@@hautehussey supposed to be a 24-48 hour response time on their customer support questions - still heard nothing… EDIT: just received word back! Nothing other than to say they need to investigate my query further in order to provide an accurate response, and that they will update me as soon as possible.

Aw man that sucks, especially as I assume there's a longer turnaround for repairs for you. The X-T3 is a great camera though (when it isn't in need of repair) - my dad uses his all the time. I hope you were able to get the dial repaired too. Since I made this video I've also had an Atomos Ninja V recorder completely die on me 😭 Maybe we need exorcisms 🙈

As far as I know the Zf isn't affected by this, as it uses an older sensor design based off the Z6II. I don't have one available to test with, unfortunately!

Mostly just wanted to reduce the number of lenses I need by not having to maintain two systems 😀

Well Sony isn't perfect - their image stabilisation is still quite far behind other manufacturers, which is why I've been using an S5IIX instead of something like the A7IV. But this also oversimplifies camera manufacture, as a) Sony's sensor division is effectively separate from the camera division, b) Nikon spec and design the sensors with Sony, and c) I'm pretty sure Sony actually use Nikon lithography machines to make the sensors in the first place.

Huh my comment on this disappeared for some reason 🤔 I'll be interested to see if you find the same problem! On mine it also happens in HLG and it's visible in any type of exposure - the flickering appears to be a constant underneath, it's just most visible when bringing up the shadows. It doesn't appear to be at the same level on other examples I've seen though, so it looks like it's limited to only some copies.

Yep, check this clip in the previous video where it first appeared: ruclips.net/video/9EWPmvbIyYo/видео.html

Wouldn’t surprise me, and yeah I really liked mine too 😭

I'll be interested to see your results! It doesn't seem to be affecting everyone equally, so I'm suspecting there's a faulty batch. On mine it basically doesn't matter what the exposure is and it's present in other modes too, like HLG.

I’m also wondering if the 25fps is leading to some timing effects where it’s clashing with the timing the camera was mostly designed around, leading to some frames getting slightly less electrons, which becomes very apparent in the shadows at these high ISOs where we’re already talking about very few electrons. I’m also wondering if the 25fps is leading to some timing effects where it’s clashing with the timing the camera was mostly designed around, leading to some frames getting slightly less electrons, which becomes very apparent in the shadows at these high ISOs where we’re already talking about very few electrons.

I've come around to them! I do like the flexibility of being able to expand or contract it so easily 😀

@@robert_mayand it's more waterproof than the normal drawstring enclosure

The S5IIX isn't perfect but it is a damn good video camera and there's a lot to like about it, not least the price 😄 Hopefully this isn't a universal issue with the Z6III or it's just a small batch of cameras suffering from the problem.

What do you think of the S1H image compared to the others you mentioned? An amateur here. Thanks.

@@watzmaaname dynamic range wise, the Lumix cameras have a stop extra without noise reduction for sure. Image wise, they hold up very similar. The z8 in raw 8k or 4.1k is hair more flexible than the Lumix. However in the compressed h265 codecs the Lumix have better image quality, I guess it's the noise reduction in camera Nikon has. Still all of them are excellent and shine in their own way.

@@jamesabdilla4765 That is helpful to know. Thank you my man!