I have Nikon Z8 and Canon R6ii. Canon R6ii AF especially speed of subject recognition beats Z8 no question - especially when shooting stills of small birds. Z8 takes so much longer to identify small birds when on animal subject recognition setting, even when using various small AF boxes custom sizes. Also then one needs to hand off tracking to 3D tracking in Z8 while R6II just tracks over frame with no user input required. I have only used R6ii for a few days, but even with old EF100-400 (first version) R6II identifies subjects and locks to eyes much quicker as well than Z8, especially when birds are little smaller in frame. Z8 needs the birds to be much closer and larger in frame. Guess R6II +-1000 focus points beats Z8's +-490 focus points... Also I'm guessing the current Z8 firmware for animal is probably like Z9 original ver 3 firmware or something... AF does seem inferior to Z9 v4 or 4.1 for birds sure imho. I really wanted to like Nikon after all the buzz and hype, and due to Canon normally using their cripple hammer on its cameras... but I don't know if I will keep Z8. And then Nikon has taken sneaky move when they posted a video saying Z9 firmware V4 automated shooting function would be coming to Z8 - but then they quietly edited their RUclips video to remove the comments on that after many people had noted this. That was sneaky - I understand they want to differentiate Z8 and Z9... but don't do this sh!t. Of course the Z8 has much better video modes like 4k120, 8K60, Raw etc. but price of Z8 is like 70% more than R6II so that should be expected.... EDIT - Well Nikon surprised us with firmware update 2.0 that substantially improved the Z8 auto focus performance, adding a separate subject recognition for birds, plus adding the auto capture function to the Z8 that was speculated to be only for Z9 (auto capture mode has some limitations - issues with 1) setting minimum distance to subject for detection of movement or subject when using 180-600mm zoom lens and 2) the auto capture mode subject recognition does not allow selection of bird as subject as yet). Overall the Z8 is a great camera with the recent updates and I consider the auto focus performance now to be similar to or better than most of the competition for both video and photo modes.
@@camerazone_ the Nikon Z 8 has almost flagship capabilities so it’s even more feature packed than the Canon R 5 which is an older camera , it’s a stacked sensor which very few Cameras have so it’s more in step with the Sony A1 or canon R 3 for fast action
I have Nikon Z8 and Canon R6ii. Canon R6ii AF especially speed of subject recognition beats Z8 no question - especially when shooting stills of small birds. Z8 takes so much longer to identify small birds when on animal subject recognition setting, even when using various small AF boxes custom sizes. Also then one needs to hand off tracking to 3D tracking in Z8 while R6II just tracks over frame with no user input required. I have only used R6ii for a few days, but even with old EF100-400 (first version) R6II identifies subjects and locks to eyes much quicker as well than Z8, especially when birds are little smaller in frame. Z8 needs the birds to be much closer and larger in frame. Guess R6II +-1000 focus points beats Z8's +-490 focus points... Also I'm guessing the current Z8 firmware for animal is probably like Z9 original ver 3 firmware or something... AF does seem inferior to Z9 v4 or 4.1 for birds sure imho. I really wanted to like Nikon after all the buzz and hype, and due to Canon normally using their cripple hammer on its cameras... but I don't know if I will keep Z8. And then Nikon has taken sneaky move when they posted a video saying Z9 firmware V4 automated shooting function would be coming to Z8 - but then they quietly edited their RUclips video to remove the comments on that after many people had noted this. That was sneaky - I understand they want to differentiate Z8 and Z9... but don't do this sh!t. Of course the Z8 has much better video modes like 4k120, 8K60, Raw etc. but price of Z8 is like 70% more than R6II so that should be expected....
EDIT - Well Nikon surprised us with firmware update 2.0 that substantially improved the Z8 auto focus performance, adding a separate subject recognition for birds, plus adding the auto capture function to the Z8 that was speculated to be only for Z9 (auto capture mode has some limitations - issues with 1) setting minimum distance to subject for detection of movement or subject when using 180-600mm zoom lens and 2) the auto capture mode subject recognition does not allow selection of bird as subject as yet). Overall the Z8 is a great camera with the recent updates and I consider the auto focus performance now to be similar to or better than most of the competition for both video and photo modes.
Z8 should be compared with R5
This is a good comparison. The R6 mii has great video, and beats the R5 in many quality aspects despite the lower stats.
Beautiful reviews always ❤️♥️♥️
useful comparison
Wrong match up
Thanks for your feedback. Suggest us some good ideas, please!
@@camerazone_ the Nikon Z 8 has almost flagship capabilities so it’s even more feature packed than the Canon R 5 which is an older camera , it’s a stacked sensor which very few Cameras have so it’s more in step with the Sony A1 or canon R 3 for fast action