Jerry 🦙💝🦙Nikon released an update for my camera and the autofocus went from awesome to, well, whatever is better than awesome. It is scary good at eye tracking for focus now.
Also, it’s pretty awesome that Nikon still releases significant improvements to a camera that is now 4 years old.
Louis@louis it really is a wonderful camera. It’s going to be replaced with the z9ii some time in early 2026, so I’m guessing this was the last update for it, sadly.
@jerry I have a Z7, and I love it (especially coming from a D7100, and from a D5100 before that) 
I'm kinda drooling over the Z8 but can't justify an upgrade like this one when the Z7 is already plenty overkill for my needs (also, I should invest in glass instead of a new body anyway)
What would a Z9ii bring over your Z9, if I may ask? 
I'm kinda drooling over the Z8 but can't justify an upgrade like this one when the Z7 is already plenty overkill for my needs (also, I should invest in glass instead of a new body anyway)What would a Z9ii bring over your Z9, if I may ask?
@louis it’s hard to say. The rumor is that they’ll move to a global shutter sensor, raw pre-capture, higher fps video particularly at 4k and 8k, and very likely they’ll do with Red technology like the recently release Zr. But it’s hard to say. The expectation was that it would be out already in time for the Winter Olympics, and the scuttle is that the lack of a z9ii is what incentivized them to release this autofocus update to be competitive with some of the newer bodies from other brands. For me personally, it probably won’t have anything I need that’s not already in the base z9, but let’s be honest, I’ll still want the z9ii regardless 😅
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