Gromit
Plasticine Dog
@Lefty
Thanks Amar - all very good points, as usual. From what I'm reading, the guts of the 780 are pretty much a Z6 plus associated optical viewfinder/mirror etc. With my John Lewis discount I can get a new one for about £1.7k. A used Z6/FTZ/XQD is a couple of hundred less but means my current lens collection would be redundant. I'm falling into the trap of having a sentimental attachment to lumps of plastic, glass and metal.
I 100% agree re IBIS - having experienced the system on the Olympus M43 cameras (most notably on the E-M1 Mk2) it's insane what you can get away with. It was possible, with care, to get away with hand-held 1sec exposures. With a wide lens, even longer. The other upside is sharper images at more normal speeds where even the tiniest bits of 'jitter' are eliminated. It truly is a game changer and once experienced it's hard to go back. It's not an issue with the D700 though as its sensor's pixels are the size of bird seed.
My AF-D lenses are the 20-2.8, 50-1.8 and 85-1.8. The 50 rarely gets used (and is only worth about 60 quid anyway). The 20's a lovely little lens though, even though it doesn't see much use either.
Upside with the Z is that my 3 Voigtländers come into play via an M to Z mount adapter which is quite exciting. The Nokton 50 is just gorgeous in particular, and whilst not quite Summilux material, it ain't far off.
Re LR I'll have to double-check but you're most likely correct re my version's support for the D780. What's also annoying is that I'm paying a sub to Adobe for software I can no longer update.
Thanks Amar - all very good points, as usual. From what I'm reading, the guts of the 780 are pretty much a Z6 plus associated optical viewfinder/mirror etc. With my John Lewis discount I can get a new one for about £1.7k. A used Z6/FTZ/XQD is a couple of hundred less but means my current lens collection would be redundant. I'm falling into the trap of having a sentimental attachment to lumps of plastic, glass and metal.
I 100% agree re IBIS - having experienced the system on the Olympus M43 cameras (most notably on the E-M1 Mk2) it's insane what you can get away with. It was possible, with care, to get away with hand-held 1sec exposures. With a wide lens, even longer. The other upside is sharper images at more normal speeds where even the tiniest bits of 'jitter' are eliminated. It truly is a game changer and once experienced it's hard to go back. It's not an issue with the D700 though as its sensor's pixels are the size of bird seed.
My AF-D lenses are the 20-2.8, 50-1.8 and 85-1.8. The 50 rarely gets used (and is only worth about 60 quid anyway). The 20's a lovely little lens though, even though it doesn't see much use either.
Upside with the Z is that my 3 Voigtländers come into play via an M to Z mount adapter which is quite exciting. The Nokton 50 is just gorgeous in particular, and whilst not quite Summilux material, it ain't far off.
Re LR I'll have to double-check but you're most likely correct re my version's support for the D780. What's also annoying is that I'm paying a sub to Adobe for software I can no longer update.