Z6III Setup Video 1: Full Menu Walkthrough

[@4Digimom]

So grateful for the time and effort you put into these setup videos! Found your channel this past February, when I picked up the z8. I'm primarily a wedding and portrait photographer, which I use to support my birding/wildlife photography addiction. :) Your thorough explanation has helped me understand how to use the customizable features on these advanced mirrorless machines. Never tired of learning and can't wait to put these user settings to the test. Thank you!

[@simonbradshaw2552]

Super helpful, thank you for spending the time on these setup videos. It's given me a good grasp on the more obscure settings i would have just ignored otherwise. Found this really useful for setting up my Z50ii just now (virtually identicle menu system bar a few options). Looking forward to your review on that camera!

[@stuartclarke689]

That was THE most informative and helpful guide for the Z6lll I have found on KZbin. Your time and effort to compile this is much appreciated.

[@mannawithspice]

Thank You so much for the time and effort that you put into this and other videos. Having just purchased the Z6 III this is most informative video that I have found explaining what the setting actually mean and how to customise them. Thank You again

[@RT-rt9rt]

Henry, Thank you very much for an excellent Nikon 6III setup video...

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

My pleasure! First name is Hudson, but no big deal.

[@hanns1401]

Super valuable video. Thanks for taking the time to make this!

[@dr.breath8008]

As usual, a great video. I really appreciate the effort you put forth to do these and I want you to know I appreciate all of it. THANKS!!

[@alandyer910]

Thank you so much! I had sorted out most settings but your video alerted me to several other key points that were good to know and adjust.

[@barbaramuhlethaler6621]

Excellent video. To the point. No waffle .... What would I do without you! Thank you 🙏

[@MarcoLoforte]

i was waiting for this.. Thanks

[@Jazzshots]

thank you Hudson again as said before clear and precise...

[@NikonJax]

Awesome video....as usual.... you rock Hudson!

[@MWTH37]

Thank You very helpful and intuitive

[@frankiacone6642]

Thanks so much for helping me set up this amazing camera.

[@Interbeing_CDN]

Great review, FYI, for the Pre-Release Capture options, the Post Release burst setting is not the amount of time it continues to shoot after releasing the shutter, it is the length of the burst recorded while the shutter release button is pressed all the way down.

[@tebnuhotep217]

Great Video , I Watched The Whole Thing :)

[@christianbille9599]

Tak!

[@scottmac2032]

Greatly appreciated!

[@SanMiguelBulls]

Excelente, making my potential z6iii purchase much easier…

[@geraldinebryce594]

Thanks for all this information on settings. I am seriously thinking about buying niko n Z63 after using a niko n D7200 for years. Can you recommend a good portrait lens for this camera. I have many lenses for my D7200 but of course they are crop size so probably have to sell them. Thanks

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

@@geraldinebryce594 I still love the 105 1.4 AFS on the FTZ adapter. The 85 1.8 S is great and the 85 1.2 and plena lenses are out of control, but big and expensive. You'll find videos I did on those if you search my channel for them. The 85 1.2 video from Cuba also showcases the 85 1.8 and 105 1.4.

[@dribblebit]

Thank you very much, extremely helpful

[@CyprusFromAboveChannel]

Thank you!

[@LeslieQPhotography]

This is great and so helpful thank you!! I am using my camera in the studio and finding that my viewfinder white balance and exposure isn't matching raw files in Lightroom. I set the profile in camera to neutral and I know I can bring brightness down on my screen, but I'm not sure how to get the colors more true?

[@tdalton854]

So very helpful. Thanks

[@artavazmoradian7684]

Thank you for your good advice

[@Chris-rj5kn]

Thank you for this very much. I have a question - it seems the airplane mode should be "on" if you want to save power - correct? Just like on our phones?

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

It doesn't seem to eat too much power, but it can be connecting to your phone an geotagging if you set Snapbridge up. Sometimes I don't want that.

[@BillIngalls]

Thank you for this post. Even for a "seasoned" pro as myself, I found this to be a great review and I learned a few things as well! One Q - on this video and the U1-U3 video you refer to 30fps. I'm pretty sure max is 20fps in raw electronic shutter (14fps in RAW mechanical). I raise this not to nit pick, but to question myself - is there some way to get 30fps raw?

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

@@BillIngalls no. The 30fps is full frame jpeg with the pre-capture option c30

[@BillIngalls]

@@HudsonHenryPhotoOk. Thx! We are in sync. 😊

[@PixelGuy22]

Thank you so much. New to the Z6iii. When I set 3D to Fn 1 it seems that I have toehold the F1 button or the 3D reverts to the previous. I thought maybe this was a toggle without having to hold it. Does sound right?

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

@@PixelGuy22 the way we set it up is a hybrid handoff , which means you hand off the focus subject you've picked up in wide area to 3D so long as you press and hold the function button.. releasing the function button put you back in acquisition mode using wide area with the back button for erratic moving subjects they are much easier to pick up in wide area butt 3D tracks them frame wide

[@gavriel_adi]

I wonder if there's a possibility that if I change settings within a saved profile, it will remember what I changed and not revert to the saved default setting?

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

Not unless you go into the menu and save the settings over on that user mode.

[@LOVECATO1]

Small point and I should have been aware of this, initially I could not get every section to light up (I mean the sections were grayed out) because the camera came set on green auto and in my enthusiasm I did not check this before I started the video. Any newbies out there, check the camera setting and place on M.

[@burroalley9]

Thanks! My auto sensitivities were greyed out....my first hiccup!

[@elliotresnick5433]

Just a few questions…before setting up the Photo Shooting Menu, is it necessary to set the top mode dial or those settings apply to any of the dial settings except for Video Shooting? Also I’m uncleared how the saved settings/U1-U2-U3 works… if you make for example 15 settings in the menu and save them to U1, what happens if you want U2 to only used default settings, must you change those 15 settings back before saving those settings to U2? Finally if I wanted U1 to be aperture priority in addition to those 15 settings, do I turn the top dial to “A” before making those settings?

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

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[@elliotresnick5433]

@@HudsonHenryPhoto thanks so much!

[@elliotresnick5433]

@@HudsonHenryPhoto two follow up questions…for me U1 has all changes to settings similar to yours plus I added back button focusing, etc using Manual Mode; U2 has same changes except with shutter focus/snap and auto focus with Auto Mode; U3 is for video so I first saved same basic settings and then added focusing settings for video. If I want to change mode in U1 to A Mode what do I need to do? Finally before I saved settings for video I forgot to flip switch from stills to video, so now after going to U3 each time I need to flip the switch…again can I edit saved settings for U3 so I don’t need to flip switch (or should I delete everything and start over?)

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

@@elliotresnick5433 sadly to change mode... You have to start over in the mode your want to change too. Any other setting is easy in the user mode, but there's no way to change mode without leaving it. Dumb

[@elliotresnick5433]

@@HudsonHenryPhoto ok I started over, and all seems fine now. Only issue is where U3 was saved after flipping the stills/video switch into video, the camera doesn’t seem to go into video mode by simply turning the top dial to U3 unless I still flip the switch to video. Am I doing something wrong?

[@lorenzonarwhal]

I can't find how to set the shutter speed at 1/48... it jumps from 1/40 to 1/50...

[@AllenBrenneman]

I followed all the settings step by step and set all the i menus as you had shown when I finished the right two did not update. I reset everything and followed each step and still did not work for the right 2 i

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

@@AllenBrenneman just be sure you hit OK at the end. It certainly will work. :)

[@AllenBrenneman]

@@HudsonHenryPhoto I set each one and hit ok but do I need to also hit menu done?

[@rrphotography3790]

how to check exposure meter during video mode.

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

Histogram or wave meter, your choice. Zebra stripes can be combined with either.

[@SayanDe]

How to shoot N-log internally on z6iii?

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

@@SayanDe I never use nlog, but yes you can certainly do that internally as well as prores, which I prefer, but also rarely use.

[@sultanalotaibi8729]

In my opinion this video doesn't explain each setting it's just telling the viewer what you set it to. Hope I'm not coming across negative but I wished it went more detailed on those settings maybe it's just me but that's how I saw it and I love your reviews I find them to be very useful but I think this setup video could have used more details :)

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

@@sultanalotaibi8729 I can see that feeling. It's more of an introductory overview and guide. The problem is that it can't be a 3 hour course. If you want more details say on focusing strategies, search for videos on action autofocus with the Nikon z8/9 it's nearly the same system.

[@mittenphotog]

Your ISO sensitivity is 100, mine is ghosted out anything lower than 400

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

@@mittenphotog as I say in this video, HLG HDR capture is not advised. It's for a monitor technology that's far too unsettled at this time. Flip it back to SDR instead of HLG, then you'll get your lower iso settings back too.

[@johnratnakarnalli9677]

Raw files not directly opening windows 11 or lightroom. It needs to convert. Please make video without converting raw how to open.

[@HudsonHenryPhoto]

Uhhhhh? what version of Lightroom are you working with? I converted zero raw files when reviwing that camera months ago. Lightroom opened all the .nef files natively directly out of camera. I'm not sure what is happening for you, but it's certainly not an issue for me or any of the photographers I work with.

[@adina_nistor]

​@@HudsonHenryPhotoyes,right. Raw work directly with Lightroom