Nikon Z 9 Teaser 3. Breakdown Autofocus!

Hey everyone !
In this short video we take a closer look at the third Nikon Z 9 Teaser video.
Clearly about the ability for the camera to track certain subjects
is there anything you spotted in the video that I missed ? Let me know!
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[@RicciTalks]

Hey everyone ! Well what do you make of the 3rd teaser ? This is the first look at what the Z9 can track and autofocus on What are your thoughts ? thank you for watching !

[@Alexander-je4fs]

On 0:17 he opened his eye, I think it’s mean that camera can focus where eye look, sorry for my English. And it’s explain hoy camera focusing on the objects which want a photographer

[@KevTheHeartist]

Wildlife?????

[@saibhargavamanda1062]

@@Alexander-je4fs i do doubt nikon wants to convey smting in that shot. It May not be what u think exactly as he isnt looking through the viewfinder with that eye

[@TFM3234]

Nikon fan always, teaser was good, like you said, can it track birds just as fast? I believe it will. I am that invested.

[@ytr8989]

It’s a great video camera that also shoots stills. So, I suppose it is the opposite of the D500.

[@GeoffCooper]

The burst is 35 frames at just over 20 fps - I downloaded the clip and slowed it down to count them :D

[@mlai2546]

The guy holding the camera looks like Fro.

[@jaimeduncan6167]

Thanks men.

[@MORTRAX]

Maybe the video is exported to 24fps.

[@GeoffCooper]

@@MORTRAX ?? the 20fps is based on the audio...

[@MORTRAX]

@@GeoffCooper ah ok, we’ll have to see when it’s released.

[@BoostLeekdMedia]

It's a good teaser. They're definitely teasing the Z9's AF performance. I think the car AF is interesting because if you watch the car turn, the AF point MOVES to the other headlight because of the different angle of the car. I shoot a good amount of motorsports and that's really interesting to see. Looks like a phenomenal camera. It's a teaser so I'm sure they're just teasing SOME of the glorious specs and techs of the Z9. I'm excited for it.

[@detectivejonesw]

If this is actually what you see when using the camera, then I have to say this is an insane level of smoothness and effectiveness for the AF tracking. Bodes well in my opinion.

[@jumpydesign]

Aren't those boxes insanely small if that's a true representation of the real view ?

[@markmcstone5132]

This does not seem to be the actual EVF output.

[@csc-photo]

Super pumped from what I’m seeing in these teasers! My hunch is that teaser #4 will show animal / bird eye AF and possibly some other AF features. This Z9 is absolutely my next body 😎

[@HotGates]

That's my thought exactly, Hope they show BIF on their next teaser which I think they will.

[@pakuplue]

I have a feeling teaser #4 will just turn into the final announcement 🤞

[@ernie28ernie]

@@pakuplue Maybe. Maybe a day or two before the announcement? ;)

[@jackwestcott4469]

There are only 3 teasers…next, they’ll just launch it.

[@DamonMoritz]

It was the most exciting video from Nikon on the Z9 yet for me. Sports focus!

[@NewoolDoge]

For me I think the football scene is pretty interesting. Traditionally most Eye and Face AF (across all brands, not just Nikon) have issues detecting people with darker skin. But in this scene we can see the Z9 absolutely nails it. I do hope some of these new AF features get trickled down to Z6 II and Z7 II via firmware updates!

[@BowlesImages]

Hi Ricci - I saw something else about tracking. I think they are demonstrating the ability to choose your target and track a specific target with a number of different modes - maybe any AF mode. With the car it seemed to use Wide Large then switch to wide small for the nearer headlight because the box changed size. With the motorcycle it maintained a single AF box for the entire segment. With the long jumper it maintained a small single point or Eye AF only the entire time as the subject was moving directly at the camera - similar to 3D. With the hurdlers it was notable that it picked the eye of a specific runner - not another runner near the plane of focus but closer to the camera. What's more - there was no time required to move to the correct runner or eye so I suspect the focus target was planned and then the camera was able to maintain that target through the series. This ability to use tracking with any mode, to engage it on the fly, and possibly the ability to switch targets or AF modes with the car are all new as far as I know.

[@701Builder]

Looks like an amazing piece of hardware! Nice evaluation!

[@gastonkessler9116]

The important question: How well can it track the hipster ridding his bicicle in a zigzag towards the camera??

[@gyozakeynsianism]

Forget birds-in-flight. It's all hipster-in-intersection!

[@lifewithoutborders1348]

I understood that reference :D

[@paulbusby2013]

@@lifewithoutborders1348 - yup - very longhair!

[@fetzie23]

The "dancing after taking three E's" test? :)

[@PrasadPalaniyandi]

Awesome Tracking ability.. Seems AF point is literally glued on Long Jumper Eye.. Stunning.. Hope Nikon will transfer some of this to Z6 II and future Z8 :)

[@lifewithoutborders1348]

I want if not this than close to this on my Z6ii and Z7ii

[@Lon1an]

@@lifewithoutborders1348 Stacked sensor on Z6 iii please! I'm on Z6 right now so I can skip Z6ii.

[@lifewithoutborders1348]

@@Lon1an and price of body will doubled in that case

[@paulbusby2013]

This is the most important teaser out of the 3 so far. I'm impressed - the tracking is extremely smooth, fast & not juddery. To answer your question regarding choosing which eye, player or car - I'd suggest it will be able to do so but just how, we are yet to find out.

[@TorToroPorco]

I’m still looking for an auto focus that can deal with a child pushing an ice cream cone into your lens.

[@RicciTalks]

What would you call this mode ? Ice cream tracking ?

[@edwardphilipmarianafzger9800]

@@RicciTalks Touché !

[@ralfbruening]

Looking foreward to the last teaser, great to have your professional explanations on that!

[@andrewhurstcars]

Thanks for the updates Ricci. Looks like they’ve got the person/object tracking sorted 👍🏻

[@dietmarwechselberger6707]

Looks awesome! I hope animal tracking is working as impressive and some of the AF algorithms are coming to firmware version 2.0 of my Z6 II.

[@GaryFerrao]

This camera is gonna be a beast. I'm not gonna buy it coz it's too big for my travels, but i am excited for the hope that they might later update the firmware on the Z7 which i have 😄

[@Mr09260]

Ditto with the Z7

[@davidroberts6766]

Same….My Z7II, with AF improved a bit, is all I need. Now, if I won the Lotto, Z9 preorder incoming!

[@darcyfriesen7866]

ditto for the Z6ii

[@edwardphilipmarianafzger9800]

@@davidroberts6766 if this is coming to the Zii later on I am thinking of getting to Mirrorless but with the grip ! when not I wait for the Z8 with those options .Still happy with my getting older just like me my D800 .yrs ago I traded in my D200 for the D800. But I think I will not trade in my D800 it gave me so much good things so keeping it even as a paperwait holder later on ha ha.

[@highdynamicphotographyfilm2235]

I think what's shown in the teaser as far as autofocus is way better than what I was expecting. It looks like better that Sony A1 & Canon R3 focus system

[@rick-ross]

The focus box moves very quickly and smoothly, indicating both a fast AF system and a fast viewfinder refresh rate.

[@Raevenswood]

So, I’ve been thinking about what it means to have a focus box that locks on so smoothly to to the eye of a moving subject. The idea I have is that if it really functions as they are showing then there must be quite a lot of focus points available in order for it to preform like that.

[@chriswesselman8583]

I'm interested to see how all the new Z9 capabilities may be inherited on future Z cameras. Thanks for these de-briefs.

[@edwardphilipmarianafzger9800]

Great again showing us Ricci applause bravo. But you call your self Ricci Talks but I think also Ricci can keep secrets well well done !but that's keeping the things exited .

[@RicciTalks]

Years of experience

[@johnvillalovos]

The soccer footage makes me wonder if it has "known face" recognition. As in you can tell the camera I want to take photos of this person so make focusing on them a priority. Because in the soccer clip there are no focus boxes on anyone's face until it pans over and then shows a focus box on one person.

[@ronaldpollard8990]

This is Within 3 years!!!! People conveniently & quickly forget all the years it took for Sony to get Great AF, colors still less than Nikon, Dynamic Range still inferior to Nikon Etccc. See Nikon was always superior in those areas for over 30-40 years. When shifting to Mirrolless the same strengths remain just took 3 years to grow their AF which is still quite good & capable!!!

[@kenjiyamamoto423]

Nah,. It took only 1year for Canon to did it,.

[@ronaldpollard8990]

@@kenjiyamamoto423 1)not my argument sir 2) typical you overlook the obvious strengths & while focused on what’s took the first mirroless 5 years to mature into. Sony started in 2013 with FF Mirrolless. 3)Nikon/Canon were dominating DSLR and so their AF was blasting in that arena 4) Canon is 5 Times larger thank Nikon so their R&D might be bigger as well. 5) I teach on all systems so I get to “play” with all brands not named Leica. Nikon is currently right there in AF but superior in Color, DR, Artistic file handling etccc… 6) I shoot concerts, sports, wedding’s etcc…. With Z6II/7II my clients keep being satisfied

[@erichramone7812]

Nikon: releases teaser trailer 3 Me: eat that Jared Polin!

[@andyvan5692]

Ricci, the point in this IS to show us, that the camera CAN track differently, the subjects look to be in the "case" order, like cannon AF system, aka L\R-stable; F\B-stable; angular to camera axis-erratic motion; etc. showing us these cases are tracked correctly, AND importantly, NOT a "closer subject ALWAYS wins" scinario, as is with most AF systems!!(eg: the Z6/Z7 of old) The IQ of this AF system is evolving!!!

[@seantomlinson3320]

I looks like what I hoped for. The same team from brilliant D5 and D6 but with all the advantages of the mirrorless sensor and yet more processing power.

[@InfectedChris]

The box staying in place is pretty encouraging. I am no professional but I want to see what this can do and get Nikon to the top of the mirrorless game. Maybe one day I'll be able to actually get one but I'm happy with my z6 ii and being able to work on my own time.

[@marcodibari5713]

Great video..as usual...to be honest if they manage to make the AF competitive, I'm expecting from nikon to work that extra step and sort out the all Z line AF situation, starting from the first z6 and z7 following the rest..

[@AntonisKorakakis]

It is a matter of processing power as well however, isn't it? I am not sure what can be done with the original Z6/Z7.

[@pakuplue]

What I really wanna know is how well that AF will work in really lowlight situations.

[@highdynamicphotographyfilm2235]

It's supposed to be very good, it is -7EVF

[@mpgnz73]

By the way that's not the current FTZ adapter in the video. The current one tapers in towards the mount - the one shown here is completely square. This one is the same that was shown in that Olympics photo from behind.

[@lightrevealsphotography9391]

Is Nikon suggesting that the photographer in the long jump ending clip was using his eye to move the focus box when he opened his eye wide before starting the sequence?

[@PeQiT]

I thought that as well!

[@csc-photo]

Ooh good observation 🤔 You might be on to something, although I’ll be surprised if this happens

[@JohanTalk]

nah

[@RicciTalks]

I don't think so

[@lightrevealsphotography9391]

@@RicciTalks My initial thought was that they were just showing the excitement of what the photographer was capturing, but Nikon seems to slip in little nuggets of info during their teasers in fairly subtle ways. But, obviously you know much better than I what is going on behind closed doors. Thanks for your input. Randy

[@IustinPop]

My biggest take-away: the camera is optimized for left-eye shooters - yay!

[@peterwolf3001]

It needs that animal and bird tracking for my needs and it would be essential that we get the lock on speed we had with the D500 and others. It’s looking promising though. Not my favourite teaser but lets hold our breath for another week. You don’t mess around Ricci, straight out of the traps with this video.

[@abhayparvate9541]

By slowing down the teaser on KZbin, the frame rate can be counted. At 0.25x, it makes 5 click sounds per second. So 20fps. At least for this teaser.

[@RicciTalks]

I did say time will tell 😉 but who knows

[@edwardphilipmarianafzger9800]

@@RicciTalks Yes Time will tell and not Willem Tell or William Tell. !

[@ganeshbeee]

@@RicciTalks Will be great to have 20 FPS in 14 bit raw, 30 in 12 bit compressed, 40 or 50 in DX crop and so on...

[@ericadams6608]

Great video as usual Ricci, just hope I can afford it!!! Thanks.

[@kaminobatto]

I think you missed that the shooting is blackout free. I don't know if the Z7II and Z6II shoot continuously with no blackout.

[@troyhouse253]

this is the video feed out so we haven't seen the viewfinder while shooting stills

[@exposed1476]

Impressive stuff! Noticed something interesting in the clip that shows the long jumper. At one point, the hand came in front the eye but the auto focus square remained on the same location (i.e. left eye) . I expected the eye auto focus square to disappear when the camera can't see the eye. Any thoughts?

[@spokolokofly]

I wonder where Z6I/II and 7 will be after premiere of the Z9. Should we expect combo like D3/700/300?

[@Mr09260]

Move over Sony and Canon .. welcome to the new King on the Block

[@GaryFerrao]

Wow. As always, you are way ahead of others breaking the news. Even the one who is very curious about the autofocus 😄

[@ebf4yt]

I hope they added focus confirmation to af-c. But in the teaser the square stays yellow. So I do have my doubts Nikon will give it to us.

[@Digmen1]

Thanks Ricci, its looking good for Nikon

[@theyur]

When camera moves fast horizontally, no rolling shutter effect on the background?

[@victorlim5077]

Are you referring to the Hurdler scene? I was observing that and it seems to have very low rolling shutter.

[@theyur]

@@victorlim5077 not really. Mostly I was inspecting this on alpines 0:12-0:13 and football 0:14-0:15 scenes (timecodes for the original NIKON teaser video).

[@victorlim5077]

@@theyur Got it. Thanks. I see what you mean. Especially clear in the football scene.

[@dozerthecat]

I thought the rumor is no physical shutter and no rolling shutter effect

[@victorlim5077]

@@dozerthecat Latest update to rumor is fast sensor readout and very low rolling shutter. We will know by this coming week. :-)

[@rbj.photography]

Looks like the software is fixed. The box stayed right on the eye without lagging. It also looked like he was tracking with his eye on the viewfinder. Still wish that box would turn green to confirm focus.

[@tc6912]

Green to confirm focus, yes please!!!!!!!

[@csc-photo]

Color change to confirm focus in Continuous AF would be way too distracting/ annoying. Think about how fast those focus updates are being made - you’d have a constant flicker happening. Color change in Single AF makes sense of course.

[@TaipeiGeek]

@@tc6912 At 20 fps? LOL.

[@tc6912]

AF--S in a no brainer. In AF-C the color change could happen with the first acquisition of focus and again each time you released and refocused. You have no control over what happens in between anyway.

[@tc6912]

@Photo Bunny Yellow works. My point is that I would like to see it confirm focus acquisition in some way once the focus button is pressed. Maybe choose your color like focus peaking allows. However, I've gotten used to the Red is bad, yellow is caution and green is good convention.

[@mcrazza]

Headlight AF confirmed! I'm not the target demographic for the Z9 but I am excited to see the camera in all its glory when Nikon finally announce it.

[@paulhab7267]

Very excited can’t wait just hope it’s as good as r3 😊

[@madst7521]

Speed sounds quite good. I watched the end of the video a couple of times trying to spot any hints on EVF blackout but I’m not sure it’s there.

[@quiver99]

I have little doubts that the Z9 will be a masterpiece. I love Nikon and have Z6 and Z50 with the latter under-utilised because of limited lens choice. If I could make a wish that would be the 24-105, a lens I’m eagerly waiting for

[@johnninofilipino1504]

Been waiting for this notif to pop. That was fast!

[@MAWAJR]

I really do hope the latency of the viewfinder as experienced in the Z6ii ist also better and the refresh rate bumped up to more than 120 MHz

[@grantking4681]

Ricci, something I haven't seen too many (any?) mentions of is the 'joystick' next to the button that releases the lenses. Any thoughts on what this may be?

[@terilapetino6337]

Hey Ricci, have you had a chance to upgrade and look at the new firmware version 1.30 for the Z cameras yet? Interested to know if any significant improvements to the autofocus since most of us can't afford the Z9! thanks

[@davewarren7693]

Very nice video on the Z9 teaser. What I would like to see is how this tech translates down to the lower end cameras as that is far more important to Nikon's survival than a flagship Z9. How can we celebrate if we only see this in a flagship expensive camera?

[@terrywbreedlove]

I think wildlife AF tracking will be in the next video. With sensor info such as megapixel etc coming on the full introduction date.

[@JohnMayfield-NS]

Couple of thoughts on this watching your pauses and break down: Dirt bike: the shape of the focus box is rectangle vertical. I only have a Z6 but I don't think any of the other cameras in the Z line have this? Soccer player: No focus box on anything until the player is in screen. Either a cropping issue (in video production) or it remembered the subject even off screen and jumped to him when he came back on. Jumper: Starts shooting while the jumper jumps, zero black out or apparent lag at high frame rate shooting.

[@RicciTalks]

no other Z can change to the rectangle size/shape

[@JohnMayfield-NS]

@@RicciTalks Cool, that's what I thought but without using those other Z's I didn't know for sure. Thanks for confirming :)

[@ganeshbeee]

@@RicciTalks Is that something similar to how the Group AF is Implemented on the D6? Customizable boxes?

[@СергейМогутов-ъ4д]

What I like is that they've finally got rid of that triangle that blocks a huge part of the face (it shows that you can choose the other eye but it makes "reading" emotions on the face of the model tricky). It's nice to have the ability to choose the correct eyes to focus for some specific shots IMO, but it's like a second eye AF mode, it should not be the first one, and for sure it should not be the only one. PS I see no lag whatsoever, that is nice.

[@daniellev8463]

holy grail camera? hopefully they keep coming out with this 30 sec teasers for the next few years....

[@atxrich]

The Z9 is going to be a pro’s (or well heeled prosumer) mirrorless camera. What’s most exciting to me is this AF tech and shooting speed trickling down to their consumer/prosumer models. A Z6 III with fully articulating screen and this AF speed will hit the sweet spot for most Nikon users (generally speaking).

[@quiver99]

Nobel Prize for Ricci and his excellent “What can it track? Do we have an option? Is the sex of birds affecting Nikon AF performance?” 😉👍

[@troyphillips1077]

Or their preference. That could be very confusing . Especially if they are not sure themselves. If it’s several birds it’ll the one that’s most confident in their sexual orientation. Trying some modern day news worthy humor

[@quiver99]

@@troyphillips1077 😃👍 same here. It’s funny this rush to analyze the clip.

[@andyvan5692]

Ricci, looks like Nikon have prooved, beyond a shaddow of doubt, we have a real "Pro" tool on our hands here, and we would 1/2 expect a $7,000-$12,000AUD entry price, body only to a one lens kit, (24-70/70-200{2.8}??), esp. considering what it's capabillities are. but would be nice to see how all these focus features cope with the 58 Noc't or the 50 f1.2 lenses, and if the speed is still there, even with shallow DOF.!!

[@terrywbreedlove]

Looks like a game changer and Nikons history is to move this new tech downstream. So look for massive AF improvements in all segments of their line soon.

[@JMD535]

So,...now that Nikon's focus system is 'sticking' to an Eye,...we're wondering about a choice of 'which eye'! As fast as subjects are moving,...we should be happy that it locks onto their face,...let alone just their Eye!

[@JimVajda82]

So far we have teasers for the screen, video, and AF. What's left for the last teaser? Maybe putting it all together in a teaser showing the new AF tracking during 8K video recording… leading to a crescendo of 120fps burst performance at the end!

[@JaspreetSinghArtist]

in the beginning teaser have 120fps slowmo clip. so we can say new autofocus system is far better then before. i can say the options you are asking if they are not there still they have the hardware capable enough to add other tracking options with firmware update.

[@tectorama]

Lets hope that Nikon and the various image processing software producers get their heads together before the Z9 is launched. People won't buy it until they can process the RAW images it takes.

[@genokearney]

Leaves us wanting more. Guess that's why they call it a teaser.

[@mgotovac]

This teaser is too good to be true. It confirm that Nikon has flagship AF technology.

[@Stuee6899]

Really hope this is as good as it seems, Nikon need it. I loved my z6 but switched to Sony. Wish I had the money to go back for this!

[@berndadam8703]

Nice to see that at the end of the day Nikon will give us a hopefully cool Z100-400mm Telezoom. I hope that the prize is reasonable.... I guess 1499 EURO... and that it is not to heavy...

[@JasonLorette]

I'm just curious why in Trailer 1 it seemed like the eye AF switched to a 'blue/grey' color but in this one it did not? It's going to be interesting what this brings out.

[@troyphillips1077]

I have not heard anyone mention that yet. Good observation!

[@torngrasp]

Maybe the eye detect works differently with subject tracking.

[@JasonLorette]

@@torngrasp I think that may be it, that this is a ‘tracking’ feature versus an ‘eye af’ thing.

[@tectorama]

I would imagine that you change focus points (the yellow box), in the same way that you do with the Z7ii ?

[@simran9634]

Hi I have nikon d5600 Whenever I click pictures in any mode...whether its day or night inside or out...the light behind the subject in that picture blinks black Can you please help me out with this problem?

[@mikedeloye8060]

Ricci I'm really looking forward to the 28th when it's released. Then we'll know what it can and can't do. These teasers it's kind of like watching a highlight reel in sports all UPS no Downs. It does look good though.

[@henkbogers8366]

Hi Ricci, thanks for the info. As always: to the point. It us a shame tha t we gave tk wait 42 teasers extra before we know what the z9 is all about. I donit understand Nikon. They have a loss of w79 million dollars this year, in Holland you have to wait 8 -12 months for the bodies and lenses!!! (All the z-lenses) What kind of marketing goeroe are they consulting? I love Nikon, but i am getting frustrated. They a re also unclear about the lenses to come. Do you know if there is a z70-200 f4 in the pipeline for 2022?

[@marclabro]

Hi Ricci, what about Z6ii AF face and eye detection ? The new firmware doesn't address at all AF ! new alpha 7 m4 is coming now with a powerful AF. Have Nikon engineers reached their limits with AF and face/eye detection with two expeeds ? my iphone 12 pro max better detects faces than z6ii. Are we going to live all the time with tricks like tracking subject button, red wide area box to help AF ? Aren't Nikon engineers able to detect a pink face from a green bush or tree ? what can we expect in next months, other than Z9 (and a new Z8) ?

[@nickscangas1058]

Does Nikon have a history of also releasing new autofocus features onto lower tier cameras? Hoping these will come to z7…

[@IustinPop]

If it indeed was 20fps, that‘s a bit strange. There was shutter sound, not entirely silent shooting, but I don‘t know of any camera until now that can do > 15fps in mechanical shutter mode? Or is it fully electronic shutter with fake shutter sound?

[@fernandosantos8573]

Very interesting stuff indeed, but when the guy jumps to the sand box and clearly his head goes out of the frame, it would have been cool to see when his head comes back into frame, how well the camera pick his eye again. I agree with Ricci, this third teaser could have been better worked out in showing more tracking detail. The second teaser when they show 8K footage for 1 hour and 20 minutes, it felt they just shut up all the Nikon hatters. Here, with the tracking, they could have done a better work in shutting them up. It shows very good tracking, don't get me wrong, but the key is... when the tracking is lost, how well it requires it again ;)

[@laurencema8482]

I hope the development of the auto focus is also updated into the z6ii and z7ii bodies

[@Barleyman-SD]

Its a good teaser. Will there be a fourth, or will it be the announcement on the 28th, as is rumored. Hmm. Not sure what they would tease with the fourth. Thank Ricci, hopefully you'll get your hands on one soon, then you'll be smiling like a Cheshire cat! 6 minute vid of you smiling. ;-)😀😁😂

[@andreasroth7566]

Hi Ricci I don't own a Z Camera nor a FTZ. When i look at the FTZ Adapter in this Vid (1:00) it doesn't look like the other pictures of the FTZ Adapters i see in the net. Could that be a new FTZ Adapter? The bevel at the front seems to be much smaller then in other pictures. What do you think? Maybe it only looks like it's smaller because of the big Z9 and big lens...

[@RandyArellano]

I was going to post the same comment. My first thought is that it's a new(er) FTZ.

[@HeroShotzphoto]

Can it track cheeseburgers tho ? This is what I need to know.

[@johnholmes3244]

28th of October then, is that right?

[@DustinBKerensky97]

My disappointment is that this doesn't look like a video of the back panel of the camera. Is this just a simulation on how it's supposed to work? Is this what the internal processor is doing even if the back panel is a little bit slower or doesn't have the resolution to show the same coverage? Or is this just the back panel with the info off or a HDMI feed going to an external recorder? Lots of questions, but I don't think it's showing more than "The camera will have eye, and vehicle tracking. Plus a new FTZ adapter."

[@utopian666]

Looks like 20fps at the end of the video. I took it in to Resolve and looked through the waveform.

[@MikeJamesMedia]

Thanks, Ricci! (Excited to see what this camera can actually do!) :)

[@Hrishi1970]

The clip showing the three runners switched to slow motion in between and we could still see the af tracking square. Clearly this must be processed in post from a ninja 5 feed I guess.

[@Hrishi1970]

Shout out to photographers with glasses...clearly Nikon spoke to us in Teaser #3 🤓

[@cryhavoc38]

Teaser 4 will show animal and bird tracking and AF and introduce the 100-400 or 200-500 Z mount

[@urosjovanovic3142]

Well, they don't call it a teaser for no reason - they won't let us know all the details about the autofocus yet :). As for the bird autofocus, we kinda got a preview of that in the previous video, right? Even though it was not focused on autofocus (pun intended). To me, it's interesting how smooth those AF boxes move, it looks like the camera is quick to react to a change in the focusing distance. Looks like an absolute monster of a camera, can't wait to see how it works!

[@hitmanhart22]

Now this one looked awesome....I doubt the Z9 will be on the shelves for long...

[@Alexander-je4fs]

On 0:17 he opened his eye, I think it’s mean that camera can focus where eye look, sorry for my English. And it’s explain hoy camera focusing on the objects which want a photographer

[@GeoffCooper]

I thought the same, but then realised he is using his left eye on the EVF which we can't see...

[@CelsoMollo]

Dear friend, Fro talked to Nikon and they confirmed the focus square was added on digitally, and they say it was based on data 🤔

[@phelanwolf6747]

The scene with the soccer players was most interesting since this situation had low contrast for the eye identification which is definitely what the Z6 is struggling with (tested on a black cat, while it worked fine on a light colored dog). Sadly there were no examples with animals for the Z9, this must be intentional since they could have just continued with the African setting. We will have to see how the identification and tracking of fast animals works. And we will have to see how this trickles down to the affordable camera series.

[@DietrichLasa]

I counted 44 'audio' clicks/frames during that clip (I downloaded it and played it in slow motion to hear the audio in a slow speed). I could not figure out the exact length of the video clip in time (not frames).

[@jackmcewan6308]

The dealbreaker for wildlife photographers is how well the Z9 tracks birds in flight. Hopefully, its animal AF will extend well beyond dogs & cats! AF performance is a make or break for this camera and Nikon in general.

[@originalamit]

just a correction.. all wildlife photographers are NOT bird photographers.. :-)

[@destinyangel5]

It's very exciting for Nikon to finally have a great pro mirrorless that can now keep up with moving things and be competitive against Sony and Canon, but will it be made in Japan or off shored to Thailand /Taiwan ?. The Z 9 will be way out of reach for most people due to price no doubt will be D6 money + . So most Nikon F mount DSLR people who are not convinced won't care because they won't be able to justify the high costs in switching over .Their OVF and F mount pro glass for the D850's D780, D4 -s , D5 is still top notch for taking photos there is no need to switch . It isn't suddenly no good any more like some Nikon narratives are suggesting and is just as good as mirrorless for taking photos and some might say better . But hopefully this new Nikon tech trickles down to a new much needed and better Gen 3 version Z6-Z7, a proper mirrorless consumer /pro body/ proper grips and two cards that will finally bring it up to Canon and Sony standards that have been available already for the last couple of years. Z6III and Z7III will probably get a lot of F mount people who were sitting on fence finally off the F mount or have a second Nikon system to go with Fmount OVF tech and stop the many Nikon people defecting jumping ship to Canon and Sony due to being behind in the mirrorless space and would make sense to see this second quarter 2022, with improved focus modules, processors as firm ware 2.0 is not happening and was never confirmed for Z6II Z7II and a needed more usable better three way touch screen that's is portrait orientated or fully articulating like the R5 R6 can do ect and the need for a more suitable /usable FTZ adapter for all of the other Nikon Glass that was unbelievably just forgotten about on the first and second gen Z systems. Well done Nikon hopefully you can get back on track .

[@cohoonatube]

Interesting that there is not the yellow "arrow" which currently denotes eye/subject choice. Thanks Ricci!

[@JohanTalk]

Very exciting!