Z6III HIGH ISO Low Light Z 85mm f/1.2 S | Essential Viewing Sydney Harbour Video | Matt Irwin

[@MuveeNubee]

The Sydney video was epic. One of the best of Sydney I’ve ever seen. Bravo!

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Thank you so much Muvee

[@jpdj2715]

Wow, great video on all cinematographic levels. Excellent use of music.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Thank you very much!

[@choiwong3086]

Matt, that is a beautifully done video with the 85f1.2. Thank you for the inspiration. I am not much of a video guy, so I will start with my Z7II and the 85f1.2 in stills. Maybe a few short video. By the way, i love the whole harbour video without a single spoken word. You let your creation speak for itself.

[@jamesurzykowski4918]

Dear Rock, That was an amazing video! Hand held too. You are so rock steady. You sure do know your craft! Sydney sure is a beautiful city and oh so large. You sure do know how to shoot night scenes. Thank you for another great program. I just wish I could be there.As always. ICM

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Thank you so much James, perhaps next time somewhere else in the world

[@MarkFitzlaff]

Matt, This is just amazing, to see the sights of Sydney in Mesquite, Nevada. An awesome trip. Like so much of what you do. Keep it up!!!

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Absolute pleasure Mark

[@johnhjic2]

Hello Matt, what a super images / video. Great work

[@abmbarry]

..."Wow, Wow, Wow!" Stunning results from the shoot (Handheld) subject sellection through to precission editing and seamless sound sync. The 85mm f1.2 is something else. Fabulous Matt.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Cheers Barry, a subject that is a joy to capture and behold, with tools that simply let me chase my vision. Indeed my happy place 📷

[@MGriff-q1i]

Hugely impressive opening section. The Nikkor lens line up is extremely impressive. For me the one I really want just because it is so wonderful to look through is the Plena. I own the 85 1.8 S so the Plena is the one I aspire to own. It is so good.

[@christinetanner4631]

Wow! Fabulous video, Matt! One of your best. Thanks so much for sharing it. Your nighttime video skills are simply amazing.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Thank you so much Christine :)

[@markwiemels]

Footage, and the edit, was stunning, well done.

[@JasonLorette]

That opening sequence was stellar Matt!

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Cheers Jason

[@rickpinelli1586]

You certainly selected the proper music to soundtrack tour video... Bravo!

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Tour De Force - Sydney, 85mm f/1.2, Z6III and the craft - and I must say I had a great time capturing these images and putting the edit together !

[@florencioaviles408]

Awesome video. You’re persuading me even more to go get the z6iii.

[@csc-photo]

Loving the Blade Runner vibes in your vids lately! 😎🤖

[@doriangray8007]

LOVE this!!! Wish I could give it a thousand likes.

[@wdb1932]

Spectacular.

[@robbieallcock]

Crikey O’Reilly Matt! Absolutely stunning all round - both video work and subject 🤩 bravo 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Thanks so much Robbie :)

[@UweRoclawski]

Great intro with great music and atmosphere! Love it! Greetings from Germany!🤘

[@maxmirzaei9987]

Another great video 🤩 Thanks Matt It was a great honor to watch this video with you today in Nikon Live Sydney. You are a fantastic photographer and a great person. Thanks for sharing your almost 4 decades of experience with me. Also, I should say a big thank you for the great gift, " Sydney a love affair", a photo book by Matt Irwin. This book is not only very beautiful but also will give us very good idea about photography. For the people who are looking for improvement in composition, I highly recommend to get one of this book from Matt's website.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Thank you so much Max, it was a total pleasure to spend time talking about our shared passion in photography. Something which is so dear to my heart. I never stop marvelling at the power of the frame, and what can be created as long as we take the time to stop and look, and we know how to capture.

[@mozzman]

Great footage Matt and good to see you in your element at Nikon LIVE!

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Thank you Moz

[@raylander6329]

SUPERB!!! WOW!!!

[@pmuoki]

I believe that settles the dynamic range argument. Just amazing. Good job.

[@JohnRoth-f9e]

Wow! Very impressive production.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Thank you John! Cheers!

[@josephsworkshop75]

Thoroughly enjoyable cinematic experience. Wonderful video Matt. You’ve lifter the bar higher again. Beautifully shot & edited.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Cheers Joe

[@waynerm002]

Fantastic low light video from the Z6 III + 85 1.2, love it! Knowing it was all shot handheld is great and you did a great job matching it to the music. Great job!

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Thank you so much Wayne !!

[@umbertodebellisguitarist]

Good vibes! I’m enjoying your videos 👌

[@anthonystonehouse]

Thanks for the chat on cameras (film, Nikon and Fujifilm) at the end of the Nikon live opening last night and hope you managed to grab a drink before the bar closed! It was great to meet you in person after watching your videos for so many years.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Wonderful to meet you too Anthony. Until next time :)

[@dominiclester3232]

Superb image making Matt 🎉🎉🎉 matching music, bravo! Ridley would be proud and the jump cuts made me think of A hard day’s night...👏👏👏

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Thanks so much Dominic :)

[@Digmen1]

That Nikon Live event looks to have been amazing

[@rogermanning4353]

Beautiful video Matt.

[@lavluvlov]

Great effect with focus !

[@MTBD80]

Looks awesome!

[@RaymondParkerPhoto]

I sse you've been making good use of your time in Sydney, Matt! Fantastic short film, great soundtrack, awesome edits! Talk to you soon.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Thanks Ray, looking forward to it

[@thomasju1]

Wow!

[@nocturnus009]

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” -Salvador Dali Folks can generate a laundry list of limitations or take time in the field [and or studio] in practicum… 🥋🎨🖼️🎥🎞️📽️ “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” -Leonardo da Vinci

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Beautiful Charles

[@mikelyon5595]

Inspirational!

[@alebo62]

Very nice video, music, focus pulls ...

[@JRodPhotoArt]

Wonderful video! Well done.

[@whoalse]

Stunningly captured, Matt! More importantly, will there be a Nikon Live in Melbourne? I have gone down the rabbit hole of prime lenses for its portability! I have enjoyed Z 40mm f/2.0, Z 50mm f/1.8, Viltrox 20mm f/2.8 and now Z 35mm f/1.4 is coming hopefully by end of the week! It's 20% off and no brainer!

[@Bassbunker]

Hi Matt, gorgeous video. I am looking to buy a Z6iii and keen to try video for the first time properly, especially for an upcoming trip to Japan. Would love to know what ISO you were generally recording in and was the 85 always at 1.2? I will be getting the z6iii with the 24-120 and then looking to buy 1 prime for night / low light and still try to work out focal length as I only have the budget for 1 prime so want to make it count. Original thought were leaning towards the 50mm 1.8s. Cheers!

[@bmwohl]

Wonderful video, Matt. I had guessed you were shooting on the 135mm Plena because the bokeh was so round. You fooled me, and watching a second time it make perfect sense. Thank you. I am sorry I can't make the 12,000 km trip from Wyoming for the Nikon Live event. I'd love to see the most beautiful harbor in the world.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Hopefully I can do something in the USA sometime soon :)

[@joergtboeckeler9018]

Matt, how beautiful and such amazing quality - Sydney a continuous love affair!

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

For sure Joerg, perhaps a little cold, but looking beautiful this week in the wonderful winter light and wet streets. How is your Z6III going?

[@KNZ5]

Excellent video! A similar video with the 135 1.8 would be interesting. There are many people out there who can't decide between those two lenses.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Great suggestion!

[@mikkosuhonenphotography]

I wonder if I could do something similar in my city with Z 5 and Viltrox 85mm f1.8 🤔 Looks so good 👌

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

For sure :)

[@detectivejonesw]

I really hope nikon can lend you a noct!!! You would create something unbelievable I'm sure

[@Paul-D-Hoff]

Geeezzzz, you have a LUNA PARK too. :)

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Yes one in both Melbourne and Sydney

[@gerryphilpott9766]

Matt - Curious, my Z7ii took a fall about a month ago and deciding on the following: Do I get another one used as they are good prices, get a Z6iii and live with the lower MP of 24.5, or get the Z8 but I tried it before and found just too big and bulky? I'd love the goldilocks of Z7iii but my guess that would be 2026 if at all?

[@duncanwallace7760]

So cool, in my hometown.... but I'm overseas! Doh!

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Next time !!!

[@vinhsanity]

All I see is non stop flickering… wait only from those who want to shoot 7 stops under exposed then raise it in post 😂 Thanks for showing people’s criticisms are blown out of proportion

[@stefanweilhartner4415]

i saw the same flickering but i also saw heavy compression artifacts with it which i blame on the youtube compression.

[@KNZ5]

​@@stefanweilhartner4415 Those artifacts are from KZbin. Uploading the video in HDR might help. But KZbin videos are nowhere near the quality of the original videos.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

@@KNZ5 It is KZbin, the file goes from my original render, which is already not as good as the actual files out of camera. I upload 3.1GB file, KZbin compresses it even further to 612MB when viewing in 4K

[@andrewmason8691]

You’re in God’s Country again, Matt. Nice choice of music btw.

[@solidroc7entertainment49]

Great job

[@williambuford6136]

Matt loved your video. Looks like you used the Zoom in feature several times. It was beautiful, buttery smooth. What editing software are you using?

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

All zooms were in post. 😀

[@christianfujen7597]

Soon

[@pascalbubi]

thank you 👏👏

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Thank you

[@kamalnebhani2744]

Very nice beautiful videos l❤ Sydney Australia 🦘🦘

[@mrdarryljones1]

Fun! 👍🏾

[@bsc001]

Nice video, cheers Matty. I will miss Darling Harbour for sure after my move to Portugal. Wish I could have been there at the Nikon Live event this time around, sigh. I will get the 85 1.2 at some point, I do have the 50 1.2 and Plena, have to complete the trio though, right? And await the arrival of the 35 1.2, then my GAS will be complete. Anyway, living vicariously through you.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Thanks so much. Yes all wonderful lenses. Next I will try and shoot the same sort of video at the same time with both the 85 1.2 and Plena and see how they differ :)

[@bsc001]

@@MattIrwinPhotography Very much looking forward to that, cheers! Let me know when you’re in Melbourne and I’ll hook you up for a coffee, if you have time in your schedule ;)

[@mrkrindtxfilmmakergp4581]

Can I ask what memory card did you use for this shoot? Thanks.

[@tfransson]

Matt, is any of this shot in 6400 ISO? Petapixel reports a flickering issue in the dark areas.

[@jackbrumby1892]

Excellent. Comments here say it all.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Cheers Jack !!!

[@edwardlim4528]

Hi Matt, very impressive video and sound track. Is this Nikon Live first event in Australia? Will it ever come to Melbourne? I was at Melbourne Ted's Z6III hand on event but I did not stay long enough. So not sure if there are hand on session after I left. This video gave confident back after watching Tony Northrup test on Nikon Z6III.

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

It would be so great if something like Nikon Live could happen in Melbourne. The Z6III is part of a system, which includes the mount and the lenses which are possible from the mount, put these tools together and for example in the case of this video I was able to capture these images in under 3 hours, handheld, with ISO's between 100 and 6400, and it looks so great, I will follow up this video with a 'how I made this video' video. :)

[@petersuvara]

Pity I am in Melbourne, otherwise it would be great. Enjoy Sydney.

[@MrDucatiPenigaleV4s]

Hi Matt, Do you think Nikon will bring a 24mp Z9 out to counter the canon R1?

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

It is so hard to say, in a way the Z6III is a lot of that today. And obviously a lot cheaper than the R1. I think there are a few other cameras needed first, cameras which have been released for 4/5 years like the Z50 and Z5, could use updates, also perhaps a Z500, as there seems to be demand for it, and what will we see in the way of a RED ZED? The Z9 is already such a powerful tool. But you never know they could surprise us. :)

[@davewalker5706]

Great images Matt, any chance of Nikon Live coming to London I wonder…

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

Might be time I make video like this in London. 😀

[@davewalker5706]

@@MattIrwinPhotography Be great to see you over here Matt!

[@petersuvara]

You should do an episode of Under Belly Matt. :) That intro!

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

I love that idea.

[@enricojakobsoriano]

Great footage. Was it shot in raw & n-log?

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

5.4k 10 bit Flat Profile :)

[@enricojakobsoriano]

@@MattIrwinPhotography Thanks for the reply. Ever since getting the camera I’ve concluded that n-log is completely unusable in most conditions. I hope Nikon fixes this. If you can ask those reps on Friday about the n-log issues of this kit that would be extremely appreciated!

[@tfransson]

A lot of us would be shooting either that or 4K 10 bit flat. A pity it is not 4.2.2. Matt do you think Nikon will add that possibility?

[@stefanweilhartner4415]

yes, the video looks great but somehow looks very different to an analog film or in a movie. i wonder how this would look after applying some analog film emulation filters to it. that would be amazing to see what could be done in postprocessing to create a cinematic look. i guess in that night video is dominated by cold blueish lights which results in this kind of unnatural cold colors. the question is, how was your perception with your eyes? how would this video look if giving it a bit warmer color in postprocessing? did you eyes see the colors the same way?

[@MattIrwinPhotography]

I am planning of making a follow up video to this one, which shows all the settings on how it was done, I can also create some alternate 'gradings'. I don't think it would take much at all to create a range of looks.

[@stefanweilhartner4415]

@@MattIrwinPhotography great. that could give an idea what could be done, where it leads.

[@ronboe6325]

Well who it going to want to play with the Noct after you kissed and licked it? It's yours now! :poke: :^) You know, after you talked me into the 135 Plena now you're making me lust over the 85mmf/1.2, which truth be told, might be a better fit for my use case. I have the f/1.8 which seems to do 98% of the 1.2. I'd say have fun, but you're way past that I see!

[@williambuford6136]

That 85 f1.2 lens is my latest lens acquisition, I have only really used it for Portraits. The 135 mm Plena is super tempting.

[@NasimHP]

👌♥️

[@avi_har]

iso?

[@AadarsYadav-m5f]

Cy

[@roybixby6135]

I'd go to Sydney to play with a Noct too ... 🦘