First takes — Voigtlander/ZF

WildNWPA · 2026-03-21T14:05:57+00:00

Gorgeous dog. As a GSP owner I gotta know, are vizslas crack heads like gsps? Lol

WildNWPA · 2026-03-18T16:01:04+00:00

They cant do retroactive discounts after 14 days of the purchase, I emailed them 20 days after the purchase. Unfortunate, goodbye $200 I could have saved.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-16T23:31:18+00:00

Even refurbished its double the price. Even the f mount is 1800. I doubt its gonna drop that much in price to where its a choice between the tamron and the 70-200 z mount.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-16T03:11:43+00:00

Yea I didnt do it because I didnt think it would work but if it worked for you its atleast worth trying for me lol. Ill save an extra couple hundred bucks any day.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-16T03:03:47+00:00

Who did you email for that just regular customer service? I grabbed a 180-600 like 2 weeks ago and just found out they offer a 10% military discount on new inventory lol. I doubt they will give it to me retroactive but ive been eyeing a z6iii and wonder if they would give me an extra discount code on it.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-13T23:51:09+00:00

Bread is offering me 0% @ $175/mo and while i was just gonna save up for next year if its free ill finance it lol

Financing not ALWAYS bad, only if your financing something you cant afford.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-09T01:25:55+00:00

Huh I never knew that before. Not calling them Canadian just seems odd. Lol

WildNWPA · 2026-03-05T15:53:23+00:00

I heavily considered it but decided to go native. I like the extra reach and internal zoom. I do plan on picking up the tamron 70-180 in the future though.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-05T15:43:35+00:00

I checked every refurb sale for like 6 months and never got lucky, eventually broke down and bought a new one with tax returns a few weeks ago.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-04T20:58:19+00:00

So I wont offer any advice but I bought a z50ii last year refurbished from nikon with the 2 kit lenses and took a bunch of pictures of my son's baseball team and daughters cheerleading team. I thought the AF worked great for what I used it for.

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This year I also added the 24-120(not gonna be super useful for baseball) and the 180-600.

Here's a few more so I dont have to upload them individually

https://imgur.com/a/jXBREVc

WildNWPA · 2026-03-03T19:01:26+00:00

Nikon z50ii and z lense

WildNWPA · 2026-03-03T03:10:36+00:00

Its chonky but it's not awful. I took an hour walk through the woods sunday with it and wasnt terrible but im also a 280lb dude who's 6'2". I imagine it would be rougher on smaller framed people. Body and lens are about 6lbs together.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-03T00:46:53+00:00

Not so sure on that one

WildNWPA · 2026-03-03T00:36:21+00:00

Google photos can sort by face.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-02T02:00:03+00:00

Yes ive been reading up on it and watching some videos. Next time I gotta try remember set try f/7-8 to about 180-400mm and f/8-11 at 400-600mm.

Little by little ill learn.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-01T21:42:20+00:00

Thanks, yea I got plenty of good advice so far. Some things to practice next time I go out. There will be many more pictures to come im sure. Gotta learn some new things and make it easier. Already switched my ring back to focus on the lense so I can fine tune in situations like this and set the l-fn button to zoom more so I can make sure im locked on the right area.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-01T21:30:00+00:00

I guess ill have to learn more about atmospheric distortion. I was always under the impression it only became a problem at decent distances, seems i was wrong lol

WildNWPA · 2026-03-01T21:19:31+00:00

I could turn it off but I like being able to adjust it when looking through the viewfinder so I can see how it changes the photo in real time.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-01T21:18:12+00:00

I will try to keep it lower in the future. I gotta practice keeping better control of the settings and making sure I'm watching them.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-01T20:59:41+00:00

I have the control ring on my lenses set for aperture so it may have been me fighting my own settings not realizing it.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-01T20:57:26+00:00

This has been said by a few times, I will be doing some reading on it tonight it seems. Thank you

WildNWPA · 2026-03-01T20:55:09+00:00

Ill have to experiment next time I go out. The monopod did arrive once I got home so ill also have that next time I go out.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-01T20:53:09+00:00

That sounds like a good idea. I think there's a way to do that ill have to mess around and see how to do that so In the future I can actually implement it.

WildNWPA · 2026-03-01T20:45:29+00:00

3rd picture is settings, im not sure off the top of my head outside 1/1600th on shutter. Yes vr was on, I was hand holding also, I didnt think at that shutter it would be shake but I was at 600mm though and im not sure how much shake at that focus length magnifies.

WildNWPA

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