Hello Rob
Thanks for your reply, I am going to say something quite controversial now, I have seen quiet a few pictures taken with a Z9 and to be honest I do not like them, the mirrorless has the ability to take crystal clear photo's but all of the representations that I have seen look like a high resolution TV with over bright colors, this was further bought home early in June when I was on top of the hills of Arromanche les Bains for D Day firework displays, there were several Associated press photographers with Z9's and Canon equivalents, the all came over to me at the end of the display because they were curious about an item on top of the D850 which was a Solmeta Geo Tagger, they asked about the pictures I had just taken so I showed these to them, they were astounded that my D850 was so good straight out of the camera, one of these photographers did say he was not sure why he had changed and did miss the D850. This is an argument I have heard a lot from Z9 owners. I would also say that it was not my skill that did this and it was the first time I had ever used the bulb function, the camera was just excellent, the only thing that I did was calibrate the lenses with a program called focal.
I prefer the bigger body camera and the only Nikon Mirrorless I would have would be the Z9 or Z8 with grip. The idea of D500 or another D850 is really just about the button layout being the same, the learning curve for the Z series does not bother me as I thought I would have that with the D850 from a D750, I now find that I sometimes have trouble going back to the D750.
The reason for the question was that a steam railroad club in Cambridge has given me control of there Flickr site to load photo's that they can use for the newsletters so I was interested in a smaller camera to take these photo's and obviously get a smaller file size, I could of course get this with my D750 or just change the image size on my D850, I have to be pragmatic and realise that I am just a very novice photographer who is using lenses and bodies that are far better than I am, that said it is surprising how much info from this forum has stuck. If I buy a Z9 I am almost certainly going to want to get Z lenses and the cost for what I achieve is not a good ratio. I can get a D500 or D850 for a similar price that is justifiable and then just sell the D7200 and D750.
At the moment here in the UK the Z9's are appearing used at camera shops in a higher amount after the Nikon own goal called the Z8 so maybe I will get one but for the first one I own I would prefer to buy new. However for now the D850 just works for me and I am looking at the best compromise to accompany this camera.
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Kind Regards
Roy
