george19 wrote:
I purchased a Z7 ii in October and have the same observation and complaint. I think I managed to download the manual, but it took considerable effort, and functionality is horrible. Nikon stopped supporting their Manual Viewer app, which was somewhat useable and useful, but this machine is a beast to learn.
So yeah…I ended up buying a third party book.
Congratulations on your purchase, and I wish you years of enjoyment.
Always a good move to get the 3rd party book. I bought the Busch book about a year before buying my Z6.
If the book had revealed that I’d better forget the Z, then $25 for that warning is better than $1000+ blown on the wrong camera. Having bought the Z, the book becomes a useful aid.
I wanted the Z6 for two specific reasons. All else about it merely had to be “just OK” as long as those two functions were going to meet my needs.
Concerning Nikon’s “manual viewer app” that you mention, isn’t the downloadable manual a normal standard PDF ? If Nikon has dropped PDF for some proprietary file type that would indeed suck much ! Is it a PDF, or something else ???