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Dragonfly landing movie made from 120 FPS still images from a Nikon Z9
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May 18, 2022 11:36:47   #
Strodav Loc: Houston, Tx
 
RedArrow wrote:
Thanks Strodav, The 120 FPS Jpegs are a pleasant surprise in quality and I am hoping Nikon will increase Raw FPS on the Z9 with firmware updates. The CFexpress B cards are getting faster and the new Delkin just released now can out run the Z9 at 20 FPS RAW. The Z9 being the first shutterless/mirrorless camera plus Nikon reduced the size of high raw files by one half this would make me think future firmware updates with increase to at least 30 FPS Raw or more.


I’m using the Sony 128GB Tough CFexpress B cards on my Z9, but will look into the Delkins. Thanks for the tip. My passion is birding and I’ve actually dropped back from raw 20fps to 15fps on the Z9 to keep the sorting process just a bit more manageable. I haven’t tried 120fps jpgs yet. Just internalizing the various focus point / area modes with and without tracking makes my head spin. As I said, it’s an amazing camera, but there is a learning curve especially for tracking song birds in trees.

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May 18, 2022 11:37:44   #
UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT
 
Very nice!

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May 18, 2022 12:02:44   #
RedArrow Loc: Coastal Louisiana
 
Strodav wrote:
I’m using the Sony 128GB Tough CFexpress B cards on my Z9, but will look into the Delkins. Thanks for the tip. My passion is birding and I’ve actually dropped back from raw 20fps to 15fps on the Z9 to keep the sorting process just a bit more manageable. I haven’t tried 120fps jpgs yet. Just internalizing the various focus point / area modes with and without tracking makes my head spin. As I said, it’s an amazing camera, but there is a learning curve especially for tracking song birds in trees.
I’m using the Sony 128GB Tough CFexpress B cards o... (show quote)


Z9 is just getting started as the Sony and Canon both have mechanical shutters so the are limited and with the Z9 it should only be a firmware change to increase FPS in Raw. I watched a youtube video of a birder using 120 FPS and getting shots of a Snowy Owl that 20 & 30 FPS that can not ever come close to getting. He then used AI gigabit to boost the image and they were unbelievable. Just a be prepared to delete 99% and only keep those special images. I shot 12,000 this weekend at my grandson baseball games. I only kept about 20 but they were ball on the bat and ball in the glove nearly every time and with pitching there was so many good ones and I was deleting great images only because I so many betters ones to choose from.

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May 18, 2022 12:04:49   #
RedArrow Loc: Coastal Louisiana
 
UTMike wrote:
Very nice!


Thanks Mike

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Jun 14, 2022 19:47:26   #
JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA
 
RedArrow wrote:
Nikon Z9 was used to track and take images at 120 FPS of a Halloween pennant dragonfly landing on a very wind day. Then about 200 to 300 still images where edited into a 10 FPS movie so it slows down the flight of the dragonfly flight by factor of 12 times. Your eye can see a very small pause between frames but well worth watching. It would look better higher at a FPS but I like the slow motion of the dragonfly and allows you see what happens in a real time speed. This was not a one time shot I repeated 3 times in a row.
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Great!!! I like it. And I also like how they find a favorite landing place and continually return to it, as per your ability to try it 3 times!

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Jun 15, 2022 06:12:19   #
RedArrow Loc: Coastal Louisiana
 
JimH123 wrote:
Great!!! I like it. And I also like how they find a favorite landing place and continually return to it, as per your ability to try it 3 times!


Thanks Jim, They do it over and over.

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Jun 16, 2022 14:03:07   #
Muddyvalley Loc: McMinnville, Oregon
 
I love it! Well done!

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Jun 16, 2022 15:26:38   #
RedArrow Loc: Coastal Louisiana
 
Muddyvalley wrote:
I love it! Well done!


Thanks Victor

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Jun 26, 2022 07:08:09   #
gmontjr2350 Loc: Southern NJ
 
RedArrow wrote:
Nikon Z9 was used to track and take images at 120 FPS of a Halloween pennant dragonfly landing on a very wind day. Then about 200 to 300 still images where edited into a 10 FPS movie so it slows down the flight of the dragonfly flight by factor of 12 times. Your eye can see a very small pause between frames but well worth watching. It would look better higher at a FPS but I like the slow motion of the dragonfly and allows you see what happens in a real time speed. This was not a one time shot I repeated 3 times in a row.
Nikon Z9 was used to track and take images at 120 ... (show quote)


Love this! Thank you for posting!

George

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Jun 26, 2022 08:12:13   #
RedArrow Loc: Coastal Louisiana
 
gmontjr2350 wrote:
Love this! Thank you for posting!

George


Thanks George

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