10-03-2018, 07:25 AM
Well BC, sometimes you appear to me as if you have to search and search until you find something to balance the poor noise and high ISO performance of high resolving Canon sensors. When I was comparing DPreview's sensor charts, a couple of Canons showed simply the worst noise perfomance, no matter if shadows were pulled 6 stops - which sometimes can be necessary - or "only" 4 stops.
And as Sony, Olympus, Panasonic or Fuji as experienced manufacturers of MILC don't have banding or striping issues these days, also Nikon can find a way to overcome it, be it via Firmware or with another model lateron. You're looking for flea hair in a big bowl of rather tasty, but not exciting soup and behave as if the photographic world will end very soon. And don't blame Sony: It was Canon's 5D sensor which showed so much visible banding in the shadows that users switched over to Nikon because they were fed up of excuses. There I could see the stripes - with the Z7 it's apparently a bit tougher to produce them.
And if it comes to the worst, Nikon will exchange the sensor. They have quite a history with fialures and bugs, but they often showed repsonsibility and tried their best to fix the crap.
And as Sony, Olympus, Panasonic or Fuji as experienced manufacturers of MILC don't have banding or striping issues these days, also Nikon can find a way to overcome it, be it via Firmware or with another model lateron. You're looking for flea hair in a big bowl of rather tasty, but not exciting soup and behave as if the photographic world will end very soon. And don't blame Sony: It was Canon's 5D sensor which showed so much visible banding in the shadows that users switched over to Nikon because they were fed up of excuses. There I could see the stripes - with the Z7 it's apparently a bit tougher to produce them.
And if it comes to the worst, Nikon will exchange the sensor. They have quite a history with fialures and bugs, but they often showed repsonsibility and tried their best to fix the crap.