Nikon Z User

I like tele lenses, not only for typical tele uses like birds, but also for the possibility to explore interesting compositions in narrow details of the field of view. However, tele lenses can be really large and expensive, and unpractical to lug around. With this in mind, I was intrigued about the basic DX kit zoom lens, that you typically get in double lens kits: The Nikon Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR . As the name indicates, this is a "DX" lens, meaning that it only gives you a smaller image at 1.5x crop factor, corresponding to a field of view of 75-375mm in traditional film format terms. So on 45MP cameras like the Z9 and Z7, you will get images with just under 20MP. The lens is small and light, and should be easy to bring along for the occational tele image, especially when you have good light during daytime. But is it good enough optically to be worth bringing along? I'll look into that here. Physical appearance The lens is quite comparable in size and

CFExpress type B memory cards have become the new standard for high end consumer cameras. Compared with previous standards like SD and CompactFlash, these are way faster. But this speed comes at a cost: Much higher price. To get a card with a reasonable size, you must often expect to pay at least USD100, and often double that. In a way, this is not something new. Also with SD cards, you typically paid mostly for the speed: Higher speed rating would come at a very high premium price. But the main difference is that all CFExpress type B cards are super fast, so there are no inexpesive choices. With that in mind, I was happy to come across the Angelbird 512 GB AV Pro SE card. At less than USD200, it seems like too good to be true for a 512 GB card. As I wasn't planning on using the high end video features of the Nikon Z9 , I took the chance. While not advertising this specifically on the card, the max write speed is described as 850 MB/s, which is quite a lot lower than the ty