Approaching The Scene 285: Nikon’s New Pixel Shift Imaging: How to Capture & Edit + IQ Analysis

Thanks for this demonstration! It might be the video compression but I noticed some vertical banding in the PS shots not visible on the original 24mp shot ? Do you see that on your monitor ?

Great informative video! I have the Zf as well and been meaning to try pixel shift shooting of the moon on my tracking mount.

The scotland and Seattle shots really demonstrate that you're getting more detail rather than just more resolution. I'm going to be interested in using this to photograph medium format slides and negatives.

I used pixel shift and got the most detailed pictures of the moon. I was amazed with the detail that I got and how easy it is to edit the pictures in post processing

Actually Pixel shifting photos combining operation would have been better in the camera.

Any chance they'll bring this to the Z8/Z9? Or do you think the IBIS hardware in those cameras isn't capable of the kind of precision needed for this?

as usual great video what is the ZFC will get the Pixel shift option what about Z8 and 9??

Wondering how it would do in a astrophotography image? There you would have to use a longer exposure. Wish Nikon had placed a wired remote port in the Zf.

Are you sure about the pixel-shift process there each pixel gets different colors? that would mean the RGGB bayer matrix filters are not directly attached to the camera sensor. Effectively making it a monochromatic sensor with a floating RGGB bayer matrix filter. Is this really how they made it?

thanks hudson
nice explain
… even i understand

Hudson, super info. What are your thoughts with using this with Astro Photography? would there be too much movement if you to use this taking images of nebulas for example?

Great video. Thanks for going through pixel shift. A cool quick comparison would be comparing a pixel shift image to the same basic nef up-res’d in a program like Gigapixel.

Informative as always.

Thanks for the information. Looks like Nikon just surpassed Sony in the Pixel Shift category. 1) Nikon has more options for shifting, 2) evidently there is meta data for the application to pick out which shots go with which combined images. 3) I believe the shots are taken faster on the Nikon.

I would just like to see Nikon treat NX Studio a little more seriously. It's slow, crashes occasionally and on the spare side feature and function wise. Maybe having to accommodate features like pixel shift will force them to dedicate a little more attention to it.

Pixel shift is great when you can get it shaper than a standard frame.
with a steady enough tripod Its good for everything except wildlife, events, sports, wedding, landscape, family, street or macro ... 🦘

Hey Hudson, do have plans to do a tutorial on setting the Zf up for BIF? I'm curious how you would go about programming the buttons, since there are so few of them.

what a great intro to pixel shooting. I hope tha it will become possible on Z8/z9. Thanks Hudson

Thanks for the free tutorial, I am going to check it with the city. The sensor is amazing by itself in high ISO, as you say.

LOVE my Zf and so Happy you did this video since I had no clue re Pixel Shift ... ? What's your thoughts on using Pixel Shift for Astro ie using it like a stacking process . As long as you maintain a shutter speed less than the movement of the stars would it work ????

IF your milky way foreground were rocks it would be nice for the foreground shot and then do a tracked sky.

I feel like us Z8 shooters are being left in the dust!!! Any hope for PS in a future firmware update?

Thanks for this! I love the Zf and recently returned from a trip to Puerto Rico…such a great travel camera. However, I just purchased a refurb’d Z8 from Nikon and it is a wonderful beast! While I love the look of the Zf and its low-light capabilities, I wrestling with what camera makes more sense keeping, as I’m a semi-pro, coming from a Z7II (w/Z5 as backup). The Z8 is bigger and more utilitarian looking, but it seems to be the Swiss Army knife all of us Nikon lovers have been waiting for in mirrorless. Such a good problem to have with all the great stuff Nikon is offering!

Do you think Z8 and Z9 will get PS?