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[walt@wblady.com]

I notice that the viewfinder’s colour Gamut on my Z 7 doesn’t display the Ultra Violet range accurately. I saw this when I was snapping the screen saver on my iMac’s Retina Display. 

 

I tried adjusting the viewfinder’s Brightness up and down from Zero, and put the Colour Balance a little closer to the UV end, but noticed only a slight colour change in the viewfinder. The colours of the Live View screen however, are much closer to the actual colour gamut of the iMac’s screen and final image. 

 

On another point… During an outdoor shoot the other day, the hazy sun disk, shining through the thin clouds, couldn’t be seen in the viewfinder.

 

I imagine that the viewfinders on both the Z 7 and Z 6 are the same. I don’t know how they compare to other brands of Mirrorless cameras though. Seems to me that Nikon needs to improve the viewfinder’s accuracy, since this is the primary conduit between a photographer and the outside world. Maybe in the next Z.

[Nikon Shooter]

Hi Walter,

"… doesn’t display the Ultra Violet range accurately?"

How do you know, if I may ask? UVs are in the non visible spectrum!

"… the hazy sun disk, shining through the thin clouds, couldn’t be seen
in the viewfinder."

The Zs may have great qualities but accurate DR reproduction won't be
among them. You will possibly see only a well graduated burnt Sun.

[walt@wblady.com]

My mistake. I should've said... Toward the ultraviolet end of the spectrum.

[Nikon Shooter]

Do you have an image that could illustrate this, Walter?

[walt@wblady.com]

Hi Nikonian... No I don't because the colour is fairly accurate in the final image. It's only inaccurate in the viewfinder. The image I'm referring to is a Mac Catalina Screen Saver image titled "Flurry". It displays fairly strong colours from the infrared to the ultraviolet end of the visible spectrum.

[Nikon Shooter]

That's NS for you Walter!

Flurry?
Flurry is an eye-candy that does what it is supposed to do.
I don't use it. Only old tube screen users need it… not us!

[walt@wblady.com]

I was more concerned about the vividness of certain colours seen in the EVF.

 

I was shooting my computer screen which was displaying an animated screen saver. The image had a black background with animated stripes of vivid colours from the infrared to ultraviolet range of the visible spectrum. My Z 7 was set to Matrix metering. I noticed that the colours in the EVF were not nearly as vivid as the actual image. The colours in LiveView were more vivid - closer to the image on the computer screen.

 

I then compared EVF and LiveView images while switching the metering from Matrix, Center-weighted, spot and Highlight-weighted. LiveView displayed the most accurate colours, with only a slight variation between the metering modes. On the other hand, the colours in the EVF were washed out with Matrix, improved with Center weighted, Still better with Spot, and the most accurate in Highlight-weighted. I should mention that the final images taken with each metering mode were fairly accurate, regardless of what I saw in the EVF.