If you’re a Nikon Zf camera owner, then you probably got a notification a while back about the latest firmware update. This one, admittedly, is quite odd. And if you read through the update, you’ll notice that it really doesn’t seem to do much for most photographers. However, Nikon cared about it enough to issue a fix. If anything, it’s prompting photographers to create more images in-camera than in post-production.
Our entire Nikon Zf review can be found here at this link. But if you want to read just the new update, please see it below. Want one? Check them out on Amazon.
Ease of Use Update May 2025
Firmware 2.01 addresses the following:
- Fixed an issue where, after setting any of the following Picture Controls and then operating the camera with [Multiple exposure mode] set to anything other than [Off], the camera would no longer respond to operations or an error message would be displayed.
- Custom Picture Controls adjusted and saved in NX Studio based on Flexible Color and loaded into the camera
- Cloud Picture Controls downloaded to the camera from recipes on Nikon Imaging Cloud
This may seem like a smaller update to lots of photographers because they don’t know how to use or experiment with multiple exposure modes. But if you’re the type of photographer who prefers to create images in-camera and doesn’t want to use lots of post-production, then you’ll love this. And if you’re not making multiple exposures, then you truly should start getting more intentional with the stuff you want to create.
As it is, we never saw this issue happen to us. However, we’ve only tested the camera with one of the new Picture Controls. Transparently, I don’t like most of the ones that I’ve seen and Nikon’s ease of use with utilizing these options is way more annoying than it is with other brands. To me, it’s almost like the person who created the whole feature didn’t want to do it in the first place.
Either way, this is a big enough issue that Nikon took it seriously enough to do a firmware update. This is pending their very slow response on the high speed sync flash issues that we’ve been reporting on regularly.