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If You Update Your Nikon Zf, Try This

Chris Gampat
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Last updated on 09/05/2025
09/05/2025
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Last Updated on 09/05/2025 by Chris Gampat

Earlier this week, Nikon announced their new Nikon Zf Silver camera. With it, they said that new film grain simulations will be coming to the camera after the firmware update. Make no mistake, this is my favorite Nikon camera by far and I still consider awarding it an Editor’s Choice. But I (and other staffers who own the camera) seem to be the only ones talking about a big problem that Nikon has yet to fix with it.

If you use the Nikon Zf in high speed sync mode with a flash, you’re going to run into some problematic issues at times. If you use Nikon on-camera flashes or even those that can be triggered via radio, it shouldn’t be all that much of a problem. But if you’re using third party flashes even in the hot shoe, you’ll run into problems at times. Sometimes, the camera won’t even fire the flash. At other times, it won’t sync the flash into the scene that you’ve shot. This has to do with issues around how the shutter speed dial works. And it was even confirmed to be the case with our Nikon reps.

Nikon truly should work on fixing this problem so that it works just the same way as their other cameras. The Nikon Zf is insanely powerful and can do stuff that the Z8 and Z9 can’t due to the Picture Cloud access.

So truly, keep this in mind when you’re shooting.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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