Anyone have any experience with the 14-30 f4?
I've been shooting the 14-30 for several months now. It was the lens I needed to make the Z work for me. I certainly like it better size-wise over my 14-24 Nikkor and it's much, much better when it comes to issues with flare.
For several years, I was shooting m43 and the Panasonic 7-14. Love the size/weight of the lens, but kept on waring out the bodies and was having to buy a couple of bodies each year as I broke or wore them out. Low light was always an issue, but size/weight was lovely.
Now shooting with a pair of Z6 bodies and both the 24-70 and 14-30 f/4 due to weight/size since I keep getting older each year :-) Love the image quality in the low light I normally shoot in despite using f/4 lenses. I seem to always work in tight spaces and sometime find that even the 14mm is a little too long but not too often.
Here's a few examples of images shot with the 14-30mm, landscape, group, dark and tight spaces, most shot at the wider end and usually under "hail Mary" lighting which I seem to prefer.
The first was into the sun and the star looks pretty good to me. That and the next were at 14mm. The last two were about 20mm or so.
I do wish Nikon or someone would bring out a compact or "folding" 70-200mm f/4 lens so I didn't feel like a pack mule, though. It would be the third of a old-man's "holy trinity" covering most basis, IMO.