u/realkhil

Hi there! I’m in the market to purchase a new camera, and have been looking at the Fuji
Xt50, Xt5, and now the Nikon ZF. For some background, I have been shooting for about a year now with a canon. I primarily shoot landscapes and portraits, and I travel quite a bit. Right now, I’m approaching a busy point in my life where I don’t really have the time to edit photos or the money to drop on Lightroom. Of course, the retro styling has definitely pushed me towards these three cameras as well, but I love how the dials cater to a more “manual” experience.

My real question I guess is how good are jpegs out of the ZF? JPEG is not end all be able for me, I want to be able edit raw down the line when I have time, but right now I want to be able to enjoy the camera I buy. NX studio is also an attractive inclusion, but how useful is it? Would I be better off going with Fuji at the moment, or is the ZF a suitable choice?

Edit: I just went to Best Buy, and the xt5 ergonomically feels miles better. This isn’t the deciding factor…yet. But I tried holding the Nikon ZF, and I just couldn’t get it to feel great. A grip could always fix that, but still

I am a rising senior and have been working to fit my dual enrollment (Ohio State University) with my high school classes. I really enjoyed AP Calc BC, and I got a 5 on the exam, leading me to want to pursue calc 3 at OSU. The issue lies in how my high school schedule played out, where essentially every class was scheduled in the most inconvenient time possible to where it would be near impossible to make it so I could attend classes at both my high school and OSU. Would it be detrimental to college admissions, especially if I am wanting to go out of state, to take the college equivalents of these classes despite the fact they are offered at my high school?

I will be a rising senior this coming school year and I plan to apply to college as an engineering major. I have a 4.0 unweighted GPA with 8 total aps (all 4s and 5s), so I can handle at the very least a decent course rigor. I’m currently in AP Chem and AP calc, both of which I have loved, however I’m not too big on physics, some of which I attest to my teacher. I got a A in AP Physics 1 but a 4 on the exam, and I plan to take AP physics C next year, however im having second thoughts because I really don’t want to have the same teacher from AP Physics 1 again. I thought it might be better to take the class at osu, but I’ve heard horror stories and would like to hear anyone’s thoughts. Also, I wanted to take it at osu over cstate because I plan to apply to colleges out of state and think in it would be a better look taking the class at osu.