Larry Cloetta
Veteran
Excellent link, Lynn. Worth noting that this set of guidelines pretty much holds for every mfg. and VR lenses at the time it was written, at a minimum.
Obviously, it’s complicated. The other, later, link Lynn gave was “If you're counting on VR to let you take absurdly long shots, handheld or on a tripod, I'd strongly suggest that you select electronic first curtain shutter (EFCS) or the all-electronic shutter.” If you are under 1/2000 sec shutter speed, this solves a lot of potential motion blur problems. There’s more to it than that, loots more, but that’s the quick and dirty way to happiness.
My personal approach with any camera is to always shoot at native base ISO or as close to it as possible, so I am rarely using a shutter speed faster than 1/2000, so EFCS is on most of the time. The way Nikon implemented EFCS is more effective than it was on earlier cameras, though they won’t let you use it above 1/2000 to forestall the problems we have seen with EFCS in the past. Works in my situation, not necessarily everyone’s.
Vince, Thom Hogan is by far the best source of accurate information on all things Nikon. His guide to the Nikon Z6, Z7 contains more useful instruction than is available anywhere else including the (excellent) manual or the internet. It’s long, but it’s the best way to getting one’s money out of the camera.
