Focus Confirmation on Manual Focus Lenses: How Nikon Hobbled a Great Feature

The Nikon Zf is a phenomenal camera for manual focus photography. Whether you’re mounting vintage AI-S glass or modern manual focus lenses like the Voigtlander Z-mount series, these lenses feel right on this camera. The ergonomics, the tactile feedback, the deliberate nature of manual focusing—it all clicks. There’s just one problem: Nikon has artificially restricted one of the camera’s most useful features in a way that makes no technical sense.