The new Nikon Z6 has been in hand for a few weeks now. I am getting used to the controls and really like how it handles. However, I have been struggling a little with my 18-140 mm DX lens on the Z6 body. It seems to work fine, but apparently I did not understand that cramming a full landscape image into the "cropped" part of an FX sensor with its larger pixels would create somewhat soft images. I have tried tuning the focus--and that helped some.

To verify my thinking, I photographed the moon hovering over the mountains west of Butte, Montana, on April 19. I used my 70-300 mm FX lens for all photos and found that the images are noticeably sharper than photos of similar scenes taken with the 18-140 mm lens. I will continue to experiment, but I suspect that I will have to get an FX wide-angle lens for landscape work. The 18-140 should still work well for images with a lot of near detail that can be splashed across the camera's sensor.

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Rocker Valley MoonMoonset, Rocker, Montana. April 19, 2019.