>>4305655>has nothing to do with PDAF pointsDon't be a fool
>number of lines is the same in each, even though z6 has 273 AF pointsIt's 1 line out of the 12 at a 1:1 scale crop in the left preview, the per-colors is a crop at 50% scale with the line every 6 pixels
this is literally the PDAF row spacing
fuji MFs are 1 out of every 18
compare z6 to gfx100 and you see the gfx is ~1.5x scale in the stripes
"AF points" are based off area selectons containing a number of PDAF rows, the sensor doesn't have these PDAF rows on the top/bottom edge of the sensor only in the middle ~80-90% of the sensor area and the lack of PDAF issues is missing in those areas but you also don't get pinpoint AF in the exact top/bottom 2% of the sensor in landscape orientation but that's never a problem
pdaf banding is missing in those areas missing PDAF rows though
go compare those to other cameras and this striping is pretty unique to the z6/z7 but missing on z6 2 and z7 2
you're also looking at dark frames (lens cap on), if you check illuminated frames you can see subtle line artifacts in other channels but they're subtle and most prominent in the blue or combination of them all
Looks like Nikon just darkens the blues and that seems to be the source of the overblown banding as the root of the whole issue
they made a mountain out of a mole hill
you can underexpose on a d850 and push it 3-4 stops with natural looking noise at low ISOs but z6 or z7 doing the same (prior to firmware update? maybe not YOUR camera) have issues and can show banding
