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I have the Z6 and as other stated the blacks are not crushed at all on the Z6. Everything is recoverable. I will post sample footage from test I did yesterday that proves this as a fact. Nikon does give the user more dark shadow area out of the gate in photo and video. I didn't raise the exposure in my test but it also didn't matter if you did over expose the shot. I did find out that the image comes out pushed to the lighter side then what you see on thru the view finder or back panel. The issue you are seeing (like the S1) is that Nikon's secret sauce settings are not anywhere close to a flat profile and they follow there still image look. So based on my test you have to shoot with the flat profile and the -2 contrast and -2 brightness and 0 sharpness. Again the shadow / crushed blacks have every single bit of data in them and are not baked into he footage. Even when I shot closer to standard or even auto highlights and crushed blacks were recoverable meaning I lowered the highlight and raised the shadows and used mid tone to balance the shot. My conclusion is you have to treat the Z6 like the FS7 cine camera and almost under expose your look, almost, more then you think and more then the viewfinder is showing you.

I have the Z6 and the image quality and "look" is very close to the S1 in just about every way. I find the battery life to be great on the Z6. Are you going by the false reviews for it's battery life? As far as the single card slot it depends what and why you feel the way about it. Do you mean two XQD card slots? No way for me if that's the case. The Sony FS7 only uses one XQD card slot and no one says anything about that. I also want to say I love what the S1 brings to the game. The Sony sensors you mention will not make it into the A7 line up or A9 for that matter because Sony won't put better sensors in these line ups before the upgrade the Cine line up. And no way Sony makes everything under the A7SIII absolute with it's release. People are throwing out these claims of how great the A7SII will be and they're not thing about Sony's product line. The A7SIII will be at the same level as the Z6 and S1 and if you think about that quality with Sony's AF and glass line up it will be perfect. The GH5 and GH5s should have taught everyone that specs don't make skin tone or video quality great. Let Sony, Nikon and Panasonic perfect the full sensor 4K 10-12 bit raw first and then we can wish for 4K60p with no crop.

Did you see the RedShark footage? I hope you can see user preference over graded footage. Do you own the Z6? I have the Z6 and the one thing it does is capture realistic color and dynamic range. Now Sony on the other hand.....

Lots of great footage from the Z6 The Z6 has sharpness setting you can adjust but it also captures more detail then the GH5s, BMP4K and A7III, detail not sharpness. The crushed blacks are not baked into he footage and can be adjusted if using auto mode to any other profile. Nikon definitely runs the full range from light o dark and pushes the shadows darker then Sony or Canon.

You can change and grade out the dark look. Why is this a concern? You raise the shadows up.

The Z6 is already ahead of were the A7SIII was going to be with XQD cards, 10 bit 4K30fps and 12 bit RAW that's coming soon for the Z6. The Z6 also already outputs at a higher mbps then any other A7??? camera. The Z6 will also be able to output at higher mbps in the future with Atomos and it already has better color then any Sony camera. The A7SII claim to fame was lowlight performance and the Z6 already is great in that department. The Z6 also has better IBIS then any other A7??? camera. So if you take the mark that the Z6 is already at the A7SIII has a lot of ground to cover just to be equal to the Z6 (and Lumix S1) that the only thing the A7SIII will be able to do is up FPS to 60 at 4K and then it probably won't be at 10 bit anyway. Why do you think the A7SIII hasn't been announced yet?