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Does the D500 have a weather sealed body?
Yep, all implementations I'd like to see too, assuming you mean by hybrid you mean an optical viewfinder that has an overlay to show such things as peaking? LV AF improvements are a must imo.
Certainly is, I'd love AF points to the edges like that but alas that's never going to happen on FF until they go mirrorless I wouldn't have thought.This is a bit of a cool selling point for action:
Agreed, I never use the pop up and would rather carry a speedlight.Not having inbuilt flash would not worry me use it so little I would just use my external when / if needed
Not having inbuilt flash would not worry me use it so little I would just use my external when / if needed
Apparently to the same level as the D810 so yesDoes the D500 have a weather sealed body?
Depends how you view it. It's not marketing in that these things are in place and are technically an advancement (some of which is quite impressive). Where the marketing comes in is making us believe that we want/need themI think most of it is probably just "marketing."
You do realize that the D500 has a pixel size of 4.22um... that's directly comparable to the 50MP 5DS at 4.14um.
The D7200 is at 3.92um and the D8xx is at 4.88um.
You'll hear many talk about how demanding the D8xx is on lens/light/technique/etc and it's all due to the tiny pixels... and every one of those other cameras are even *more demanding.*
IMHO there is some benefit to high resolution, but for wildlife/action/low light, not really. I'll still use my D810 for that stuff but very seldom is there ever a true benefit, and occasionally it is a real negative.
I think the ISO ratings are about nonsense... small pixels are small pixels. My D810 has high ISO's, but I won't use it above 1600 if I want/need large output or if there is going to be cropping involved. There's a chance that they might be implementing raw file noise reduction (ala Sony A7) to get a "higher usable," but that's probably not any better.
The focus points is also probably not that big of a deal... in order to get more of them they have to be made smaller. And that means they receive less/per and will have reduced accuracy individually. I'm guessing that in order to offset that they are "grouping" them together into the 55 selectable points; a slight gain over the previous 53pt system.
My D4 will do 10fps and my Nikon1 will do 15fps w/ AF... all that really does is fill the buffer/card in a hurry and make it harder to manage. Yeah, it's a slight increase in "chance," but it won't offset the requirement for timing/knowledge (I do about as well w/ the D810 at 5fps as I do w/ the D4 at 10fps).
All is yet to be seen, but I have not heard of any advances in technology that makes any of these "gains" possible without tradeoffs similar to what I have mentioned... They didn't even switch to BIS which *could* have given a *slight* true ISO performance gain (actually an increase in efficiency). So, we'll see... But I'm not that excited...
birds static were bad enough,many times i nearly threw the scope at them..used to drive me nuts, press shutter "come on take picture " bird moved missed the shot, then try to find bird again in view-finder , got the shot!! of a blurred something...BIF with a digiscope should be fun!
The release of the d500 should mean the already cheapish d7100 and d7200 may drop even further. Here's a whacky idea: Spend less on the body and more on the glass.
Depends what your priorities are. And you would have to assume that those looking at a £1700 camera probably have some decent lenses already. As I said before, it looks to be positioned very much as a D5 backup body. D3s/D300s used to be a lovely combo.
Nice. Fingers crossed there's no early release gremlins that need to ironed out on this model.I've pre ordered the D5 and yes, will probably get the D500 as a back up. I originally had the D3 and D300. worked well as a pair.
Nice. Fingers crossed there's no early release gremlins that need to ironed out on this model.
If you don't need the features of the D500, get a D3000 or D5500 and save even more money.The release of the d500 should mean the already cheapish d7100 and d7200 may drop even further. Here's a whacky idea: Spend less on the body and more on the glass.
So will the D7200 for a lot less moneyIf you don't need the features of the D500, get a D3000 or D5500 and save even more money.
I'm one of these seemingly weird people, reading a lot of internet Forums anyway, who wants one camera to take pictures of everything they do, the D300S does it now, and the D500 will hopefully do everything better.
So will the D7200 for a lot less money
What, be better than the D300s???So will a phone for even less.
Oh no. What a shame. If only there was some way to... I dunno... turn an image upside down after you'd taken it. Think how cool that would be. You would get your upside down image with the telescope - you'd put it through this... gadget for want of a better word... and it would come out the right way up!!! If only...I have a telescope and a Nikon mount adapter that came with it. Never thought about using my telescope for long-reach bird photography.
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Scrap that, I've just had a thought that it's a refractor telescope and I think the image I get would be upside-down?
Oh no. What a shame. If only there was some way to... I dunno... turn an image upside down after you'd taken it. Think how cool that would be. You would get your upside down image with the telescope - you'd put it through this... gadget for want of a better word... and it would come out the right way up!!! If only...
EDIT - Something like this perhaps: http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-12-20
Absolutely. Our brains just don't work like that.If I'm taking pics of birds that keep flying about to different spots, then I couldn't be doing with having to try tracking it whilst the image is upside down in the viewfinder. Would do my head in!
He should work for Nikon, made me want the D500 watching that :laugh:Sorry if its been posted
Absolutely. Our brains just don't work like that.
Didn't realise that it didn't have U1/2 slots, that's quite a big omission for me. Auto AF fine tune sounds good, but does it allow you to do it manually as well just in case? (I'm a bit of a control freak like that ) LV AF is quicker is it, I've not seen any videos on it tbh but it's about time The AF-ON button looks much better placed than on my D750 (AEL customised to AF-ON).This could actually be a viable option for us as a backup camera. My wife wants to switch to a 35mm lens and was considering selling our 24mm and buying another D750. If the high ISO performance is good we'll probably get one of these instead and keep the 24mm for it. Would give our 85 and 50 a nice added bit of reach.
2 things that have swayed our thinking:
1. Better AF in LV and touchscreen focusing. We LV shoot quite a bit.
2. Automatic AF fine tune. If this works it would save me a lot of hassle faffing around with Focal.
Obviously all the other specs are bang on (barring no U1/U2 slots).
Lack of the U1/2 settings, might suggest user saved settings are stored in the custom menu bank and shooting menu bank each of which has 5 slots of available. That's how it is on the D810 (if I have explained it right), Could be completely different on d500 though.
Lack of the U1/2 settings, might suggest user saved settings are stored in the custom menu bank and shooting menu bank each of which has 5 slots of available. That's how it is on the D810 (if I have explained it right), Could be completely different on d500 though.
ahh right so you can still store user settings then for different shooting conditions such as ISO 100, f11, A priority, BBF etc that I have set for landscape?Lack of the U1/2 settings, might suggest user saved settings are stored in the custom menu bank and shooting menu bank each of which has 5 slots of available. That's how it is on the D810 (if I have explained it right), Could be completely different on d500 though.
This could actually be a viable option for us as a backup camera. My wife wants to switch to a 35mm lens and was considering selling our 24mm and buying another D750. If the high ISO performance is good we'll probably get one of these instead and keep the 24mm for it. Would give our 85 and 50 a nice added bit of reach.
2 things that have swayed our thinking:
1. Better AF in LV and touchscreen focusing. We LV shoot quite a bit.
2. Automatic AF fine tune. If this works it would save me a lot of hassle faffing around with Focal.
Obviously all the other specs are bang on (barring no U1/U2 slots).
Can only see ISO being very slightly better than the D7200 tbh, which itself is pretty good tbh for a crop body.Similar thoughts here, with ISO performance being the concern guess will just have to wait until they are available.
ahh right so you can still store user settings then for different shooting conditions such as ISO 100, f11, A priority, BBF etc that I have set for landscape?
Ahh right, don't like the idea of that. WIth my U1/2 settings I do sometimes make adjustments on the fly but I'd always want it to default back to what I originally set, if it just stays at what was last used it's not much different to just using normal shooting mode.Yes but if you change bank b to your fave settings for example, then make changes in bank b the new settings are remembered not your original settings. i.e the settings last used are remembered not your faves.