Bingo! Specifically I'm wondering how the D500 and 16-80 measures against a D750 with 24-120 or 24-70. In an average event situation with a flash, surely there can't be much difference in image quality. Maybe it's just me but I expect the D500 to be better
Cripes let me clarify, performance to be better! Not overall image quality. I think all the small improvements will add up to a completely different experience.
What did you expect to be better?
Just interested.
I don't think any crop sensor camera will match a similar vintage FF camera for ISO without a big reduction in pixels, and unless they did something amazing, this will not be a large enough reduction like the 16mp D4S
For a camera I had virtually given up on, this exceeds what I realistically imagined.
If it came I expected the D7200 24mp sensor, hopefully slightly improved
:-: It is 20.9mp. If it gains a stop of ISO over the D7200 that would be good. Coming from 12mp it will be a huge increase anyway for me in everything.
Similar ISO to the D7200 100 - 25600
:-: It is 100 - 51200. Do the top/high ISO's give similar, better or worse performance? Time will tell.
Similar AF to the D750 which users have said is excellent with 51 focus points
:-: Possibly ground breaking 153 focus points. Again time will tell whether this is an improvement, but I like the focus point spread across the frame.
I thought 8-10 fps (probably 8fps) for 3-4 seconds at whatever rate was the highest
:-: 10fps for 200 shots (20 seconds)
I expected SD and CF card slots
:-: SD and XQD slots bang goes my CF cards.
Maybe 4k video
:-: It has 4k video, though it doesn't seem to be implemented well from initial reports. I don't use the video so makes no difference to me. I did hope for some high speed 1080 options for playing about with slow motion.
I didn't expect an articulating screen in this type of camera. And I didn't expect it to be a touch screen either.
I maybe expected GPS and WiFi. No GPS, though the Snapbridge option sounds interesting if you have a Smartphone/Tablet, in that it can GPS tag pictures via Bluetooth. I didn't expect the Bluetooth. The camera can also be controlled from the phone/tablet I think.
I hoped for the illuminated buttons, as I think it is a good useful idea, and thankfully they have implemented it.