Mmm, the battery is not lasting as long as it should. It has improved, but it should be lasting a lot longer according to what others are experiencing. So far I haven't seem anyone say that they have bought a compatible battery that works with the D500 yet.
I had the camera lock up once within hours but it has not done that again, and I have Lexar 32Gb SD and XQD cards in all the time, though I have not filled the XQD card to overflow onto the SD card yet.
I find the new direction joystick on the back useless. Everything it was designed to do I'm used to doing with the normal direction pad. I think it was added to give a similar layout to the D5.
Still have not got used to the touchscreen yet, and so am not using it. It does catch me out when I'm reviewing images and I try to wipe a smudge of something off the screen and end up either zooming in or scrolling through a few images.
When I have tried the AF Fine Tune I get wildly varying results, so have switched it off. I have been getting pretty sharp images with my Nikon 70-300 atm, so I'm not so worried about that yet.
Atm I'm having to convert all the NEF's to DNG's because my software is not compatible. I installed the Nikon software but I don't get on with it.
Saying all that, the AF is amazing.
The 10fps has led to more images of ball in shot for Cricket pics I've been taking, compared to the 7-8fps with the D300S. Coming from the D300S there is a huge improvement in Dynamic Range and High ISO performance.
Others are reporting more serious problems, but I'm not sure how widespread they are.
As usual the silence from Nikon if deafening.
I'm so glad I got the camera as soon as I could even with the above (personal) niggles. It is a quality machine.