I went on holiday last week, and so spent an intensive week with the D500. Up until now since I got the D500 I had been taking pictures of the fast things that take advantage of the AF and FPS.
So it was landscape pics and long exposures at night for the whole week. So this is just a few things that I found very useful.
Now I’m coming from the D300S, and so some of the things I mention may have already been available on subsequent Nikon cameras since the D300S.
I love the built-in level, which has led to less straightening of pics when processing.
I didn’t realise until 2-3 weeks ago that you can also overlay the level over the Live View, which came at the right time before the holiday.
Because of the place I visited did not have the straightest buildings, the level option being available in the viewfinder was also useful.
I was hoping that any D300S replacement would get the rear buttons illuminated, and I’m glad that the D500 has them, as I was in some very dark situations. Though a lot of the button placement becomes muscle memory after awhile.
While initially not that enthused on the articulated LCD screen I must admit that it came in useful. Not really for extreme high and low angles, but because I don’t take a large tripod on holiday, it was good to just be able to review images and settings without crouching down to uncomfortable angles, especially at my age.
Where I found the articulated screen not as useful was when I was trying to point the camera up in portrait orientation to do a pic of the night sky to hopefully get a pic of the Milky Way. I would have preferred the screen to be the same design as the D5300 screen, but maybe not if it lost the left-hand side buttons. Maybe they couldn’t design the screen to have buttons down the side.
I like the option alter the view in Live View to show the actual exposure or not, coming from the D300S which was very limited in options.
So this is just some random thoughts of an intensive week with the camera. Other things may come to mind, but hopefully others will find this interesting or useful.