Valid points but they are workarounds, fluorescent lighting was just half the issue, you can also get jello images during panning shots because of rolling-shutter.
When it comes to LED lighting it's even worse, try working the frequency out for those and that's real skill lol.
Sure, but again that happens with conventional shutters too.
My point about the silent shutter is that it's not that useful for weddings, events and sports if you have to handle it with a 70-200mm lens trying to focus via the LCD screen. The weight alone would make it uncomfortable.
Can you use the silent shutter via the OVF?
Using the silent shutter for faster action type work you'll probably end up with jello images as you'd get rolling shutter effect on anything that isn't more or less static.
Unless I'm missing something, the silent shutter on the D850 is a first for a DSLR, but it doesn't look to be any better than most mirrorless bodies which also exhibit the same traits when using silent shutter.
Let's see what the reviews say, I could be totally wrong
Apart from that the D850 looks like a great all round camera with the best bits from other models.
Mmm, people have been getting great images for decades without seeing the moment the image was taken. A lot of lucky people.
Improvements in AF should always be applauded and welcomed when they work, but if it is not possible in a camera you want then you learn to work with what you have, or will get when you buy. Mmm, people have been getting great images for decades without seeing the moment the image was taken. A lot of lucky people.
There will always be a delay from seeing the moment to pressing the shutter to capturing the image. Unless Sony have timed the Shutter press to capture the previous few milliseconds of the video that was passing through the camera delayed for the time of the average person takes to react to the scene, which could be possible, just because you see it, doesn't mean you have got that moment, even with 20 fps.
My first digital camera in 2003, a Fuji S602Z Pro, in a burst mode would continuously take images until you released the shutter button, and then save the previous number of images. Will the A9 technology improve the capture rate for the 'moment'? Time will tell.
24Mp may be the 'sweet spot', and with the D850 you can have 25Mp in the medium setting, and RAW too for those that want it.
From what I have seen of the Eye AF it looks very good, but again, people have been focusing and getting excellent images for decades with primitive AF, and the AF on the D850 is far from primitive.
Maybe a follow up to the Sony A7RII will have the improvements of the A9 and the resolution options of the D850. But for some it won't matter, because it will have an EVF.
How are those game changers? Those features have been out in other cameras for more than 2 years?
Early previews have stated it isn't as fast as the dual pixel af on canon
Check the Sony or fuji threads. Lots of people have down played the issues with electric shutter. It's a known issue on all cameras except for the A9.
Anything that makes things easier is great imho.
Just don't say that to the film users. 
Doesn't usually take adobe long, although worth waiting for imo.
as long as the calumet gods have worked their preorder magic, two....
Congratulations and it seems it will tick off what you want in a body/system. The A7RII is sluggish for motorsport
I knew it,didnt I tell you i knew it lol
look forward to it in the for sale ads sometime in the future lol
Nikon just added D850 NEF support to their own packages, Capture NX-D and ViewNX-i, and released a PDF of the D850 manual:
Mine's ready for dispatch but I'm out on location all day tomorrow so have had to ask them to hold onto it for another day.
I can take delivery for you if you want KeithMine's ready for dispatch but I'm out on location all day tomorrow so have had to ask them to hold onto it for another day.
