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<blockquote data-quote="sharp shooter" data-source="post: 667633" data-attributes="member: 37965">Yes, I guess my shooting style is different.&nbsp; Changing from say 'birds'&nbsp; ' to 'night sky' involves a lot of dial twiddling. Changing from landscape to birds to studio to night sky to video to flash to jpeg snaps should be simple - just click on, and we are 'in the ball park' - then - as Woody says, it's just a matter of f-stop, shutter, and ev as needed&nbsp;It's not the simple ISO, aperture and speed - it's the 'fine tuning' ..&nbsp; ie&nbsp; &nbsp; autofocus modes af-c, af-s, blocked shot response, subject motion -erratic,&nbsp; metering, centre-weighted area size, Matrix, etc, CH-CL-S, jpeg-NEF/image size, primary slot selection (jpeg in one, NEF in the other).&nbsp;&nbsp; etc etc&nbsp; The list of combinations is endless.&nbsp; The D500&nbsp; (and the D5 and D850) are very versatile cameras, but the time it takes to change settings limits their versatility.The issue is not only the time it takes to change settings,&nbsp; but actually remembering every setting without resorting to a spread sheet.A 'User Memory' with - say - 99 memories would allow us to 'fine tune' our settings through a session and give us the option of keeping the old settings or overwriting with the new.So come on Nikon - give us 99 user settings - all in software, as an update to the firmware.&nbsp; Free would be nice, but hey!&nbsp; I'd be happy to pay for it.Mike</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sharp shooter, post: 667633, member: 37965"] Yes, I guess my shooting style is different. Changing from say 'birds' ' to 'night sky' involves a[I] lot[/I] of dial twiddling. Changing from landscape to birds to studio to night sky to video to flash to jpeg snaps should be simple - just click on, and we are 'in the ball park' - then - as Woody says, it's just a matter of f-stop, shutter, and ev as needed It's not the simple ISO, aperture and speed - it's the 'fine tuning' .. ie autofocus modes af-c, af-s, blocked shot response, subject motion -erratic, metering, centre-weighted area size, Matrix, etc, CH-CL-S, jpeg-NEF/image size, primary slot selection (jpeg in one, NEF in the other). etc etc The list of combinations is endless. The D500 (and the D5 and D850) are very versatile cameras, but the time it takes to change settings limits their versatility. The issue is not only the[I] time [/I]it takes to change settings, but actually [I]remembering [/I]every setting without resorting to a spread sheet. A 'User Memory' with - say - 99 memories would allow us to 'fine tune' our settings through a session and give us the option of keeping the old settings or overwriting with the new. So come on Nikon - give us 99 user settings - all in software, as an update to the firmware. Free would be nice, but hey! I'd be happy to pay for it. Mike [/QUOTE]

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