Nikon D500 Announced

jay_dean

Senior Member
"Small sensor" is a must for sports and wildlife photographers. It gives you 50% more reach, and 15% on top in 1.3X mode. Nikon has exploded at the full frame stuff leaving Canon to run rampant in cropped sensor market. There were screams from Nikon folks even before the 7D Mark II was released for an upgrade to the D300s, and when there was no response to Canon after that it the idea become almost accepted fact that Nikon wouldn't answer the call. It took them way too long to respond, but at least they did so in a way that almost justifies the wait.
Maybe i should have stated a smaller sensor than the D7200
 

Friggs

Senior Member
I know what this means for me. I will be able to get a used D7200 for a great price in couple of months. :) I would like a D500. But the price difference is a killer for me.
 

NVSteve

Senior Member
The ribbon is still exposed. At least from what I see on a video preview on Matt Grangers YouTube channel.

Just watched the video and saw that it is just as exposed as the D750. I don't get how Nikon can can call this pro & weather sealed if a drop of water on the ribbon cable can cause damage (unless the manual for it says differently). A lot of people, myself included, tote their bodies around with the lens facing downward, which fully exposes the LCD (and all the ingress points around the LCD) to moisture from above. If I wanted DX, I'd still get the D500, but I would not trust it in even the lightest of rain. I've been shooting the D750 in rainy conditions, albeit only when using a protective rain cover-so far, I've managed to keep the thing dry, but I sure wish I could rely on the camera's sealing and shoot without a cover. I realize I must be in the minority, as I simply never run across anyone mentioning this flaw on the D750 & I would imagine nobody will bring it up with the D500 either.
 

Theraphosa

Senior Member
I'm taking a work trip to Africa this Fall, and was going to us that as an excuse to upgrade from my D5200 to a D610 for wildlife photography over there.
With long lenses, high shutter speeds and narrow apertures I was looking for better ISO performance.

Would the D610 still be the better choice, do you think? I'm thinking that I might be able to save enough in lenses (DX over FX) in the long run, to make the higher pricepoint worth it. But will the ISO performance of the D500 be that in the ballpark of the D610?
 

mikew_RIP

Senior Member
I'm taking a work trip to Africa this Fall, and was going to us that as an excuse to upgrade from my D5200 to a D610 for wildlife photography over there.
With long lenses, high shutter speeds and narrow apertures I was looking for better ISO performance.

Would the D610 still be the better choice, do you think? I'm thinking that I might be able to save enough in lenses (DX over FX) in the long run, to make the higher pricepoint worth it. But will the ISO performance of the D500 be that in the ballpark of the D610?

Would you envisage having to crop the D610,if yes then the D500 stands a good chance of being better,even the D7200 does against cropping a D610.
 

Vincent

Senior Member
... will the ISO performance of the D500 be that in the ballpark of the D610?

Difficult to confirm, the first person posted a review and states very clean performance in the native ISO range: 100-51200
Compare to a D610 native ISO 100 to 6400.

Somehow you could expect from specs recoverable shots at 12800 ISO with the D500, probably quite high keeper rate at 25600 ISO, however this needs to be confirmed in practice (Specs are higher then a D4s??). This does not mean that the shot would have the same colour depth and dynamic range as an FX, but also here Nikon claims to be confident with the D500.
 

mauckcg

Senior Member
Is it normal to have apart from 12 and 14 bit raw 3 actual raw file sizes,or have they found a way of renaming something else.

I think that is the new thing now. I don't remember if Canon or Sony came out with it first a year or two back the A7 or 5DS.
 

Vincent

Senior Member
"Small sensor" is a must for sports and wildlife photographers. It gives you 50% more reach, and 15% on top in 1.3X mode. ...

I tend to disagree. For the hobbyist DX with D500 performance will probably be unbeatable for sports and wildlife at this time.
For professional Nikon sports and wildlife photographers, they will go D5. The little advantage in ISO, FPS and probably tracking, the higher life, better sealing of the body, better colour depth and dynamic range are more important then getting closer to the subject through field of view. The professional will work a lot in twilight, avoiding hard eye shadows, needing that FX extra touch; they take the time and the preparation to get physically close to the subject, on top of that they generally have better tele lenses. .

So yes there will be a lot of D500 bodies sold and correctly so. For many daytime/less critical shooters a D7X00/D5X00 will be more then sufficient already. For some the D5 will be the status symbol (I can only do with the best) or the edge they (think they) need in their business. Many professionals will still be shooting a D4 FX and getting better pictures then D500 DX owners.
 

RocketCowboy

Senior Member
I'm taking a work trip to Africa this Fall, and was going to us that as an excuse to upgrade from my D5200 to a D610 for wildlife photography over there.
With long lenses, high shutter speeds and narrow apertures I was looking for better ISO performance.

Would the D610 still be the better choice, do you think? I'm thinking that I might be able to save enough in lenses (DX over FX) in the long run, to make the higher pricepoint worth it. But will the ISO performance of the D500 be that in the ballpark of the D610?

I'm a big fan of the D610 personally (I like it better than the D750 for me), but when you combine "long lenses" and "wildlife" in the same statement my first thought is DX body.

The D610 is certainly cheaper than the D500 at this point, so while the D500 is improving in the low light capabilities over previous DX bodies, the D610 can be had for less. But ... if you're needing the reach of a DX sensor combined with long lenses, you might prefer the D500 more than cropping the same images off the D610.

I would contemplate whether a single trip to Africa is enough to justify a new camera purchase (vs renting a more appropriate body if needed), and look at what suits the rest of your shooting needs before deciding on that one. Then again, I tend to over-analyze and then make impulsive purchase decisions anyway, so I may not be the best advise guy. :D
 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
Maybe i should have stated a smaller sensor than the D7200

Do you mean in terms of MP's? That's actually quite typical in the Pro series cameras. 20MP's vs. 24MP's means you're losing 10% in image size, but the gains in IQ are more than made up for in the "loss". Larger pixel sizes are going to help tremendously with reducing noise (which to @RocketCowboy's point below means that I expect the D500 to easily rival the D600/610 in ISO noise capabilities) as well as light information (bigger pixel = more light). 20MP's is more than enough for just about anything you're going to do with prints (16x20 requires a minimum of 8MP's) and beyond what you'll need for posting on the internet. Heck, the D4s is 16MPs and I don't remember anyone ever saying they couldn't blow up those images as big as they need them. I think we get way too hung up on MP's, myself included.
 

Vincent

Senior Member
Did anyone find a way to analyse the D500 performance from the sample images? I was not finding the ISO data or full size to come to any idea.
 

Michael J.

Senior Member
Honestly, at the moment I don't see how the D500 helps me hobby photographer to get better photos which I never sell to get the investment back. For Facebook, twitter, etc. the D7000 does a great job. My family likes my photos as they look at them.

People get crazy about the D500 cos they wanted/waited so long the D400 to be announced. Now they glorify the D500 and the price goes up. Nikon did a great job, let ppl wait for such a long of the D400 so they will take the D500 for sure for almost any price they put on.
 

Osantacruz

Senior Member
Honestly, at the moment I don't see how the D500 helps me hobby photographer to get better photos which I never sell to get the investment back. For Facebook, twitter, etc. the D7000 does a great job. My family likes my photos as they look at them.

People get crazy about the D500 cos they wanted/waited so long the D400 to be announced. Now they glorify the D500 and the price goes up. Nikon did a great job, let ppl wait for such a long of the D400 so they will take the D500 for sure for almost any price they put on.
Why does making money back for your investment matter? Do hobby musicians not buy better instruments as they get better just for their own enjoyment? Do people with other hobbies not buy new stuff because it's not making them better at their hobby or making them money? People like new gear and features. If you're happy with what you got, good for you I guess. But to act so upset about a new camera that actually sounds like it's not crippled to be very different from the bigger, flagship version seems silly. I could probably keep taking photos with my original d50 and say I'm not making money so why upgrade?

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salukfan111

Senior Member
But what are the advantages of its 20.9 mp sensor in comparison to the 24.2 mp sensor of the D7200? I'm technologically challenged when it comes to this kind of stuff! ;)
The difference is this may clean the D750s clock in low light performance and let you keep a crop factor camera. The myths surrounding DX and FF may be coming to an end.
 

salukfan111

Senior Member
I'm mainly interested in the low light aspect of this frame, i don't care for the 4K ability, Snapbridge, or huge buffer (i've never max'd out my D7200). Slightly surprised about the smaller sensor, but i understand the logic. Great that it has a dedicated ISO button on the top. Anyone wanna buy my D7200?
It'd be cheaper if it didn't have that crap nobody wants on it.
 
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