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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spb_stan" data-source="post: 618140" data-attributes="member: 43545">I am sure you are amused by the standard reaction to an announcement of being proof of Nikon being nuts since every new camera does not tick all the mental boxes of what a new camera ought to be, as I am. It happens to every model before it gets into hands of people who actually use it.Every camera released since I started with Nikon has been a competent camera, all of them. And all were fretted over as being horrible bases on spec sheet driven opinions. The D500 might be the only one that had few complaints, such as price. All the others were terrible choices, and all turned out to be class leading.Spec sheets in any field that has some technical element or reason to list measured parameters, and almost always way too much is read into them. Isolated specs,tested as an isolated performance value, is almost always misread, or imagined to somehow predict the overall operation of a complex system and it never does in  my experience. Enjoyment and suitability of a complex system of hundreds of interactive parameters just does not collocate well to isolate spec values.  To see  if a car is interesting, exciting, confidence inspiring, enjoyable, suitable etc there is only one way to evaluate it...drive it a lot. Forget specs, too isolated from the complex interaction of thousands of variables to tell anything about how much  you will enjoy driving it. Same with a camera. Every camera made is capable of gallery wall status images with a small house. If you enjoy using it and that makes you shoot more, it is a better camera than others that might have one or more spec values that are objectively "better"...but tells nothing of whether it is subjectively better. There is only one way to tell, use it, use it a lot..Reviews are often misleading, as are rating values, they seldom apply to your priority list or shooting habits.I spent most of my life in professional audio as a designer EE, recording engineer/producer/major studio owner and few fields are more Spec driven yet less predictive of whether the total is satisfying. Often enjoyment gets lost in the sea of specs and technical rankings of isolated specs and enjoyment seldom has any relation to the spec sheet.  Records I recorded with the highest praise by critics and multiplatinum awards were unrelated to their technical quality or perfection. One, which was disappointing on the technical side because of too many passed of the master tapes over the heads of the tape decks, technically clearing inferior to others, sold more than any album in history until Michael Jackson's Thriller album topped, 49 million album sales in the US alone, eventually 79 million  world wide. There was no connection between enjoyment and technical refinement. The same disconnect between specs and enjoyment with photographic equipment  or finished photos. The D7500 is going to surprise a lot of people who are panning it. New owners are going to discover interactions between spec elements that actually are going to add to enjoyment,  that don't appear to in the spec sheet. It is going to be a fine camera and in a year will be judged as the standard.  I suspect when people see how good D500 jpg rendering is in  a prosumer camera it will be adopted by a lot of event and pro shooters for quick delivery assignments. After seeing how the D500 color fidelity and saturation  holds up in low light like no other camera before the D500/D5 that alone will cause a lot of naysayers are going to be buyers in 6-12 months.  I compared the D500 with  my D800 in a low light event and was shocked how much better more usable without processing the D500 SOOC jpg's were. The D7500 is going to be fine.</blockquote>

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