D500

I am still learning the ins and outs of this incredible camera. I´m delighted with the image quality and the high FPS rate in burst mode.

I thought my fingers would never be pried away from my D300 as I loved it so much. I had dreamed of the successor model and decided to wait for one but it was a very long wait. I broke my AF S 70-300 mm lens
which was insured but the D300 survived. In Canada, I was told the AF S 70-300 fx lens was no longer made. This put me in a quandary. So I bought the AF P 70-300 fx lens with the insurance money and a D500 with my own money which I could barely afford. This is a really superb combination. I wish I had known that a free grip was included. Perhaps this wasn´t an offer in Canada... I bought my camera in early Jan. 2018 during the sales period. I practiced on winter birds and now am doing summer flowers. I think this camera is superb and so is the lens, although there was an adjustment period for me. It will be a long time before my fingers will be pried away from the D500.

I have to admit, I was a bit apprehensive in purchasing the D500. I had always purchased Canon in the past, not that they weren´t good, but I generally went with a point and shoot and the price of this camera without a lens was at least 4x what I would generally pay for a camera. I had been feeling for a while that the point and shoot wasn´t meeting my needs, yet I didn´t want to pay for a camera that only professionals would purchase, so the the D500 worked great, It fit the bill for professional use and is still easy enough to use for someone like me. I had been researching quite extensively between this and the Canon, and from everything I read I had to have the D500 and am happy I did.

I have been shooting Nikon since the 60s, and the D500 is the culmination of my effort to find the perfect camera. I bought th body combined with the Nikkor 16-80 2.8 lens. The combination has worked very well for me. I am using the Sony QXD and SD card combination which makes shooting bursts in RAW and JPG fine very efficient. On a long shoot, battery consumption can be an issue so I got the battery grip to double my shooting time. The Auto Focus system is very fast. I would recommend the D500 to any pro or serious enthusiast who wants the best DX format camera available.

I bought the Nikon D500 as a back-up to my two NIikon D750 bodies. The first thing you notice when first taking the camera out of the box is its professional build, heft, and rock-solid feel. I have eleven FX lenses and all will fit the DX D500 with, of course, the 1.5 factor (I.e. an FX 50mm lens will appear as a 75mm). I took advantage of the Nikon promotion which included the battery grip so it is reassuringly substantial and balances well with all my lenses. Two media card slots are available but one is an SD slot and the other is the newer XQD card. I do not shoot video or active sports so the speed of the card is less important to me. There is no “on-camera” flash as in the case with the D750 and other “enthusiast” cameras. No problem for me since I use professional-level studio strobes. If I need flash in the field, I have five Nikon speedlights which work fine with the D500. I thoroughly enjoy using the D500. Picture quality is excellent and retains the ease-of-use of my other Nikons.

After decades of avoiding Nikon, I finally broke down and bought my first Nikon - the D500. I still own a Canon, and a Lumix but in reality, they are collecting dust. This camera is AMAZING!! Intuitive yet flexible with the options to create and produce some really crazy shots!! I Love This Camera!!

I bought this to upgrade from my Canon 70D and it performs wonderfully. The focus system is fast and accurate with much of the screen covered. The cameras high ISO performance makes buying a full frame really not necessary. I strongly considered mirrorless but I like t optical viewfinders and the D500s is great.

I want to request one feature to added as a firmware upgrade, and that is Focus Peaking. It is such a huge help in live view manual focusing and I´m sure it can be done in software.

This is the best DX SLR camera available. Second to none auto focus. Native 10 frames/second. No battery grip or special battery/charger required. Sensor could do a better job with over exposed shots.

This is an amazing body, and the 10FPS is truly awesome power. You have to be careful about holding it down for too long though! I can fill up a 64GB card in 12 minutes in ´´spam-tastic´´ mode. As others have discovered, the body is using a Sony ´´Exmor´´ sensor that Nikon is implementing quite well. The noise management is wonderful, perhaps due to that quite capable sensor. The blackout time (the amount of black to the amount of frametime in the viewfinder) isn´t the best, but it´s definitely workable. If you´re looking to upgrade from an enthusiast camera (like the D7200), I´d say go for it. If you´re looking to upgrade from an entry camera (like the D3500), get the D7200 first. If you do decide to get this, do yourself a favor and get some Sony G-series XQD cards. Even UHS-II cards can´t handle 14-bit losslessly compressed RAWs. I use this with the MB-D17 grip, and it´s quite chunky, but I like it. It fits my hand really well. This is truly a pro-grade body (even though Nikon doesn´t market it as such), and it definitely belongs next to a D5.