If I had to pick just one great feature out of the D500’s many new features, it would be the Multi-CAM 20K, 153-point autofocus system.
#Nikon d500 full#
A fast XQD card must be used for the full buffer size, which enables photographers to shoot non-stop until the memory card is full. Even Canon’s flagship 1DX Mark II has a smaller buffer size. It’s the same as the one on the D5-larger than any other camera on the market.
Sports photographers will love the D500’s huge 200-frame, 14-bit lossless RAW buffer. Some of the buttons on the back and top of the camera are illuminated for shooting in the dark. I hope the user interface is expanded more in future. The tiltable LCD touchscreen is responsive and sturdily designed-the screen hinges appear to be quite tough-but the number of touchscreen operations are limited. Below: The D500’s new autofocus system, combined with the camera’s 1.5x crop factor, 10 fps and 200-frame buffer, make it a dream for sports and wildlife photographers. Wong recovered it in postprocessing to show its exposure latitude. This photograph was intentionally underexposed by six stops. The large 100-per cent viewfinder has minimal blackout time, which is essential when shooting at the maximum burst rate of 10 frames per second. The grip design provides excellent support.
The D500 has a rugged metal alloy body, similar to the D810, but a little shorter and smaller. Overall, the D500’s image quality is the best among the APS-C cameras I’ve tested. After recovering the images in postprocessing, the result was completely acceptable-and better than many of the latest full-frame cameras. I also underexposed images by six stops to test the D500’s exposure latitude. This is a great result for a sensor that is less than half the size of a full-frame sensor.
#Nikon d500 iso#
I didn’t expect anything in the six-digit ISO range to be useable, but I found the image quality acceptable at ISO 51,200, only slightly worse than the full-frame Nikon D750. The D500 has a native ISO range of 100 to 51,200, which is expandable to a maximum ISO of 1,640,000. After a seven-year wait, Nikon has finally released a successor to the popular APS-C Nikon D300s.Īnnounced alongside the Nikon D5, the D500 shares many of its key features-its 20.9-megapixel APS-C sensor is near-identical to the D5’s 20.8MP resolution, for example-as well as a few extra features that the D5 lacks. While many photographers have moved to full-frame cameras as they become more affordable, many still prefer the APS-C sensor size, because of its longer equivalent focal length.