The Nikon D850 looks to be an excellent upgrade over its predecessor, the D810. The resolution has jumped from 36.3MP to 45.7MP, the burst rate has jumped from 5 to 7 fps (9 fps with the right accessories), and the entire AF system has been yanked directly from the flagship D5. Not to mention the D850’s full sensor width 4K video, a first for a Nikon DSLR.
That's just a little bit of what the D850 has up its sleeve. Watch the video to find out more.
Good riddance to the canon 5DS, as this is the killer for architecture and landscaping. Probably it will be amazing even for astro. Being that the video side is severely lacking in both log, rez and tracking, Nikon was kind of forced to put the D5 focusing system in this thing which is all good for the wedding photographer. All in all is a worthy upgrade vs the 810 but not as impressive compared to what will soon be coming from sony. Would have been much more impressive it it had arrived at the same time as the a7rII. Since the field has moved forward so much, this feels a little long in the tooth right off the bat.
Impressive, I'm curious to see if it holds up in real life use and there won't be a recall in about three to six months because something is wrong with it. Other than that this looks like a serious camera that I would love to have (three years from now when I'm sure it works).
You'd love to have it as it becomes obsolete? Why? It doesn't take three years to figure out if it's reliable. If it works well and has no recalls after one year, why wouldn't that be enough for you?
I'm more than happy with my D810. My only regret is that I don't shoot with it 8 hours a day, it's such a refined camera.
Is anyone else lamenting that there is no pop up flash? I use it all the time for outdoors to fill in shadows. Oops, I'm not supposed to do that since its a "professional" camera, and I'm supposed to drag around an external flash.
THE GOOD NEWS: I am VERY happy to see Nikon finally come out with a new product worth their name, know-how and reputation.. none of that 100th Anniversary Products crap please! This is a great camera, awesome features and a major step forward for Nikon.. it's about time!
THE BAD NEWS: When Sony releases an updated a7RIII and later on an a9II, it will eat this thing for breakfast, burp it for lunch and s..t it for dinner!
Do you mean an A9r? A9 II is likely to just be faster and do 4K video at 60 fps. That camera's target competition is the D5 and 1Dx II, which are both 20 MP cameras.
Didn't the video start off saying that it was a pre-production model. How about this...Let's wait until the camera reviews come out before jumping to conclusions.
Your point is weak using pre-production model as an excuse, their live view AF is notoriously slow, plus not only this footage shows the pre-production model's LV AF performance is lousy, many were invited to the D850 event already uploaded videos on Youtube showing the same or worse results of the live view AF. If the pre production samples weren't for people to judge its performance, why would Nikon invited people to try them out... to put them off?
Dr Blackjack, the production model might "suddenly" have much better AF algorithms. That stuff is controlled by software, and just a little tweak can make a huge difference. Sigma's latest firmware has improved the AF on their SD Quattro H significantly.
Scottelly - Thanks you, for helping to make the point I was trying to make. Firmware updates makes improvements all the time. Sometimes a company will put a pre-production model out, just to introduce it to the public. Most people that understand the electronic industry already know that pre-production releases may not always have the final software versions running. Some people want to view things in a negative light no matter what. We call them "Haters" where I'm from. :)
The price in USA is 3299$, that means at the current dollar to euro exchange rate: 2795 euros + VAT (19% here in Germany), and they announce it my country for 3799 euros. This is pure robbery!
They shouldn't comply if people here in Europe will start buying imports from the gray market. I think this is the only way go get around the avaricious Nikon Europe.
A very bad moue Nikon, I'm very angry with your European prices politics!
I was actually thinking about ordering from B&H or Adorama indeed. But tbh I wouldn't be surprised if this is because of a ~10% EU import tax on electronics or something. In which case it's not Nikon's fault.
Another reason why we here in Europe preferred Nikon in the past. :) I think the way is to buy it from gray imports and hurt the "smart" Nikon management here in EU.
I am the first to complain when brands decide to subsidize American consumers by jacking up EC prices (...something that happens more times than should be desirable...) but, in this particular case, you are off the mark.
If you add VAT and EC import taxes to that exchange rate equivalent price of 2795 EUR, you end up with a net difference of about 100 EUR to the American price which is more than reasonable to account for the catering of multiple sub-markets in different languages logistics and for the dilution of cost of the extended warranty costs imposed by EC consumer law.
If you add the increased costs of labour and social protection schemes we, as a whole, benefit from in Europe, I would go as far as to say the 100 EUR per camera is beyond reasonable.
The Swedish price for the D850 is 39290 SEK = 4870 USD If you take the US price 3300 and add Swedish VAT 25% you get a price of $4125 So you are saying that the import taxes in EU are $745 ? Don't think so
I thought the direct opposite, bad comprehension of pricing as it is almost 1000 Usd difference after you apply the same VAT on the US price as in EU So it's a matter of 1000 Bucks not 100
Is it Nikon Europe that is charging dealers more or your local camera dealers. Just asking as Nikon World Wide tries to prevent wide price differences to reduce the Gray Market.
Where do you get the idea that €2795 Euros equals $3,299 U.S?
The current rate of exchange is 1.19 U.S. dollars per Euro. That's €2795 x 1.19 = 3,326.05 (so the Euros should be about €2775 instead). This makes the situation seem even worse, of course.
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It could be that Japan is selling the cameras for the exact same price, but because of higher labor rates (and higher electric bills and just about everything else) in the E.U. the prices have to be higher for the companies there to make a profit. Even then, the profit margins are probably less than they are here in the U.S., because in the E.U. you have to pay all sorts of crazy vacation pay and health benefits. There are also more regulations in the E.U., causing all sorts of extra costs. It must be a nightmare to do business in the E.U.
Gameshoes3003; The quick answer: Most distributors are 100% owned by the parent company. Each distributor works as if it was its own company, they send the parent company their budget to cover expenses, building, utilities, payroll, service, advertising, project sales by product, ect. The parent company then adjusts the cost of product for each distributor; the reason for the cost difference is usually that distributors in an area with a lower population or wages will need a lower cost as their expenses will be higher for each unit sold than a country with a large population and higher incomes. The parent company may adjust the cost of goods during the year to any distributor to keep that distributor slightly profitable or at a slight loss. FYI: For 25 years had 100’s of lunches, dinners and meetings with top people from 3 of the top 5 camera companies; Presidents, Vice Presidents, National Sales Managers, Directors of Sales & Marketing, Designers of SLR & L.S. (Compact) Cameras.
No, of course it doesn't. Apparently, neither did it in previous Nikon bodies. After all, all those drama-loving gear wankers on the internet told you so, so it must be true!
Your tone and language make your post forgettable, but fyi, I'm one of those with a D750 that is suffering from shutter lock and, previous to that, I'm one of those who bought a D610 that suffered with oil spots from the shutter. You uniformed opinion does not matter.
Yes the shutter works at purchase ..:) .Nikon by now has probably standardised its protocol for shutter recall ....for this body shutter replacement/service is likely to be every 3 months.:)
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Perhaps being 70 I feel more comfortable with old friends :)
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