Brian

I am a little late to the game here.  I have used the free version of PhotoScape X for years and it has worked great.

Like all others posting here, I am quite surprised and saddened at this news. I am not a "regular" here, but every time I was considering something new, or needed answers, this was always my first...

Minimum of 1/80 and nothing on the top end; I was in manual mode. Here is the filter on the 16-80mm.

I do have a "clear" filter on the 16-80mm, for protection.

I do have the Flicker setting to, On, that said it isn't always 100% in the D500, I fid the setting in my D7500 works better. I have always controlled ISO in the past, it is somewhat recent I ...

I have Flicker on, as all my shooting is indoors right now and the lights definitely cause flicker issues.  (These shots were in my kitchen.)

I have never looked into bracketing, so it would have the default setting.  My curiosity is no piqued, having just looked it up. The majority of my shooting is BMX races, so I set up in a spot and ...

Yeah, I believe you are on the right track.  I figured with Matrix it wouldn't matter as much, supposing to take the whole scene into consideration. I just snapped a couple more, from the same spot ...

Matrix.  I was hand holding, not using a tripod.

I was playing with my 50mm 1.8 prime and my 16-80mm lenses on my D500, I took the same shot with both cameras, all settings the same, had the 16-80mm set to 50mm. I was in manual mode and shot ...