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IMO, yes the 500mm PF is better than the 200-500mm when tracking birds in flight, in part because it is lighter and in part because in focusses faster. I recently went to Alaska to see the brown ...

You said you don't plan on doing BIF, any other info on what you plan to shoot?  How late/early do you shoot (ie. how much light is there)?  For versatility, the zooms would be better (in which ...

As Doug mentioned, one of the slots in the D500 is for XQD cards and cannot be used with any SD card (though it is my understanding it can be used with some CF Express cards).  When I bought my ...

Another vote for the Nikon f/4.  If weight is at all a consideration, I would think it the F/4 would be the one to choose.  Just got back from Alaska and was using the Nikon 70-200mm f/4 much of ...

Well if we are going to think at that level, why not go for a 600mm f/5.6 PF lens!  That would rock my world.

To me, it would be a shame to buy a Z6II and use the AF-S DX Zoom lens on it. But that is me. Buy the kit with the 24-70mm f/4S lens and save $300 on the lens. For me, it would be a no brainer. ...

Hope you will let us know how the Nikon repair went.  How long it took and any info (if they provide it) on what they did to repair the issue.

I find that I am always pushing ISO to a high level, whether because I am shooting at high shutter speeds  with my 500mm f/5.6 lens (see below) or using a f/2.8 lens and slow shutter speed to get ...

Yep paid $549 for this lens about a year ago.

Do you mean the Kenko1.4x Teleplus HD pro DGX Teleconverter or the Kenko1.4x Teleplus HD DGX Teleconverter? If the former, I have been using it with the D500 and 500mm PF since my Nikon 1.4 TC has ...

Also the 150-400mm f/4.5 lens with built in TC, though much more expensive (and hard to get).

If there is anyway to stretch your budget, I would try to get the 500mm f/5.6. Not because of it being sharper, but because it can focus faster (and lighter) than the 200-500mm. I have used the ...

Thanks for posting and your suggestion.  Have been thinking of that as well.  May give them a try.

Wow thanks, thought I looked but didn't see it!

Yep, however as mentioned above, this same TC was repaired 4 years ago at a cost of $200 for exactly the same problem.  So put in an order for a new one, will see how long it takes.  In the ...

Yep but as I mentioned, lots of Nikon Z TC-14 available.  So Nikon's resources may have been switched to making the Z teleconverters.

Have a Nikon TC-14Eiii which is working erratically.  This previously happened and sent it into Nikon to fix (about 4 years ago) and the repair cost $200 plus took quite a while.  So thought ...

Since more than 90% of my photos are active wildlife, I haven't switched. On a photo trip, it is simpler to just use one camera, so my D500 will have to do for my landscape shots, except when I ...

I actually started with the D200 and then switched to the D7100, which I upgraded to a D7200.  After getting my second D500, I sometimes actually took my D7200 along with one D500 (and left my ...

Yep as others have said, the D500 (and D850 and D750) users are happily out there taking photos while the Z6 and Z7 users are maybe still trying to figure out there camera and/or whether to buy ...