Geomaticsman

Entry-level (consumer grade) equipment can limit one's photography but once you graduate to pro-sumer equipment (and learn to milk it for all its worth) the only thing better prosumer or even ...

Very true! Capture NX2 with NIK Color EFex plugin was unique ... no other post processor was (or is) as elegant. Although my raw converter of choice now is Capture One, once converted to JPG I ...

Well that may be a little extreme...the "relatively" inexpensive D500+200-500VR has to be the best value+performance combo for wildlife in the history of photography -- for the cost of entry that ...

I don't mean to suggest "optimum IQ" cannot be achieved with the D850, but only that striving for optimum IQ puts increasing pressure on the rest of the "system" to get everything right. In fact ...

Hi Larry, yes, it certainly is getting harder. Keeping all those tiny pixels sharp really puts pressure on the rest of the kit...everything from hardware (quality of glass and use of TC's), to ...

Thanks TO. You ask some very good questions that I really cannot answer definitively right now...need a bit more experience. What I can tell you is that at the pixel level, the D850 compares most ...

If compartmentalizing, I would tend to agree that D850 doesn't offer much of an improvement vs D500 & D810. Most wildlife shooters are "focal length limited" to a large extent and can't get any ...

Thanks very much Greg!

Personally, I enjoy high-resolution "birdscapes"... Ruby-throated Hummingbird - D850+600E 600mm f5.6 1/2500 ISO640 no flash

If you're only shooting wildlife I might not disagree, but the D500 looses in DR to the D850, especially at low ISO's, so for anyone looking for a "one-camera-does-it-all" landscape and wildlife ...

Yes, but I always format my images at 16x9 and post at full resolution for display on high resolution monitors and the D500's maximum horizontal resolution of 5568 pixels isn't much bigger than a ...

The D500 has just enough pixels to yield 1:1 resolution on my 5k monitor...that is IF I'm able to compose the scene in the field. (When composing I almost never end up putting the bird in the ...

If you're referring to "native" (10) frame-rate advantage of the D500 being better than the D850 (7) for fast action, I would agree. But once you add the grip I would expect the results from the ...

In a pinch, they may have just grabbed the profile for the D500...I'll bet its close to the D850's.

Yes indeed Lance...Phase One has never been as quick as Adobe supporting new cameras. In the mean time I'm relying on Capture NX-D, but I can't get the same results that I'm used to with C1P. And ...

Nope. It took Phase One several weeks after the D500 was released to support it, so it could take a while for them to add the D850 as well (though I hope not). I don't know much about how Adobe/LR ...

I was shooting hummers all weekend with the D850 (and D500 on previous weekends). Due to the narrower FOV with the D500 I generally relied on group AF and single point AF (assigned to the F1 ...

...than the D810, but a tad quieter than the D500. I guess it's the price that has to be paid for DSLR's with high frame rates. I wish it was quieter, but it is what it is, and I'm not returning ...

Based on early reviews it would appear ISO performance is similar, so I would agree that if you are expecting to crop a D850 down to DX size all the time (not downrez, but crop), the D850 won't be ...

Except for one thing....based on this argument the max number of pixels DX can put on a target is 24 whereas FX can put 36 (and shortly 45), so when it comes to IQ potential,  FX wins. :-)