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Add to SafariWhen comparing Nikon D500 vs Nikon D850, the Slant community recommends Nikon D500 for most people. In the question“What are the best cameras?” Nikon D500 is ranked 1st while Nikon D850 is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Nikon D500 is:
The camera has a tilting screen allowing easy above the head or near the ground shots, a touchscreen for easily adjusting AF point and a joystick for adjusting it even faster.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Easy to use
The camera has a tilting screen allowing easy above the head or near the ground shots, a touchscreen for easily adjusting AF point and a joystick for adjusting it even faster.
Pro Good buffer
Buffer can hold 200 compressed or 71 uncompressed RAW files. To achieve the 200-shot compressed RAW speed, you'll need a XQD card.
Pro Excellent autofocus
D500 has 153 AF points of which you can select 55. 99 AF points are cross-type (of which 35 are selectable). 15 AF points work with f/8 lenses (of which 9 are selectable). The autofocus works down to LV -4.
Autofocus is fast at 10 frames per second with great accuracy - in autofocus tests performed by Tony Northrup the D500 trailed D5 just slightly by getting 16% fewer of shots in focus and 1DX Mark II by about 18%.
Pro Great AF point coverage
Pro Can automatically microadjust lens focal point for autofocusing
Pro Illuminated buttons
Makes shooting in the dark easier.
Pro Can record to an external recorder over HDMI
Pro Focus peaking in live view
When using manual focus lens, you can turn on focus peaking to see which parts of the picture in in focus, as there will be a colour (by the default settings red) "painted" to tell you that that part of the picture is in focus
Pro Focus Shift stacking
Also know as focus stacking, this camera is able to do focus shift photography on its own after the set up, thus it will not be so tedious in terms of capturing the photo.
Cons
Con Lacks mode dial for custom presets
Unlike some other Nikon cameras, D500 doesn't have a mode dial that allows quickly switching between custom presets.
Con Video has a 2.2x 35mm-equivalent crop factor
The camera has a 1.5x 35mm-equivalent crop factor and shooting video adds another 1.5x crop factor on top of that resulting in a 2.2x 35mm-equivalent crop factor. The effective sensor size is near the size of a MFT sensor. That means you would need wider lenses to achieve the same result in each situation.
Con Expensive to get "faster" frame rate
While it ships with a standard frame rate of 7fps, to get to its full functionality of 9fps, you will need the hand grip, as well as the D5 grip battery and charger, which cost a lot more extra.
