When i first became interested in photography there was nothing but film, back then you learned quickly to do a better job of taking your shots because after turning in your film to be developed you had to pay for your bad shots as well as your good ones. That made me a lot more careful about how i composed my shots. I remember when digital cameras first came out and the comment that a professional photographer made that digital was kind of like cheating and the more i think about it the more i agree with him. I'm not a professional photographer by any means but i do understand talent. Iv'e shot film most of my life until recently when i bought a digital camera because of the increasing hassle of finding film and getting it developed. I sent my old 35mm rebel xs off to be cleaned just before hurricane Erma and when it looked like it had been lost in the mail i honestly wished it was my new rebel t6 but luckily i got my film camera back. I read a post on here about someone wanting to know how to post photos on uhh and after reading all the things about reducing and cropping and all the other computerized language i wonder if the photos will still be of the same subject that was photographed in the first place. Is anyone a real photographer anymore? I've hesitated about posting any of my photos here because of what i considered to be superior photos being posted but now i wonder how many are just computerized images. Sorry for ranting. Swamp

Hey, it's only money and you can't take it with you so purchase what you want and enjoy it while you are here. My view is this new camera will not make me a better photographer, but it will offer me opportunities to do better work by using some of the new features such as articulating screen and varying resolutions, among other features. When I purchased my D810 it was several steps above my D800 and I am expecting the D850 to be several steps above the D810, which does not imply that I dislike the D810 or D800.

I pre-ordered the D850 from B&H plus the vertical grip, I have the D800 and the D810 and I love this series, I will be selling my D7100. The D850 offers some really nice features, one being the ability to switch between resolution (45mp, 25mp or 12mp) plus you can shoot in crop mode (at 45mp you come out with 20mp which is the same as the D500). Another feature is the articulating screen which is useful since I am old and bending down is harder. There are many more selling points for the new camera, I just hope that when I get it there are no recalls due to manufacturing problems.