gwilliams6

Some thoughts on the two cameras:

Nikon Z8 vs D850: It's FINALLY time for MIRRORLESS! T&C Northrup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KYiW8hhGqE

Z8 Vs D850 | Detailed First Look At How These Two Cameras Compare | Matt Irwin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGFOGGytMzE

Nikon Z8 vs Nikon D850 - Image Quality Review ZJ Michaels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob02-bp_z5g

Nikon Z8 vs Nikon D850 Comparison: 15 Reasons to buy the Z8 and 5 Reasons to buy the D850
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF9Y9C4F3pk

Cheers and best to you.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

LOL

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

I'll stick with the D850!! I'm one of those greybeards!

gunflint Loc: Rocky Mountain High, Colorado

Thank you very much!

gunflint Loc: Rocky Mountain High, Colorado

So am I but I shave so I can't tell! :)

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

I do too. But on MY schedule! And even if there was not one grey hair on my face, I would know that I'm an old greybeard!!! But it's better than waking up on the wrong side of the grass!

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

When the new models ended, DSLRs passed into legend. And mirrors became myth. And by 2023 only those with the longest beards could remember a time when photography was limited by mirrors.

stan0301 Loc: Colorado

Thanks - with fifty plus lenses I've been holding off - and likely will continue to do so

gunflint Loc: Rocky Mountain High, Colorado

Well, I have learned a lot today! I am part of a group of old retired greybeards, I should have a bigger lens, I need a 2nd D850, probably no reason to spend the money to upgrade, I should have 50 lenses, I don't have money burning a hole in my pocket but I do have the hole, stay away from wildlife or I should have upgraded...

All in fun...Thanks everybody!

Strodav Loc: Houston, Tx

Was using my D850 / D500 combination for nature and wildlife for a few years and they have performed well for me. I got a Z9 to increase my keeper rate with wildlife, and it has due to IBIS, higher fps, and animal eye detection. I still use my D850 for most everything else. I have over a dozen FF f mount lenses that I use on the Z9 and they perform every bit as well, if not better than, on the D850. Z glass, however, especially Z S glass is a littler higher quality than my equivalent f mount glass, but you have to go looking for it. Mirrorless is the future, but I will never part with my D850. It is arguably the best dslr ever made and will continue to provide high quality images. You will see very little difference between the D850 and Z8 or Z9 images. The difference is in keeper rate for things in motion. IMHO, there is no reason to move to a Z8 for landscapes.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

If an old camera is the only tool you have in your bag of tricks, you need a new bag.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

David--I shoot a D850, along with a D810 and D500. After being disappointed by the Z 7/Z 7ii and shut out by the entry cost to the Z 9 (very close to $8-9000 or even a little more), I decided to just sit back and wait for a while. When the Z 8 rumors started, it seemed that a viable path to a Nikon mirrorless system worth migrating to (or at least adding) might be on the horizon.

As factual data became available, my excitement grew, and I went so far as to assemble just under $7000 in an envelope. That's about what is needed to pay for a camera, a decent amount if memory, grip, extra battery, adaptor and lens. And it would be a camera that shared an operating system with my D850, which I definitely planned to keep. The Z 8 does not include some of the cool functions that I routinely use on my D850, and it won't fully utilize my array of highly useful AF-D lenses, which don't have focus motors.

In the meantime, I took my D850 out shooting three or four times. It reminded me of everything it can do and how well it can do it. In the course of those outings, it also made a case for how silly it would be to spend $7000 for a Z 8 or any other camera when I already own three incredibly capable cameras.

For now, the money has gone back in the drawer. It will be a travel and emergency fund. I'm having renewed fun shooting three different cameras that are incredibly more advanced than I could have even imagined ten years ago. The mirrors have never caused me even a hint of a problem. Nor do I expect that they ever will.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

You can never reach the future by looking into mirrors.

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Well, at least for birds,,, you will definitely need a longer lens!! And, no, you probably won't need another D850,,, unless your wife, or kid,,, or someone also takes up serious photography!

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Get them the Z8 ....