Nikon D500 and D850 vs Z8
Apr 16, 2024 16:20:11 #
When you change to shooting a mirrorless camera, you already know you're a better photographer.
Apr 16, 2024 16:21:03 #
A. T. wrote:
Paul, you crack me up. I'm going back to film and I'm going take magnificent photos with my Hasselblad, lol.
A Hasselblad has no where as much impact as removing the mirror ....
Apr 16, 2024 17:08:28 #
jotaele wrote:
I have had both D cameras for several years and like them both.
My question to the UHH community is, if you go mirrorless (Z8), which one of the D cameras would you give up?
I always travel with 2 cameras for the usual reasons well known to those 2 camera people. I am keeping all my F-mount lenses and will get the adapter for the Z.
Thanks in advance for your answers.
My question to the UHH community is, if you go mirrorless (Z8), which one of the D cameras would you give up?
I always travel with 2 cameras for the usual reasons well known to those 2 camera people. I am keeping all my F-mount lenses and will get the adapter for the Z.
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Im thinking that later on you will sell the one you keep, and that the D500 may hold on to its value longer due to its cultish following.
The D850 OTOH is currently highly respected but its not really at cult level. Its just "King of the Hill Protemp", but "the harder they come, the harder they fall" and it will see steep loss of value much sooner than later due to the Z8 quickly becoming the "King of the Hill".
Maybe youll even enjoy having a Cult Camera for however long you keep the D500 ;-)
Apr 16, 2024 18:59:42 #
Apr 16, 2024 23:01:54 #
Im thinking that later on you will sell the one you keep, and that the D500 may hold on to its value longer due to its cultish following.
The D850 OTOH is currently highly respected but its not really at cult level. Its just "King of the Hill Protemp", but "the harder they come, the harder they fall" and it will see steep loss of value much sooner than later due to the Z8 quickly becoming the "King of the Hill".
The D850 OTOH is currently highly respected but its not really at cult level. Its just "King of the Hill Protemp", but "the harder they come, the harder they fall" and it will see steep loss of value much sooner than later due to the Z8 quickly becoming the "King of the Hill".
Apr 17, 2024 08:07:12 #
jotaele wrote:
A.T. I didn't say that the Z8 made me a better photographer. What it does, it makes it easier for me to get the pictures I want. I still keep the 2 cameras because I don't want to have to change lenses in the field and at a moment's notice. If I am shooting wildlife with a 300 or a 500 mm lens and I see a beautiful landscape, all I need to do is switch cameras in an instant, take the landscape picture and be back to the wildlife in no time.
For a landscape do you need instant lens change? It's not like the landscape snuck up on you and will disappear if you don't hold still. Two cameras are fine, but the reason you gave doesn't make sense.
Apr 17, 2024 12:34:37 #
Architect1776 wrote:
For a landscape do you need instant lens change? It's not like the landscape snuck up on you and will disappear if you don't hold still. Two cameras are fine, but the reason you gave doesn't make sense.
No, I totally understand what he's saying. I've gotten to the point that I avoid changing lenses in the field at all costs. My wife and I make a trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming almost annually and just this past September after returning home I was editing photos and realized that my sensor was dirty. You don't see a dirty sensor until your aperture is in that f/6, f/8, f/11 range. .....that landscape setting range. It took days to go through hundreds of images removing spots. A very time consuming and tedious process, all because of my careless changing lenses in the atmosphere and I'm extremely careful when changing lenses anywhere. So now, if there is a shoot that requires a different lens, I have two bodies with different lenses and I use high end fast zooms. So, again I totally understand having two bodies available for a given outing.
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