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Mar 1, 2019 16:23:36   #
I was in the same situation as you and I opted for the D500 which included the base at no additional cost. I'm happy with the D500 but I'm sure you know that the D500 does not have a built in flash

I eliminated all full frame choices as I have a collection of DX lens
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Feb 7, 2019 12:23:51   #
Jack 13088 wrote:
That is a good question. Answering it is surprisingly difficult. Every digital camera I have owned shows the approximate number of photos left on the LCD display on top. But both of them are Nikon and I learned the hard way all manufactures have different display designs. (Before LR I had built my own database for cataloging photos and renamed the files with the camera type, serial number, and shutter count from the EXIF data concatenated as a unique key. Then I found my friends Canon does not have shutter count in the EXIF.) But if your camera does than stop when you have a couple of hundred shots left.

In the first place the 64G does not mean you have 64GB available for your use. The file access table takes a modest amount of space but SD cards also contain DRM data designed to render the card useless should you tinker with it in attempt to copy the whatever you think you bought. That seems ti takr quite a large amount of space.

Second all files are not the same size do to compression. Even RAW files are lossless compressed and vary in size. So even if you know the available memory you have to do some division by say the max size. Windows Explorer tells you the space used and available. So Apple Finder must also. So you can see it there.
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Jack: See my previous post with illustration. The trick is to get that card out of the camera and hooked up to a USB adapter and hooked to your computer. Then offloads should be faster and you can actually get an idea of how much free space you have on the card

Others have said that the card should formatted *in the camera* which I agree with. But in another post I have stated that I have never had to reformat a card and I've been shooting digital since the beginning of the digital format. Sure go ahead and reformat a card if it makes you feel better and by all means do it in the camera.

If you want to be sure your data is removed, do it with my suggested approach and then get a utility that *wipes free space* using a DOD approved method that actually writes 1s and 0s that will take out the data that is actually still on the card ... Otherwise, the images can be easily retrieved by someone who may have nefarious motivations.

Good luck and have fun, Al
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Feb 7, 2019 11:59:42   #
Not sure I agree with your supposition. Find a way to get that card hooked up to your computer directly with a USB adapter. I'm not a reformat after use person. I've been shooting for decades right after the digital camera came out and never had to.

Just get that card hooked up as I suggested and not only will the transfer be faster, more reliable. You will be able to look at the free space as I illustrated in a previous post.

Good luck, yours truly
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Feb 6, 2019 13:13:02   #
A friend of mine and I both bought the D7000 when it first came out. I always thought the focus was a bit tricky. I added a D500 which I do not regret getting. My friend bought the D7200 and she is totally satisfied with it.

She and her husband go on trips and she takes wonderful pictures with her D7200.

Get the D7200. It's the best of the 7000 series in my opinion
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Feb 6, 2019 12:32:49   #
I'm guessing you are using some form of USB connection to download your photos to your computer. You can get a SDXC card reader that connects it to your computer directly through a USB port.

Depending on your computer OS, you can read the card and at the same time find out how much free space you have


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Feb 6, 2019 12:22:16   #
Any memory card is a bit unreliable as a backup medium. Best to copy them off to an external hard drive or external SSD and then you can eventually store the memory card as an independent backup and buy a new card.

So, assuming you have them already on your computer, you could have 3 sources of your valuable photos not including a cloud backup which I have never considered all that reliable. I have had two such cloud drives give me notice that I have X days to download my photos to avoid losing them forever. Why bother with cloud drives in the first place
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