Your friend has a good friend

Why are you giving it away?
Or did you mean you are going to stop using it in favor of your D500?

I'm not upset about anything. Selling a D850 system and all your F mount lenses because you think going a Z9 and Z lenses are going to somehow dramatically improve your photography? Errr...no. That's what people are doing. lol

I was going to start a thread on the transition of photography. I feel we are again at the very beginning of such a stage for the first time since film went digital.

It's being lead by kids in their 20's and younger. They are using very cheap cameras and relying on their skill and creativity. It's a generation that do their own thing. They don't care what others do or did in the past. They don't try and follow the current industry. It's a totally refreshing outlook from the gear driven, mechanical imagery of the past 20 years.

I won't make all the points I was going to make but imo, those of you who feel you need the latest and the greatest, you are already part of photography past.

It's been many years since I've looked at images that inspire me. Images that challenge me. Images that I can safely sit back and say, "I never would've thought of doing this."

These kids are producing them. Photography for me has never been so exciting. The least important aspect and in some ways a restriction of moving forward, is having the latest gear.

I won't waste my time posting any new thread. I can see there will be no point.
Very gear driven and not photography driven here.

Yes I can. My statement being relative to my own work and my own standard. Not in direct comparison to referenced individual's work or personal standard.

In other words, my argument being a better body doesn't necessarily mean "I" will produce better images than "I" did in the past with more keepers and top shelf images. I was meaning relative only to "my" own work. It's not comparing against the other person's work directly. Hope that makes sense?

Great! lol

You're missing the point as well. The advances up to the F5 were beneficial.

As I said, I'll be posting a new thread over the weekend. Have a read.

You miss the point. I will always get more keeper images than you will and I will always get more top shelf images.

I'll add a new thread next day or so. By all means read it and add your opinion if you wish.

You’re talking to someone who built a brand new Win XP computer to add to
my other two Win XP computers.

Not updating has nothing to do with cost. Where is the challenge of using something like a Z9? All that someone has to do now is point it in the right direction. You don’t even have to time anything, the 120fps will capture the right moment for you. Another generation or so of cameras and you will even get arrows in the EVF telling you where to point the camera.

May the world have fun with all that and enjoy calling themselves skilled photographers. It’s not for me.

Exactly! There wouldn’t be any digital cameras, all my fav films and the Nikon F5 would still be in production.

Like the automatic transmission was to the car. I still drive a manual/stick as well.

Very true.
Surely there must be someone here under 40???

Congrats! Enjoy the lens. I didn't offer advice in this thread but I think you made a good decision.

You are my type of UHH member!

My last upgrade 2008.

You're likely more fossil than me. The ones younger than me are going back even further than DSLR, to film!
The old men need the modern aids. The photographers need the challenge.

I have more AF-S lenses than D lenses btw.