Couldn't agree more. The D850 is incredible.

Without question!!! By far, the best camera I've ever owned. The resolution is over-the-top, and I continue to be blown away by the images themselves.

Be an even extra good boy and ask Santa for the D850. I own that camera and the D500. I only use the D500 for sports (as well as the D850). The D850 is the finest camera I've ever owned. Just top shelf!

I think you'll find the Sigma 60-600 f/4.5-6.3 to be a much better lens, with a lot of good feedback.

One of my mentors, Dewitt Jones, who shot for many years for the National Geographic, gave me great insight on your question. Start here...the minute you put a filter on the front of your lens, you've already manipulated the image. In fact, you've also manipulated your image just by the way you compose the frame. Next...how difficult is it to learn Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom well? You could argue that it's just as hard as learning how to be a good photographer. It's a skill. When we use Photoshop, we are using our skills, just like when we are taking the image itself. Yes, our photography is art. In fact, (my opinion, not necessarily Dewitt's), if our photography is not art, why bother? We all love photography because we can capture beautiful images...which can be enhanced if we know what we are doing. Dewitt has always taken the position that there is nothing wrong with photo manipulation...as long as we are willing to tell the viewer of our work that the image was manipulated in Ps or Lr. I took a beautiful image of a Lighthouse on the Oregon coast a few years ago, and as beautiful as the scene was, the image was diminished in beauty because of the parking lot, which was an eyesore. I removed the parking lot from the image. I've never hid that fact from the viewers of that frame. (In fact, some have been more impressed with the fact I knew how to do that versus shooting the image itself.) I take this position: This is my work, and I can do anything I want. It's my art. I've got enough "rules" that control the rest of my life. I want to escape INTO my photography...not walk into a whole new set of rules. My recommendation? Do whatever you like and don't apologize to yourself or anyone else.

Bob,

I own a D500 and a D850. I can't speak about the D810. I've never owned it. I can tell you though that the D850 is the finest camera I've ever owned. The resolution is incredible. I don't even like using my D500 now except when I need more speed (fps).