I do not have light room I have Adobe

To answer your question I have a small Canon 8X10 printer that you can tell it to print using only the black or white cartridge using it's software. I have another canon 11X14 printer that I think I can do that with too. So you might want to check into what the software can do. I do not know why anyone wants to print in digital B&W personally the digital gray scale is much to small at 256 grays to make any B&W worth while printing. Perhaps I am spoiled due to the darkroom I used to use for B&W. If anyone can tell me a way to make a great B&W print using the digital medium please tell me. I think real B&W has gone extinct because of the poor grey scale of digital although a good ink jet printer might be able to tackle a good B&W print.

Well ... I know the dilemna. I was pushed by the need to shoot more pics because I could not find fresh film anymore. So I went back and bought a digital camera. A Nikon D3200 it was. The to get more lenses and better bodies I went back to work and said to hell with being retired. Now it seems the camera upgrades led to more work and more work meant more hunting and fishing. I am not out of the woodshed yet but as the author "Of On Walden's Pond" once wrote, "You do not own your possessions your possessions own you.". So to keep up with my possessions I keep working. I am just glad I am able to continue in photography my chosen passion and work. We will all keep working to maintain our love of pictures. I once chased a Blue Heron around a pond for 4 or more hours to get that one digital image just glad I did not have to pay to process that many photographs for just one shot.

You know the difference that will matter is that the D7200 is 24 mpx while the D500 is 20 mpx. As for the card reader, unless it does more than your computer can you do not need a card reader. I know my D7200 is superb for sports in low light due to it's 25600 ISO. If the D 500 can't do that low light then you can kick your butt for buying it. If you really want the higher resolution you needed to move to the full frame image Nikons. I do not plan to go there because the difference between a full frame at 36 mpx vs 24 mpx is the physical size of the image sensor and I have yet to figure out if a little more frame size is actually more resolution. In the days of a negative it mattered because resolution was not an issue only film grain at high IS0 counted. You do not have film grain in digital you have resolution problems and the D7200 seems to handle that ok.
I think that you should have looked into the full frame Nikon that is 36 mpx. I think that is the D800, I am not sure on this though but the Nikon you would want is the 36 mpx Nikon. These Nikons are a bit pricey even for me as a professional. I retired when it all went digital and came back to photography a few years ago and had to wait for the D7200 to show up and right now I am awaiting the D7300 but it seems to be only a rumor as to when it will be on the market. Until then I will use my D7200 and keep my D5200 for backup. The resolution issue is a long discussion for another time. Personally I feel that since all you are doing to get 36 mpx is adding more sensor to the physical size of the sensor 24 mpx and 36 mpx are the same resolution.

I have been deleting in camera for the last couple of years now. I have not experienced this problem . I delete in camera on location during lulls in sporting events. I get rid of out of focus and bad exposure shot before I even get to my studio. This way I learn to get better shots through this review process. My question are: How many times can a card be used before it has data issues? How many times can a data card be inserted before it has issues with wear of its contact points.? How many times can a card be put in and out of a camera before the camera has contact point issues? I am sure that these three questions are more important than corrupt data. I have had one removable drive quit over the last couple of years and I bet the problem is not corrupt data on the card but bad solder joints inside the plastic case. I have found being an electronics repair expert before becoming a photographer that most electrical problems are usually are contact point issues as well a solder issue. For an image to be recorded on a chip card it must first go through several contact points including those points that are inside the chip that is housed by plastic housing. I really doubt that most photographers have experienced data loss due to bad contacts more than due to data corruption. In the old days data was corrupted by magnetic fields since most storage mediums were of magnetic design. I think data storage these days is still a bit reliant on magnetic storage so the culprit might be in the case of corrupt data on these small chip strong magnetic fields. You can find these fields mostly these days in speakers. The higher the voltage handling a speaker has means the stronger the magnetic field involved in the use of the speaker. I can see a photographer placing his camera on or being near a speaker (less than 6 inches from such device) this might be a cause of some data corruption. I know for a fact during the days of the floppy drive that a floppy drive in a briefcase placed on the floor of a subway train would cause such data loss. The trains third rail that runs under the train floor and is a high voltage and high current source that can cause magnetic interference. So maybe the data corruption is just a myth after all. I still use a strong AC magnetic field to deguass the old TV screens when necessary.

I find backup cameras have saved the professionals shoot. I have one memorable shoot. I was working for a well known local photographer here in Cincinnati when he left me to photograph the reception with the wrong film for the Hasselblad backs I had with me. He went onto the next wedding and I was to meet him there. The next roll of film I noticed the screw up. I loaded the film into my backup which was a twin lens reflex that handled the film well. When I got to meet up with him he asked how it went. I told him he gave me the wrong film and he panicked like I was hoping he would. I mean he had me on panic when I noticed the error. I told him what I did and he was full of gratitude for the rest of the night. I till carry a backup even if it is digital now. I used to be an electronics expert and I know that electronics unless built for space travel to military standards will sometimes fail at the most inopportune moment. These days your back up if you work as a pro should be another camera like the one that just broke down. You do not always quickly remember how the old one worked.

I too followed your path to so called enlightenment of the digital age. I have been doing this professionally for the last 3 years. As for digital to film comparison I still find film has more resolution and a bit more latitude for error than digital has even if you know how to work in Adobe PS. I learned in film to create the best image first the print will be easier to make. This I think gives me an edge in digital. I find that digital is closer to shooting chromes as I did in the film era.

As did you, the newbie to digital, I was forced to go digital by economics and the lack of finding processing for color. I used to do all of my own black and white since I had a good darkroom. I still have that darkroom. It is in 2 large plastic bins while the enlarger has a place in my camera collection hall of fame near the Bronica SQA dinosaur which sits opposite the movie cameras. The movie cameras were also replaced by my Nikon D 7200. I keep a D5300 for backup currently. I was able to still use my White Lightning strobes in my studio but for location shoots I was forced to buy new flash guns. The flash guns were a had to because digital cannot have much voltage of current across the hot shoe contacts. (Reason is that digital electronics is easily overloaded and burned out.)

Producing new images is in your blood and once it is you have a creative habit. A habit that costs more than a drug habit and much better than a drug habit.

If you don't mind take a look at some of my digital and scanned in film shots at my web site http://elm7photographyy.zenfolio.com/ . Keep shooting till you cannot shoot anymore.

I have been a photographer professionally for many years. A few years ago I decided to join the ranks of the digital photographer. Lacking the immediate cash I needed to start at the platform that I once was on when I used film I decided I needed to come out of retirement. I made a few phone calls. One call went out to the last photographer I shot many a wedding for using film. His answer was a bit surprising. It seems that in the transfer over from film to digital he got lost in the format of digital because he told me he only knew Canon formats. I did not have the heart to upset his apple cart and tell him there is really no difference between Canon and Nikon (which is what I now prefer). I bid him a fond farewell and said thank you for at least speaking with me.

I think my background in electronics and computers saved me from becoming like him. I was one of the first in Cincinnati to recognize the digital age of photography was a coming. My first print was made on a color dot matrix printer on standard print paper. It looked like a photo from a news paper of that time period. Eventually the inkjet printer became available and I found the only gloss paper around was made by HP. The paper was and still is a very thin substrate with one glossy side and a matte side that really allowed you to write on it with pencil only. If you mounted this plastic like film no one could tell it was not a photograph in the true sense. Using the inkjet printers of the time it could from across the room pass as a photograph. I am glad the papers we have now finally became similar to the photo papers we used in the dark room.