Nikon D500 + AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4E PF ED VR
Steen,
congratulations on this marvelous camera and lens, just a very perfect approach for wildlife and anything requiring fast and precise AF.
Looking for more pictures :thumbs:
Peter
Thanks a lot, Peter :thumbup:
The D500 works quite nicely in combination with the AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4E PF, that I already had.
For some reason my D610 didn't work all that well with the 300mm tele, the results usually seemed a bit blurry.
So my considerations were, should I sell off the 300mm lens or should I try it in combination with another body.
And in that case which camera body ?
Would it make any difference to switch to the D750 which is supposed to have a superior autofocus performance compared to the D610 ?
Or would I be better off switching to the new D500 without a blurring filter and with higher pixel density ?
I ended up selling the D610 in order to partially fund the D500 purchase, and fortunately this new camera works very well with the tele lens as well as with my macro lens (a Carl Zeiss Makro-Planar 100mm f/2).
So - to answer Doug's question - in my case the new APS-C sensor based D500 replaced my old 24x36mm sensor based D610.
Weird ? To some extent, yes. And I need to admit that I already miss having a 'full-frame' camera along with my new D500 APS-C camera. The DX camera for tele and macro, and an FX camera for everything else.
Hopefully I can afford the D700 / D750 successor when it is released at some point next year or so.
(By the way, I agree that the price level seems rather hefty for the D500 as an APS-C camera, though I believe that Jorgen is right that sensor size actually doesn't need to matter all that much pricewise).
Here's another D500 + 300mm shot, the picture shown here is a 100 % crop, but if you click on it you can see the entire frame.
The bird is a juvenile Common Redstart
(Phoenicurus phoenicurus).
It illustrates that 300mm is basically too short for bird photography, but the 300mm tele was all I could afford among the tele primes.
For the wildlife purpose the perceived extra 'reach' of the APS-C sensor helps to some extent.
A 100 % crop -- ©lick to get the entire frame
© • Nikon D500 • AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4E PF ED VR • 1/1250 sec. at f/4 ISO 100 • Capture NX-D