You have one of the best wildlife photography channels on the internet. Aviation and wildlife are my main photographic interests.

As a new D500 owner I found this short video really helpful, thank you.

Thank you for this great video. I wonder if there is a way to use the video feature on a moving subject where it is getting closer or farther from me. How would I focus and keep it sharp while the recording continues?

Extremely helpful video - I learnt a lot. Many thanks.....all the way from London !

Really a lot of help to set up for video on the D500 .. thanks Mark

Pretty similar to the way I shoot video. At 8:00 you switch it over to image mode though, which is really an unnecessary added step. You can just leave it in video mode, turn off live view, focus through the viewfinder and switch right back to shooting video. Also, if you don’t touch the any of the AF buttons or screen when shooting video, setting the lens to manual really isn’t necessary either. I could see setting the lens to Manual focus as a real detriment if you are switching between shooting video and stills rapidly (which I do a lot). Leaving the lens in AF/M alleviates the need to switch the lens back to AF/M. Everyone has their own process though and if yours works for you, well, then it works ;)

Still catching up on some of your older videos, this one was really useful, I have rarely tried video, but will be having a go now, with my D500 and 200-500. Thanks Mark.

Loved this video!! We just bought the D500 and found this easy to understand and helpful. THANKS!

I found your channel by accident 2 days ago. I love the way you provided information on a subject/topic. It is clear and concise ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Keep it up!

I have been using the D500 for over a year now but yet to explore its video capabilities. This video certainly very helpful to help me with the settings. Thanks Mark.

Thanks Mark, brilliant once again...really appreciate these videos a lot. Cheers

Cool video. Those whistling ducks are awesome!

Thanks for your videos! You are inspiring. Thinking of adding the D500 to my arsenal. And you are helping.

Cheers Mark, great informative video! And it's convinced me to get the D500 for video!

Great video Mark, thanks always learn something from your video.

Very informative Mark. Thanks!

I appreciate the very helpful video, Mark! I am really enjoying your channel.

New subscriber. Easy to follow. Look forward to watching more.

Mark, great video as always, you are helping me to learn my D500 along with my 200-500 lens. Would love to see you take a series of bird shots and show the technique from camera to post and what you do. Love your channel!

You are such a great teacher! Thank you

Love that I came across this video! I keep my D500 on the Glidecam, and with the 4K crop i am able to achieve an effective focal range of 30mm (1080p) 45mm (4k) and 90mm(ish) (scale the 4k clip in post) all with the same lens without needing to switch lenses or focal ranges.

Literally just bought one. Appreciate the video 👊🏽

Great video, Mark!

Thanks for the info on frame rate and setting the shutter speed. This was all very helpful.

Thank you for this Mark Is very very helpful

Awesome I have never ever use the video mode now I can actually try it next time. Thanks for taking the time and explaining it in a simple way. Keep up the good work learning a lot as we speak.

Very helpful. Just what I needed for my new D500. Thank You.

New subscriber Mark. Caught your videos based upon D500 interest. I spend my time in SW Florida, Northern CA and Hawaii. Really great info in your videos and giving me plenty of reasons for a D500 purchase for my growing interest in bird photography. Love the burrowing owls too! Keep up the great videos.

I liked that zoom in and focus trick!

Another great video Mark. It doesn’t appear to be an easy task to follow a moving subject (ie birds or butterflies) and keep it in focus. A good tripod and head looks like a must.

very helpful video, thank you!

Brilliant thank you for making that video It has made it clear how to do video I have had the d500 for a couple of months I also have the 200-500 and have only done stills That's made me want to try video Thanks

Awesome stuff! I recently purchased the D500 after spending a lot of time at the Orlando Wetlands. If you've never been, it's really worth a visit, especially during winter due to loads of migratory birds. Today I counted over 100 alligators in less than a football length. Take care.

Thanks! Its been hard to find video settings suggestions for the D500!

very helpful.. saw a video of a guy using a Nikon for stormchasing and using it to capture lightning video. he didn't have the rolling shutter crap that these new cmos sensor cause with lightning flashes. ive never used the 500 for video and needed a quick lesson on video setup. perfect.. thanx

Great Video! But how does the focus-auto or manual, work best for video while moving with a camera hand-hold?

Thanks Mark Just what I needed

Thank you,great video !!!!

Just started to use video have always shot stills till now very useful video and as always excellent instructions thank you

Mark: whoa snake! Snake: whoa d500!

Thanks... video helped in understanding better.

Nice video and the images are superb. I didn't have any luck video recording a live event with motion since the screen had so much glare on it. I miss my analog video camera form the 80s that had an electronic monitor and I was able to see exactly what the camera was recording. I suppose dedicated video cameras today do that. My D500 is primarily for stills so it's not a deal breaker but I wish there was a way to record video thru the viewfinder.

Hi Mark, Thanks for yet another good video I’m going to Grand Teton/ Yellowstone/ Arches in May 10th to May 21th to photograph geyser, buffalo, bears, mountain goats and Landscape, pretty much everything ;-) and to do a video diary. And then to Tampa Bay May 22th to May 26th where I hope to photograph some Pelicans and other wildlife while my wife is at the beach getting her tan. I plan to buy the Nikon D500 with battery grip and put on my nikkor 80-400 f4.5 to 5.6 and my nikkor 24-70 f 2.8 On my Nikon d610 I will put the nikkor 24-120 f 4 and buy in addition the nikkor 18-35 f 3.5 to 4.5 Further I would buy the Sony FDR AX55 handy cam because I’m not familiar with video and it is hand held, has gimbal image stabilization, a super zoom and a super autofocus with face recognition. However I’m afraid i will be carrying too much equipment and having seen your video, it stroke me that maybe the Nikon D500 and our IPhone X can do the video just fine. What do you think about that? PS: I liked your first book, so I bought the second one too. Hopefully it is already in the mail. Best regards, Mikkel

Great video! I am absolutely loving my D500 I recently purchased with the 200-500mm lens....could you maybe tell me your setup for your tripod, tripod head, and plate for lens? Looks like a great setup and I am currently looking for something like that for my lens to be stable for photography and video capture. Thank you!

Hi Mark, Very Informative and helpful video. Message from India & Kuwait. I would like to know your tripod setup including the U shaped Gimbal used in this video, Please share.

Have you ever thought about posting an video of how you edit your videos? I would be interested in seeing that. Thanks for all of the great videos, learned alot.

Hi there, I second the comments of many on here. A very helpful video from a D500 users point of view. My setting have now been changed from a flat profile, the little test i did today looked better. Though the next question comes, how do you process them to get the best out of the clips? Also do you have a prefered bit of glass for videos?

Mark - thanks so much! Love your videos! So easy to understand and love the way you go over what you have said. How long can you do 4K video on the D500? Is there is time limit? Also - what tripod do you use. I love that Manfrotto 393(?) and would like to purchase it with a nice tripod. Thanks for any help!

Well done Mark! Had not thought of zooming the body to better focus in live view. This of course has no impact on less view at all. Jim

Cool tips, thanks, I always forget the screen is touchable, had the cam over 6 months haha. One tip to offer... you don't need to switch out of video mode to focus, just come out of live view., focus in viewfinder, then back to live view. One less thing to worry about! It's fiddly enough as it is. Just did my first proper kingfisher vid with the d500, focus was a pain but quality is excellent.

New subscriber. Came here on recommendation from Ken Wheeler (The Angry Photographer). Looking forward to viewing your other videos.

Mark, really like all your videos, question for this one is what software do you use to downsize or convert from 4K to 1080p? I did not see the question listed here. Thanks much

Great video. Could you please recommend dx lenses for best video quality ?

This is a nice video. I learned also that using a D500 with an underwater housing does not provide for touching the screen or for manual focus: hence, somewhat up the creek. Interesting! Maybe the only way is to get everything set up in photo mode and switch it over?

Great video. Thank you. How do you get the ability to touch focus on the screen? The square on mine stays set in the middle... in other words I cannot touch new things to focus on.

Great video Mark! What microphone are you using? Thx

Thank you so much....

Thanks for the video. I'm just getting into taking video with my D500. What tripod and mount are you using?

Good !

Cool upload Mark...I've not used the zoom buttons. I'll have to check that out. Sometimes I wish I has 2 D500s.

Great video,however if you are shooting video and you have a moving subject,such as a bird in flight, would use use AF to do birds in flight or keep it in manual mode???? Thanks !!!

Hi great video ... I woukdnlike to know if could you auto focus d500 by touching screen?? Is it possible on d7500 too?? Many thanks. . Cheers

Great movie, Is there anyway to get full auto focus on the D500 when shooting a fast moving erratic subject?

Good info. Dont have it on my 750, so will to ask for wife's 500.

Mark, great videos. I have one question about whether you use jpeg or raw. If raw, how much a pain is it to edit 10 million frames?

Question: During video, can the D500 refocus on its own, or only by user interaction? I may be focused on a subject, but when I pan across a scene my camera will not refocus on what is now at the focus point of the display until I do it myself (touchscreen, AF-ON button, etc). It seems a huge drawback if I have to constantly be refocusing manually as I pan or change subject in the field of view. I must be missing something.

Now that you have had this for a year - how do you feel about the camera? We have Nikon glass - shooting the 7100's still - though the hunting for focus seems to be a plague for autofocus on this camera.. It looks like its hunting here still.

Helpful, but the touch screen method for focus doesn't seem to work with the Sigma 150-500. Which lens to use?

Hey Mark. I love terns, the small gulls (guess you know'em). But those birds are small and erratic, how would you go about filming them? Keeping them in the liveview monitor, I would imagine is pretty difficult and they'd probably keep flying in and out of fokus. How do you track moving subjects? Thanks for the videos, they are the best. Got the same setup as you, D500 + 200-500, got a D800 also (I know yours a D810)

Do these techniques work on the d7500 as well? I am considering this camera but I am not satisfied with manual focus only. How's the subject tracking feature in 4K video performing? Does it hunt a lot or it is usable? Thanks.

If you use the VR option in 1080p is there any loss of resolution.

sir how about the moving subjects? you still autofocus on it using touch screen?

Ok two questions: How do you do focus tracking? and the big one, how did you get your focus points to show on the screen when you switched from video to photo mode?! I've had my D500 for over a year and was positive that you could not get the focus points to show on the screen! Thank you!

What program do you use to edit 4k video and how do I downsize it to 1080p?

can you explain the use of ISO in this process. If you set 1/60 and F8 (I presume in Manual mode), then do you not want the camera to find the correct ISO during the set up - ISO at 100, in auto with a ceiling(max) set at some level?

I'm looking to buy either the D500 or D720...I want to be able to shoot 4k video with a DLSR which is so much less "intrusive" than shooting with a video camera...which one do you think will give me the best video quality. Your video was very helpful. Thanks - Mike Meyer, Columbus, Ohio

Your phone shoots amazing video. What phone is that?

Great video ! What tripod adapter is connected to your camera ?

How well is the AF when tracking people?

3 thumbs up.

can you please tell us whats your video camera for youtube videos,,,cause the nikons video autofocus isn't good...

What tripod are you using in 1:35

What microphone do you use?

Can this be done with the Nikon d5100

Really good and really helpful. I find the main problem is bright light so you can’t see the LCD very well. Also, surely if you are using the method you suggest to switch to the viewfinder and then autofocus on a single point you don’t need to switch back to manual mode do you? Surely if you switch back to video to shoot the scene you’ll have already grabbed focus on a single point. Therefore it will remain in focus on that point.? Here’s a question though...can you focus track video? Say there’s an animal standing still and you switch to still modem look through viewfinder, focus and then switch back to video mode to record it, once you’ve started recording if the animal moves will the camera focus track it in video? Anyway, great video and thanks.

Hi! That camera is good for video? I heared that Canon is better in video but I want know if there are any good video camera of Nikon..

Good job on putting this together. I learned how to use my D500 better.

Great vid. Very helpful.. I hear a fart at 1:29?

I appreciate your efforts in this tutorial, but why would you send your 4K video to an sd card that may be able to write 90mb/sec but send your still photos to an xqd card that writes 400 mb/sec? That is backwards. That xqd slot was INTENDED for 4k video which writes a monstrous amount of data per second.