I hope it's still good in 2024. I bought one secondhand this week to pair with my Sigma 150-600 sport instead of buying a Z8 and Z180-600. Early days but I'm loving it. Now to book a safari with the money I've saved 🙂

Great Video Robert, Your teaching skills are on point as always thanks for sharing

can't understand a word he's saying. also why is the camera zoomed so far out? Stick to shooting stills.

Hi Robert can you please advise me on the nikon D500 camera, I'm looking to purchase this camera to use with my sigma 150-600mm lens, I've found one on MPB where I've bought most of my gear, the only issue is the shutter count, its over 300k but the camera is cataloged as excellent condition, is it worth a punt, and if so would you recommend I have it serviced?, Waiting for your response 👍

Look at the flickr pages of this and the nikkor 105mm 2.8 AF (d/non-d) and you can see, it's just behind the used $100 -$125 Nikkor in micro shots........ Did you just say it's not a true 1:1 macro at all apertures, either? In what range does it shoot true 1:1 then? 7:05 the lens is trash wide open. That's horrible. I have no idea why people are recommending this lens when the FAR superior 105 2.8 Nikkor is available selling for less money too boot lol.

Still using my D500 & can't see any reason to upgrade to mirrorless gear as I still have a few F mount lenses....I also kept my D7100 for backup... thanks for sharing your story.. cheers from Australia 🦘🦘😊

An Amazing Camera, I Love My D500, Exallent Paired With The Sigma 150-600mm. Many thanks for sharing.

As always Robert some excellent information and advice - the pedant in me tho kindly asks that you change the title from wrong to wrongly 😂😂😂 My English teacher drilled this into us and it’s one that drives me mad when I see it 😂

Great advise mate, i always use the histogram in camera to expose the image , rarely rely on the built in meter , for may reasons. Hope your well mate .

Excellent Robert. Thank you for the advice. Haven't been using it all wrong but not quite all right either. Appreciated 👍

If you used it and it made you happy it's a good camera!!!

Absolutely is. I don't sell mine and have my eye out for another. Great camera, I'm having a hard time upgrading this one in particular....

Great and very informative video Robert, the histogram is a great guide but as you said use your eyes and judgement to get your best results. It may not be every bodies cup of tea but if you like it that’s what counts. Thank you for a great insight to those images and it all makes sense.

Great video Robert. Sorry for the inactivity lately. I've been watching and liking, but haven't left many conments. Jidt taking a bit of a YT break and a really busy summer over here! Hope you all are doing well and having a good sunmer! Tske care pal!

I sold/traded my other DSLR cameras for a mirrorless camera but still keeping my D500. 😊

Come on Robert it's a terrible camera and your z7 is getting long in the tooth now too, the best thing to do is to box them all up and send them to me, stick a few lenses in the box whilst your on 😄 Seriously though I'd be well happy to own a D500. Great video and a great camera.

young robin robert nice photos mate

I went mirrorless…and while I love it, there was still this pull for wanting to own a DSLR again. So I picked up a D500. Right when I held it, things just felt right. So now I can enjoy both systems.

Thank you

I love my D500. It's one of the most reliable cameras that I have ever owned. For wildlife and sports photography, it still does a reasonable job, but it is showing its age. Most modern mirrorless cameras will have the advantage when it comes to auto focus, but if you are on a tight budget or just starting out in photography and are not sure if it's your thing, it's definitely worth a look at.

Still the best affordable action/sports camera. 10fps are plenty enough. Anything more than 15fps will just slow down your file sorting workflow. Except for the top of the range Z9/Z8, no other mirrorless built like a tank similar to D500

Excellent video. Good pace of explaining your process. Music was too intrusive…..didn’t match the calmness of the environment….all the same most informative video

I have this D500 and I love it still for Portrait and so. Now i own the z8 as well

Nice overview. Regarding darktable: "it does have 'some' selective editing tools". LOL. It probably has the most extensive and powerful masking/local editing features of any raw editor (free or paid). It lacks the convenience of AI masking, but drawn + parametric masks are in almost all cases more accurate and almost as fast (once you have put in the time to learn how). "Better" is very subjective, but it is objectively much more powerful than Lightroom. LR is king if you want good-enough, fast. If you want full control DT (or RawTherapee) absolutely trashes LR, with a breadth and depth of tools that an LR user can only dream of. Performance can indeed be an issue if you don't have a GPU, but that has improved dramatically over the last few versions. And as long as you're careful with the heavy modules, such as diffuse/sharpen, running on CPU only is not a problem.

Currently have a d3100 for as long as I can remember. Will definitely try to get a d500 in the used market soon.

Still use mine and mine was one of the first sold here. The reason? Nothing better at the file sizes and IQ. Mine used for sports and wildlife paired with the Nikin 300 f2.8. Bought a Nikon ZF on a lark to test mirrorless and I use it for my one lens travel 24-120 and the D500 comes too with the 300 attached. With the reach of a 450mm and the IQ achieved at a decent file size, I could not ask for more. Both cameras pair really well as I have no need for huge files or more than 11fps shooting. The ZF gives me better video with IBS and works and compliments the D500 as I can swap all lenses as needed. With 12-24, 70-200 and assorted old manual nikon and D-series lenses, I can happily use all on both cameras. Nice too is the newer C-batteries charge on the old charger and work in the D500 too. When shooting birds or sports with the D500 and 300 2.8 I get such great bokeh I have a hard time looking at Nikons new long lenses to use on FF. Happy with my kit as it produces great images. The DX to me was the low budget way to just say no to larger lenses and more expensive bodies. The D500 is still a keeper.

Hi Robert, Good report. I bought the D500 when it came out. Happy? Yes. It met my requirements. Does it still meet my requirements? ... Yes. Therefore "Happy Factor" should remain. At some stage soon, will I add a Z8? Probably. (Z8ii) Does that automatically mean that "Unhappy" ticket has to be attached to the D500? For me, .. No. I still use my D200 bought back in 2005. Only 10mp. However, I reall like what the CCD produces. For some of my requirements, It's still very competent. I mainly used a 4 x 5" Linholf Karden Master and Blad ELM 500 in studio. What we now call Full Frame 35m was not capable in the Pro industrial field. However, the Nikon Ftn Photomic could handle tasks that the othera cameras just couldn't. I think the words "Happy with camera" has been hijacked by retailers and promters alike. Is it still fit for purpose? ..... With a Z8 or Z9 added, will my D200 still be fit for purbose? Yes. Will I use it often, probably not.

It will still be a good camera in another 10 years. I'll never sell mine.

I would still be using mine if I didn't have a Z8.

It still use my old D200 from time to time and it really stands up in regular photography if you avoid its limitations.

Bought mine new when it came out,still use it everyday while waiting for a true d500 replacement

Definitely stands the test of time from your video Robert - great comparison of pros and cons 👍🏻

Simple and excellent explanation… even I am using this with Nikon 200 500 lens. As a wild life photographer. Thanx for motivation

Great video Rob, I will be sticking my D500 for some time, I love it and until the cost of the Mirrorless cameras / lenses comes down I'm happy using it. One thing that I don't think gets too much coverage on this type of video is the processing and storage aspects of something like D500 vs a newer 40+ mb 100fps camera. I think I would seriously have to consider workflow if upgrading.

I bought the 28mm F2.8 lens based on KZfaq hype only to find it is NBG. It was to supplement my 24-120 F4 S which is great but heavy. For me now an S or not at all. Saving for a 35mm -f1.8 S. Cheers

The D500 is fantastic, I will not sell mine as long as I live. Last year I got an OM-1 (because o size of telephoto lenses) and used it for a few months, then I went back to the D500. Now I have replaced the OM-1 with a Nikon Z8 though, but the D500 will stay.

Robert, great shots once you switched to the tower, and the light kicked off. I thought it was going to be a van tour video at the start 😊.

Please stop doing these videos extolling the D500 ... I am retired and poor and need a new camera and every time someone does one of these videos the price of all the used D500s goes up by 50% LOL

Many thanks for the advice I hope to visit the area soon and will certainly look at some of the places you suggested

What kind of lens adapter is that ???, and why you need use this adapter,maybe link for this or just some info , please🙏

RawTherapee is closer in form and function to ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac and ACDSee Professional (For Windows) in that it doesn't use a relational database for storing metadata, but instead, uses the natural hierarchical data structures found in all computers. I think you will find that, in general, given the same level of resources, a hierarchical data system is faster than relational, and is better suited to very large databases.(>50,000 images), though the hierarchical systems DO have a more limited search capability. Intelligent use of I search functions, coupled with filters can replicate most of what a relational database can do, however. I consider myself a bit of an ACDSee advanced user.and I know that ACDSee has expanded the natural hierarchical storage into a true hierarchical database to store metadata so that the hierarchical data can be optimized and backed up in a traditional manner. Having moved to Linux from Windows however, (Privacy & Security reasons) I know that ACDSee products do not have Linux Equivalents though I would happily pay for Linux versions of their products. RawTherapee is a reasonable replacement for ACDSee, especially so, if your backup needs are less rigorous, and a Backup of just the photos themselves will suffice. A more accurate comparison to Lightroom would be DarkTable, also free and open source software that uses a relational database and is much closer in form and function to Lr. Both RawTherapee and DarkTable are very stable on both Windows and on Linux. But in Windows, the use case for them is weaker. Neither are perfect replacements (and certainly NOT clones) for their targeted user audiences though. And if you don't want to learn something new, and just do your established workflow without having to think about it, stick with what you are currently using. And have no doubt there is nothing wrong with that. For me, as an advanced amateur, the increase in privacy and security by moving away from Windows is worth the minor inconvenience of learning something new and doing without all the third party add-ons for both Lr and ACDSee.

Thanks for the tips 😅

Just got a D500 and Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG Contemporary, your video is very helpful, thank you!

Thank you! I don’t work frequently enough to justify a subscription but your video opened my eyes to the utolitt of Elements.

In this mirrorless age, I'm thinking of buying the D7500. I am also considering the D500, but the weight is more and I'm not a dedicated wildlife photographer but rather carry my camera with me in town for street photography. Based on the images you showed, the D7500 should be fine. I know, mirrorless are the future, but I find them too much computer. You opinion?

do you recommend for filming?

The 17-55 was the first nice zoom lense I ever owned, When i switched from a D7000 to a D700 i stopped using it. The D700 camera remains one of my favourite cameras, but with an already low res sensor, it was not worth ever using on crop mode (although stopped down this lens will cover the full frame) . A few years ago when everyone switched to mirrorless i picked up a D810 for cheap, and on DX crop mode you still get a 15mp image, which is plenty big enough (more resolution than FX mode on the D700 and about the same resolution as my old d7000), and I fell in love with the 17-55mm again. I have better lenses now, but theres something about this one that makes like it and continue to use it. I think it's nostalgia from the first nice zoom lens that i ever had.

Editing raw is not a problem, many apps do that well. The huge issue for a photographer that has a decade in Lightroom is the catalog and edits you have done. The only app that I found that imports the Lightroom catalog is Capture One. I imported a catalog with 70k photos, and capture one kept the structure, collections, keywords, color labels, and some very basic edits. Unfortunately I had to export all my edits (10k+) manually. Well, it sucked, but I would do it again to be free from Adobe ransmware.

The D500: no U1 and U2 instant recall ...no built in flash (comes in handy when in a hurry). Forgot to mention those important features. The D7500 does have that.

Great video. Very helpful. Will definitely try this with the Standard Micronic Ruby SR G430 7 Transistor radio which I ordered online once it arrived. Thanking you from here in the Philippines!