where there’s smoke there’s fire

“Nikon D500 review, a wildlife photographer’s perspective” by Steve Perry (website | YouTube | Facebook, you can check also his previous [NR] posts here):

OK, I’ll admit it.

As a wildlife photographer, I had resigned myself to the idea that DX was dead. It was too bad, really. Although I do enjoy using a full frame camera, I longed for the D300 days where you could have a modern, high performance crop sensor body.

See, here’s the thing, – I was stuck. I wanted a DX body for the crop factor / pixel density – and the D7200 fit the bill nicely – but I also wanted the sheer performance of my D4. I thought it was just too much to ask…

And then Nikon announced the D500, confirming that the photography gods do indeed hear the prayers of wayward photographers.  (In fact, at first I thought the announcement might be nothing more than a cruel prank perpetrated on the Nikon community, but thankfully that wasn’t the case.)

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