D500 ISO question

[Mike Buckley]

For example, I could NEVER own another camera that did NOT have the joystick that the D500 and Z series have....

I could never own a camera that doesn't have a battery grip...and it has nothing to do with its battery/batteries; it has only to do with the vertical grip.

 

[Ann_JS]

Funny thing is that, although I do have a built-in vertical grip, I mostly tend to chicken-wing verticals anyway.

 

[drr1531]

Funny thing is that, although I do have a built-in vertical grip, I mostly tend to chicken-wing verticals anyway.

When I need to go vertical there's rarely time to switch grip position. Consequently I never use the vertical grip enough to get comfortable with it so use it even less. I've got it on the D850 so I can use the bigger battery and get the higher frame rate. But almost always do the "chicken wing"(never heard it called that ).

 

[drr1531]

...All we're really looking for is a way to compare cameras that is consistent across formats, and I think that is what Bill Claff's PDR is. Based on my experience with quite a few Nikon cameras (and one Olympus) his PDR is quite consistent with my experience.

You posted this while I was typing my previous post and I didn't read it well.

I do agree that PDR is probably the best thing out there as an objective indicator of potential IQ between two camera bodies. With one caveat. If one plans to use uncropped(or identically cropped) images to produce the same output.

 

[Pa]

Something dawned on me earlier today amidst all my reading and viewing and such: sensor, camera and lens designers are all measurebators

Aren't we glad. That's how progress is made.

 

[Palouse]

When I need to go vertical there's rarely time to switch grip position. Consequently I never use the vertical grip enough to get comfortable with it so use it even less. I've got it on the D850 so I can use the bigger battery and get the higher frame rate. But almost always do the "chicken wing"(never heard it called that ).

I had a D2X years ago and more often than not, I forgot to use the secondary shutter release when shooting verticals, and I just as often found myself holding the camera and having it seemingly fire at will - the secondary shutter lock would have been moved accidentally.
Yeah, so I'm a chicken wing guy too, and usually end up knocking my baseball cap off my head

 

[Ann_JS]

I don't do hats — even at the Equator in the mid-day sun.
But I am English!

 

[bpdougd]

Something dawned on me earlier today amidst all my reading and viewing and such: sensor, camera and lens designers are all measurebators

I believe that is in the job description for engineers.

 

[ijm5012]

I don't do hats — even at the Equator in the mid-day sun.
But I am English!

I prefer to not expose my scalp to the sun's UV rays for hours on end during the summer, especially because my head isn't easily covered in sunblock like my arms, neck, legs, etc.

A hat with UV-resistant fabric is cheap, easy, helps prevent skin cancer, and keeps me cooler all at the same time.

 

[Palouse]

I don't do hats — even at the Equator in the mid-day sun.
But I am English!

I'm half English, but having parents and a sister-in-law who are/were doctors made me more prudent. Actually floppy hats do work, but . . . !
The real reason for hats is bad hair days

 

[Ann_JS]

I seldom do anything sensible so I don't bother with sunblock either nor do I walk around carrying water!

 

[Mike Buckley]

A hat...keeps me cooler

I've never understood how a hat can keep us warmer in the winter time by preventing so much heat from escaping our head and also keep us cooler in the summer time. My personal, anecdotal experience is that a hat makes me hotter in the summer time.

 

[Pa]

Gee, now we're discussing hats? Wow has this thread morphed. I guess wine can't be far away...

 

[Palouse]

Gee, now we're discussing hats? Wow has this thread morphed. I guess wine can't be far away...

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