Quote History Quoted:
I keep kinda sniffing around for a good used D500 as well. Not sure how the image quality would be for Friday night h.s. football games where you really have to push the ISO.
View Quote View All Quotes
View All Quotes
Quote History Quoted:Quoted:
vmax84: 45k clicks on a Nikon shutter is nothing, my ancient D40X has >150,000, and is still running perfectly today, the only problem is that there are no 3rd party batteries for it, only Nikon ones. BTW I no longer use the D40x today, instead I am using a Nikon D7500 & D500.
I keep kinda sniffing around for a good used D500 as well. Not sure how the image quality would be for Friday night h.s. football games where you really have to push the ISO.
My understanding as of 4/16/2022, the D500 has been discontinued of the semiconductor shortage, but I have been wrong in the past, so who knows.
I have shot HS theater and stage with my D500, it focuses way faster & better than my Sony A6600, but unfortunately I can't use the D500 sometimes because of the noisy mechanism, the A6600 has a totally silent electronic mechanism, and even the mechanical shutter on my A6600 is pretty quiet against my D500.
I have never shot football pics, but I have shot marching band field show photos with the 1/250-1/300th of sec shutter speed on my D500 the image was respectable, I am also not making a big finished print either. I imagine that you would be in the realm of 1/400-1/500th shutter speeds for football to prevent blurring.
Personally, if it were me, I would just keep on using your D780 full-frame, it is a very capable camera. A couple of reasons for me personally for using the APS-C/DX/crop-frame camera is that everything is small and lighter, and to boot because of the small image circle lenses are way cheaper.