The Nikon D500 is a 20.9-megapixel professional

digital single-lens reflex camera A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a solid-state image sensor and digitally records the images from the sensor. The reflex des ...

with an

APS-C Advanced Photo System type-C (APS-C) is an image sensor format approximately equivalent in size to the Advanced Photo System film negative in its C ("Classic") format, of 25.1×16.7 mm, an aspect ratio of 3:2 and Ø 30.15 mm field d ...

sensor. It was announced by Nikon Corporation on January 6, 2016 along with the Nikon D5 full frame camera. D500 replaced the D300S as Nikon's DX format flagship DSLR. On February 23, 2017, at CP+ show, a special edition was released for Nikon's 100th anniversary. The D500 jointly won a Camera Grand Prix Japan 2017 Editors Award. The camera was discontinued on February 1, 2022.

Features

* 4K UHD video in 30p, 25p, and 24p * Magnesium alloy and carbon fiber weather-sealed body * Active D-Lighting (three levels) * Retouch menu includes filter type, hue, crop, D-lighting, Mono (Black and White, Cyanotype or Sepia) * Multi-CAM 20K

autofocus An autofocus (AF) optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus on an automatically or manually selected point or area. An electronic rangefinder has a display instead of the motor; the adjustment of the optical system h ...

module with 153 sensors in normal mode with 99 cross-type sensors. Of these points, 15 will work with any lens/teleconverter combination with a maximum aperture of 8 or larger. ** Of the 153 points, 55 are user-selectable; 35 of those points are cross-type, and 9 will work down to 8. * Focus points' low-light performance: -4EV (central focus point) and -3EV (other 152 focus points) * Auto AF fine-tune achieves focus tuning in live view through automatic setting of adjustment value with a few button operations. * Live View Mode * Built-in sensor cleaning (using

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) helps to remove the dust from sensor * 10-pin remote and flash sync terminals on camera * File formats include

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TIFF Tag Image File Format or Tagged Image File Format, commonly known by the abbreviations TIFF or TIF, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers. TIFF is w ...

, NEF (Nikon's

raw image format A camera raw image file contains unprocessed or minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, a motion picture film scanner, or other image scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed, ...

compressed and uncompressed), and JPEG+NEF (JPEG size/quality selectable) * Dual

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slots (one SD and one XQD). The SD slot is the first in any Nikon camera to support the

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bus. As of "C" firmware update 1.30 support has been added for

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cards (Type B) in the XQD slot. * The D500 can be set to automatically delay its shutter release to compensate for flickering electric lighting. It is the first Nikon camera to include this feature, which was initially absent from the professional D5 announced on the same date. This feature was added to the D5 via a June 2016 firmware update. With the camera's initial firmware version

Wi-Fi Wi-Fi () is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for Wireless LAN, local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by ...

only worked with Nikon's proprietary "SnapBridge" app, this also applies other Nikon models. Since a firmware updated in May 2019 Wi-Fi was opened to third party applications.

References

External links

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