The Nikon D500 is a 20.9-megapixel enthusiast

digital single-lens reflex camera A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that combines the optics and the mechanisms of a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor. The reflex design scheme is the primary difference between ...

using an

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sensor. It was announced by

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on January 6, 2016 along with the

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full frame camera. D500 replaced the

D300S The Nikon D300S is a 12.3-megapixel DX format digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) announced by Nikon on 30 July 2009. It replaced the Nikon D300, D300 as Nikon's flagship Nikon DX format, DX format DSLR adding HD video recording (with autof ...

as Nikon's

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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

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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 (or 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 ...

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

ultrasound Ultrasound is sound waves with frequency, frequencies higher than the upper audible limit of human hearing range, hearing. Ultrasound is not different from "normal" (audible) sound in its physical properties, except that humans cannot hea ...

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

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, NEF (Nikon's

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

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slots (one SD and one

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). 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

CFexpress CFexpress is a standard for removable media cards proposed by the CompactFlash Association (CFA). The standard uses PCIe 3.0 interface with 1 to 4 lanes where 1 GB/s data can be provided per lane. NVM Express is also supported to provide low overh ...

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

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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

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