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Hello all. I switched to full-frame cameras in 2016 and have been using a couple of Nikon D610s, which I am more than happy with. However, I am thinking of adding a D810 to my arsenal, for use with my Nikon 200-500mm lens.

I know a D500 DX body and 200-500 lens combination is popular with sports and wildlife photographers, and no doubt aircraft photographers too, but I want to stick with full-frame, and was thinking a D810, with its 36mp sensor, would offer effective extra reach with scope for cropping if need be.

I am led to believe the D500 has superior autofocus to the D810, but I reckon the latter is no slouch either.

Does anyone use a D810 with a 200-500 lens? I'd be interested to hear your comments, good or bad!

Thanks.

Hi,
Yes, I use a Nikon D810 amongst others and use a variety of lenses with it, including 100mm up to 600mm. I have found the D810 to be a good camera and image quality is superb. I regularly use for wildlife, motorsport and aviation photography.
Cheers

Thanks for that. My brother-in-law has a D810 and is very pleased with it. Unfortunately we live a few hundred miles apart, so not so easy to check it out with my lens. MPB have a couple of relatively low shutter count examples for under £900, so a camera body, battery grip and second battery could be bought for just under £1,000. Seems like a bargain! However, I might just hold out for a really low shutter count example. One will come along soon enough.

daggerfan wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 08, 2022 7:26 pm

Thanks for that. My brother-in-law has a D810 and is very pleased with it. Unfortunately we live a few hundred miles apart, so not so easy to check it out with my lens. MPB have a couple of relatively low shutter count examples for under £900, so a camera body, battery grip and second battery could be bought for just under £1,000. Seems like a bargain! However, I might just hold out for a really low shutter count example. One will come along soon enough.

I use a D500 and agree they are a very good match. I don't know anyone with a D810 so can't help you there. Perhaps have a nose around Ffordes for a body, easier to get to being relatively local.

Mike

Thanks for that, Mike. My preferred vendors are Ffordes, MPB and Wex, and I shall be keeping an eye on these sites in case a good, really low-mileage example appears. I was hoping the profusion of mirrorless cameras would have boosted the secondhand DSLR market, but alas not with what I'm looking for at the moment!

daggerfan wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:38 pm

Thanks for that, Mike. My preferred vendors are Ffordes, MPB and Wex, and I shall be keeping an eye on these sites in case a good, really low-mileage example appears. I was hoping the profusion of mirrorless cameras would have boosted the secondhand DSLR market, but alas not with what I'm looking for at the moment!

LCE are also good. I have used all of the ones you mentioned at some stage.
Mike

Thanks Mike. Funnily enough LCE popped into my head this morning. I'm sure I bought from them sometime back in my days of using film. I'll check them out again. I missed two really low-count D810s on Park Cameras' site yesterday afternoon. Rather annoyingly, they are both still listed a day later!

daggerfan wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 19, 2022 3:56 pm

Thanks Mike. Funnily enough LCE popped into my head this morning. I'm sure I bought from them sometime back in my days of using film. I'll check them out again. I missed two really low-count D810s on Park Cameras' site yesterday afternoon. Rather annoyingly, they are both still listed a day later!

Oh that's frustrating. I saw one on a Nikon only Facebook forum, not sure if you do FB.

I guess the D810 is like my D800 and if you wish it can do automatic DX cropping at 1.3x or 1.5x, with the advantage of reducing the storage requirement.

sft wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 24, 2022 10:38 am

I guess the D810 is like my D800 and if you wish it can do automatic DX cropping at 1.3x or 1.5x, with the advantage of reducing the storage requirement.

I think the two are pretty much the same. The D810 with DX cropping gives, I believe, 16mp images. My D610s give images of 10mp in DX mode but I don't use it. I prefer to shoot full-frame and crop as necessary in image-editing software.