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Purchased this a couple of weeks ago. Wanted to try a mirrorless camera without spending a lot of $$$s, so got it off Ebay used and got a used FTZ converter. It is rather slow, with the most annoying feature is it's waking up process from sleep (sort of like me that way). However, given good light and relatively slow large BIF it handled the 500 PF w/ 1.4x converter just fine. In not very
good light it did just fine with close perched birds through a window with the 500 PF. Since I have D500 and D850, this won't be my go to camera, but it is an adequate piece of gear and I have no regrets having purchased it. Hopefully Nikon will come up with an APS-C mirrorless comparable to the D500, which I would immediately purchase having had the opportunity to try out the baby camera.




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Interesting. I'm considering getting a Z50 as well, basically to try out a mirrorless camera, but also to have a camera to use my old manual lenses, especially the 5.6/400 IF-ED and the 4/105 Micro Nikkor from the film days. I really like those old lenses a lot, and I sometimes use them just for fun. I'm also first and foremost a birder, so I might also use it as a lightweight walk-around camera combined with the AF-P 70-300 FX, a reasonably light and surprisingly good lens. Keeping the weight down matters a lot to me.

What do you think of the image quality compared to the D500, especially at high ISO? It's supposed to be a very similar sensor to that of the D500, how does that play out in reality?
 
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Hermann said:
Interesting. I'm considering getting a Z50 as well, basically to try out a mirrorless camera, but also to have a camera to use my old manual lenses, especially the 5.6/400 IF-ED and the 4/105 Micro Nikkor from the film days. I really like those old lenses a lot, and I sometimes use them just for fun. I'm also first and foremost a birder, so I might also use it as a lightweight walk-around camera combined with the AF-P 70-300 FX, a reasonably light and surprisingly good lens. Keeping the weight down matters a lot to me.

What do you think of the image quality compared to the D500, especially at high ISO? It's supposed to be a very similar sensor to that of the D500, how does that play out in reality?
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I think the image quality is very good. I haven't compared it to D500 per se, but I would guess it is comparable. The two perched Cassin's were shot at ISO3200 and ISO2800
respectively. Nothing done to compensate for noise, but not a very tight crop and size reduced, so would guess if one were going to print, one would want to run it through Topaz or similar program.

I purchased the 50-250mm lens to go with the camera, also on ebay and figure it will be ideal for when I'm walking, not for birding or photography, but just out there in case something wonderful comes along. Also for bugs. together they weigh no more than 2 pounds. Figure it will be better than my phone which is pretty useless. :)
 
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I have been using the Z50 with the 50-250mm lens for several months. It is a very compact and lightweight combination. The Rugged R3 camera case will hold the camera with the long zoom and the 16-50mm zoom will fit in the front pocket.
This photo of a merlin that was a couple of hundred feet away at the top of a tree. The photo was severely cropped, yet there is sufficient to detail serve the purpose of identifiing the bird.
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The Z50 is a great little camera. There are a few rumors floating around that a new APS-C Z camera is coming soon - possibly an entry level (no EVF?) or, a Z50 upgrade. If it happens, I'd hope for the latter - I feel there's just too much competition from smartphones for entry-level cameras these days.

If Nikon offers an APS-C Z body that can meet or even exceed the D500's AF performance, with little to no EVF blackout... they'd have a big winner with sports & wildlife folks.
 
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The technical specifications will give some idea of the quality difference.
D3300: 24 MP; Sensor Size: 23.5x15.6; 12 bit (2014)
Z50: 21MP; Sensor 23.5x15.7; 14 bit (2020)
Is that a significant difference? Also Nikon had six years between models to make improvements.
 
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Hermann said:
IF the Z50 sensor is similar to that of the D500 or the D7500, it's going to be better than the D3300 sensor at higher ISO, say above ~1600 ISO. The D3300 sensor is really quite good but high ISO are not its strong point.
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High ISO seems pretty good with this little camera.
 
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