£3,499/$3,297 (body only)
WITH mirrorless cameras (or CSCs) grabbing so much attention, a few people are starting to write off the DSLR as old-school technology. Nikon isn’t one of them, thank goodness, because otherwise we wouldn’t have had the D850. Following on from the D810, the D850 adds resolution, continuous shooting speed, video capabilities and a tilting touch-screen display.
Let’s start with the sensor. With 45.7 million pixels, this is the second-highest resolution full-frame camera on the market. It doesn’t quite match the 50.6 million pixels of the Canon EOS 5DS, but the Nikon D850 is so much more powerful in other respects that a handful of megapixels hardly matters.
Then there’s the sevenframes-per-second continuous shooting speed, a useful increase over the old D810, and an impressive buffer capacity (for…