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by Cynthia Crawford on Mon Feb 04, 2019 5:24 pm
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Cynthia Crawford wrote:One thing I have not seen much, though, is Sony/Nikon comparisons in poor light/noise/high ISO performance. That's one thing I find quite disappointing with my Nikon D500. Not to mention (again) small birds in poor light.....
Have you compared the D500 to the D750? It(D750) sounds pretty good according to this article, but I really don’t know.

https://photographylife.com/reviews/nikon-d750/5

The rest of the article is here but I don’t how recent it is.

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The D750 doesn't hold a candle to a D500 for AF, especially for things like small fleeting subjects (D500, D850 and D5, all of share a similar AF system although there are some modes missing on the D850 and D500 but it's the same AF system from a hardware perspective). 
I was only referring to the poor light/noise/high ISO, not AF.

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Hey, Joe-I have a D750. I do love some things about it, including low light performance. It's even a fair shot, sometimes for some birds. I thought about getting a D850 instead, but didn't want to deal with the big files and bigger price. Looks like the price is inching down....maybe some day. The D500 certainly has it all over the D750 for AF and FPS. There's no perfect camera, huh?  But some are thinking the Sony is coming close, at least for *fast* birds. ;). I think the surprise for me is that Arthur thinks the Sony 100-400 perfectly adequate with a 1.4 TC. Waiting to see a little tiny warbler-in-flight.
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by Cynthia Crawford on Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:28 am
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By the way, this thread was not meant to speculate on who's who in the camera world and why. My intent was only to take note of a well-know bird photographer having made a quick switch to Sony.
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by E.J. Peiker on Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:46 am
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Cynthia Crawford wrote:By the way, this thread was not meant to speculate on who's who in the camera world and why. My intent was only to take note of a well-know bird photographer having made a quick switch to Sony.
Chris Dodds, another former Canon Explorer of Light also switched to Sony about a year ago.
 

by SantaFeJoe on Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:52 am
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E.J. Peiker wrote:
Cynthia Crawford wrote:By the way, this thread was not meant to speculate on who's who in the camera world and why. My intent was only to take note of a well-know bird photographer having made a quick switch to Sony.
Chris Dodds, another former Canon Explorer of Light also switched to Sony about a year ago.
I bet many others would change too, if only Sony would only have longer, fast lenses. They are far ahead of anyone else.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-12/sony-s-new-super-fast-cameras-are-winning-over-the-pros

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/features/why-i-switched-canon-sony-colby-brown

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