Introduction

The Nikon D850 is truly Nikon’s high-end “do-everything” camera. It has 46 megapixels of resolution, guaranteed to boggle the minds of landscape and fine-art photographers. When properly equipped, it can capture action at up to 9 frames per second with a seemingly bottomless buffer, making it a dream machine for sports photographers who routinely carried a “speed” camera with lower resolution in tandem with a higher-resolution model. Its built-in intervalometer effortlessly captures the beauty of an unfolding blossom, and can shoot time-lapse movies with up to 4K resolution in the camera (or faux 8K video using a video editor) to track the progress of a construction project.

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