My husband bought me the D780 which was the newer equivalent to my D750 I currently have so we returned it and upgraded to the D850 instead. Works perfect, no complaints! Only thing I'd say is I expected it to come packaged a little better. It was in original box inside another box with no extra padding.

I have been using cameras since 1963 and Nikon SLR film cameras in 1990s, several Nikon DSLRS since 2008-9, bt this ine is really great. Full frame camera , great features in f stops speeds, ISO settings, frames per second, available lenses, and recommended by many pro photographers of all types! I am an amateur bird photographer in my mid 70s, but I am very picky about getting lots of:details in my photographs of birds. I only wish I had bought this D850 when it came out in 2017!! Great camera if you can put off switching to "mirrorless" light catchers. I had a Brownie box camera in the 1950s, it was also mirrorless!

As a former owner of a D700 and then the D810, I can tell you that as an owner of either of those, you'll be thrilled with this camera. If you're still using the magnificent D700, be prepared for image handling to be drastically slower unless you've recently upgraded your computer. If you've already jumped to 36MP, then going to 45MP is not really a noticeable difference.

I purchased the camera body only to replace my D 800 body that has served me so well. Up front I want to say my removal of a star is only because the stack focus feature will not work with my Nikon ED 200mm Micro lens. This AF lens is the true top of the line for macro work and almost all by itself is the reason I purchased Nikon equipment anyway. I am certain I would have paused if I knew for certain this was the case with this camera. The news is buried on page 212 of the owners manual.. AF-S or AF-P lenses only and only on release settings A or M. I can also report this feature does not work with Tokina 100mm macro which has been my backup for some time now. It might be possible that a firmware update in the future will fix this oversight, but if you do macro work and want to use the best lens on the market this camera body will simply not offer you the auto stack focus feature you might want. It also requires the date to be set to function in this mode as well.

The filmakers kit was a very good kit to get started when I upgraded from my Canon T1I Rebel. The quality of the prime lenses (35, 20, and 85mm) are incredibly sharp and the variety you get gives a boost to creative shots. The 35mm is a DX lens and the 20 and 85mm are FX lenses so there is a shift on sensor usage when you change lenses. The Nikon D850 has fast auto focus for those action shots and the low light capabilities gives me night shots with little to no noise. I have bumped up my ISO to over 1500 and still had managble noise in post. The details I get in landscape photography are insane and with the D850 huge megapixel size, I can crop without losing almost any detail in my images. The only beef I have with this kit is the atomos monitor. You will not have everything you need to get the full use out of the device. You'll need a SSD, and SSD reader, and an HDMI cable to use the atomos to an extent; otherwise you can just plug an HDMI cable into both the camera and Atomos; to be able see live view. My expectation of a kit is simple; have the basic tools you need to get started without having to buy additional pieces to use some stuff. The microphones are good quality and didn't have issues with it. Though realistically getting a D850 with 3 prime lenses and external microphones is a good upgrade start if you're changing brands.

I upgraded from the D750 to this beast. The main motivation was the size of the sensor, plain and simple. Yes the camera has a number of features that I really like, but it's really the incredibly sharp images it produces that caused me to make the move. Images as sharp as the D850 aren't necessarily a good thing for portrait and fashion photography as the lens is unyielding in the detail it produces, but for landscapes its a must . Along the way I got plenty of use from the D750 and it's 27mp sensor is no slouch by any means. But there are a couple irritants with the D750 that pushed me up to the D850. First, and this is minor, sort of, but the eye cup on the viewfinder kept sliding off whenever I'd put the camera in the camera bag. I've lost it more times than I can could and it's not cheap to replace it. Second, shooting high speed (CH) fills the buffer quickly when shooting NEF (RAW) files. Not a problem if you shoot JPEG and smaller file sizes but it chokes on large files writing to disk. On the negative side for the D850, the 45mp size files chews up CPU usage and disk space like crazy. My Intel i7 CPU with 16g memory is dying when using Photoshop and trying to manipulate those large files, so much so, that I'm researching a computer upgrade, a $1,500 expense I hadn't thought about. In short, I love the D750 and for portrait/fashion/weddings/head-shots - no better camera can you get. A D850 is way over kill for that application. For landscape/wildlife, applications where sharpness across terrain and auto focus is important, D850 is the best option.

Wish the screen was articulating verses a tilt....

I made the leap from the D7100 to the D850 about 36 hours ago. I had backordered mine some time ago, as I sit here writing this review, I feel that period was well worth it. This camera is not some incremental step from the D810. This is the proverbial great leap forward.