 Nikon D780. Who's this camera for? Well D750 users of course. My name is David Patton. When I started photography I wanted to make art. I wanted to be a landscape photographer. But with a family to feed and bills to pay I decided it would be better to be a working photographer than a starving artist. So I took a job as a photojournalist. 25 years and thousands of assignments later it was time to go back to my first love. It was time to follow my passion. Come along on my journey to become the best photographer I can be. Whether it be film or digital I will be sharing what I learned through my successes and my failures and hopes to inspire and educate. This is my journey. This is Bright in the Edge. So Nikon has recently announced its replacement for D750. So I thought since I'm a D750 user I'd give my two cents on what I think about this camera. It really doesn't really matter but what I think about this camera. But I think I'm actually the target audience for the D780. Now the D750 has been my number two camera. Kind of my backup. But it's also been my video camera. It's a really good walk-around camera. I mean it has roles it plays. Its price point is perfect for that. It's a thousand dollars cheaper than the nearest over thousand dollars cheaper than the nearest upgrade I guess or higher megapixel camera in the Nikon lineup. So it's perfect for that that backup camera that number two camera or if I'm doing events or event photography or wedding photography or something like that it would be my number one camera. I found the D750 to be extremely capable camera. In my head it's my number two camera. But if my number one camera goes down I'm not sure I'd replace it. It's proven to be a very capable camera to do just about any kind of photography I'm doing right now. The D780 is the camera that I wish the D750 was. It's just improved all the areas all the weaknesses that I find in the D750 mainly in the video area. That alone might be the reason I pick one up if I want to stay with the F-mount for a while. That's not a bad strategy there's there's tons of used lenses out there and the their new lens market is very robust. Every focal length you could want is a god. So staying with the DSLR really as far as business since ago makes a lot of sense. The lenses will probably be cheaper in most cases and like I said the user market is very deep with Nikon lenses. So there could be a case for the DSLR for the next five years. Not everybody needs a mirrorless camera. I still don't think the mirrorless when I've seen I still don't think the mirrorless cameras can autofocus as well as their DSLR counterparts. Just a quick rundown on the specs we got a 23.5 full-frame sensor backside illuminate seven frames per second ISO 100 to 51 200 4k video at 30p a 51 point autofocus system and in live view a 273 point phase detection autofocus system with eye detect and and exceed six image processing engine 1 8000th of a second shutter and two UHS two SD card slots there's a lot more but that's just kind of the the quick rundown. Those are the ones that matter the most to me. So the D780 is good for everything the D750 is good for weddings portraits documentary just as a general all-around camera at a mid-range price robust water sealed I mean it really sounds like a lot of camera for the money. Nikon has made it tough for photographers though because it's going to be a tough choice to decide between the Z6 and the D780. I mean that's just I'm being honest I mean basically the same price or they're going to be once they settle down probably I guess it just kind of depends on what you shoot what you're comfortable with if you don't want to change the way you shoot you're happy with the way you've been doing it. This is a great camera for old farts like me who have a few lenses have been in the Nikon system for a while and just don't want to upload everything and go mirrorless right now quite happy with the f-mount and you know in five years probably everybody's going to be shooting mirrorless we may not have a choice we're not there yet and anytime you get choices get options I think that's a good thing so I'm going to say thank you Nikon thank you for giving us a choice. I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is kind of the last round of DSLRs coming out and I appreciate that they took one of their cameras that hasn't been updated in a long time and kind of gave it one last boost in technology for those people that have you know want to stay with the DSLRs for a while I appreciate that I'm glad they just didn't let the D750 just fade away rot on the vine or whatever because it's a great platform it's a price range that a lot of professionals use and people that aspire to be professionals that that's a great price point for them it's a lot of professional features in a camera body without having to spend an extra thousand or more and it really it's a camera that meets probably 80 90 percent of most photographers needs anyway now the D780 really kind of addresses some of the weaknesses of this camera well the biggest for me is the video they're taking the video features a lot of my guests from the Z6 and putting them in the D780 which to me is a fantastic idea I mean they're putting a touch screen on the back it's still live view so you're gonna have to that the form factor is probably not as nice as having up to your eye but I'm used to that anyway for video but if I've got face detect or eye detect that really opens up a lot of autofocus features that would be things that opens up areas that I couldn't normally try with camera have now basically they're putting really good video tools and specs into a D750 body and that's to me that's pretty cool I like that it has dual car slots and I also like that it has the same card slots I just have never understood why knock on wood when they design cameras with dual car slots would put two different types of card slots something that's been left off that might be an issue for some photographers I don't think there's a vertical grip for this camera I don't use them I don't really care for them but I do know that a lot of people do use them and really like them so that could be an issue for a lot of people for me it's not and I'm just going by what I my needs I don't know what everybody else needs I don't need a vertical grip I like I appreciate the compactness of this camera and that's kind of one of the reasons I have it as my second body I wanted something smaller I like having a couple different types of cameras I'm not only on one camera body style I I can I can go between the two another feature that might be of concern to some photographers is the pop-up flash I don't think it's going to have a pop-up flash I think that unless I missed it in the specs again that's not an issue for me because I never use pop-up flash or my my d750 it's nice to have that as an option if knowing it's there but if I was to be honest about it I've actually never used mine so you know I don't mind not having it and there are benefits to not having it as well as it's having it for design purposes and those are those are really the only negative negatives I have with the camera or that could be negatives as far as I could see there's a lot more positives I think than negatives well that's just my two cents it's just my opinion if I haven't showed you any of my photos yet in this video here's a few shots I've taken over the last couple years with an icon d750 and I think I'm going to end this video right here until next time it's coming off the ride