Nikon D5
12 FPS, 20MP FX, 4K, March 2016
Nikon D5 with 35mm f/1.4 (20MP FX, 12FPS, 49.9 oz./1,415 g. with battery and two CF cards). bigger. About $6,500 in either two CF-card slot version or two XQD-card slot version. It also comes from B&H with CF card slots, from B&H with XQD card slots, from Amazon (CF version) (also from Amazon (XQD version) or fromCrutchfield in CF version or in XQD verison.
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NEW: Pro DSLR Comparison 03 February 2016
Nikon D5 with 35mm f/1.4. bigger.
Nikon D5 with 35mm f/1.4. bigger.
Introduction
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The D5 is Nikon's newest professional DSLR.
It improves on the old D4s with a faster 12 FPS frame rate critical for sports, as well as with crazier high ISO settings.
As expected, it has more AF points than before, but you can't select them all. You have only 55 selectable points, even if there are a claimed 153 AF points hidden somewhere.
It ships in March 2016 in two versions (CF-card version or XQD-card-version) — but only to those who order it today and get the first ones. If you wait until tomorrow, it may be quite a while until Nikon can make enough of these to fill all the orders for the latecomers. With the Internet, the order queue fills within hours.
The genuinely hot and new cameras like this always have people who wait a few days and then can't get them for their summer vacations. With the Internet, the order queue fills fast and waiting another day can put you months behind. See How to Get It; neverwait to order yours.
Of course get the CF-card version; the XQD-card-version is only for people with an XQD workflow. The only real advantage to XQD is that you can't bend pins — an advantage if you swap cards fast, hard and often.
New
● 12 FPS with AF and AE tracking (14 FPS with locked-up in the lab)
● 200-frame buffer at these speeds, even in 14-bit uncompressed raw (with a fast enough card).
● 153 AF points that are rated down to LV -4 (full moonlight on sand).
● Touch Screen
● ISOs to 102,400 as regular ISOs, expandable to ISO 3,276,800 as "HI +5."
● Controls radio slaves.
● 4K video.
● Can shoot stills during video.
● Comes in two versions: either with two CF-card slots or with two XQD slots.
Missing
● No exposure MODE button near the shutter release; it's been moved off to the left side of the camera and an ISO button appears in its place.
● No lock on power switch; easy to knock on or off by accident and miss shots.
● Only 20 MP (5,568 x 3,712 pixels native); you still have to buy aD810 for high resolution.
● No auto brightness control for the LCD. The D4s has this.
● Still no full-frame AF; it may have a lot of points, but they're all in the center of the image.
● No Wi-Fi unless you buy something.
● Still no sane replacement of Nikon's idiotic Custom Settings Banks, which has been a core incompetancy of Nikon since they introduced these in 2003. There are no U1, U2, U3 (or C1, C2, C3 or M1, M2, M3 etc.) modes so we can save and recall camera settings. As-is, there is no way to save camera settings immediately; the Custom Banks are re-written every time you set the camera with no way to lock them!
Lens Compatibility
With a built-in AF motor and an aperture feeler for manual-focus lenses, the Nikon D5 works with all Nikon lenses made since 1977, and if AI-updated, all the way back to 1959!
Like most Nikon DSLRs, the D5 automatically corrects for any lateral color fringes in any lens, and for just about all Nikon lenses introduced in the past 20 years (any AF-D, AF-I, AF-S or G lens), also can automatically correct for lens distortion and corner light falloff. While it won't correct distortion with Nikon AI and AI-s manual focus lenses, it does provide full color Matrix metering, EXIF data and auto and manual exposure. Got a set of Nikon lenses from 39 years ago? You're already good to go with the D5; they'll look great.
The D5 works perfectly with every AF lens made since 1987,which means AF, AF-I, AF- and AF-S; G, E and D.
It also works great with AI and AI-S manual-focus lenses, and if you update the really old ones to AI, all Nikon's SLR lenses from as far back as 1959 work just fine with color matrix metering and manual and aperture-priority auto exposure and full EXIF data.
It doesn't work with Pronea (IX-NIKKOR), lenses for the ancient F3AF or with non-AI lenses, none of which fit properly.
The electronic rangefinder works with lenses as slow as f/5.6. There are also 9 selectable focus points that will work with lenses as slow as f/8.
More at Nikon Lens Compatibility and Nikon FX Lens Recommendations.
Specifications
Frame Rates
CH (Continuous High): 12 FPS with full AF and AE. (14 FPS with mirror locked-up in a laboratory with no metering or focussing.
CL (Continuous Low): selectable 1 to 10 FPS.
QC (Quiet Continuous): 3 FPS.
Frame Buffer
200 frames raw.
Autofocus
Same as the D500:
Work down to LV -4, which is full moonlight on sand.
55 selectable points.
Of these selectable 55; 35 are cross-type sensors and only 9 work at f/8.
153 AF points hidden under the hood, but you can't select all these manually; you only can select 55 of them.
Only 99 of these hidden sensors are cross-type.
Only 15 hidden sensors work with f/8 lenses.
Face-Priority AF; should automatically find faces and focus on them.
Multi-CAM 20K AF sensor module.
Sensor
35.9 x 23.9 mm CMOS.
Ultrasonic cleaner.
Image Sizes
FX (24 x 36mm)
5,568 x 3,712 (L), 4,176 x 2,784 (M), 2,784 x 1,856 (S).
5:4 (24 x 30mm)
4,640 x 3,712 (L), 3,472 x 2,784 (M), 2,320 x 1,856 (S).
4,640 x 3,088 (L), 3,472 x 2,312 (M), 2,320 x 1,544 (S).
3,648 x 2,432 (L), 2,736 x 1,824 (M), 1,824 x 1,216 (S).
Stills shot during video
3,840 x 2,160 when shooting 4K.
FX cropped to 16:9 (5,568 x 3,128 (L), 4,176 x 2,344 (M) or 2,784 x 1,560 (S)) when shooting 1080 or 720 video.
DX cropped to 16:9 (3,648 x 2,048 (L), 2,736 x 1,536 (M) or 1,824 x 1,024 (S)) when shooting 1080 or 720 video.
1,920 x 1,080 when shooting any of the 1080 cropped modes.
ISO
ISO 100 to 102,400, expandable from ISO 50 ("LO -1") to ISO 3,276,800 ("HI + 5").
Auto ISO
