Nikon Japan has formally marked the D500 DSLR as “previous product,” signaling that the corporate will stop manufacturing the digicam. The final new D500 cameras world wide can be these already on retailer cabinets.
The “Outdated Product” Designation
Nikon Japan lists any product that’s not in manufacturing as categorized with the “previous product” tag, the designation assigned to the D500. Nikon Asia has filed the D500 as discontinued as effectively. That mentioned, totally different markets have totally different product lives, so it’s potential that the D500 will nonetheless be obtainable to buy in different areas.
On that word, Nikon USA doesn’t designate the D500 as discontinued. Whereas many lenses that had been famous as “previous product” final 12 months are nonetheless listed as in inventory and able to ship on the time of publication, the D3500 and D5600 DSLRs had been listed as “previous product” and are usually not. Whereas these cameras are technically listed on Adorama, they don’t seem to be obtainable to buy anymore.
Given the backorder standing of the D500 proper now and the worldwide chip scarcity, nevertheless, it stays to be seen if new D500 cameras can be made obtainable even when Nikon USA doesn’t designate it as discontinued.
Nikon USA declined to remark.
The phrase “discontinued” carries vital weight, however its that means varies relying on area for an organization with as broad of distribution as Nikon has. The designation of “previous product” extra possible signifies that the digicam is not actively being manufactured slightly than a agency assertion that it will probably not be bought.
Final 12 months, PetaPixel predicted that Canon and Nikon can be achieved with the DSLR by the top of 2022, and that seems to be taking place before maybe some anticipated.
A Triumph of a DSLR
The Nikon D500 is taken into account not solely among the best APS-C DSLRs Nikon ever produced, however among the many finest DSLRs ever made by any producer. Launched in January of 2016, it featured a 20.9-megapixel DX-format sensor and was powered by the EXPEED 5 picture processor. It was additionally capable of seize 4K video at as much as 30 frames per second.
It was an distinctive motion and wildlife digicam due to its potential to shoot at 10 frames per second with a large buffer. Mixed with the unimaginable write speeds of XQD playing cards, it was exceedingly uncommon to ever have to attend for the digicam to clear.
Nikon actively supported the D500 as lately as 2020, when it up to date the digicam’s firmware to work not solely with XQD playing cards but additionally CFexpress.
