POWERFUL EXPEED 5 IMAGE-PROCESSING ENGINE FOR SUPERB IMAGE QUALITY

Nikon’s powerful EXPEED 5 image-processing engine handles data from the D7500’s image sensor speedily, enabling the camera to achieve continuous shooting speeds of approx. 8 fps and record 4K UHD video at 30p. Noise is dramatically reduced while details are preserved, even at high ISO settings, meaning that subtle tonal gradations can be reproduced more smoothly in your images and movies.

NIKON DX-FORMAT CMOS SENSOR WITH 20.9 EFFECTIVE MEGAPIXELS — THE IDEAL BALANCE BETWEEN RESOLUTION AND REDUCED NOISE AT HIGH SENSITIVITIES

The D7500 employs the same CMOS image sensor used in the Nikon DX flagship model D500, offering 20.9 effective megapixels. It strikes an optimal balance between image resolution and low-noise performance, delivering exceptional image quality even at high ISO settings. Designed without a low-pass filter to achieve even higher definition, it unlocks the full potential of your NIKKOR lenses, allowing the D7500 to produce amazingly sharp, crisp images.

DRAMATICALLY EXTENDED SHOOTING POSSIBILITIES — STANDARD ISO SENSITIVITY FROM 100 TO 51200, EXPANDABLE TO HI 5 (EQUIVALENT TO ISO 1640000)

The D7500 has an extremely wide ISO sensitivity range of 100 to 51200, and even at higher sensitivities it achieves consistently sharper images with lower noise. You can also lower the ISO sensitivity down to Lo 1 (ISO 50 equivalent) or raise it up to Hi 5 (ISO 1640000 equivalent). Aided by the camera’s precise low-light AF performance, it’s now even easier to capture subjects in dark scenes.

TUNE IMAGES JUST THE WAY YOU WANT THEM — PICTURE CONTROL SYSTEM

Nikon’s original Picture Control system offers an easy way to take creative control over your images. You can select one of eight Picture Controls according to your creative intentions — including Auto Picture Control, newly introduced in the D7500. If you want to give your images a more specific look, you can adjust parameters such as sharpness, clarity, contrast and brightness. It’s also possible to register edited profiles as custom Picture Controls, and share the files with friends by sending them via email.

IMAGES AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTED TO SUIT EACH SCENE — AUTO PICTURE CONTROL

The D7500 is newly equipped with Auto Picture Control, enabling it to give your images a more desirable look according to each scene’s characteristics, without the need for retouching. Using subject information precisely detected by the camera’s Advanced Scene Recognition System, Auto Picture Control fine-tunes the tone curve, color, sharpness and clarity of Standard Picture Control. As a result, skin tones are rendered softer for portrait images, while blue skies and verdant greens are rendered more vibrantly for landscape shots. What’s more, Auto maintains a consistent look across multiple images when using continuous shooting, even when there are small variations in brightness or angle between each frame.

FREEZE THE DECISIVE MOMENT — CONTINUOUS SHOOTING AT APPROX. 8 FPS WITH EXTENDED BUFFER CAPACITY

Capturing fleeting moments of motion depends on the speed and duration of a camera’s continuous shooting capability — and the D7500 doesn’t disappoint. The rapid processing power of EXPEED 5 and an increased buffer size enable it to shoot at up to approx. 8 fps*, for approx. 50 frames (14-bit lossless compressed RAW) or 100 frames (JPEG fine, Large) at a time. The D7500’s fast shooting speed and agile DX body make for a powerful combination, helping you capture subjects at their most dramatic and dynamic — even in challenging environments.

*Frame rates assume continuous-servo AF, manual or shutter-priority auto exposure, a shutter speed of 1/250 s or faster, and other settings at default values.

ACQUIRE AND MAINTAIN FOCUS ON YOUR SUBJECT — VERSATILE 51-POINT AF SYSTEM

The D7500’s autofocus system gives you the confidence to keep pace with fast-moving action and shoot creatively in a broad range of scenes. It employs a Multi-CAM 3500 II autofocus sensor module, with 51 focus points covering a wide area of the frame, including 15 cross-type sensors offering higher detection strength, and one center point that’s compatible with f/8. The newly added group-area AF mode, highly praised by professional users, utilizes five AF points like a net to keep fast, erratically moving and low-contrast subjects in sharp focus. In auto-area AF, face detection performance is enhanced thanks to the camera’s Advanced Scene Recognition System working with its 180K-pixel RGB sensor. AF detection is available down to -3 EV, making it possible to capture subjects even under low-contrast moonlight. And you can ensure even greater focusing accuracy by using the D7500’s automated AF fine-tune function, which lets you adjust the precision of each of your lenses easily.

SHOOT CREATIVELY FROM MORE CAMERA POSITIONS — TOUCH-OPERATION, TILTING 8-CM/3.2-IN. MONITOR

The D7500’s tilting LCD monitor lets you shoot from a wider range of angles with ease, giving your creative instincts free rein. It makes macro photography from low-angle positions more convenient, and gives you a clear view of the frame when shooting night skies with the camera mounted on a tripod. The touch-panel display brings further benefits, allowing you to focus and release the shutter by touch in live view shooting, and adjust focus in video. It also permits you to review images at high speed, using the intuitive frame advance bar in playback mode.

Lens: AF-S DX Nikkor 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR | Photo by: Scott A. Woodward

AGILE CAMERA BODY WITH COMPREHENSIVE SEALING

The D7500 offers a unique balance of comfort and reliability. Its monocoque structure, made from high-stiffness carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic, gives it a slimmer body with a deep grip that’s easier to hold, while weighing just approx. 640 g/1 lb 6.6 oz (body only). Comprehensive weather sealing is applied to the camera body to prevent dust and water droplets from damaging the internal components, for added peace of mind.

DURABLE SHUTTER UNIT TESTED FOR 150,000 CYCLES

The D7500 was designed with continuous shooting speed in mind, but it’s also built to last. Its shutter unit has been rigorously tested for 150,000 cycles while actually loaded onto the camera to ensure a high level of durability. It’s also fitted with a shutter monitor function that calculates the duration between front- and rear-curtain movements every time the shutter is released, and automatically corrects any variance.

HIGH-QUALITY 4K UHD VIDEO

The D7500 lets you record up to 29 min. 59 s in sumptuous 4K UHD/30p or Full HD video. And that’s not all: movies can be recorded in MP4 as well as the conventional MOV format, allowing easy playback on smart devices. Harnessing the superior optical performance of NIKKOR lenses, the D7500 depicts scenes in breathtaking detail. Its powerful EXPEED 5 image-processing engine renders movies with low noise while maintaining sharpness, even at high ISO sensitivities. Shooting in Flat Picture Control gives you greater flexibility over color grading in post-production. It’s also possible to record uncompressed, 8-bit 4:2:2 4K UHD files to an external recording device via HDMI output, while simultaneously recording to the in-camera SD memory card.

DEPICT THE PASSAGE OF TIME DRAMATICALLY — 4K UHD TIME-LAPSE MOVIE AND INTERVAL TIMER SHOOTING

Time-lapse movies transform scenes of slow-moving clouds or the flow of a crowded city intersection into dramatic, high-speed sequences. The D7500 lets you generate 4K UHD* or Full HD time-lapse movies entirely within the camera. Its exposure smoothing function reduces unwanted flicker effects by automatically decreasing the slight exposure variance between frames when shooting with an auto exposure mode such as aperture-priority, in a situation like the transition between darkness and light at sunrise or sunset. Exposure smoothing is also available for interval timer shooting, which can record up to 9,999 shots.

STABILIZE YOUR HANDHELD VIDEO SHOOTING FOR FULL HD AND HD — ELECTRONIC VIBRATION REDUCTION

When shooting movies handheld in Full HD or HD, the D7500’s electronic Vibration Reduction function* reduces the effects of camera shake in the horizontal, vertical and rotational directions (centering on the lens). It makes it easier to capture smooth footage in situations where it isn’t possible to use a tripod, or when using a single-focal-length lens without optical VR. Used together with NIKKOR’s optical VR technology, the benefits are even more pronounced.

*Angle of view is slightly reduced when DX is selected for image area.

SPEED UP POST-PRODUCTION EDITING — IN-CAMERA RAW BATCH PROCESSING

The D7500 is the first Nikon D-SLR to offer in-camera RAW batch processing — an invaluable function when you need to process large numbers of RAW images, for instance when using interval timer shooting to create a time-lapse movie. It is also now possible to process images while retaining the parameters for white balance, Picture Control, high ISO NR, vignette control and Active D-Lighting that were used when shooting each image. This can greatly shorten post-production time compared to using a computer.