I am never surprised to see the Nikon D850 trending online. In my mind, it is without a shadow of a doubt, the greatest DSLR camera ever made. And you can bet it’s right up there with the best cameras ever made, too. It was released in 2017, at the peak of the DSLR’s power. But little did the industry know that the writing was already on the wall for the DSLR camera technology that the ‘Big N’ had popularized way back in 1999 with the release of the Nikon D1.
By the time the Nikon D850 launched, Sony was already a few years into its Alpha full-frame mirrorless system, and the following year, both Canon and Nikon would go toe-to-toe with the consumer tech giant by releasing their own full-frame mirrorless systems.
