DSLR is still my best option for sports

The Z6ii does not hold focus lock as well as my D500 or my D5 and the Z9 is too expensive.  The Z glass is very expensive too.  So I will stick with the D5, but not the same D5.

Less than a year after being repaired for a focus issue related to the mount, it is back in the shop.  I don't really trust this old camera anymore and I don't like the slow Compact Flash cards it uses.  So I just ordered a new used D5 the XQD version with 10k + shutter actuations for $1,500.  I hope it arrives quickly, maybe even before my old D5 gets back from the shop.

Shooting football with the D500 (while the D5 is in the shop) on the 400mm lens, is a bit tricky but I'm learning how to do it again.   The extra reach can be fun too though.

The home team is having an abysmal year, that makes it harder to get good printable photos of them for the newspaper. 

Glad I brought the teleconverter and the 400mm to the fishing derby

 

 400mm with the 2X teleconverter so 800 mm.  D5 on a monopod