A Mashable Choice Award is a badge of honor, reserved for the absolute best stuff we’ve tested and loved. Before knowing what I was doing, I had taken 10 photos with the new Nikon D500.

The Nikon D500 – the fast APS-C sensor DSLR aimed at sports and wildlife shooters – gets firmware version 1.40. The main change over the previous firmware version 1.31 is that it changes the ...