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Review on Nikon D7100 DX-Format CMOS Digital πŸ“· SLR (Body Only) with 24.1 Megapixel Sensor by Marc Zitnik

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great camera on camera and photo

This is an improvement over my D3200. The differences in size and weight are significant and can be quite unexpected if you buy the site invisible. The body is the same size and shape as the Nikon D610. However, this camera isn't full-frame like the D610. It's a crop sensor, which means you need to multiply the focal length of your lenses by 1.5. Crop sensor cameras are both good and bad. For long-distance shots, this is great because it gives you "extra range". So your 200mm lens is now "actually" a 300mm lens. This makes the excellent Nikon 50mm lens also an excellent 75mm portrait lens. The downside is that your focal lengths are still 1.5x longer if you want to shoot landscapes and/or just wide-angle shots. So your 16mm shots are 24mm. When I first started shooting outdoor portraits with this camera, I noticed a lot of backfocus issues. With the D3200, I've had more shots with backgrounds in focus and subjects out of focus than ever before. When I look online, focus issues seem to be an issue with this camera, but I've found that when I disable the A3's custom menu setting (focus tracking with lock on), the issue usually goes away. After the installation everything was great. What a relief! The buffer fills up quickly when you shoot action in RAW format. You will notice that it slows down when writing to the card. Be sure to buy two very fast memory cards. This camera has two card slots that can be used as a backup (duplicate photos from one card to another) or transferred from one card to another (doubling the number of possible pictures). The photos that come out of this camera are beautiful and sharp. I'm not sure I can tell if the lack of an anti-aliasing filter matters or not. This is supposed to make photos sharper, but can lead to moirΓ© patterns. I didn't notice any difference in either case. As far as I know, this camera uses a Toshiba sensor, not a Sony sensor. Usually Nikon uses Sony. Again, I'm not sure I noticed a difference. Overall, I couldn't be happier with this camera (after tweaking the options in the menu, of course). When I bought it it was Nikon's top end crop sensor camera. Nikon recently released the D7200 with some changes.

Pros
  • digital cameras
Cons
  • some errors