rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Are you sure of that?
I'm not a Nikon user, but I've heard enough to search on "Nikon AI", and I found the following:
https://www.dpreview.com/articles/6287665194/understanding-old-nikon-lenses-ai-ai-s-af-and-af-s
Including the following , then later

BebuLamar

Canon is about the only one that still have several cameras made in Japan. Top of the line Sony A9 is made in Thailand. All of Pentaxes are made in the Phillipine and other Far East countries. Nikon only make the D5 in Japan (the Df is made in Japan but don't know if they still make them) and the rest of the DSLR's in Thailand. Even high end lenses like the 105mm f/1.4 is made in China. So essentially all companies moved their production to other countries.

tomcat

I had always heard that, but I guess in the last couple of years, all has changed?

jpgto Loc: North East Tennessee

Welcome to the fun and frolic, I use the D7200 and am using lenses purchased for my D3000 with no issues at all....sorry to hear
Good luck with your dilemma hope it gets sorted out...the 7200 is a great piece of equipment.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

When you purchased your D7200, a certain number of lenses would work with it. Today, at least those lenses will still work with that camera. It is conceivable that the new lenses which won't work with your camera wouldn't work at all if they had to work with your camera. So, these new lenses don't harm you at all; why do you begrudge their owners use of these lenses??

Sure, you can switch to some other company, but their bodies won't work better with your lenses than the D7200 does. How would you gain by switching??

therwol Loc: USA

I've spent two vacations in Ireland, in 2001 and in 2005. The first time I went there, it was obvious that Ireland didn't have the explosive period of prosperity after WWII that we had in the US. In fact, it seemed stuck in a past time with horrible roads and telephones, tiny houses/flatswith tiny appliances etc. (It was quite different in 2005 when there was a period of prosperity never seen there before, with road and housing expansion and lots of new jobs. Of course, that fell apart when our own economy collapsed.)

So in the period after the war in America, there was suburban sprawl, massive road improvement, individual houses and yards for many people who hadn't seen them before, big, comfortable cars, big appliances etc. Over time, I would say by the late 60s and early 70s, imported products from Asia started penetrating the US market. Manufacturing declined. Eventually American firms started manufacturing their own products in countries where labor was cheap, and we've gotten ourselves into a real mess. The country has changed.

As far as cameras go, we've always had the technology to compete with the Japanese and Germans. (Didn't we put people on the moon? I have to bring that up once in awhile.) Kodak pioneered digital photography but threw away their advantage when they failed to take cash in on it, still believing that film would be a source of profit for a long time.

I don't want to ramble on and on. The point is that we failed to keep up with other parts of the world in our ability manufacture decent products at an affordable price for whatever reason, and generations of Americans will be paying for it.

DavidPine Loc: Fredericksburg, TX

When Nikon has something in the pipeline the public usually has heard the rumors with plenty of notice. They are a good company and produce great cameras and lenses. I've been waiting on the D850 for a long, long time and the rumors have been rampant. Every manufacturer has new, bigger, better in line all the time.