Which Nikon to Buy (Page 5): I upgraded from a D5500 to a D7100, and never looked back. The big thing to me is that I can use all of my full frame lenses on the D7100, and they will...

CathyAnn Loc: Apache Junction, AZ

jlockridge wrote:

I am thinking of upgrading from a Nikon D5100 to either a D7100 or D7200. I have read the specs for both and cannot see a big difference, am I missing something? Any thoughts, suggestions or current 7100 or 7200 owner testimonial would be greatly appreciated.

I upgraded from a D5500 to a D7100, and never looked back. The big thing to me is that I can use all of my full frame lenses on the D7100, and they will autofocus. Those who I know have a D7100 have told me that they see no advantage to going to the D7200 for the very reason you cited.

This is not a knock against the D5500 which is a wonderful, excellent camera. I just didn't want to invest in AF-S lenses when I had the FF ones.

MtnMan Loc: ID

CathyAnn wrote:

I upgraded from a D5500 to a D7100, and never looked back. The big thing to me is that I can use all of my full frame lenses on the D7100, and they will autofocus. Those who I know have a D7100 have told me that they see no advantage to going to the D7200 for the very reason you cited.

This is not a knock against the D5500 which is a wonderful, excellent camera. I just didn't want to invest in AF-S lenses when I had the FF ones.

AF?

Yes, if you have an inventory of very old lenses the D7xxxs make sense.

All newer (since 1998) lenses have the focusing motor in the lens: AF-S and now AF-P.

Indrajeet Singh Loc: Goa, India

bkyser wrote:

I think the thing you will love the most is that y... (show quote)

Depends on the type of photography, I prefer to change settings without taking the viewfinder away from my eye, especially important when shooting fast subjects, birds, wildlife, sport, etc., the convenience of changing the ISO using the Movie button works well in such cases.

MtnMan Loc: ID

Indrajeet Singh wrote:

Depends on the type of photography, I prefer to change settings without taking the viewfinder away from my eye, especially important when shooting fast subjects, birds, wildlife, sport, etc., the convenience of changing the ISO using the Movie button works well in such cases.

I do that with my D5300. Set the function button to ISO.

MtnMan Loc: ID

jouster wrote:

I upgraded from a D5100 to a D7000. While they bot... (show quote)

Interesting how someone can own a camera and not learn how to operate it. Once again: you should not use menus to make changes to settings on D5xxxs! You use the active info screen. It includes auto bracketing. And the D5500 upped the game by using a touch screen.

The info screen on the D7xxxs is not active to use the controls. Thus you are stuck with randomly placed unlighted buttons and a little green screen requiring some of us to don reading glasses.

True the D5xxx does not have the U settings. My D800 has a similar thing which I tried but found I didn't create a habit of using. I also didn't use it on my D7000 but I only kept it a little while because the control system sucked so badly compared to the elegant D5100 I went from.

wolvesaywe Loc: Hants England

I upgraded from a D5200 to a D7200 , what a great switch! It's awesome, so easy to use and picture quality is excellent. I use mine for landscape, macro, motorsport and airshows and its never let me down. Go with the 7200 , you won't regret it .

jpgto Loc: North East Tennessee

MT Shooter wrote:

The biggest difference is the newer processor in the D7200 giving you a larger and faster buffer, plus it adds WI-Fi.

What he said!