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Sep 17, 2016 14:57:30   #
Hey Chuck...I am by no means a pro by any stretch of the imagination, but I do have the D3200 and the D7200 and I love them both. However, I think the D7100 (which isn't much different than the D7200) would be a welcome addition to your stable as it has been to mine. The focusing speed is much, much faster with the 7X00. I shoot in M mode a good bit of the time and the dual controls dials for aperture and shutter speed coupled with the ability to program the movie button for ISO makes it so much simpler and faster to adjust all three exposure elements on the 7X00. The customization of buttons and features on the 7X00 is also worlds ahead. Lastly, the high ISO performance is unbelievably better on the 7X00 than the 3200. I struggle with usable prints at even ISO 800 on the 3200, but can easily work with ISO 2000 and sometimes better on the 7200. It is great to have two bodies and I almost always carry both with two Black Rapid slide straps, one on each shoulder. When I'm shooting macro, I have the other body with my 18-300 for all purpose shots. When I have my 10-24 wide angle on one, I'll have the 105 on the other for some mid-zoom capability. I love the combo and I think you would too. And the price on the 7100 is definitely right! Good luck!!!
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Sep 16, 2016 14:05:23   #
Dan De Lion wrote:
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You are quite wrong old boy. I was referring to pics I might post on this site. Not the pics I took for my own analysis. Apparently you need help not only with photography but also with logic.

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I am old, usually quite wrong, and have always struggled to be logical. Again, I'm just a hack who's learning!
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Sep 16, 2016 12:09:17   #
"You put a lot more faith in sample photos than I do. First, we’re talking about hand-held. – So there are lots of uncontrollable variables. Second, I could easily manipulate the photos to prove my assertion. So you wouldn’t believe my posted photos anyway. Third, we’re talking about pixel peeking differences. One could easily argue that such small differences have no effect on the final product."

This pretty much defies your original assertion. Good self-contradiction!

By the way, I have a D3200 and a D7200 and am a total hack. I'm here to try to learn. So far, I'm learning a little about photography and a lot about humanity.
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Sep 16, 2016 07:51:53   #
Concurrence here seems to suggest downloading samples so we can see your point Dan. Please and thank you.

Gene51 wrote:
Bless your heart, Dan.

Not in denial at all. I too have made a living with photography over the past 50 yrs. I have been using a D800, not an 810 since it was released. When the D750 was introduced, I borrowed one from Nikon, played with it for the two weeks allotted to their loaner under the NPS program, and sent it back. My hope was that I could use it as a second body. I shoot a wide variety of subjects, including subjects that the absolutists believe the camera would be ill-suited for. I no longer maintain a studio, though I will set up a mobile studio for the pet photography I do as a public service to the local animal rescue and shelter organizaions. So ALL of my photography is done in the field. While there is some justification for your claim, I have had no issues at all using the D800 in the field. None. And I was not happy with the image quality with the D750. It was fine, but for my use, not nearly as good as the D800. I use extremely sharp lenses and crop a lot when shooting wildlife, birds etc. And I fully understand that when you set up a fair comparison you need to consider the image size, in megapixels of two cameras when one has a 50% bigger image. The only fair way to do this is to downsample the bigger image to the same size as the smaller sensor - only then is it fair, and you examine the prints. So the big surprise for you will be when you make that comparison and you find the D800, D800E and D810 superior to the D750. Again, there is nothing wrong with using either camera as you have suggested. I'm just saying that your comparison is apparently flawed, providing a bit of a bias.

Your theorizing that you need to screw the D810 into bedrock in a non-earthquake zone to get the best out of it is entertaining, but not practical. Besides, if you are shooting in studio, aren't you using monolights or strobes? your effective shutter speed is considerably higher, and you are using shorter lenses - so there will be no loss of sharpness from camera movement.

I have no issues getting sharp prints of my images. The few D750 prints were excellent but the D800 prints were even better. That's why I purchased a second used D800.

Oh, btw, the buffer on the D750 is small. The D810, which I do not own, has a considerably larger buffer. Shooting with a friend's D810 and a large UDMA card, I was able to fire off almost 30 shots (14 bit lossless compressed raw files) in 7 second bursts, and the D750 was no better than my D800, with it's 20 shots before the buffer would fill in a bursts lasting a little over 3 secs. It's nice to have a frame rate of 6.5, but not if you are limited to shooting in 3.2 second bursts. I would take the D810 over the D750 any day as an "action" camera in the field. But I am not ready to sell my D800s at this time, and will likely wait for it's replacement. No, the D750 is not my choice for a field camera. Not even close.

So, I am looking forward to your downsampling and printing test results, rather than the insults and vitriol simply because someone has the nerve to disagree with you. You are entitled to your opinion, as am I, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
Bless your heart, Dan. br br Not in denial at all... (show quote)
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Sep 15, 2016 19:54:22   #
I use manual mode, meter and set aperture and shutter to desired light, then recompose and shoot.
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Sep 13, 2016 19:32:21   #
I have the 18-300mm and love it's convenience for some general applications, but the image quality can't hold a candle to my primes.
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Sep 13, 2016 16:19:53   #
I actually think I'd bring my D7200 and my 105 f/2.8 lens.
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Sep 13, 2016 09:48:38   #
Good point!!
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Sep 13, 2016 07:21:42   #
I'd take my Nikon D8 with my 10-600mm f/0.4 AF VR NR GB lens. Of course, I'll have to invent it first.
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