mas24 Loc: Southern CA

I have a friend who bought a D7100, some time ago, with a kit 18-55mm. He later bought a brand new FX 28-300mm lens. Which stays permanently on the D7100. It's a very good lens on the camera. He said, that when he gets his first full frame camera, which he wanted to be a D750, because it had dual SD card slots like his D7100, and 24 megapixels.. I told him about the past holiday price reduction on the D750. But, he was unable to take advantage of it. Because of other financial obligations. His 18-55mm lens would work on a full frame camera. But, not practical.

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

"I have a Nikon 7200 thinking of buying a full frame Nikon D810. Will the lens for the Nikon 7200 work with the Nikon D810?"

You did not mention what lens you are using with the D7200 but DX lenses work with FX cameras with a caveat, those lenses vignette because they cannot cover the whole sensor. If you are going to buy a FX camera like the Nikon D810 you should buy FX lenses.
By the way, anything wrong with your D7200? If you are not happy with the images you get from the D7200 a D810 will not improve your photography.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

This covers the D850, but they are similar enough.

https://www.dpreview.com/news/5585760175/nikon-releases-official-d850-lens-recommendation-list
http://www.dslrbodies.com/cameras/the-d850-blog/the-best-lenses-for-the.html
http://cameratimes.org/best-lenses-nikon-d850/

uhaas2009

Yes you can use the DX glass on the 810 but first time you put a FX glass on the 810 you won’t use any DX glass anymore.
When I got the 810 I didn’t had no FX lens so I followed ken Rockwell and bough a 18-80 3.3-5.6 g plastic lens, yes I know it’s a cheap lens but it gave me time to fund the lenses I like....

Fotomacher Loc: Toronto

Your DX lenses will “work” but the D810 will shoot in DX mode which is about 16mp of the 36mp sensor. So, I would not recommend using DX lenses on a FX body.

marty wild Loc: England

All Nikon lenses work some of the very old lenses will not autofocus. Their is an option in the D810 to auto detect. crop sensor glass. You can crop in much tighter in p/p with FX set up with out losing detail. Read the manual you are going into professional gear which will require an hi-spec software and computer if you shoot raw. You are taking a big jump which will cost you more. Remember your equipment is only as good as you worst bit of kit.

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russraman Loc: New York City

In late 2015 I was in the same predicament as you: I had a D7100 camera and about 5 Nikkor DX lenses. But I fell in love with the Nikon Df FX camera and its 50mm F/1.8G kit lens and traded-in my old D7100 and DX lenses to buy a Nikkor 70-200 f/4G ED VR AF-S FX lens in order to take maximum advantage of the Df’s larger FX format. To make a long story short, I was so pleased with the results I was getting from my Nikon Df and FX lenses that by late 2019 I had accumulated 41 more FX lenses plus a second Df camera body along with a Nikon D810, which I recently replaced with a D850. If you decide to get the D810 and take advantage of this camera’s capabilities, be prepared to deal with the temptation to spend $$$ upgrading to FX lenses. (Personally, I’d recommend that you consider purchasing a Nikon factory-refurbished D850 instead, but that’s a whole other story...).

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

41 FX lenses? Now, that's a lot of glass.

Thomas902 Loc: Washington DC

edupen "I have a Nikon 7200 thinking of buying a full frame Nikon D810" Why? What is your perceived need? Do you have a computer with the firepower to process the larger RAW files generated by the D810? Think carefully here...

btw, if you are not shooting in RAW you likely do not need a D810... The D7200 is a very capable platform and many use it commercially... it has two card slots, and accepts a battery grip... making it a somewhat wiser choice for commercial use than any of Nikon's Z mirrorless series...

Please don't get me wrong... I have a D810 and a D7200... many times the D7200 gets the nod on commercial assignments and for shooting league soccer.... That said for studio beauty genre the D810 provides more than ample resolution for even moving eyelashes around one at a time... lol

Oh, I have a Sigma AF 50-150mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM that works stellar on my full frame D810. Sometimes you don't need those huge full frame files (especially for shooting events) so yes indeed high end professional grade DX lens can (and do) preform on an FX body. Sadly seems only Sigma makes pro grade DX glass (f/2.8 or faster) for Nikon... Nikon's marketing strategies seem to be to forces DX users to buy FX glass instead hoping they may eventually upgrade to FX... Sigma thinks otherwise (fortunately)

Final Note: I miss the U1 and U2 feature of the Nikon D7200 on my D810... Nikon's idea of "Shooting Banks" is a very poor substitute for U1 and U2.

All the best on your journey edupen

CatMarley Loc: North Carolina

Yes in DX mode, but you will have fewer pixels, because the camera will only record the mid portion of the screen.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Any FX lens you've been using on your D7200 will work fine on the D810 and give you the full potential of those lenses.

Any DX lenses you've been using on your D7200 also will fit and work on the D810, but only to a limited degree. Those "crop" lenses will not cover the entire FX sensor in the D810. As a result, only about 40% of the cameras sensor will be used. So instead of a 36MP FX camera, you'll have a roughly 15MP DX camera when you install DX lenses on the D810. In other words, you're considerably better off using DX lenses on your 24MP D7200.

On the one hand, an FX camera lets "wide lenses be wide".... a 20mm on the D810 will have angle of view of 94 degrees. That same lens on your D7200 would have a much less wide angle of view around 70 degrees.

But it's the opposite with telephotos. With those some advantage goes to DX cameras. Do you use a 70-300mm with your D7200? If you want the same "reach" with the D810, you'll need a 105-450mm... but no one makes one of those. There are 100-400s, 80-400s and 200-500s. They're bigger, heavier and often more expensive than 70-300s. But, that's the price you pay if you need full frame.

It's your call. Don't know what you think you'll achieve switching from DX to FX.... maybe it's the right move... maybe it's not. Only you can say.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

I built a computer in 2011, when I had a D200, and for the past 4 yrs I've been using D800/D810 - all I did was increase the memory from 16 to 32 gb. I shoot raw, and I often do panos in excess of 1.5 gb after stitching. Firepower is not an issue as much as storage space. I recently added another drive for a total of 12 TB. You couldn't tempt me with a DX camera ever. I might consider a D850, though.

Thomas902 Loc: Washington DC

thanks gene... I appreciate your experience here... albeit my twin cpu HP tower maxis out when I'm doing HDR in photomax pro... watching usage by process shows which app is sucking CPU cycles... As for PS, it's the read/write speed of my storage devices that cripples... not about to invest in a flash drive or simular... so I'm not enjoying life in the slow lane with the D810 files... btw, the D7200 files run considerably faster on my box...

While I hear you on DX and I'm a major fan of FX... However for everything there is a time and a season... if my client only wants IG imagery I'm not shooting FX unless I can maybe use the imagery for my book... Love my D7200, it rocks... same Expeed 4 as my D810... Gene if you shoot in a studio at base ISO it is virtually impossible to tell the results apart... however push the ISO up and the D810 walks away from the D7200 in a hurry... but most of my paid work is studio... so the D7200 is a top choice for me there... btw, Sigma's DX AF 50-150mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM is at the same level as the AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8 IF ED VR II thus on the D7200 it can equal the Nikkor... In fact DxO mark rated it as the top APS-C tele zoom... It was so good that Nikon sued Sigma over copyright infringement of it's VR in Sigma's OS and as a result of their negotiated settlement Sigma apparently discontinued that stellar zoom...

Gene you might try some of Sigma's Pro level APS-C glass... it is impressive...

Final Note: I picked up a previously owned D700 with 2700 clicks last summer... it also rocks... for low res imagery that epic camera is outstanding... superb rendering of skin tones... and I have the MB-D10 grip left over from my D300 so I'm cranking at 8 fps using my D3x ENEL4a batteries... Also the D700 shoots at that high rate in 14bit RAW... I have to dial my D3x back to 12bit to get it's top frame rate... Nope, I don't need anything more than 12.5 megapixels for many assignments... the only down side is one card slot... oh well...

Thanks!

edupen

Thank-you everyone. Some of you asked what lens I owen 35mm DX and a 55-200 DX ( my go to lens to date ). I am going to try one for a week, decided to rent one and give it a shot to see if I like it. Thank-you again Wado

RichieC Loc: Adirondacks

I believe all Nikon lens will work on all Nikon bodies, even very old ones if it has the same F-mount.

https://www.dpreview.com/articles/6287665194/understanding-old-nikon-lenses-ai-ai-s-af-and-af-s

That being said- the worst Nikon lens will work and the very best Nikon lens will work. That does not mean the 810 will make details in photos from the the worst lens look like they will from the best.

YOUR problem with an 810- is that it will capture everything a lens can deliver. So, if you want to achieve what it is capable of, you have to accept that part of the cost of such a machine, is that yo have to pair it with the expensive glass.

Basically with the 810, think medium format costs fro the old days, this is prosumer or professional level equipment.