Camera purchase decision (Page 7): If you have the money to burn just buy both cameras. Then you can play with them to your heart's content.

Bigmike1 Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.

If you have the money to burn just buy both cameras. Then you can play with them to your heart's content.

Silverrails

CHG_CANON wrote:

Without a budget or some indication of your photog... (show quote)

WOW!! On the Mark, you have highlighted some very important aspects of What a NEW Photographer should strongly consider when they get affected by,.. G.A.S=Gear Aquisition Syndrome, we as new Photographers should consider applying,.. K.I.S.S.= Keep It Simple Silly.

Norseman

I have had the D7200 for years and it is a truly great camera. I've done landscape,. sports, and wildlife with it and I still use it a lot. I would buy it again in a second. Great image quality and build quality.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

tkgraves wrote:

I’m trying to decide which camera to purchase, I’m still an amateur so I’m not sure which would be best for me, a D7200, or a D5600’s, I would like your advice and keep in mind I’m still trying to teach myself, plus on line classes, I’ll be selling a lumix dc fz82 and a Nikon D3500, as well as a Nikon D5200, to pay for my next camera, I’ve decided trying to learn all the settings, menus for three models is just to much for my brain to absorb!! thank for your opinions.

I missed your post until today. Been mostly away from the forum for a week or so. I usually read all replies before responding, but have not this time. I do know that you have received at least one suggestion to look at a D500 as well. That is a good suggestion, even if you have no intention to purchase it. It is the camera among all Nikon options that will allow you to pursue "full control" photography with very minimal menu access. It's hard to discern from your post whether you are frustrated with having to access a menu or with having to access multiple different menus. If the former, the D500 will show you what is possible. It drops you to 21 MP, but that is really not a concern. It is certainly not a disadvantage against a 24MP camera that frustrates you to use.

rfmaude41 Loc: Lancaster, Texas (DFW area)

tkgraves wrote:

I’m trying to decide which camera to purchase, I’m still an amateur so I’m not sure which would be best for me, a D7200, or a D5600’s, I would like your advice and keep in mind I’m still trying to teach myself, plus on line classes, I’ll be selling a lumix dc fz82 and a Nikon D3500, as well as a Nikon D5200, to pay for my next camera, I’ve decided trying to learn all the settings, menus for three models is just to much for my brain to absorb!! thank for your opinions.

I would choose the 7200, as then you'll be able to use (almost) any of the older lenses that do not have an internal motor (even ones with the "screw driver" AF combination).