hangman45 Loc: Hueytown Alabama

I do not have a dog in the fight because I use Pentax and love it but if I was choosing between Nikon and Canon I would probably choose Nikon because there is one thing that Canon is behind in IQ at higher ISO on their crop sensor cameras.

olcoach Loc: Oregon

I love my Canon stuff and it meets my needs. For me, that is all that matters as Canon Vs Nikon is a meaningless discussion as no-one is ever going to win it. Just as there are Ford/ Chevy folks, Coke/Pepsi folks and Honda/Toyota people the twain ain't never going to meet. Now get out there and shoot something!

Bill gomberg

" Antidote " for what ?

StephenVL Loc: Los Angeles, USA

I am sure he meant "anecdote". I am all for friendly corrections. but please, no grammar police here.

gessman Loc: Colorado

Not real sure I see much more merit in you correcting Gomberg than him correcting Effate.

dmeyer Loc: Marion, NC

I didn't get through all 5 pages of responses, so sorry if this has been addressed already. I believe there is one significant difference between the D5200's sensor and the D7100's--the D7100 sensor has no low pass filter and should, in theory, have an edge on sharpness over the D5200.

CSI Dave Loc: Arizona

I mentioned it just a little while ago, but I'm surprised it didn't come up sooner.

Schwabbie28 Loc: Crested Butte, Colorado

I wish you would not coarsen the discussion with the scatalogical adjective. Are you smarter than that? Or not?

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

If you are responding to a particular post, please use the "Quote Reply" tab, otherwise your post seems unattached and senseless in nature.

majeskiphoto Loc: Hamilton, Ontario

I love to hear the arguments over Canon vs Nikon, the vast majority really don't much about the competitor in real everyday use. The Heart and Soul of a camera, is the Sensor, right now Nikon may have the edge, but credit doesn't go to Nikon, it goes to Sony, it's their technology and production that Nikon has to borrow and depend on. Canon on the other hand produces most everything themselves, including the lenses and most of the glass that goes in them, Canon has always been on the leading edge, almost always the innovator, and will always come back on top. Canons main competitor for the future will be Sony, and they have some very good offerings even now. On the Sensor alone, Sony probably makes almost as much profit when a Sony/Nikon is sold as Nikon does?

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

While Nikon does use several Sony manufactured sensors, they are all designed by Nikon Engineers and manufacturing is sub-contracted to Sony as well as Toshiba. Nikon also makes several of their sensors themselves. Its all a matter of cost effectiveness. If Toshiba or Sony can manufacture a Nikon designed sensor for less than Nikon can do it in house, whats the issue? It allows for market diversity and results in some EXTREMELY sharp sensors. Just look at DXO Marks sensor quality tests and see whose cameras fill the majority of the top spots there:
http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Cameras/Camera-Sensor-Ratings

saichiez Loc: Beautiful Central Oregon

Following other's leazds, the Nikon 7200 is the first and only Nikon to have removed the low pass filter, making the 7200 the leader in image sharpness out of the camera. The 5200 is using the conventional low pass AA filtering system that has been smearing sharpness from all digital cameras that use it, which means all other Nikons except for the "neutralized" AA filtering of the D800E.

Probably ranks as the sharpest mid to pro DSLR in the digital industry. The 5200 may have the same sensor, but it still has the sharpness smearing AA Low Pass filter.

Much documented on the internet. See Nikon D7200 advantages of NO aa filter. Should be a "no brainer" decision after you begin to understand the movement to remove or weaken LowPass AA filtering.

I've done my homework. Will never buy another digital camera with AA Low Pass filtering.

Unfortunately, like the mirrorless trend, this movement to reduce or remove AA filtering is another evolution that Canon is dropping the ball on. Terrible when you think you are King and quit evolving.

Took Nikon long enough on both technologies. Olympus made this move 3-4 years ago, but then Oly has always been more creative than most.

StephenVL Loc: Los Angeles, USA

I have a Sony NEX-6 and a Sony A55. My brother has a Nikon D7000. All three cameras have the same sensor manufactured by Sony. What is different is each manufacturer has their own software for processing what the sensor captures. My brother swears he gets better results on his Nikon. I am not convinced. We both agree that the results are better than we had before with our camera's predecessors.

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

Actually they are NOT the same sensors. The Sony built Nikon sensor is only used in the Nikon D5100, Nikon D7000 and Nikon Coolpix A, it is a net 16.2MP sensor with a gross sensor count of 16.9MP and 23.6mm x 15.6mm sensor size (the outer pixels are masked and not used to produce the finished image). The Sony's have a 16.2MP Sony patented sensor with a gross sensor count of 16.7MP and a physical size of only 23.5mm x 15.6mm. The similarities in physical dimensions are close, but they are definitely different sensors. Simply the 16.2MP dimension in sales advertising does not mean they are the same sensor by any means.

lighthouse Loc: No Fixed Abode

Very glad that it is much documented on the internet and that you have really done your homework.
Could you provide us with a link to the D7200 camera and its' specifications? :-)