After using my D300 for years and growing weary of the poor ISO, I went with the D7200 for it's feature set and most importantly for it's high ISO and Wi-Fi features. I was surprised by just how good the high ISO is having taken pictures at a theater play where it was practically pitch dark except for the lights on stage and very few pictures came back grainy. Compared to my D300 (and my D90 before that,) I am in a completely new realm.
The Wi-Fi works very well with my iPhone 6 and it is very nice to be able to send pictures to family and friends via text or post on Facebook immediately instead of having to use a tedious USB cable to an iPad or wait until I get the SD card into my Mac when I get home. The Nikon app is limited in what it can do but the function it does give is convenient. You can take pictures remotely with the app even controlling the focus point and making changes to the cameras settings. This is great for night time photography where you don't want to have any movement on the body at all from pressing the shutter button. My biggest complaint is Nikon has ignored the ability to use my iPhone's A-GPS for geotagging. It can easily be done but Nikon doesn't utilize it. Sad. Very sad since it forced me to purchase an $80 GPS unit that will remove the ability to use my Speedlight now.
I think the biggest surprise for me was the multi-point auto-focus. My D300 was so slow and so poor at grabbing more than one object (people) to focus on that I just put my camera in single-point focus. The D7200 however is freaking quick and does a great job of grabbing three, four, five, heck, even up to 10 different objects at once. Instead of having many pictures where the wrong object was focused on; hence, the picture was useless, I now have great pictures with little effort.
One other luxury is the larger megapixel. I now can crop more liberally than when I had my D300 and boy oh boy can I make a nice picture of almost nothing. This makes using my walk-around lens more flexible as I really do not have to worry about swapping out to my full-frame 300mm lens as often as I use to. Speaking of which, my 300mm lens is from way back in the day so it's not AF-S thus another reason I grabbed the D7200. I believe it's the only prosumer Nikon that still supports those "cruddy" AF lenses. :)
I also hear battery life is great on this and after about three hours of snaps, I still show "full" battery! So far, I'm seeing great battery life. :)
All in all, I'm very happy with this camera. I would have loved to been able to grab the D750 for full-frame goodness, but at the end of the day, I'm not a pro so it doesn't justify the extra thousand dollars. Nikon did me good with this. You'll do good, too.
Nikon D7200 DX-format DSLR w/ 18-140mm VR Lens (Black)
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Price: 1454.95
Last update: 11-28-2024
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24.2 MP DX-format CMOS image sensor
No Optical Low-Pass Filter (OLPF)
51 point autofocus system; Focus Auto & Manual; Autofocus Points Phase Detection: 51 (15 Cross-Type)
6 frames per second (fps) shooting capacity
EXPEED 4 image processing
Built in Wi-Fi and Near Field Communication (NFC) for instant sharing
No Optical Low-Pass Filter (OLPF)
51 point autofocus system; Focus Auto & Manual; Autofocus Points Phase Detection: 51 (15 Cross-Type)
6 frames per second (fps) shooting capacity
EXPEED 4 image processing
Built in Wi-Fi and Near Field Communication (NFC) for instant sharing
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Sven Rafferty
The D7200 Isn't Afraid of the Dark
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2015
David K
It's not the newest Nikon DX DSLR, but it's well worth every penny
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2018
David K
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2018
The D7200 is a highly capable DSLR and I cannot go into all its features here. What I will try to do is explain why I chose the D7200 over its newer siblings in Nikon's DX lineup, and hopefully that will help make your choice clearer.
The D7200 is perfect for my needs. I wanted a camera that offered me enough control so I could experiment in any way I wanted to. It needed to be reliable and rugged. It needed to be capable enough to let my creativity go wild. While not as rugged as the more professional Nikon DSLRs, the D7200 checked all the right boxes for me.
I chose it over the D7500 because I really wanted the dual card slots. For me, the other improvements the D7500 offered could not justify the additional cost of the newer body. The other camera to consider is the D500 (if you are looking for DX cameras), but that was beyond my budget. The money I did not spend by going for one of the more expensive cameras, I spent on a better 70-300mm lens.
I shoot still life, children and landscapes most of the time. The D7200 gives me everything I need for these scenarios. The sensor is sharp and the resolution amazing, and as I found out, can bring to light any deficiencies in your shooting methods. It really forces you to learn how to improve technique if you want super-sharp images. I find this a welcome challenge, but others may not.
I paired the body with a Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G Lens with Auto Focus for Nikon DSLR Cameras. For a medium zoom, after much agonizing, I finally went with the Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM FLD Large Aperture Standard Zoom Lens for Nikon Digital DSLR Camera. Lastly, I added the new Nikon AF-P NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E ED VR f/34-8 Fixed Zoom Digital Slr Camera Lens, Black for a tele zoom. The reason I spent the extra money for the FX version of this lens instead of the much cheaper DX version is because the FX version includes a hardware VR switch. In the DX version, VR can only be controlled from the body, and the D7200 does not offer that control so you can never turn the VR off. This may be an issue in situations where you do not need VR, so I spent the money saved on the body here, on the better lens.
The D7200 is a great camera, and with the current discounts, I highly recommend getting a new body before they go out of stock. Unless you are a pro who needs the super-fast continuous shutter speed and tougher body of the D500, or someone who prefers a larger sensor FX camera, the D7200 will not in any way stop you from capturing the images you envision. However, if video is your primary focus, the newer bodies may be a better choice.
I highly recommend Thom Hogan's Complete Guide to the Nikon D7200 and Steve Perry's (of Back Country Gallery) Secrets to the Nikon Autofocus System (for any Nikon DSLR) to help you get the most out of the sophisticated tool that the D7200 is. These books are available directly from the authors' sites.
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