Nikon D7xxx owners thread

Looks as if you had a good family day out David, a nice set.

A couple from me over the last few days, sorry it's just garden stuff.

Hugo our Tibetan Terrier / Bichon Frise Cross, looking at the bird food on one of our perches. It's such a natural shot of him I feel.

20150217-DSC_6168 by swanseajack2013, on Flickr

Chaffinch. My tripod and camera are set up by back door and this one flew in, struggled to get him in focus and without Hugo's sticks in the way. Only managed 4 shots and this is the best of them. Also, the first time I have seen one in our garden.

20150217-DSC_6204 by swanseajack2013, on Flickr


I'm in two minds to sell my Nikon 300mm f4 lens and get a zoom. Fancy the Tamron 150-600mm but it's a little out of budget and maybe a little slow, or get a Sigma 70-200mm f2.8 as I have a Kenko Teleconvertor, which will be nice when I go back to the D750 later this year. Decisions decisions!
 
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minnnt said:
Have you considered the Tamron 150-600? Looks pretty stonking to me!

I couldn't live with a long prime, way too restrictive for my kind of shooting.
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It's a tad out of budget as I mentioned. I have considered getting a lesser body like a D3300 or D5200 and then the Tamron. My plan is to change back to the D750 as soon as finances allow, hopefully in 4-6 months. After owning one I want to go back it was soo good and the handling and grip was perfect for me.

If I went lesser body what would I loose? AF points and speed, manual controls , (not a huge problems for me). The AF would get to me if it was way to slow compared to say the D7100 I have now.
 
I'm sure i read 'sigma 150-600' :LOL: sorry.

The 5200/5300/5500 have the d7k focusing system afaik. You could consider the D300/s series of cameras which both have excellent af but half the amount of pixels. I'd just concentrate on saving up for what you want. You'll only free up a few quid by selling the 7100 and going for a lesser or older dx body.
 
Your probably right about the bodies, but my thinking was if I got a cheaper sort of chuck away camera I can keep it forever. My concern with the D7100 is I'm putting some mileage on it, I have taken about 5.5k photos in the few weeks I have had it. Carry on this way and it's worthless. It owes me a few quid so it's a little niggle in the back of my head. My plan was to sell this and use the difference to re-buy the D750 in a few months, the way I'm going it will have 40k on the clock and be worthless. With me being home allday I'm taking pics of the wildlfe and didn't expect to take this many photo's, it wasn't the case when I had the XT1 with the Tokina 300mm f4 manual lens, probably as the focussing was slow with me MF.

If I part-ex the lens I will make a few quid and at present it will offset the loss in the body. It will work out that I have had the camera and body for 6 weeks and it's cost me nothing. If I sell now I can probably afford the Tammy and a D7000 or D5200 etc.......... I need to see if there's any stockists close to me before making a decision.

My initial plan was the body was just a stop gap while I bought better lens(s) than the ones I had on the D750.

Anyway I think the prime has to go, it's too restrictive for me and I think I will be better off with a zoom.

Decisions!
 
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Just took a booking for a boxing event at the end of March... Will be interesting to see how it compares to the D7000. Not that i struggled with it anyway. I don't think the Sigma 18-35 will be as good as the Nikon 17-55 with regards to focusing, but hopefully i will be able to make use of the f1.8 at 18mm... Maybe have to stop it down a bit to give me a bit of leeway with dof... Usually shoot at around f3.5 or f4 though so will have to see.
 
minnnt said:
Just took a booking for a boxing event at the end of March... Will be interesting to see how it compares to the D7000. Not that i struggled with it anyway. I don't think the Sigma 18-35 will be as good as the Nikon 17-55 with regards to focusing, but hopefully i will be able to make use of the f1.8 at 18mm... Maybe have to stop it down a bit to give me a bit of leeway with dof... Usually shoot at around f3.5 or f4 though so will have to see.
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I was suprised you went to M4/3 with your boxing gigs. Myself I think the D7100 is better at higher iso than the D7000 and the files clean up okay for me. With my 300m f4 lens I'm getting a lot more detail than I was with the Nikon or Tammy 70-300mm if memory serves me right. The only problem, we cant do a right comparison due to changing lenses.

In theory, you would think the Sigma be a better lens for your gigs with it being f1.8. Is the AF slower with possibly more elements to focus? Also, will you be okay without the extra reach?
 
Yes, 35mm will be ok at the long end, but i'd like it a bit wider though tbh.

I don't know, the Nikon had a shed load of glass inside it. Probably just the different motors. Nikons SWM is pretty damn good!

Will get to try the AF-C out in the dark, might give the 9 point dynamic malarky out. Not sure how it works though. Any tips anyone?

Ta.
 
minnnt said:
Yes, 35mm will be ok at the long end, but i'd like it a bit wider though tbh.

I don't know, the Nikon had a shed load of glass inside it. Probably just the different motors. Nikons SWM is pretty damn good!

Will get to try the AF-C out in the dark, might give the 9 point dynamic malarky out. Not sure how it works though. Any tips anyone?

Ta.
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I carried out a little trial for you with the AFC nine point this morning with the garden birdies. To me the lens hunted a lot and was jumping around like mad between the bird feeders and the leaves from the bushes / trees. It maybe more steady with your inside gig and the Sigma, but for me it was no good for small subjects. When I changed back to AFS single point, it just nailed it every time.

if I remember correctly @joeturner used 9 point AFC on his recent blog about the D610, maybe worth asking him for advice or ask in the Sports Section if needed.
 
I'm not sweating it, i just use af-s and af-c single point usually, just thought I'd give something different a go. FroKnowsPhotos has a good video on the d7100 for sports on youtube iirc so i might give that a looking at when i get a minute. Luckily I'm not a machine gunner with the trigger so the buffer doesn't matter to me either. More of a single shot guy then sit back down.

I see the d7200 has a buffer of 16 shots shooting raw and jpeg.
 
I'm the same, one shot at a time, but for me the camera is set up at door trying to get the best photo of the birds and I rattle a few off every day. Today was the first when I thought b****r it, I have that type of shot and only took 88 photos today. Some days I had been taking 500, hence the mileage going up.

I'm going to send the 300mm off for part e-x with Wex tomorrow and may buy the Sigma 70-200 f2.8 for the flexability. I have started a thread on same and hopefully I will get some more user replies over the next day or so. I want to use my Kenko 1.4TC with it otherwise it will be a little to short for my needs especially when I go back to FF.

Is there an official release on the D7200 or just Nikon rumours? I will also have a look at the fro video, maybe of some use.
 
Looking at the rumours, it seems it's updating the sensor and processor to give better speeds as the D7100 already has the 51 point AF. Not much of an increase in FPS and still not as fast of the Canon 7d2 on the FPS. I have looked at a few Canon 7d2 images and noise wise I dont see much, if any better than the D7100, at base to 6400.

It seems Nikon are trying to get the serious amateurs into FF bodies with the prices of the D610 & D750 and the D7200 is a minor upgrade over the D7100. Perhaps there is a D400 in the pipeline?
 
Wonder how much the 7200 will be at Panamoz. If it's close to the 750 then everyone will just choose that, surely? Unless they're expecting everyone to own DX glass so the upgrade costs too much by the time you've sorted out fx lenses etc...
 
minnnt said:
Wonder how much the 7200 will be at Panamoz. If it's close to the 750 then everyone will just choose that, surely? Unless they're expecting everyone to own DX glass so the upgrade costs too much by the time you've sorted out fx lenses etc...
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David - I think that it depends on what you shoot - clearly if it is a D750 or D810 in DX format, (if you see what I mean - 24MP improved DX sensor) …… i.e. a D400, I would think that it will be attractive to bird and wildlife shooters
 
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minnnt said:
Wonder how much the 7200 will be at Panamoz. If it's close to the 750 then everyone will just choose that, surely? Unless they're expecting everyone to own DX glass so the upgrade costs too much by the time you've sorted out fx lenses etc...
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Could it be even more? Im not sure what Panamoz are like at release date but looking at the 7D2 it's only about £100 cheaper than the D750 now. Would Nikon charge around the same as the Canon on release, it's not something I have taken notice of in the past.?
 
I'd expect the initial release price of a D7200 to be circa £1k. Similar to the D7000 & D7100 at release.

If they advertised it as a replacement for the D300 for birders, then they could be charging at least 50% more (providing it was up to the job)
 
Well I'm pretty sure the Nikon 17-55 focuses quicker and more accurately than the Sigma 18-35... It wasn't too bad but I reckon the Nikon would have been snappier. Will have a proper look at the pics later and post a few if i deem any good enough. :LOL:
 
Just a quick question

single point focus, looking at the preview in the LCD after the image has been shot - sometimes it comes up as a red square and sometimes not, i.e. there is no focus point showing at all

I cannot find a reason in the D7100 booklet

I thought that it was an indication of being slightly out of focus or in focus …. but looking at the images this is not really the case - in fact the shots with the red square are generally more sharpe than those without

Can anyone help
 
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Surprised there is not a thread on this as above camera is supposed to be announced next week and looks to be the replacement for d300s. Rumoured to be 24mp d750 like body tilting screen and the latest auto focus. Wondered what people's tnoughts were ?
 
minnnt said:
What exactly would be needed for it to be a d300/s replacement? Having never used a d300, what am i missing?
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The build and UI on the D300 is similar to the D700

The same on the D7100 is similar to the D600

so from that respect the D7100 did not replace the D300 (s)
 
Well the body is supposed to be as the d750 so in that sense it is the d300 replacement re build quality
 
tesco said:
Well the body is supposed to be as the d750 so in that sense it is the d300 replacement re build quality
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but not UI - isn't the UI on the D750 the same as the D610/D7100
 
Bill, I THINK the red sq is confirming it's fully acquired focus.
 
ST4 said:
Just use a D800 and crop a little, or use a tele converter?
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You are right in that aspect Steve, however, the FPS is of importance to certain styles of photography. The D800 fps is a bit crap, but the benefits outweigh that.
 
fps and buffer size do get more important once you have figured out some of the other skills needed, (really held me back when I saw my first Greenfinches of the year this morning as they were gone in seconds and all I got were three poor shots) ……. I can see the merits of the D4/D4S more and more - but that's an expensive body

You do get what you pay for - or is it pay for what you get!!
 
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One of the limitations of the d7100 apart from the build was the buffer looks like thry have solved that one
 
fracster said:
You are right in that aspect Steve, however, the FPS is of importance to certain styles of photography. The D800 fps is a bit crap, but the benefits outweigh that.
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Sure, you can stick a grip on a D800 for a little more FPS. I mentioned the D800 specifically for its control lay out being similar to the D300. A D4 is another option but a bit pricey and down on pixels so cropping gets a bit compromised.

A D750, D610 (faster frame rate on them) with a 1.7TCE and decent long lens would give you great reach and excellent cropability and ISO performance completely alien to someone using a D300.
 
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