So far I have used a D5100 (at their time the best APS-C CMOS on the market) and wanted to improve myself. Long I have with full-frame (D600, as well as Canon) busy. My problem: The budget. The body I could have bought that, but the follow-up costs of the lenses increase considerably, my current lenses are almost all designed for the DX format (Crop 1.5, also known as APS-C). In the field of Nikon DX cameras came for me really only the D7100 in question, exactly a week before I got it.
With the D7100, I now hold a camera in his hands, which comes fairly compact, much larger than the D5100, it is not. But she's valent, to say the very clumsy to say alone the shutter sound "turns me on." I have now done with the camera shooting, 70% and 30% outdoor studio. As lenses a Nikkor 50mm 1 were: 1.8 g and a Tamron 17-50 2.8 mm are used.
The first big wow factor are the 24 MP. Many of my colleagues amateur photographers use cameras much higher, the popular EOS 5D Mark III. What I have always admired the pictures is that in a full length purely on the sharpness and fineness of texture forth across Crop often a portrait (close up) I is possible. I have led back to the full-frame CMOS. Well, that goes with the D7100 as well. With the appropriate lens, the D7100 photographed incredibly sharp at parameters such as ISO 100, f / 5.6, 1 / 250s, 50mm. Portraits of full body shots are now possible for me. If I had not thought of.
The focus system is very fail. Sure, it does not go beyond limits. If you shoot with 50mm f / 1.8, a distance of barely a meter has the object that needs to be aware that he is gambling when it comes to sharpness. The autofocus system of the D7100 makes precise, because if you can it as a photographer also quarrels, lies on the parameters. In other words: If one has a focus range of no more than 1.5 cm, it is not certain joins that camera and object is between the focus setting and Ausslösung not still move on the Z axis (tip: [...]).
The D7100 is not a night vision device. Under JPG image noise in my opinion, is calculated away quite aggressively. The RAWs show quite early noise in the 1: 1 view. In areas up to ISO 3200, I see no problem. One must always bear in mind, for a 10x15 cm photo rich 5MP from easy. If I resize 24 MP to 5 MP, has the noise almost resolved itself. Facebook etc. This is even more. Anyway, 24MP APS-C provide noise that physics can not even Nikon outwit. In direct comparison to D5100 and D3100 (I own both) but I have not degraded me.
Thread sensor dirt: Yes! Even after a week of shows my D7100 to 5-6 points sensor dirt, teased out at stop 40!
But normally I move rather between f / 1.8 f / 16, possibly even f / 20. Starting at f / 14, the imaging performance of my lenses is significantly worse, at 1 / 8000s I've always rather little problems with strong light.
I consider this sensor dirt for normal wear of the mechanics, possibly grease. I had the. With my D5100 and also with my D3100 Currently, I am assuming that the first cleaning on Nikon goes, so I've got no problem (except that I will cry, because I have to give 10-14 days off the camera). Nor do I think that it looks etc. better with Canon, Sony, Pentax. But since the D800 seems to be fashion, with Niko cameras bright blue sky in mind. Visor to snap 20, perhaps because they can catch the blue sky better than a Canon, Sony or Pentax, I can only guess.
My conclusion: full frame is in, since D600 and 6D at the latest. With this camera, Nikon shows that APS-C is far from dead. The D7100 is a camera that can score in the studio. At ISO100 with appropriate lens it provides amazing picture performance. She is compact enough that you can still have almost always there. With a 18-200mm always it can better hold in pictures hardly his holiday.
I give it 5 stars. I knew before buying that the D7100 is not a night vision device, sensor dirt I think is normal. The camera holds any promise for me. In short, I love my D7100!
