Best Nikon D7200 Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals & Sales 2020:

With its D7200, Nikon renews its Reflex in continuity, with small touches. The manufacturer once again offers an excellent camera whose only defect is to be a little too “wise”.

With the release of the Nikon D7200, its predecessor the D7100 becomes the bargain of the moment. This new model is still as excellent, but brings few changes compared to its predecessor. Suddenly, given the drop in price of the D7100 (it is currently trading at around 650-700 euros), the D7200 is hard to sell, except for lovers of night shots and continuous shooting. 

We find the D7200 box around 950-1000 euros on the Internet. What are the main differences between the two models? Buffer improvements for burst mode, better image quality above ISO 1600 and Time Lapse video mode. The device also receives a wireless connection.

Best Nikon D7200 Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals & Sales 2020

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5. Nikon D7200 24.2 MP Dual Zoom Lens Kit with 3.2″ LCD, Black

Image quality

The photo quality of the Nikon D7200 is excellent. JPEGs and RAWs are slightly better than on the D7100 from ISO 1600 onwards thanks to better and more refined noise. But apart from that, the two devices are very close: JPEGs offer beautiful colors and good exposures as well as a satisfactory tonal range in the shadows.

If you use the default noise reduction settings, the details begin to degrade in JPEG when you pass ISO 1600. The noise appears frankly from ISO 6400 and beyond.

We can improve things by switching to RAW which allows to recover a good level of details with usable results up to ISO 25600, depending on the type of scene and the display size of the photo.

Nikon offers several sensitivities in monochrome above ISO 25600 which have the advantage of being a little more usable than in color. Unfortunately, this only works in JPEG, which does not allow you to modify them. We also note the presence of slight horizontal lines (vertical in portrait mode) on the image, a fairly common artifact in photos taken at high sensitivity with this type of camera. The videos are also very beautiful, but have a fairly pronounced noise in low light conditions.

Performances

The Nikon D7000 series have always been very efficient and the D7200 respects this tradition. It is more or less at the level of the D7100. It takes about 0.3 seconds to turn on, focus and trigger, which is very good. The relatively pronounced latency between focusing and triggering (between 0.5 and 0.6 seconds) is more linked to the performance of the telephoto lens than to autofocus itself. Despite this, in Live View mode, it is still slow (1.4 seconds) and far from the 0.7 seconds of the Canon 70D. The delay between two successive photos is 0.2 seconds, which (again) is very good.

In burst mode, the performance in JPEG is that of the D7100 with 6.1 frames / second on more than 30 consecutive photos with focus and automatic exposure. But the D7200 can support a rate of 20 photos at 5 frames / second in RAW before slowing down while the D7100 takes only 5 RAW shots in burst. The autofocus is always excellent with a success rate of 90% in burst, whether to follow a subject in scrolling “panoramic” or that approaches (moves away) from the photographer. For video, it is better to opt for manual or fixed focus because the autofocus of Live View is not as efficient.

Design

The design of the Nikon D7200 body has not changed. It retains the comfortable handle and a robust construction against water and dust. All in all, we are on a well thought-out camera with a design that respects logic. The mode dial is placed on the left shoulder of the case with a central button to avoid accidental maneuvers. We find the usual auto, semi-auto and manual modes, Standard Scene modes and more personalized modes. Below this wheel is the one dedicated to the training mode: S (view by view), CL (continuous low speed), CH (continuous high speed), Q (discrete triggering), Self-timer, MUP (mirror lift ). On the right shoulder, there is the control screen for displaying the active settings,

On the front left of the camera are the flash buttons, the flash exposure compensation setting, the bracketing button, and the focus control. By pressing the lens control button, you can navigate in the different modes offered: Point AF (AF-S): Continuous AF (AF-C), Automatic AF-S / AF-C selection (AF-A) , focus tracking automatically activated if the subject is moving.

The rear part of the 7200 case has the typical layout of Nikon cases: white balance, ISO sensitivity on the left of the LCD screen, “i” button which calls the frequently used settings. On the right of the screen are the navigation button and the switch to switch from Live View mode to video mode. There is also an information button which displays the active settings.

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