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It's cool the way you can just keep zooming in...
MWGL Photography thread II ( Continued)
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It's cool the way you can just keep zooming in...
Rick 381
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parrotheada1a
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Yea.... I have a group of shots of the plane. One thing I remember about some of the planes overall is that the runup time was really short...perhaps two minutes. Lots of backfiring and sputtering from some of the engines. I'm no expert, but it seems a bit strange that they would take people up if the engines were running like that.
bsman
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Rick 381
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Devil's Lake? I was there last Saturday:
No pictures, just circles with - in them.
Rick 381
Boob Enthusiast
My Nikon D5200 has stopped working. Don't know what the issue is but I'm thinking I can upgrade for the same as the cost of repair. I've been watching some youtube videos and several people recommend or have very good things to say about the D7100. One guy (The Angry Photographer) says it's one of the 4 best cameras Nikon makes. The alternative would be to buy another D5200. What say ye.
dmn23
Duller than cardboard
D7100 owner here and former D5100 owner as well, so I've made the exact leap you're considering. What do you want to know? The D7100 is a great camera and I like it better than the D7200 or D7500 (though I confess to having spent limited time with those). The battery life is better than either of those two and the D7100 has two SD slots instead of just one.
By the way, this summer I ran into my first repair since I've owned the camera (six years, give or take) and the bill was several hundred dollars. They were replacing the main board and some other bits and I could have bought a factory refurbished D7100 for almost the same money by the time it was all over.
Rick 381
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How big a leap better is it than the 5100?
dmn23
Duller than cardboard
Enough that you're not going to regret spending the extra money. It's about as good as you're going to find in an APS-C format camera.
I was a huge fan of the D5100. It's a terrific camera that did a lot of things really well and it was a great introductory DSLR for me. But use the D7100 for even a few minutes and the tactile and ergonomic differences are immediately apparent. It feels substantial and it feels like a quality piece of gear in a way the D5100 just doesn't.
The D7200 and D7500 don't offer enough meaningful differences or improvements to make it worth it, in my view. The wifi Nikon finally offered on the later models is clunky and feels archaic. Just pull your files off the SD cards like a normal human being.
Shoot in RAW, not JPG, pair it with something marginally better than a kit lens (I'm fond of the Sigma 17-70 f/2.8-4), and you're set for years.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/909805-REG/Sigma_884306_17_70mm_f_2_8_4_DC_Macro.html
dmn23
Duller than cardboard
The criticism that usually gets made about the D7100 is the buffer size is a little small, so you're not going to be shooting 400 kerjillion frames per second. But unless you make your living as a professional sports photographer then it won't matter much to you at all.