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Article: Right before we get into the review of the
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Alright, lets get to the review.
Jared Polin, "Fro Knows Photo.com". I am here with the review of the Nikon D7100 DSLR camera.
It's $1199.00 body only and it's the latest in the range replacing the Nikon D7000. So
this is going to be a pretty long review, I am going to sit here and give you my opinion
of a few different functions and features inside this camera. You're going to see a
first person shooter project video where I took this out to a baseball field. You're
also gonna get cut in there some issues I may have had or some things I've liked with
the camera. Or just some tips and tricks for when you are using this camera. As well as
reviewing photos I shot at a concert. So I have run this camera through its paces from
low light, to bright light outside and I've run some video tests as well. So, as with
all of my reviews its my goal to give you a little bit of my opinion. But, give you
the tools to make a judgment for yourself whether this camera is for you. So with that
said there are the full res images over on the website and you'll be able to download
some of the RAW files as well, so that you can make an informed judgment if you are out
there looking for a Nikon D 7100. So, right off the bat, we know that this is
a high mega pixel camera with 24 mega pixels, it does six frames a second. And that brings
up a certain bunch of issues or concerns. Being that it's a large mega pixel camera,
you are looking at a 30 MB RAW file on average. Now, that's gonna vary depending on the situation
that you are shooting in. I am shooting in full RAW and that's going to give me that
30 MB file. Some I have seen are 32 and some are around 29. So that depends upon the brightness
of a situation, or the darkness. That means you are going to take up a lot more space
on your computer. But, with more than that, this camera shoots six frames a second. The
problem is you can only shoot for that one second, if you hold that button down for that
whole second, because you are going to out run the buffer within six shots. That's right.
That means if you shoot for one full second, with your finger pressed down, your camera
will stop after that sixth shot. And it won't take another until the card or the buffer
gets the information to the memory card.
Now if you're someone who takes two shots here, two shots here then you are giving the
camera enough time to load the information on. I've also found that being the six frames
a second; you don't really need to hold the shutter speed, the button down that much.
Because the action is going to be over before that second is up and you snap off six frames.
So, I know pros that use this in the pit and they never out run it because they are shooting
smart, they are not just spraying and praying. So that's a recommendation for you guys.
The AF points, I don't even remember how many bad boys there are in here. But they are very,
very good. The focus points you get to individually select, I should look that up real quick.
I kind of actually don't remember that. It has 51-point AF's. Well, there's a lot of
cameras like my D4 that has that, but we are not gonna compare that to this. There's 51
points, they go almost edge-to-edge so you can get auto focusing at so many different
points. Whereas with the Nikon D600 the points are more focused on the center area. With
this D 7100 you get a full range around the whole bat where you can pick up your focusing
points and I individually make changes and select them.
So, let's talk about the body. The body feels good, there's not much difference here between
the D7000 and the D 7100. They've now gotten rid of the thumb thing on the back, to go
into live view. The live view is now similar to what you would see one the D 800, the D
600 and the D 4 as well as the record button, it's a red record button on the very top of
the camera. Nikon also does not give you and LCD protection piece of plastic and I'm Ok
with that. There's no reason you need to protect this that much. You're not really going to
scratch it up. I felt that when you have the plastic, that you end up getting that thing
all dirty and scratched up and you can barely see your LCD screen anyway. These things are
very good. They're not gonna scratch unless you literally try to scratch it. So that is
not a big deal in my opinion.
The focus tracking is pretty good. It worked well in continuous focus. When I was shooting
at the baseball game, whether it was a picture or the runner running around the bases. It
did very well in low-light situations at a concert. And speaking of concert the high
ISO capability it pretty darn good. We're gonna see more of that when we look at the
images in the computer when we get into the office and I'm gonna go into more detail about
each image and some more opinions about it. But they looked very good up to 4000, 6400
looked good as well. But a lot depends upon the situation that you are in as well as the
glass that you are using. So, I want to keep this moving.
We're gonna talk about one of the issues I had which was with AFA, AF-auto. You can sometimes
switch between AFA and AF...sorry. You want to switch between continuous and single but
there is an extra click in there that I noticed when I was shooting sports. It was AFA and
that was making the selection and choice for me on the auto focus and I didn't want that.
So that was something that I did not realize until after I stopped shooting pictures and
I talk about that when I was out shooting the baseball game.
So, quick judgment on the files, the dynamic range is very nice. The shadow to highlight
detail is very nice. The shadow detail is what you get when you are in the shadows.
Being able to pick up information there is great. And that's what this camera does very
well. They've also gotten rid of one of the filters in here so I did not see any instances
of morraying. I didn't see any morraying in video, or in any of the photos that I captured,
whether it was baseball or a shot at the zoo or whether it was at the concerts. It was
a non-issue and when I got the image tack sharp or when it was really, really right
in focus, it was really freakin tack sharp. The images are sharp, contrasty, vibrant,
especially when you edit them with the RAW files, really happy with that.
What else do I have here? Video samples. The video was perfectly fine. We've used this
to shoot the FroKnowsPhoto show; you could use this to do quite a lot of video. You're
gonna get your 20 minutes out of that. You have your two memory card options. You can
write stills to one, video to the other. You can have it shoot stills to one and stills
to the other as in a redundancy. My personal preference is because they give you two slots,
put two SD cards in here. Say two 16 gigs or two 32 gigs and have them copy the raw
files from one to the other so that if one card fails you have a backup right there.
That is a great option to have.
The battery life is very good. All the buttons seem to be in the right place. It's the same
as just about any other Nikon. So Nikon did a great job there and camera all in all is
very, very good for its $1,199.00 price range. But a lot of people sit there and say "well
why would I get this over the D600?" There is a difference between when you go into a
full frame camera and then the lower end, not lower end but 'middle of the road' $1,199.00
DX body. A lot has to do with the buffer size, build quality, as you get into the 'pro-er'
bodies that's where you get into the better build quality. Better processors inside. Better
weather sealing. But there are differences, you're gonna pay for that. But for $1,199.00
this is a solid, solid offering, body only, pick up some good glass for it and you're
gonna be extremely, extremely happy. So, really that is just a quick look at the outside of
the camera, some quick thoughts
that
I have.