Nikon D5200 24.1 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera Body Only (Black)

Nikon D5200 24.1 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera Body Only (Black)

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• 24MP DX-format CMOS sensor
• 39-point (9 cross type) dynamic area AF system with 3D tracking
• Up to 5 frames per second continuous shooting
• 1080p 30FPS HD video (1080p, 60i) with full-time contrast-detect AF
• ISO 100-6400, expandable to 25,600 equivalent
• 3 inch vari-angle LCD with 921,000 dots
• Wi-Fi (for sharing and remote camera control) and GPS compatible (sold separately)

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Brand : Nikon
Category : Electronics,Camera & Photo,Digital Cameras,DSLR Cameras
Rating : 4.7
Review Count : 851

Nikon D5200 24.1 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera Body Only (Black)

• This camera is an excellent value. For my anniversary I received $500 to put towards a camera--the woman in my life knew that I am the picky type and decided it would be best to let me choose for myself. I researched for weeks. I looked at new and used cameras in an out of my price range ($500-$700 for a body). I fretted over reviews and differences in scores on camera websites. I agonized over what would be the best choice. Then, exhausted, I decided to go with a brand new camera that landed right in my price range: the D5200. For the price I was even able to get 35mm f/1.8 lens to go with it.I\'ve enjoyed photography off and on my whole life. I started with disposable cameras as a child and graduated to a point-and-shoot in my teen years. I\'m now in my mid-20s and received a hand-me-down D70 a few years back. The camera is a capable camera, but the technology inside it wasn\'t getting me where I want to be. I decided it was time for a change. I wanted a step up in quality: I wanted a camera that would eliminate my pet peeves about the D70 while giving me a higher image quality. I shoot strictly in manual mode and wanted a camera with which it would be as easy or easier to manipulate the settings.The first thing I noticed out of the box was the weight. This camera is light--very light. It\'s also very small and has wonderfully rounded edges. It looked like it could slip easily into a winter coat pocket, although I didn\'t test that. My D70 seems like a clunky hulking beast by comparison. This is an excellent perk since lugging a camera everywhere can be a chore. The prospect of a camera that weighs about the same as a pack of gum was enticing.The second thing I noticed about the camera is the LCD screen. The picture was very nice and I played around with the articulation alone for five minutes. I marveled that I could actually see a preview of my shot before taking it--how high tech! These two features combined finally made a dream of mine a reality: getting that shot that I can\'t quite get by kneeling and isn\'t a time or place appropriate for laying down. I could swing the screen out and up and preview my shot before I took it. How cool is that?It wasn\'t too long after discovering this amazing feature that I packed the camera up to return it. Trouble arrived in paradise as soon as I flipped over to manual mode to actually take a real picture that wasn\'t of random things in my room. I went to adjust the aperture with my the dial at my right index finger only to find no dial there. As it turns out there\'s only one dial on the camera meant for the right thumb. For those of you not familiar, Nikon has two dials on many of their cameras: one to adjust aperture in the front manipulated by the right index finger and one in the rear for shutter speed manipulated by the right thumb. I absolutely love this setup. Still, I gave this camera the best shot I could.There are three main things I control when I shoot: aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. The D5200 has an interesting setup with one dial and a \"Function\" button, both of which are programmable to one of these three. For instance, I could assign the dial to change the aperture and then change the shutter speed by pressing and holding the Function button while using the dial. If I needed to change the ISO then I would need to go into the easy to use but slow to access menu screen on the LCD. Changing ISO is not usually as pressing as changing shutter speed and aperture, but having to use the LCD menus to change the ISO was my biggest gripe using the D70 and I had incorrectly assumed that this would come with the cool buttons I\'d seen on the top of the D200 and D300 and other semi-pro and pro cameras to quick change ISO, WB, and quality.After I got over the disappointment of having to use a menu to change the ISO I sat down to train myself to use the new Function button. I am still at the point in my photography where I usually finish changing one setting with one dial on the D70 before changing the other setting with the other dial, so learning to use only one dial and hold a button instead of another dial shouldn\'t be a big deal. I snapped pictures for about an hour straight while experimenting and practicing with this new system.The pictures I got from these experiments looked great. Even in low light the clarity was good at the noise was way lower than anything I\'d experienced before. I couldn\'t argue with that. Even still, it didn\'t feel like the step up in camera for which I was looking. I wanted a semi-pro camera that I could bring hiking and not freak out getting caught in a downpour. I wanted a camera on which I could quickly change the ISO so I could go from a bright sunny outside to a dimly lit inside and not miss a great shot because I was looking down fiddling with a menu on an LCD screen instead of looking up at a beautiful opportunity for a picture. Perhaps most importantly, I wanted a camera that I felt comfortable and confident using. I tried really hard to love the Function button and the simplicity of having only one dial, but the marriage was just never meant to happen. I thought about trying aperture or shutter priority instead of full manual, but that wouldn\'t have given me the same control that I enjoyed with the D70--and it wouldn\'t have been the camera that I wanted to own for the next few years.If I was looking for a replacement for my D70 rather than a shift in what I wanted to do then the D5200 would have been an amazing upgrade in quality. I would have trained myself to use the Function button and continued to fall in love with the live preview and the articulating swing-out LCD screen. I was looking for something different, though, and this camera just wasn\'t for me.So who would I recommend this to? I would recommend it to an amateur photographer who is serious about image quality but doesn\'t want to break the bank. For just under $500 for the body you can buy a few prime lenses or a nice zoom lens and a memory card and stay under a grand. This is an excellent choice for someone looking to get more serious than a $100 point-and-shoot camera and get a much higher quality camera that can be a point and shoot but also let him or her branch out into using aperture or shutter priority and mess around with the different fun nuances of composing a shot. It\'s light enough to carry anywhere and user-friendly enough for most people to enjoy thoroughly.Would I recommend this to a friend? Yes, as long as it was the kind of camera he or she was trying to find. It\'s a great value and can create excellent pictures. If it\'s the type of camera you are looking for then I don\'t think you\'ll regret pulling the trigger on this one.
• Before reading my review you should know this one crucial detail. Until I took a chance and bought this camera, I\'ve only ever used Canons. I was actually looking to get a Canon 6D, then I checked out the specs, compared images and videos between the 6D and so many other cameras, and I went with the Nikon D5200 in the end. It really does capture an image with a slightly higher quality. It\'s subtle but significant. In terms of overall image quality alone, the only real advantage the Canon 6D has over the Nikon D5200 is the full-frame sensor\'s resolution, which does give you about 2x sensitivity to light as well. But full-frame DSLRs aren\'t right for everyone, and they incur extra expenses for more specific lenses as well.If you\'re after image-quality, video-quality, versatility, and affordability, I\'d say this is the best DSLR you can get for under $1k USD. In fact, hands down, I truly believe this DSLR even has the best quality image you can get for under $2k USD.Again, I\'m not a fanboy of Nikon or Canon or Sony or Pentax or anything. I\'ve used a Toshiba VHS camcorder, a Sony point-and-shoot, a Panasonic Mini-DV camcorder, a Canon DSLR, a Kodak disposable, and anything else that worked well and made sense... I don\'t care what the brand is or how expensive or \"pro\" it is. All I care about it is: How good is the image quality, and is it designed well enough to easily master using it? The second point I can throw out the window if the image quality is that much better than it\'s competitors, but that isn\'t the case here either. It\'s a great camera all aroundPROS:1.5x crop sensor Vs. Canon\'s 1.6x (very close to a 35mm cinema camera crop-factor)6000 x 4000 resolution with 15.3 µm² pixel size (Image is sharp, colors are detailed and very accurate!)921k dot LCD resolution which is more than you even need for the screen size.Shoots .NEF RAW... (Get the free plugin from Adobe if you use Photoshop or Lightroom)Battery lasts a very long time when not shooting (about 500 shots when shooting)30 second to 1/4000 of a second exposure range.Discrete built-in flash with multiple modes / Shoe for external flash24.2 bit color depth, 13.9 EV Dynamic range (tones are detailed, colors are rich and vivid!ISO can go up to 1200 in almost any scenario before getting noisyCompatible with almost all Nikon LensesHas a built-in help system, accessible on the fly, for every single feature and setting!Shoots HDR precomposed in camera or by bracketing multiple exposures to combine later.This baby can capture a crisp and beautiful image! The resolution is large enough, the dynamic range and color depth are wide enough, and the ISO efficiency is so good, I can take a low-light photo of a streetlamp at night, crop out a third of the image, blow it up to the original\'s size, and still have a crisp, clear, vivid, and noiseless image that I could print at 13x20 inches and hang on a wall, or sell at a gallery. The noise is so low, and the images are so sharp that you could easily blow up an un-cropped image to twice the captured size (26x40 inches) and it would still look fantastic.I was taken aback when I took this little guy out for it\'s first night shoot. Of course, a little know-how and some trial and error plays a role, but I was amazed by how accurately this sensor represents colors. I took a picture of some flowers in the immediate foreground against a backdrop of a park in the midground and a downtown strip in the far distance. Despite the street lighting, the moonlight, the neon signs, and all the little details in the store fronts, cars, trees, grass, benches, cobblestone walkway, and the telephone poll about a mile away... The picture I took was a spitting image of what I saw with my own eyes. Maybe even a little better. From the flowers in the foreground to the telephone poll far away, everything looked clean and clear and as it was in life. I was about 50 yards away from the storefronts with a 35mm lens, and I could still make out license plates in the photo. If I had focused to infinity, I probably could have made out the plates from even further away. Just as an example! That\'s not a regular habit or a hobby of mine. hahaha...CONS:Definitely not 100% intuitive menu settings... Read the manual before using to avoid possible confusion.ISO does not have it\'s own button/dial, however it\'s very easy to get used to using the \"function\" button for this.Menu system works well, but organization feels a bit chaotic and crammed in certain menu tabs.Nikon doesn\'t distinguish much between photography and videography. READ MANUAL to get familiar with all settings!Non-CPU manual lenses can only be used in Manual Mode. Would be nice to at least have auto ISO/Exposure as an option.The (BRONZE) paint job is not a matte finish like it looks in every photo you see. It\'s a glossy finish like the red version.PART 2 ~ THE LENSE:The Kit lens feels a little cheap compared more expensive lenses, but it actually performs very well. I used it a couple times and went immediately back to my primes though, but that\'s because I\'m more comfortable with them. I don\'t know what to do with a zoom lense, so this was a great opportunity to get a pretty decent one to experiment with for a good price. For these reasons, I can\'t really comment on the lense that comes in the kit. All I know is it\'s much more highly praised than any other kit lense for this camera. I\'ll have to use it more to see how it holds up to my primes.
• This is an intermediate camera, I am a beginner but I wanted a challenge. This a great camera.

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