The Nikon D7200 is a 24-megapixel

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announced by

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on March 2, 2015. It started shipping on March 19. The D7200 was superseded by the

Nikon D7500 The Nikon D7500 is a 20.9-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera using an APS-C sensor. It was announced by Nikon Corporation on 12 April 2017, and started shipping on 2 June 2017. It is the successor to the Nikon D7200 as Nikon's DX format ...

, announced on April 12, 2017.

Features

The D7200 is equipped with features intended for semi-professional use (two SD card slots, the availability of a battery grip, and metering support for old manual focus Nikon AI type (Non-

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) lenses), which have been removed from the D7500. Being the successor of the

Nikon D7100 The Nikon D7100 is a 24.1-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera model announced by Nikon in February 2013. It is a 'prosumer' model that replaces the Nikon D7000 as Nikon's flagship DX-format camera, fitting between the company's entry-level ...

it has (among other things) the following enhancements:Nikon D7200 Review: Digital Photography Review
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size that at its highest

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(6 frames per second) can store eighteen raw images (entire APS-C frame recorded, 14-bit lossless compressed), whereas the D7100 can store six images. * The optical

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sensor has been exchanged to a different model, which (unlike the D7100's) is not prone to generating faint striped patterns ( banding noise) in night photography with strongly amplified dark tones (a scenario typical for

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). * Sensor-related image quality measures have been determined to lead the APS-C camera class (as of April 2015) * All 51

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(AF) sensors have an improved performance at very low light scenes, with the effect of its light sensitivity being one

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better (-3 EV) than the D7100 (-2 EV). -3 EV allows for autofocusing in outdoor scenes only lit by the full Moon, or equivalently dark artificial light or candle light scenes. * The electronic processor has been updated, ( EXPEED 4 replaced

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). * Power consumption has been lowered, so that a battery charge lasts for typical 1110 exposures, which is 160 more than the D7100 under the same conditions. *

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is now built-in, as is NFC, offering simpler

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connectivity. * The layout of the shoulder display has been simplified. Its overall size is the same as before, but some secondary information has been removed in favor for tidiness and for important items to appear bigger. * The back screen's visual interface has been changed slightly. * A new picture processing mode (called "Flat Picture Control"), which does not change the original

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curve, has been adopted from higher-end models. This is to benefit RAW and

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photographers and videographers, who prefer to see

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s and preview images with high tone fidelity during shooting of scenes with a high

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, and prefer to postpone any tonal adjustments to later post-processing. * The maximum

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quality mode (

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at a frame size reduced by the factor 1.3) has been improved to be non-

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(60p), where the D7100 was interlaced (60i). Otherwise, it has also been described as "by no means a radical upgrade" compared to its predecessor, "yet it still adds some important features". The camera body shape has been left unchanged, in particular the deeper-grip update of other latest models such as the D5500 hasn't been adopted for the D7200.

Gallery

Nikon D7200 01-2016 img1 body front.jpg, Front view, body only Nikon D7200 01-2016 img4 with Nikon 18-105.jpg, With AF-S DX Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR Nikon D7200 01-2016 img3 body rear.jpg, Rear view

References

External links

Nikon D7200
Nikon USA

March 2, 2015
Specifications at DPReview

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