NikonD7200 DX-format DSLR Body (Black)

After using my D300 for years and growing weary of the poor ISO, I went with the D7200 for it's feature set and most importantly for it's high ISO and Wi-Fi features. I was surprised by just how good the high ISO is having taken pictures at a theater play where it was practically pitch dark except for the lights on stage and very few pictures came back grainy. Compared to my D300 (and my D90 before that,) I am in a completely new realm.The Wi-Fi works very well with my iPhone 6 and it is very nice to be able to send pictures to family and friends via text or post on Facebook immediately instead of having to use a tedious USB cable to an iPad or wait until I get the SD card into my Mac when I get home. The Nikon app is limited in what it can do but the function it does give is convenient. You can take pictures remotely with the app even controlling the focus point and making changes to the cameras settings. This is great for night time photography where you don't want to have any movement on the body at all from pressing the shutter button. My biggest complaint is Nikon has ignored the ability to use my iPhone's A-GPS for geotagging. It can easily be done but Nikon doesn't utilize it. Sad. Very sad since it forced me to purchase an $80 GPS unit that will remove the ability to use my Speedlight now.I think the biggest surprise for me was the multi-point auto-focus. My D300 was so slow and so poor at grabbing more than one object (people) to focus on that I just put my camera in single-point focus. The D7200 however is freaking quick and does a great job of grabbing three, four, five, heck, even up to 10 different objects at once. Instead of having many pictures where the wrong object was focused on; hence, the picture was useless, I now have great pictures with little effort.One other luxury is the larger megapixel. I now can crop more liberally than when I had my D300 and boy oh boy can I make a nice picture of almost nothing. This makes using my walk-around lens more flexible as I really do not have to worry about swapping out to my full-frame 300mm lens as often as I use to. Speaking of which, my 300mm lens is from way back in the day so it's not AF-S thus another reason I grabbed the D7200. I believe it's the only prosumer Nikon that still supports those "cruddy" AF lenses. :)I also hear battery life is great on this and after about three hours of snaps, I still show "full" battery! So far, I'm seeing great battery life. :)All in all, I'm very happy with this camera. I would have loved to been able to grab the D750 for full-frame goodness, but at the end of the day, I'm not a pro so it doesn't justify the extra thousand dollars. Nikon did me good with this. You'll do good, too.

In other reviews I have told how much I dislike Nikon and their products. I think I have had problems with every thing I have bought from them!!! So why stay with a bad company??? Because Canon does not make a good travel lens.. I have Nikon's 18-200 and latest 18-300.. I wanted the lens, and had to buy a body to go with it/them.. So, that is how it goes.. I have a very low opinion of Nikon and their products these days.. In the 70s when I started in photos, Nikon was the best!!! Now, they are just hanging on, by my standards.. If it were not for the long zooms they have, I would be gone!!! But, it is the lens that hold me here.. When I bought the 18-300, a few months ago, I needed a new body for it as my D7000 had 100.000 clicks on it.. I do a lot of travel photos and needed to start my next trip with a less used body, so I bought the D7200.. The D7000 was a total pain in the butt, and I feared this one would be no better, but I just got back from Scotland with it, and while there, I shot nearly 7000 images.. It worked outstandingly well.. Was that an accident or has Nikon chosen to get their head out of dark places! But, there were no issues with the camera, and with the expanded sensitivity of the sensor, I was taking good photos in some very dim places, and they were sharp! For this trip, I had the D7200, the grip, the newest 18-300, and a SB600 flash.. It all travels as one unit.. I could have upgraded the flash to the SB700, but I do not like the idea of having the sliding switches on a big flash.. It is just tooooo easy for them to be changed by bumping or rubbing against something.. I suggest everyone avoid the SB700, and any other flash piece of equipment that has switches that can be easily changed by mistake.. When you are shooting on the run, you want everything locked down tight.. Those easy change switches will get you in way toooooo much trouble. Bottom line, the D7200 worked great on the Scotland trip. I used two Sandisk 128GB Extreme Pro cards in it and together I had a good working unit.. Could shoot like John Wayne and just keep on going!!! Shot over 6,000 images, most all were good. The bad ones were my fault. I strongly suggest the user of this body set it as I do. Set the focus to the 3D mode, set it to the exposure to the A setting, set the F-Stop to F-11, then go get the job done.. If you need more speed that you are getting, increase the ISO.. Start with 1600 and work your way up. If you reach the top, start bringing the A down to 8 or 7.1, or lower if really needed, which does happen, but rarely. As a travel photog, I find that large basic on this camera is great for all my needs.. Nearly 100 percent of my images will be seen on the internet only, so Poster size RAW files are not needed.. I find that RAW is hardly ever needed by most people, truth being known.. It is the right thing, for a few people, but a very few... If you are interested in this quality camera, then you are most likely looking for a better camera strap as well.. Based In ken Rockwell's suggestion, I got the UPSTRAP for this body. In fact I got the Kevlar strap, to make it harder for people to cut it.. The strap works great for me.. The pad on the neck part is so NON_STICK that is almost too good!!!! Costs 45 or 50 dollars, and I love it... But, it would be great if it came in a shoulder supported model.. Carrying a lot of camera weight for 8-10 hours a day on a strap around your neck is crippling.. I think my neck is now deformed... Back to the camera.. The short comings on this body is that the buttons and switches on the body cannot be locked. Just by bumping them on your shirt or jacket will cause unwanted things to happen.. It would be great if all these multi-task bodies had TOTAL LOCK options on them. They work great for studio work, but when you are riding, roping, swinging, paddling, jumping, sliding, and trying to take photos at the same time, things on this body go wrong, bad wrong.. The switched features are tooooo easily changed. If you are going to shoot 1500 action photos a day, be careful.. If you are just going to take 5 or 10 memory photos at a birthday party, no problem...