I've had most of the the D7*** range and still have the D7500. Bought a Canon M50 for a walk round camera but have a Nikon 24mm pre D series lens on it. How will an upgrade improve your photography ... think about this before you splash out on an upgrade. Happy snapping.
I appreciate that. I guess my thoughts are similar to those of everyone else who has already made the switch. No AF fine tune, live view, articulating screen, much cleverer electrics, ISO noise, video recording improvements.
If I were to stick with DSLR I'd want to be switching to full frame rather than D7500 or D500 for the ISO improvements, but that would mean changing my main 17-55 2.8 lens also, so either mirrorless or DSLR are a big change and I figure the Z system is here to stay longer.
My only reservation is I have a 50mm Sigma Macro lens which is really nice and at an equivalent FOV of 75mm worked great on crop sensors. But it is screw drive so will become manual focus with an FTZ. My plan is to try it as a MF lens, but will probably go for a Sigma 105 macro and an FTZ.
Oh, second reservation is the ergonomics of the new bodies. But I really don't like the D7100 either from that POV. I adored the D2H ergonomics and from that to a D300 was a definite downgrade, and then to the D7100 was another leap down. From what I can tell the Z6 makes a lot sense and offers a lit of configurability as to what buttons do what, coupled with a touch screen and joystick I think would be a big step up from the D7100.
The depth of the hand grips (horizontal and vertical) on the D2H were a dream. I could hold that on my fingertips really securely all day. And the speed! I miss it even if the images from it were not the greatest.