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Hello everyone!
A big first post for the forum, so my apologies in advance.
I am in the process of upgrading from my existing kit to something better, however, I would love to hear some input from you guys (especially those who have experience with both systems).
Currently I own an Canon eos 50D, which is admittingly quite long in the tooth. Originally I had bought it 3 years ago second hand, mostly because of the great price, decent image quality and robust body. At the time I really wanted to get a camera for traveling and getting into photography without having to worry about it being lost, damaged or whatever. Over the past 3 years I have used it quite extensively and found that photography has become a major hobby so it is time for an upgrade, especially so since I have ran into a lot of limitations of the 50D.
These limitations are mostly the relatively poor low light performance and relatively low resolution when photographing landscapes. Of course the massively improved IQ of possible upgrades is always nice.
Currently I am eyeing two options:
I have gotten a great offer for a D7200 in excellent condition, low shutter count, with bag and 18-180mm lens (I am normally not a fan of travel zooms, but I read that the optical quality is quite good) for about 525 USD equivalent. The other option is a used D800 which would cost body only 650 USD eq. The D800 since It fits in my price range and seems to be better value for money than equivalent canon bodies. I don’t mind much that they are Nikon and I am currently using canon, since I have all DX lenses anyways that I would need to sell. If I would have stuck with canon I would have gone full frame for sure since the build quality of the 60-70-80D was sorely disappointing.
I have set my budget to be around 1150 USD for now, so with the D800 this would equate to just the body and a good 28-70 (looking at the tamron 2.8 VC). For the D7200 it would mean 625 to splurge on other lenses (looking mostly at the tamron/sigma 17-50 2.8, tokina 11-16, nikkor 35mm 1.8g, nikkor 55-300 f.5-5.6).
Important to consider of course, is the type of photography I do. I mostly do street photography, travel photography, landscapes. I am not (yet) specialized in any specific field of photography, so I suppose general purpose use should be a good description. I have found that I shot most of my pictures with my Tamron 17-50mm 2.8 (so FF 24-70 equivalent). Note that eventhough I do a lot of travel photography, I don’t mind weight so much, since I am a fairly big guy.
I have tried both the D7200 and D800 in the shop, because of my big hands the D800 is far more comfortable The D7200 has very shallow recess for the fingers to grab, and an awkwardly positioned dial (maybe because I am used to the canon dial?). Also I must say I am slightly dissapointed that the build quality of the D7200 is not on par with the 50D, it feels more plasticy.
Advantages D800:
-All advantages of fullframe over APSC
-Better IQ (especially low light, it seems to have about 1 stop less noise)
-Higher resolution
-More comfortable
-Better build quality
Advantages D7200:
-Cheaper
-Cheaper lenses (although would have to sell DX lenses anyways when moving to FF)
-Lightweight
-Wifi
-Better autofocus (Or so I have heard?)
What do you guys think? If you were in a similar situation, what would you pick? And if you had experiences with either camera, which would you pick?
Many thanks in advance!
A big first post for the forum, so my apologies in advance.
I am in the process of upgrading from my existing kit to something better, however, I would love to hear some input from you guys (especially those who have experience with both systems).
Currently I own an Canon eos 50D, which is admittingly quite long in the tooth. Originally I had bought it 3 years ago second hand, mostly because of the great price, decent image quality and robust body. At the time I really wanted to get a camera for traveling and getting into photography without having to worry about it being lost, damaged or whatever. Over the past 3 years I have used it quite extensively and found that photography has become a major hobby so it is time for an upgrade, especially so since I have ran into a lot of limitations of the 50D.
These limitations are mostly the relatively poor low light performance and relatively low resolution when photographing landscapes. Of course the massively improved IQ of possible upgrades is always nice.
Currently I am eyeing two options:
I have gotten a great offer for a D7200 in excellent condition, low shutter count, with bag and 18-180mm lens (I am normally not a fan of travel zooms, but I read that the optical quality is quite good) for about 525 USD equivalent. The other option is a used D800 which would cost body only 650 USD eq. The D800 since It fits in my price range and seems to be better value for money than equivalent canon bodies. I don’t mind much that they are Nikon and I am currently using canon, since I have all DX lenses anyways that I would need to sell. If I would have stuck with canon I would have gone full frame for sure since the build quality of the 60-70-80D was sorely disappointing.
I have set my budget to be around 1150 USD for now, so with the D800 this would equate to just the body and a good 28-70 (looking at the tamron 2.8 VC). For the D7200 it would mean 625 to splurge on other lenses (looking mostly at the tamron/sigma 17-50 2.8, tokina 11-16, nikkor 35mm 1.8g, nikkor 55-300 f.5-5.6).
Important to consider of course, is the type of photography I do. I mostly do street photography, travel photography, landscapes. I am not (yet) specialized in any specific field of photography, so I suppose general purpose use should be a good description. I have found that I shot most of my pictures with my Tamron 17-50mm 2.8 (so FF 24-70 equivalent). Note that eventhough I do a lot of travel photography, I don’t mind weight so much, since I am a fairly big guy.
I have tried both the D7200 and D800 in the shop, because of my big hands the D800 is far more comfortable The D7200 has very shallow recess for the fingers to grab, and an awkwardly positioned dial (maybe because I am used to the canon dial?). Also I must say I am slightly dissapointed that the build quality of the D7200 is not on par with the 50D, it feels more plasticy.
Advantages D800:
-All advantages of fullframe over APSC
-Better IQ (especially low light, it seems to have about 1 stop less noise)
-Higher resolution
-More comfortable
-Better build quality
Advantages D7200:
-Cheaper
-Cheaper lenses (although would have to sell DX lenses anyways when moving to FF)
-Lightweight
-Wifi
-Better autofocus (Or so I have heard?)
What do you guys think? If you were in a similar situation, what would you pick? And if you had experiences with either camera, which would you pick?
Many thanks in advance!