D7500

Nikon equipment and photography have made me an ´´active´´ rather than ´´passive´´ tourist in life.

I just ´´upgraded´´ from a pair of Nikon D700 bodies to the Nikon D7500 last week (today is 23APR2019), and could not be happier.

How can moving from Fx to Dx be an upgrade? How about ten year newer sensor technology, faster AF (my two year old grandson never stops moving...even when he is sitting still!), 8 FPS with no extra hardware requirements, lens distortion correction, built in connectivity...as well as first time (for me) video capability....oh, and at 57, size does matter! Having a smaller kit to carry around with better functionality has become more important than pure image ´´size´´ alone.

I love the ability to save settings to U1 and U2. U1 for me, U2 for the wife or other family members with some easier to use focus settings rather than the Continuous 3D-Tracking I use in U1.

I also bought the Nikon 16-80mm F2.8-4 Dx and the 70-300mm F4.5-6.3 AF-P VR Dx lens. The 16-80 is about as sharp wide open as most of the primes I have owned over the years.

Do I miss the aperture feeler for older lenses? To be honest, this was more of a self-bragging right than bore out by actual use (may have used a favorite 1968 105mm F2.8 Nikkor, once a year at most).

Do I miss the second (missing card slot)? No. I have never owned a camera with two card slots and I have never had a card failure regardless of form factor since entering the digital realm in the late 1990´s.

Though we had the camera only a week, I dialed it in quite well (been using Nikon DLSR´s since about 2007, Nikon D40) and my wife got great college graduation photos of me as I walked across the stage (late bloomer), then we stopped by the Indianapolis Motor Speed way for opening day of qualification and got some great photos using the Nikon 70-300mm Dx F4.5-6.3 AF-P VR.

Highly recommend the D7500 due to a great feature set, balanced by a reasonable cost.

Upgrade path: 1970´s Nikon F and FTn kit, varios digital point and shoot cameras until the Nikon D40 in about 2007, Nikon D300 in about 2007, Pair of Nikon D700 bodies in about 2010...over 20 Nikkor/Nikon lenses from non-AI to AF-D (trio of F2.8 zooms covering 17-200mm...you know the ones).

This camera is a gem. I own a Nikon D850, D500 and now a D7500, along with a large collection of lenses, and I constantly find myself reaching for this nugget. The high ISO without noise and grain allows me to photograph in very low light, while the dynamic range is jaw dropping. I thought I would be bothered by the one card slot thing, but I´m now, and I´m very picky about my photography gear. I need to have dependable and reliable gear or it just won´t be used. No if´s, and´s or but´s about it. It either is or it isn´t, and the Nikon D7500 definitely is. The buttons are in the perfect locations, it´s easy to navigate, and when you want to use set of settings, just save them. You´ll have them there waiting for the next time your ready to grab this camera and go photograph something amazing. This camera is a must have if not as your base camera, it´s a must have as a backup or a “grab and go” camera. Can´t best the price either.

I used my Nikon D5000 for over 8 years and really liked how it handled and how I was able to take the perfect picture. One flaw though made me change. The motor for the lens is in the lens, not the camera. I kept going through expensive lenses. The D7500 solved those problems and came with a lot more in the way of Bluetooth and updated software. I have a lot on my plate to learn but I do have one ace up my sleeve. My daughter, a graduate of Columbia College Chicago, has a degree in Photography. She is a Fashion Photographer station in New York City and goes around to many well known studio´s to photograph models, food, and clothing for various companies throughout the USA. She is my teacher. I am now learning about aperture vs. shutter speed vs. ISO sensitivity. I still have a long way to go, but have a great camera to begin taking and editing pictures using the Nikon tools that come with the camera. A great thing for me to do as I just start my retirement. I recommend the D7500 to all photography enthusiast. Go for it.

Picked up this camera up because I got back into photography. A tragic event happened in my life and for some reason it got me back into it. My Dad committed suicide off of one of my all time favorite bridges to photography and this has led me back to my love of bridge photography and just capturing how awesome life can be. Through the amazing kit lense, 18-140, and my 50mm it just pops through this amazing camera. I love everything about it except for the fact Nikon is not making a battery grip for it. Definitely would reccomend this camera to anyone.

You´ve heard of The Three Bears story well, ´´This One Is Just Right.´´ Any heavier camera would be cumbersome. I go on 3 - 4 hours nature hikes and come back with some pretty amazing stuff something new everyday! I have an array of lenses. This camera has brought back joy in my life. I´ve been out of the loop for some time but guess what, ´´I´m Baaack!´´

I bought the D7500 after owning the D5500 for 3 years.it is bigger and 10 oz heavier, but it feels right when using. I especially love how fast it is to focus and how good the photos look even at high ISOs. I shoot a lot of equestrian and livestock events, so the lighting is not always great and is often mixed. I love the glass pentaprism, the control layout and how it handles. I am 72 and my 60th year of shooting, photography has been an avocation for me all these years! I can adjust the sensor and use the U1 and U2 controls to keep all as I want.
I normally shoot on manual, setting the f stop and shutter speed I want and let the ISO ‘float´ so to speak. That sensor never lets me down. When the ambient light is iffy, I shoot with and without the built in flash, with the flash set down .7 of a stop and 1 of the two will be superb! I will add the 16-80 f2.8-4 VR is an incredible lens! Thank you Nikon!

Quite an upgrade from my D3200. Read a lot of reviews on the D7500 and finally decided to go and check one out at the local Best Buy Store, and after actually holding one in my hands and playing with it for a short time, I knew then that I would soon own one. This camera has everything I will ever need. The shooting speed and focusing system leaves my D3200 in the dust. Not that my D3200 wasn´t a good camera, I got a lot of really great shots with it, but the D7500 far exceeds my expectations.

I´ve been using Nikon DSLR´s for years, particularly the incredible (for its time) D90, and the not so great D7000. Obviously the ´´upgrade´´ from D90 to D7000 resulted in greater DR, faster focus, and loads of new options. The biggest upgrade was the ISO capability of course. However, the 7000 (my copy at least) had HORRIBLE focus issues. So, so frustrating, that many times I would revert back to using my trusty ol´ D90.

I had only a few thousand clicks on the D7000 before I got fed up with missing half my shots due to hardware crappiness, and upgraded to a refurb D7500, that included the amazing AFP 70-300 VR. Wow, what a difference. This camera has improved almost everything that I loved about the D90, and of course added new features that I have always missed on DSLRS (movable back LCD).

The focus capability (and esp. with an AFP lens) simply TROUNCES the sad D7000. Night and day difference, and I wish I had switched much earlier since using the 7500 made me realize how much I struggled with focus on the 7000 (but probably wouldn´t admit to myself).

This thing is surely the pinnacle of the line, before we all move to mirrorless. I know Nikon is focusing on that for the future, and if this is the last remainder of the D series DSLR´s, they really are going out with a champion as an exclamation mark on the entire, generally excellent, line.

So many things I am happy with, I can´t list them all, but some of the features I appreciate that are better than on previous models:
1. Beautiful, hi res back LCD that MOVES! THANK YOU. Finally this comes to the 90/7000 line!
2. ISO is almost ludicrous, again compared to my previous models. It´s insane how high I can crank the ISO before I get to ´´unacceptable´´.
3. Focus speed is just mind blowing, especially when paired with an AFP lens. Wow. I can´t describe this experience, because it´s almost a new thing compared what I have been used to with the 90 and 7000. Silent and instant is probably the best way for me to describe it.
4. the FPS shooting is also insane...SO fast, and has resulted already in much better shots of my son playing basketball, as well as daughter playing soccer. Shots I for sure would have missed (blurred) with my previous two models, are nailed in multiple frames on the 7500.

A lot more than this, but I will cut to the negatives lest I sound too fanboyish:
1. LCD on back only tilts, it does not have the same range of movement that you find on the lower level models (5000 and I think also 3000). Those models also rotate and turn IIRC.
2. Frankly, the resolution and resulting size of the files (even jpg) is a little much! Huge, massive files! :D Maybe too much of a good thing, but I guess I can reduce file size without losing image quality. Hopefully I can do that.
3. Wifi/snapbridge implementation is absolutely awful. I appreciate actually having the capability, but man, if you´re going to implement something, make it right, and make it work consistently! Ugh. Probably my biggest disappointment with the model.
4. More of a preference than a complaint, but I wish they had removed the onboard flash on this model like they did with the D500 (I think that´s the one). I have never seen a decent shot using an onboard flash (it even makes just snapshots look crappy), and my tiny Nikon external flash is so portable that it´s a no brainer to put it on rather than use the popup.
5. Video implementation could be better. I know this is not Nikon´s strength, and competitors do video MUCH better, but still, they don´t have to seemingly ignore it! :D If you´re looking to do much video, I would not recommend this (or any Nikon in this line). Still, I have taken some great footage with only using the camera ( no external light or mic). The HD quality itself is superb (depending on lens of course), but the actual UI of the video could be a lot better.

Overall, fantastic camera, and so glad I ponied up for it.

The camera takes great pictures still getting use to the control button much different than my D5300, Which the quiet selection was quieter