D7500

I have been shooting with a Nikon D80 for the past 11 years. That camera produced excellent photos, but with a limited ISO range and only good noise reduction at high ISO, natural light shots needed a lot of post production work, or more tripod use. With D7500,, images taken at high ISO have little or reasonable noise, but more importantly, hand holding is available as faster shutter speeds/higher ISOs can be dialed in. I am very pleased. Have yet to begin shooting video. One downside, I miss the battery grip. Never really needed the extra battery power, but gripping the camera and shooting in portrait orientation were much easier with the extra release button and command dials.
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My first purchase after my old Coolpix died was a D3500. I realized I had no idea how to use it in anything other than auto mode and took a photography class. The photography class made me realize the shortcomings of the entry level D3500 for someone who wants to pursue photography as a hobby. After doing research, I felt the D7500 was exactly what I needed to advance in my new hobby. I haven´t been disappointed! It´s not too large or heavy to comfortably carry on a nature walk and has all the features I need. I especially like the tilting LCD screen. I use it with AF-S Nikkor 18-200 mm zoom and 35 mm prime lenses.

I´ve owned the D7000 and D7100 so I have a reasonable level of expectation for this camera. I also own a D750 for image quality comparisons. I shoot mainly Nikon glass and the extended reach of the DX camera has come in handy more than once using my larger lenses.
I´ve had the camera for 4 days now and beyond my initial impressions I am very pleased to say I am very happy with this camera. The photos are sharp, but video focus is still inadequate. If you are going to shoot 4K you will need a fast SD card. Attached images are mainly unedited straight out of the camera, except for the bandw conversion. Lens was a Nikkor 80-200mm f2.8.

Photos are very crisp. Once i learned the menu i feel more confident shooting any subject.
The only reason i gave it 4 stars is it needs a firmware update to allow center weighted in the F1 button and add spot metering in the F2 button or visa-versa.
The i button is great it lets you make quick changes in the menu without scrolling through all the choices.

After using a D300 for several years, I purchased the D7500. I´ve had it for almost 2 months and have been very pleased with the photos I´ve take. It is easy to use and I especially like the tilting monitor that the D300 did not have. I have been a Nikon user for over 30 years and have been pleased with nearly all of their products. The D7500 has many features that I really like and makes photography even more enjoyable.

Great camera with alot of built in options. Just returned from Alaska and it performed flawlessly.

I have owned 4 Nikon cameras over the last 3 decades. This D7500 is by far the best Ive ever owned. I upgraded from a D5100. It was a great camera also but is no match for the D7500. This camera is amazing.

Coming from a P900 I purchased for a trip this feels very light, I can do things you won´t be able to do on a point and shoot. I was thinking I would miss the GPS from the Coolpix but found out a feature Nikon doesn´t advertise and it´s the fact that the D7500 can geotag via your cell phone on Bluetooth.
I got myself a great 50mm 1.8 lens and I´m enjoying every minute I set apart for shooting.
I´ve been seriously studying photography the last months so I´m really glad to experiment with a proper SLR at last!

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).