New d5100 owner

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Mediaman09

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Well I am offically a Nikonite now!

After a long outing at the dealer , I just bought me a new Nikon 5100 with a DX VR II 18-200 f/3.5-5.6 AF-S lens ( and 16 GB Sandisk ExtremePro card).
The tipping scale (over the 3200) was:
  • auto bracketing
  • articulating screen
  • preference of 16 over 24 MP ( closer to sweet spot)
Other factors that sealed the deal:
  • availability
  • bundled pricing on 5100
  • non-issue with relative weight
  • ruling our of mirrorless options (advantage Niokn on many levels, ie build quality, lens choices, user community, compatibililty with my older Nikon lenses)
  • ease of use with my older lenses (in manual mode)
I still want to pursue non-Eye-Fi wi-fi connectivty options (haven't yet confirmed if the Wu-1a works with the 5100, but if not, I am hopeful another or a future product will).
 
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jdeg

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Re: Nikon D3200 vs D5100

Mediaman09 said:
I still want to pursue non-Eye-Fi wi-fi connectivty options (haven't yet confirmed if the Wu-1a works with the 5100, but if not, I am hopeful another or a future product will).
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Glad you're joining the team! The wu-1a will not work with the D5100. The eye-fi will work for your needs though. I have one and it's very useful.
 
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Mediaman09

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Re: Nikon D3200 vs D5100

jdeg said:
Glad you're joining the team! The wu-1a will not work with the D5100. The eye-fi will work for your needs though. I have one and it's very useful.
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Thanks. Good to be here!

1) Forgive my ignorance ( 5100 is still in the box!), but does the 5100 have TWO card slots?? Manual doesnt mention it. That would actaully be a clean option , ie keeping an Eye-fi card avaiable all the time (vs having to plug in an adaptor). But if the 5100 only has the one slot, then its messy.

2) If the eye-fi card doubles as a memeory card, are there hi-speed, hi-capacity versions of Eye-fi cards??
 
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pedroj

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Re: Nikon D3200 vs D5100

Mediaman09 said:
Thanks. Good to be here!

1) Forgive my ignorance ( 5100 is still in the box!), but does the 5100 have TWO card slots?? Manual doesnt mention it. That would actaully be a clean option , ie keeping an Eye-fi card avaiable all the time (vs having to plug in an adaptor). But if the 5100 only has the one slot, then its messy.

2) If the eye-fi card doubles as a memeory card, are there hi-speed, hi-capacity versions of Eye-fi cards??
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If the manual doesn't mention it it probably doesn't have that feature...
 
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jdeg

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It was much easier to use with the D7000 having two memory card slots since you could just set it to copy to the eye-fi card.
 
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Mediaman09

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jdeg said:
It was much easier to use with the D7000 having two memory card slots since you could just set it to copy to the eye-fi card.
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Agree completely ; its exactly what I'd do if
I had the 7000. But as upgrading to 7000 is not an option, I need to figure out what works best for the 5100.

In my one slot, I want a high quality /fast memory card, so it would be great if it had eye-fi.

1) So is there are Class 10 card like this, but with eye-fi? I think whe I googled this last, I thought I did see something introduced n Europe a year back, so it must be available by now, though seems hard to find in a Class 10.

2) I am still hopeful, perhaps naively, that there might be a future firmware upgrade that would work with a wu1a type USB device..
 
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§am

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Generally the faster your card the better it is, and you need a minimum recommended Class 6 anyway.

The D5100 however is UHS-1 compatiable (minimum 50MB/s write), and all current UHS-1 cards are at least a backwards compatiable Class 10 card.
The Sandisk Extreme is rated at 45MB/s write, and the Extreme Pro you linked to at 95MB/s.
Now here's the interesting question... the D5100 will detect a UHS-1 card, and there theoretically use the 50MB/s write speed available to it. If you stick an Extreme Pro card in, are you gaining the benefit of the 95MB/s speed at all, or is the camera 'dumbing' down to the UHS-1 speed of 50MB/s?? If the later, then unless you're gonna use the card in some other non UHS-1 device, it's not worth paying the extra money for, and you ould just get away with an Extreme card (or possibly even the Sandisk Ultra (although that is only a Class 10 30MB/s card).
 
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