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<blockquote data-quote="MartinCornwall" data-source="post: 538107" data-attributes="member: 12701"><p>My D7000 died so I replaced it with the D7100 and it is not good for astro/moon photography. The liveview (used to zoom in to focus) on the D7000 showed what you had dialed in (settings) but on the D7100 nothing alters on liveview, it does not show the settings that you use. I'm probably not explaining this very well, but if you try to focus on the moon all you can see is an overexposed blob on the d7100 liveview and altering the settings, exposure iso etc will not alter this. It uses a generic setting for liveview. This seems like a downgrade from the D7000. I had to upgrade to the FF D750 as this has the feature of turning on/off liveview exposure preview. Also when trying to focus on less bright objects eg stars when you zoom in there is so much noise showing on liveview that it is hard to make out the stars to focus on. So if you coulkd live with 16MP and the D7000 would be better suited for night/astro. There is not much difference in noise at ISO1600 30 secs f2.8 the D7100 does have slightly less noise but is marginal at these exposures. Hope this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="MartinCornwall, post: 538107, member: 12701"] My D7000 died so I replaced it with the D7100 and it is not good for astro/moon photography. The liveview (used to zoom in to focus) on the D7000 showed what you had dialed in (settings) but on the D7100 nothing alters on liveview, it does not show the settings that you use. I'm probably not explaining this very well, but if you try to focus on the moon all you can see is an overexposed blob on the d7100 liveview and altering the settings, exposure iso etc will not alter this. It uses a generic setting for liveview. This seems like a downgrade from the D7000. I had to upgrade to the FF D750 as this has the feature of turning on/off liveview exposure preview. Also when trying to focus on less bright objects eg stars when you zoom in there is so much noise showing on liveview that it is hard to make out the stars to focus on. So if you coulkd live with 16MP and the D7000 would be better suited for night/astro. There is not much difference in noise at ISO1600 30 secs f2.8 the D7100 does have slightly less noise but is marginal at these exposures. Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]

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