robstopper
Senior Member
Hi folks,
I recently upgraded from a D3200 to a D7500, and took it out for the first time earlier this week. I was playing around with some of the settings in fairly low light in an aircraft hangar, experimenting with how far I could push things like the ISO compared to the D3200, so I wasn't expecting to get "perfect" results on a trial session.
Using my Tamron 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 was OK, I was finding at first that on the ISO I would have used on the D3200, the shutter speed was much longer on the D7500 and the VR didn't seem to be quite as effective. Increasing the ISO to 1250 or 1600 helped though, and I got some better shots.
Switching to the 100-400mm lens outside though, in very overcast weather, taking pictures of aircraft in flight, was very underwhelming! Now I'm a few months out of practice, and this was my first time using the D7500, but the settings which usually worked on the D3200 with the same lens just weren't working. I used single point, 9 point, and 51 point AF, different VC settings on the lens, but I barely got a single "good" image.
I think the problems were mostly with my ability to hold the camera sufficiently stable and pan smoothly, but they were never this noticeable on my old camera. Are there any compatibility issues between the D7500 and the Tamron 100-400mm lens? the stabilisation effect you get looking through the view finder doesn't seem as noticeable on the D7500 as it was on the D3200, with that there was a pronounced "freezing" of the image when it stabilised.
I recently upgraded from a D3200 to a D7500, and took it out for the first time earlier this week. I was playing around with some of the settings in fairly low light in an aircraft hangar, experimenting with how far I could push things like the ISO compared to the D3200, so I wasn't expecting to get "perfect" results on a trial session.
Using my Tamron 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 was OK, I was finding at first that on the ISO I would have used on the D3200, the shutter speed was much longer on the D7500 and the VR didn't seem to be quite as effective. Increasing the ISO to 1250 or 1600 helped though, and I got some better shots.
Switching to the 100-400mm lens outside though, in very overcast weather, taking pictures of aircraft in flight, was very underwhelming! Now I'm a few months out of practice, and this was my first time using the D7500, but the settings which usually worked on the D3200 with the same lens just weren't working. I used single point, 9 point, and 51 point AF, different VC settings on the lens, but I barely got a single "good" image.
I think the problems were mostly with my ability to hold the camera sufficiently stable and pan smoothly, but they were never this noticeable on my old camera. Are there any compatibility issues between the D7500 and the Tamron 100-400mm lens? the stabilisation effect you get looking through the view finder doesn't seem as noticeable on the D7500 as it was on the D3200, with that there was a pronounced "freezing" of the image when it stabilised.