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Impressions of the new Nikon D7500
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<blockquote data-quote="spb_stan" data-source="post: 625009" data-attributes="member: 43545"><p>A few points:</p><p>Many are making more of the construction than it needs to be. Monocoque does not mean machining or casting as one piece as one poster stated. It means the shell is structural, and can be of almost any type of construction including casting but more often it is just a structural load bearing skin, as in aircraft, eggs, race cars, old SLR film camera, tower cranes and many materials can be used. The word itself is French meaning single shell.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Structural plastics can be very strong and more impact resistant than metal. There is no rash of broken mounts in any cameras but mag.castings have been problematic in Nikons. The D800 cast frame broke to often and the main reason why the 810 was rushed out, to address the cracked frames that rendered the cameras too costly to repair. IF you want to buy a used D800 or other camera in the pro series, have it checked for frame cracks at the bottom. </p><p></p><p></p><p>The D7500 is being slammed for not having a second slot as it has been deemed as essential yet what other brands, will loyal repeat customers have single slots? All of them except Nikon. No one seems to complain and those brands are in the hands of more pros who you would expect to complain if it really was essential. I use both slots but on my D7000 and D800 and never had a a situation where 1or 2 slots would have made a difference in any way. Between my 3 DSLRs, that is about 400,000 frames and never a session was saved or ruined by the card slot count.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The complaints about no grip provisions probably reflects market research. Very few people use grips. I see thousands of tourists every week and note what cameras they have, and most are mid level, like D5xxx or D7xxx, and a surprising number of D8x0 and Dx(single digit integrated grips) and about the only grips I see are on those with grips integrated into the body. The connector on the bottom is a corrosion and liquid entry risk if one is NOT using a grip so Nikon probably calculated the removal would make the camera more affordable and more reliable. Besides, release function is accessible from BlueTooth so in a few weeks or months a BlueTooth grip for $30 will be available from China.The whole D7x00 series has been so far very frugal with battery capacity. My D7000 is seldom needs charging, batteries last a long time, about 3k files if you do not chimp all the time or do videos. It has a grip but I don't even put a battery in the body anymore, and use the extra battery for the D800, 3 batteries are enough for about the same shot count as the D7000.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Overall, I think the D7500 is suffering from only one problem; initial enthusiast disappointment based on personal preferred options not included. Those are always minor features, not functional defects, because no one can cite a Nikon camera that disappointed in actual image quality in a very long time. This outcry occurs with every new model before its actual advantages become known. Even the D500 for the first few weeks after announcement had a great many complaints and claims that Nikon blew it yet again. I am willing to buck the popular first impressions and say this new body will sell well and be regarded as the best pro-sumer camera for image quality in any conditions. Check back in a year to see who was right:>) </p><p>I am old enough to remember the cries when cars introduced new features and abandoned old ones that had no practical reason to be included other than tradition. If we only got cameras or cars that consumer expected, no innovations would have taken place. The price point needs to be a design goal also since a camera not in a narrow price range of the one it replaces does not sell well regardless of how much more is included in the product. The D7500 body is the same price as a D90 kit when it came out. And the dollar was worth more in 2008 than now. </p><p>When files start getting shared,the quality of jpgs will cause a lot of people to upgrade, yes, upgrade since the D7200 is very good, the D7500 promises to be better in IQ</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spb_stan, post: 625009, member: 43545"] A few points: Many are making more of the construction than it needs to be. Monocoque does not mean machining or casting as one piece as one poster stated. It means the shell is structural, and can be of almost any type of construction including casting but more often it is just a structural load bearing skin, as in aircraft, eggs, race cars, old SLR film camera, tower cranes and many materials can be used. The word itself is French meaning single shell. Structural plastics can be very strong and more impact resistant than metal. There is no rash of broken mounts in any cameras but mag.castings have been problematic in Nikons. The D800 cast frame broke to often and the main reason why the 810 was rushed out, to address the cracked frames that rendered the cameras too costly to repair. IF you want to buy a used D800 or other camera in the pro series, have it checked for frame cracks at the bottom. The D7500 is being slammed for not having a second slot as it has been deemed as essential yet what other brands, will loyal repeat customers have single slots? All of them except Nikon. No one seems to complain and those brands are in the hands of more pros who you would expect to complain if it really was essential. I use both slots but on my D7000 and D800 and never had a a situation where 1or 2 slots would have made a difference in any way. Between my 3 DSLRs, that is about 400,000 frames and never a session was saved or ruined by the card slot count. The complaints about no grip provisions probably reflects market research. Very few people use grips. I see thousands of tourists every week and note what cameras they have, and most are mid level, like D5xxx or D7xxx, and a surprising number of D8x0 and Dx(single digit integrated grips) and about the only grips I see are on those with grips integrated into the body. The connector on the bottom is a corrosion and liquid entry risk if one is NOT using a grip so Nikon probably calculated the removal would make the camera more affordable and more reliable. Besides, release function is accessible from BlueTooth so in a few weeks or months a BlueTooth grip for $30 will be available from China.The whole D7x00 series has been so far very frugal with battery capacity. My D7000 is seldom needs charging, batteries last a long time, about 3k files if you do not chimp all the time or do videos. It has a grip but I don't even put a battery in the body anymore, and use the extra battery for the D800, 3 batteries are enough for about the same shot count as the D7000. Overall, I think the D7500 is suffering from only one problem; initial enthusiast disappointment based on personal preferred options not included. Those are always minor features, not functional defects, because no one can cite a Nikon camera that disappointed in actual image quality in a very long time. This outcry occurs with every new model before its actual advantages become known. Even the D500 for the first few weeks after announcement had a great many complaints and claims that Nikon blew it yet again. I am willing to buck the popular first impressions and say this new body will sell well and be regarded as the best pro-sumer camera for image quality in any conditions. Check back in a year to see who was right:>) I am old enough to remember the cries when cars introduced new features and abandoned old ones that had no practical reason to be included other than tradition. If we only got cameras or cars that consumer expected, no innovations would have taken place. The price point needs to be a design goal also since a camera not in a narrow price range of the one it replaces does not sell well regardless of how much more is included in the product. The D7500 body is the same price as a D90 kit when it came out. And the dollar was worth more in 2008 than now. When files start getting shared,the quality of jpgs will cause a lot of people to upgrade, yes, upgrade since the D7200 is very good, the D7500 promises to be better in IQ [/QUOTE]
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