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<blockquote data-quote="hark" data-source="post: 667202" data-attributes="member: 13196"><p>My answer is going to come from an entirely different point of view so take it with a grain of salt if you wish. </p><p></p><p>My suggestion is to go with a D7200. For one reason, if you are buying new, it's on sale for an excellent price of $796.95 (body only). The D7500 which is the newest in the D7x00 series is more expensive but only has one card slot. </p><p></p><p>The D7200 has AF fine tuning which means you can tweak your AF lenses to make them focus their sharpest. I don't think your current body has that ability. And like Brent mentioned, the D7200 lacks the anti-alias filter which should allow you slightly sharper results. As he also pointed out, your current lens is faster on the long end than the Sigma you were looking at. The lower the f/stop number of your current lens (f/4.5 or f/5.6) beats f/6.3 of the Sigma for speed. </p><p></p><p>As for the noise...depending upon your choice of editing software, if you are using Photoshop, you can download The Nik Collection for free. It has Nik Dfine which is among the best noise reduction programs available. In Photoshop, if you know how to do layers, you can use the High Pass Filter to sharpen the areas that need to be sharpened more.</p><p></p><p>But if you want a lens that will be faster than what you've got, it might be somewhat expensive. Like pforsell said, the Nikon 300mm f/4 is good although I'd suggest the AF-S over the AF-D. The AF-S version works with Nikon's 1.4x teleconverter. The AF-D version doesn't. If you'd decide to add a teleconverter to the 300mm AF-D lens, Kenko might be the only option. Unfortunately the Kenko degrades sharpness more than the Nikon teleconverter.</p><p></p><p>Just some ideas to mull over. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hark, post: 667202, member: 13196"] My answer is going to come from an entirely different point of view so take it with a grain of salt if you wish. My suggestion is to go with a D7200. For one reason, if you are buying new, it's on sale for an excellent price of $796.95 (body only). The D7500 which is the newest in the D7x00 series is more expensive but only has one card slot. The D7200 has AF fine tuning which means you can tweak your AF lenses to make them focus their sharpest. I don't think your current body has that ability. And like Brent mentioned, the D7200 lacks the anti-alias filter which should allow you slightly sharper results. As he also pointed out, your current lens is faster on the long end than the Sigma you were looking at. The lower the f/stop number of your current lens (f/4.5 or f/5.6) beats f/6.3 of the Sigma for speed. As for the noise...depending upon your choice of editing software, if you are using Photoshop, you can download The Nik Collection for free. It has Nik Dfine which is among the best noise reduction programs available. In Photoshop, if you know how to do layers, you can use the High Pass Filter to sharpen the areas that need to be sharpened more. But if you want a lens that will be faster than what you've got, it might be somewhat expensive. Like pforsell said, the Nikon 300mm f/4 is good although I'd suggest the AF-S over the AF-D. The AF-S version works with Nikon's 1.4x teleconverter. The AF-D version doesn't. If you'd decide to add a teleconverter to the 300mm AF-D lens, Kenko might be the only option. Unfortunately the Kenko degrades sharpness more than the Nikon teleconverter. Just some ideas to mull over. ;) [/QUOTE]
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