I’ve shot professionally for years, I’ve made over $50,000 with a d200 and a d7100 back up. Wen you upgrade every year and get locked into the upgrade process you aren’t a photographer anymore, you’re a person who buys cameras. How many cameras have you owned to where you started noticing the buttons getting worn where you are changing your settings to get the right picture ur wanting? Your camera spends more time in the padded case and you treat it like it’s something that should be in a safe deposit box. I’ve been there, but once I stopped doing that and I forgot about what camera that guy over there was using, I started to notice my buttons was losing the marking to tell what the button was for, then I began noticing my pictures were getting better. Go pick up ur camera right now and set ur f-stop at 1.4 iso to 160-400 according to light. What’s aperture priority? Shutter priority? What do u set if ur taking pics and ur pics are blurry? Not enough light? Ur still sitting there aren’t you? Lol. Seriously, when you have absolutely mastered your cameras settings, and u can know just in a split second what to set ur camera at, you’ll forget about the camera, and you’ll start to worry about more trivial things, the things photographers worry about, you have to master light, you have to master your settings and read the book, then buy the books on your camera and read, read and study camera settings, you can’t rely on automatic settings forever. Depth of field, want the background blurred? What setting does that? Wide aperture lens, low aperture number on lens, smaller the number, larger the aperture, more expensive lens. If u want to be a pro, buy one good camera and 5 great lenses, and USE THEM. LOL.
I've had my Nikon7100 and that baby still works fine and some of my favorite pics are with that camera. People get way too much into full frame and etc. The keys to a good photograph are the right lens and skill.
I was GIFTED a D7100 with like 4 lenses(50mm 1.8, Tamron 28-75mm, 70-300mm Tamron and the kit lens that really sucks so it's trashed to me lol) and believe it or not... I define it takes better looking shots and the light fall off is SO MUCH BETTER than my Sony A7rii. I disagree with "noise" at 400 and even at 800-2500 ISO(edited). Above 2500 up for me it gets nuts. It greatly reduces when you use better quality glass of it's time. I work in professional fashion and brand photography and with what I do, the shots just saves my bones compared to my Sony. I love the Sony for it's details but Give me the D7100 with my 70-300 MACRO lens for close shots and I can purposely lie and say I took it with my Sony lol. It's a great workhorse for such a Pro-consumer body and I'll be carrying it on a test shoot today. Oh by the way, you wouln't catch me with a Nikon and now I understand why you Nikon folks are hardcore about yours because now I am ;-) LOL
The meta Data would show you lied like a a fashionista sagger lover and if I was Art directing, I would fire you on the spot for that alone. I bet you love p Diddy /Snoop Dog after parties
One of the best features of the D7100 not mentioned here is it has clean uncompressed HDMI out so you can hook up an external recorder for video like an Atomos ninja V and record up to 1080P 30fps in ProRes or a few other codecs with all of the video assist features like waveform, false color, zebra, etc, whatever the field monitor offers. So it’s perfect for RU-vid videos.
I love the D7100 and am still learning how to use all the features. Being retired now I hope to get into photography more. I have taken some really nice pictures from the Chesapeake Bay. I love to create pictures that you can feel the emotion of the subject. Can be of animals, people, wildlife, etc.
@@unbroken1010 Why do you say eww? When I say feel the emotion from the pictures is when I shot weddings, etc, you want to laugh and in some cases cry from the joy of the moment. When a person feels the emotion of a moment in time, to me, it means I got a good picture.
Started off with the D40 then went to the 3X00 series. I decided to purchase the D700 but my salesguy sold me on an instore D7100 and havent looked back since. It is a tank. Despite being gifted a D5300 my go to is the D7100 and it has gotten me into some events where they mistook it as pro camera lol.
D7100 is a great camera even by todays standards. I decided to get a Sony A6500. Mirrorless is great but I feel like the D7100 helped me learn more as an amature photographer. Plus, Nikon is so much less expensive than Sony parts and lenses. Im going back!!!
I started digital with a 3200 and have been using a 7100 for the last five or six years and only use screwdrive lenses nowadays ..300 F4 AF-ED….80-200..2.8 AF-D….Tokina 100mm 2.8 macro and a 35 F2 AF-D..all great glass..Got a back up camera recently to safeguard against my faithful 7100 protesting about my all weather use…. A near mint 7100..!!!
@@CrushingPhotography oh I am just a hobbyist that likes taking pics of whatever I fancy when out & about... street & landscape photography mainly with my D7100...I also have a D500 that I am enjoying using & learning about wildlife photography..👍😊
I've just changed over from the Nikon D300s and bought the D7200 as a bum around camera when not carrying around the heavier D300s! A little lighter camera system to carry around town photography!
Sorry for the late response, just saw this comment. Personally, I absolutely love D750, I have a text-based review about it and why it’s awesome, in case you’re curious: digitalworldbeauty.com/nikon-d750-review Do you plan to shoot astrophotography for the most part?
don’t let yourself get seduced by a new camera with a special feature that you’ll use only once in your whole life. just because the d7100 doesn’t have the “image-whoozie-whatzie” that a newer model has it doesn’t mean that it’s a worthless piece of 💩
I don't have one and won't brag about what I started with like every other weird photographer down 👇 below. No wonder Camera Conspiracy rags on photographer's. You all give him a reason. 😂
@@CrushingPhotography everyone down below is bragging about what cameras they own. They act so weird . I might get one ,they both basically the same price used d7100 and 72
@@ostettivictoreven though you say it’s “obvious” to you, I have to correct you. I personally wrote an article on it 3-4 years ago that I kept updating: digitalworldbeauty.com/nikon-d7100-review The voice of our voiceover member happened to be more monotone in this video, with that I DO agree, but neither the text nor the voice of this review were AI-generated 😉
@@quinsiero1378there’s truth to that! I’ll let our voiceover team member to be cautious, he must’ve been more tired when he was working on this video, hence why it’s less enthusiastic than usually is
'Nee-kon" is how the rest of the world says it, including the country of origin (Japan) and the UK (who respect that custom & international convention). Only citizens of the USA believe our way is the only / right way. Grow TF up. BTW, I'm a native Texan and still live here; got my first Nikon in 1965 and still shooting my favorite camera brand: 'NEE-KON.'
