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Nikon D5200 Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm VR Lens Kit - Black (24.1MP) 3 inch LCD (discontinued by manufacturer)

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NIKKOR lenses: take advantage of Nikon's legendary NIKKOR lenses and make the most of the camera's 24-megapixel resolution. Capture photos with vivid colour and striking contrast. Shoot movies with crisp detail or experiment with cinematic effects. You can choose between 100-6400 ISO settings, which is also expandable to 25600 ISO if the need arises. For most shots however, you can easily manage in the lower ISO settings as the higher settings will only be in play if you need to take pictures of dimly lit subjects. Sure, the focal length is not the best, as it only goes from 10 to 24mm, but if your main focus is on image quality, you will want to get this wide-angle lens for your Nikon D5200 camera. Portrait, Landscape, Child, Sports, Close up, Night portrait, Night landscape, Party/indoor, Beach/snow, Sunset, Dusk/dawn, Pet portrait, Candlelight, Blossom, Autumn colors, Food Auto, auto with red-eye reduction, auto slow sync, auto slow sync with red-eye reduction, fill-flash, red-eye reduction, slow sync, slow sync with red-eye reduction, rear-curtain with slow sync, rear-curtain sync, off

The D5200 should have taken a clear lead over the 18-megapixel 650D for details, but it took us a few attempts to get sharp photos in our studio test shots. Even then, the D5200’s photos were bigger but not obviously more detailed than the 650D’s to our eyes. Not just for the average user, but for professionals too, the Nikon D5200 works wonders. The ability to shoot in RAW and convert to any other type of file is outstanding! Photos are crisp, noise is minimized and with 39 autofocus points, you get that Nikon precision with every shot. You won’t go for other cameras after the Nikon D5200. If you select a mode according to the scene, the D5200 automatically chooses the most appropriate settings to deliver a beautiful image. Five frequently used Scene Modes such as Portrait and Landscape can be directly selected using the mode dial. For other modes such as Sunset, Dusk/dawn and Food, set the mode dial to SCENE and select the mode by rotating the command dial. You can capture scenes which previously had been difficult to shoot, easily and beautifully. The Nikon D5200 produced images of excellent quality during the review period. The D5200 produces noise-free JPEG images at ISO 100-1600, with ISO 3200 also looking pretty good. ISO 6400 only shows a little noise, while the fastest settings of ISO 12800 and 25600 are quite a lot noisier and suffer from softening of fine detail and a loss of saturation, but the images are still perfectly usable for small prints and resizing for web use.Like the other inexpensive Nikons, like the D5100, D5000, D3100, D3000, D60, D40 and D40x, it works flawlessly with all modern AF-I and AF-S lenses. For the D5200, as with all DX cameras, my favorite lens is the 35mm f/1.8 DX as opposed to the 18-55mm VR kit zoom. I move as I need to to frame the photo, so I'd get the D5200 body-only and the 35mm f/1.8 DX separately. Active D-Lighting: Retains details in highlights and shadows for well-balanced images, even if the subject is moving The default settings are great: the D5200 figures out what sensors and how to use them, and just focuses.

All of the sample images in this review were taken using the 24 megapixel Fine JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 8Mb. The “best” lens depends on your photography style and needs. A versatile lens like the Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR is often recommended for the Nikon D5200. However, the best lens can vary based on the type of photography – for example, the Nikon 35mm f/1.8G could be the best for portraits, while the AF-P DX NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-6.3G ED could be ideal for wildlife or sports photography. Can I use FX lenses on a Nikon D5200?Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian It's OK in the dark; not instantaneous, but it focuses well. If it's too dark, the AF illuminator helps at closer distances, and further away, it can hang-up if it's too dark for you or I to read a book. There's quite a few similarities between the Nikon D3200 and the Nikon D5200, but one difference is the latter's sensitivity capabilities. The D3200 has a native range of ISO 100-6400, which is extendable up to 25600. Nikon D5200: design The all-auto-area AF system seems pretty clever, but it can still get fooled and focus behind the subject.

The Effects shooting mode, first introduced on the D5100, continues to provide 7 different filters that can be applied to both still images and movies. The Night Vision effect is particularly worth of mention, pushing the camera's sensitivity to a whopping ISO 102,400, although a monochrome rather than colour image is recorded. The Nikon D5200 has a HDR mode with four levels of manual exposure and an Auto setting. The camera only combines two shots, one under and one over exposed, to produce the final image, and it's only available when shooting JPEGs. The D5200 has a proper through-the-lens optical viewfinder with a magnification of 0.78x, on par with most of its rivals. The Nikon D5200's 39 auto-focus points are permanently marked on the focusing screen, whereas the compositional grid lines can be called up via a menu option. Two warning signs - telling you that the battery is running low or you have forgotten to insert a memory card - may also appear in the form of overlaid icons when appropriate. Below the finder is a traditional monochromatic status bar showing practically all relevant shooting information (including the ISO sensitivity, if so specified in the menu).

Well specified, especially with its 39-point autofocus, but the controls could be more elegant and our test shots tended to be slightly soft

None of these detail-related issues was disastrous, and the 650D and its predecessors have their own focus problems with their 18-55mm kit lens. However, we’d advise caution to anyone who is considering upgrading to the D5200 for the sake of its high resolution.

The Nikon D5200 is Nikon's newest update to their excellent D5100 of 2011 and D5000 of 2009. These are all low-priced, high-performance DSLRs with pivoting LCD screens and Live View for shooting photos and movies while held away from your head.Scene modes: Automatically adjusts camera settings, including Picture Controls and Active D-Lighting, for optimal results. A good proportion of cameras now include digital filters with creative photographers in mind. The D5200 has the same seven filters as its predecessor, such as Selective Color and Miniature. It's still not possible to shoot these effects in raw format, and remove them in post-processing, though. Nikon D5200: sensitivity High dynamic range (HDR): Gives detailed shots of high-contrast scenes by combining two shots taken within a single shutter release The newest thing compared to last year's model is that the D5200 essentially has the fancier AF system of the D7000, the image sensor from the D3200, and that the D5200 also comes in brown or red metallic colors for the ladies. None of this is that important; the older models are excellent, too. Although the D5200 shares the same 24MP resolution as both the D3200 and D7100, the D5200 offers a higher extended ISO range compared to the D3200 (25600 vs 12800) and faster continuous shooting (5 fps vs 4). And the D5200, unlike the D7100, continues to use an anti-aliasing (AA) filter, although as we demonstrated in a side by side comparison in our D7100 review, it gives up precious little in terms of detail to its more expensive big brother.

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