Nikon D5200 Introduced in North America

January 9, 2013 Leave a comment

Emerald Basilisk posing for the camera in La Selva, Costa Rica(Nikon D5000, Nikkor AF-S VR 18-105mm, ISO 200, f/5.6, 1/200s).Thanks to the 1.5x crop factor DX/APS-C DSLRs are great for wildlife photography, especially coupled with excellent low light performance, large buffers and good continuous shooting frame rates. Some cameras, like the D300s for example, are also built to pro standards which helps the camera withstand the wear and tear of outdoor shooting sessions.See more like this at Sorin Vacaru Photography

Sun Rising Over the Mesquite Flats Dunes, Death Valley National Park
(Nikon D5000, Nikkor AF-S VR 18-105mm, ISO 200, f/8, 1/160s).
It is all about composition: I have never been happy with the original image. Something was off. The other day I decided to spend the time and look at the composition more closely. One crop later …… and voila!
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No surprise here: as expected, Nikon made the D5200 available in North America. The big surprise came when it transpired that the 24MP sensor is made not by Nikon, not by Sony, but by Toshiba.

IMHO, this is big. Over the last few years, Nikon has held a clear advantage in image quality over its main rival Canon due to the very good Sony/Nikon sensors paired with the Nikon processing pipeline and Expeed processors. One of the few notable exceptions was the 10MP sensor used in the Nikon 1 series, manufactured by Aptina.

With a new player in the sensor manufacturing field, all bets are off. We will have to wait and see how well it performs in lab tests and in the field. This is critical for Nikon since the successor to the excellent D5100 has to be quite good to duplicate its success.

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About Sorin Vacaru
Sorin is a nature and landscape photographer based in Toronto, Canada. He has been pursuing his passion of Nature and the Outdoors since childhood. An accomplished cave explorer, he has participated in over 50 first explorations of cave systems, some of them many miles long. For over 40 years, he has used photography to share his vision and impressions of the natural environment surrounding him. Life's path brought Sorin from Eastern Europe to Canada. His recent work covers parks, landscapes and ecosystems spanning North and Central America. Sorin is also a passionate flyer and holds a Canadian Commercial Pilot License for single engine land airplanes. You can view some of his work at Sorin Vacaru Photography http://sorinvacaru.photoshelter.com and at 500px http://500px.com/svacaru

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