Repair/replace/upgrade?
Jun 19, 2019, 3:03 am
#16
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Initial impressions of an admitted amateur after upgrading from D50 to D7500 (bought package with 70-300mm telephoto):
- great photo quality
- excellent low light photos
- easy to transfer photos to phone (for social media posting) via SD card reader
- Nikon smartbridge a complete disaster (well documented) - rarely works well via Bluetooth or WiFi
- Controls are not intuitive and on screen help is mediocre - difficult to figure out even simple tasks like turning off flash
- For travel photos a wide angle lens would be far more useful than the telephoto
Jun 25, 2019, 5:09 am
#17
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A while ago I traded in my D80 for a (used) D7000, net outlay 150€. The learning curve was very flat (I never had a D50, but I'm surprised that Boraxo saw such a stark difference between the D50 and D7500)
The obvious upside of the upgrade (an upgrade it was) that I could continue to use all my glasses, flashes and miscellaneous other detritus in the camera bag
The photographic experience was not earth shockingly different, rather incremental.
(my biggest issue is that I bought a Sony R100-III and it provides very similar results in a pocketable form. Of course it's a fixed 3x lens, so no match for my range of 10,5-100mm fast lenses for the Nikon)
The obvious upside of the upgrade (an upgrade it was) that I could continue to use all my glasses, flashes and miscellaneous other detritus in the camera bag
The photographic experience was not earth shockingly different, rather incremental. (my biggest issue is that I bought a Sony R100-III and it provides very similar results in a pocketable form. Of course it's a fixed 3x lens, so no match for my range of 10,5-100mm fast lenses for the Nikon)