D5200 Vs D5100 which one to buy as 1st DSLR?

akshat1402 wrote:

Hi,

I am new to this group, also a bit to the world of photography and this is sort of my first post. Since past few weeks i have been following dpreview pretty sincerely, as I am about to buy my first DSLR. After a lot of surveying I narrowed down my search to Nikon D5100 and Canon 600D(these two fit my current budget). But with the announcement of D5200 i am a bit confused, as to buy which D5100 or D5200? After reading the specifications for both models i could figure out that D5200 has few advances over D5100 (i) 39 AF points (compared to 11 in D5100) (ii) 9 cross type sensors(compared to 1 in D5100).

I chose D5100(over canon 600d) because of its image quality being comparable to D7000. So please guide me, as i am a bit confused whether the extra AF points and cross type sensors actually stand out and make an impact, for which i should invest some extra bucks(which is to some extent crossing over my budget) in D5200 over D5100?

Thank you for reading through