1. Introduction 2. Specifications 3. Body and Design 4. Body and Design 5. Operation & Controls 6. Displays 7. Live View 8. Menus: Playback & Shooting 9. Menus: Custom Settings 10. Menus: Setup, Retouch & 'My' 11. Handling 12. Performance 13. Noise & Noise Reduction 14. Dynamic Range 15. Resolution 16. Raw Mode 17. Image Quality Tests 18. Image Quality Tests (OLPF filter) 19. High ISO Comparisons 20. Image Q. Compared (JPEG) 21. Image Q. Compared (High ISO) 22. Image Q. Compared (Raw) 23. Movie Mode 24. Conclusion 25. Sample Galleries

Studio scene comparison (Raw)

This is our standard studio scene comparison shot taken from exactly the same tripod position. Lighting: daylight simulation, >98% CRI. Crops are 100%. Ambient temperature was approximately 22°C (~72°F).

For a (more) level playing field for comparison we also shot our studio scene in Raw mode with each camera and converted it using Adobe Camera Raw. Because Adobe Camera Raw applies different levels of sharpening to different cameras (this confirmed) we use the following workflow for these conversions:

• Load Raw file into Adobe Camera Raw (Auto mode disabled)
• Set Sharpness to 0 (all other settings default)
• Open file to Photoshop
• Apply a Unsharp mask: 100%, Radius 0.6, Threshold 0
• Save as a JPEG quality 11 for display and download.

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1. Introduction 2. Specifications 3. Body and Design 4. Body and Design 5. Operation & Controls 6. Displays 7. Live View 8. Menus: Playback & Shooting 9. Menus: Custom Settings 10. Menus: Setup, Retouch & 'My' 11. Handling 12. Performance 13. Noise & Noise Reduction 14. Dynamic Range 15. Resolution 16. Raw Mode 17. Image Quality Tests 18. Image Quality Tests (OLPF filter) 19. High ISO Comparisons 20. Image Q. Compared (JPEG) 21. Image Q. Compared (High ISO) 22. Image Q. Compared (Raw) 23. Movie Mode 24. Conclusion 25. Sample Galleries

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Comments

Total comments: 5

By Tal Shachar (2 months ago)

very nice video explanation, but you should put some indoor videos in the video sample movies. Outdoor videos I can see that they are very good quality, but for wedding photographers we want to see whats the video quality in low light conditions.

beside that for Nikon, I think it's really silly to make Interlaced video recording option because it's low quality. Interlaced compared to Progressive is like Optical zoom compared to digital zoom.

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By Cankon (2 months ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37345874@N04/9575723740/

Very happy with my D7100, Look at the detail in the focus zone and that's without a tripod.

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By dennishancock (2 months ago)

I've had my D7100 for four months now and I'm liking more the more I use it. Really impressive image quality particularly compared to the D90.

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By helltormentor (2 months ago)

Can you please tell me why the image is that soft? it is soft to the degree of being considered out of focus. Just look at the Queen and compare its level of sharpness and detail to that from E-M5. I am not just talking about out of camera JPEGs. This deficiency applies to raw files as well.
I know that E-M5 is an excellent camera but, theoretically, D7100 must totally beat E-M5 taking larger sensor, higher resolution and removal of AA filter into account.

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By vittorionava (3 weeks ago)

I had the same impression looking at the watch...

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Total comments: 5