Thanks!

Lin

I loaded the latest NX-D version but it just says "cannot load" followed by the filename when I try to load the NEF...

Lin

Oh, strange. After installing and running the exe, I have had no problems. Windows 7. Lin: I think your system will fulfil the system requirements: http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Nikon-Products/Product/Imaging-Software/Capture-NX-D.html

They don't offer the alternative of opening up? The fact that something is there does not make it compulsory.

I hate to sound churlish but 18-35 seems a bit stingy, 55mm would have been better for me. I'd be changing lenses every five seconds with this...

@Hugo, do you realise how impressive 18-35mm f1.8 constant is on such a large image area camera? On top of that designed for multiple mounts, affordable and great image quality. So sorry its not specified well enough for your needs. Go buy the 18-300 then whinge about the slow aperture. Cant help some people.

Pardon me for having an opinion.

You are pardoned. Good day sir.

Maybe one day manufacturers will create a 16-55mm f1,8 zoom lens, but even if they did it (which seems impossible now), people would complain how big and heavy it is and that it is still fairly short. ;-)
I own this Sigma and of course I wish it was a bit longer, but we cannot have all. I gave up a standard 17-50mm f2,8 zoom and switched to 18-35mm for the speed (and much better optical quality overall). I simply try to look at it as a substitute for 3 fast primes (e.g. 18, 27 and 35mm) with the convenience of having a single lens.

I imagine the revolutionary design of the Lumix LX100 lens will be adapted for other applications very soon. How small would that make my dream 20-85mm F1.8?

OK, my copy is from the end of 2013. All other lenses work well (incl. Sigma 105mm/2,8 macro). A lens firmware problem?

Works for me just fine

OK; I'll check what's wrong in my system.

only thing I can think of is firmware of the lens, faulty equipment or user error.

one user error could be that you have tried in with back-button AF-ON in movie-mode but havent assigned AF-ON button :)

But this lens works well with D7000; all other DX lenses focus live view perfectly with D7200. Firmware of the lens?

Converted RAW to taste, I guess. Still the difference is stark in some examples.

ACR images shown from Raw, look much better in shadows as not as dark midtones and better colour. For Jpeg images taken, were you using Auto setting on ADL turned ON (or any one of ADL settings) or was ADL OFF all together. Adaptive Dynamic Lighting or ADL in jpeg should have produced far better jpegs and works well on my Nikons DSLRs outdoors. Just wondering on the ADL setting made in Jpeg images? Also to mention ADL turned on, can help preserve some highlight tone, as dynamic range and tonal curve is adjusted when on.

Would you recommend this lens if intended for all-day shooting at an indoor convention event? (e.g., comic con, car show, etc.)

@wuchmee, which AF problems are you speaking of?

what site does it say that d7200 is the new Flagship DX?....

Funniest comment I've read all month! :-)

:-)

I used a 16-35mm F4 L when I shot the EOS 7D Mark II (for example). Some people complained about that, too :)

I don't understand that comment, I'm afraid. Why should someone complain about us using one of the sharpest lenses in Canon's lens lineup on a flagship body?

Simply because Sigma lens is optimised for use on APS-c sensor. Try to use it on FF sensor body.

Not to mention that Canon lens cannot do anything at apertures larger than F4. D7200 gallery has more than one picture taken at F1.8-F3.2.

To make sure you made the right choice or to satisfy your vanity?

Exactly as retro76 wrote: it´s all about light and that was not good, so you cannot do any better.

The lens will be the one is an issue problem to some photos look fairly soft. So thats my main concern.

@ Boky - how would lens/body pairing affect colors?

Somewhere else, I was complaining that the D7200 photos seemed under-saturated. After reading the post of Boky, I prefer much better the "Wahed-out" term used by Boky.
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When looking at my D5500 Photos, I get the same Impression as with the D7200 photos: they too look washed-out. It is not, just a matter of "Overcast"....Under the same circumstances the photos shot with my old D5000 are not looking as much washed-out.
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I am a little bit disappointed to see that in this regard Nikon seems to be regressing.

http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/reviewsamples/photos/3172636/dsc_0088-acr-iso100?inalbum=nikon-d7200-real-world-samples

Der, Thank you for Your Feedback.

It was with the"Standard" "Picture Control" that I noticed with the D5500 (in contrast to the D5000) the "Wahed Out" effect

With the "Landscape" "Picture Control", some Colors get exagerated (at least for my taste); if I remember well especially the Greens.

Based on your Feedback I will try "Neutral"....But I fear that "Neutral" will (as you describe) also result in a "Washed Out" effect and that I will not have for my landscape photos something as nice as my beloved D5000 offers me with its version of "Standard".

In a couple of hours, I leave my home and country, with just my D5500 and will not be able to do for nearly 3 weeks any comparison between the D5500 and the D5000.

If anybody got offensed, beause I reported in this D7200 thread something about the D5500: my apologies.I did it, because I observed with my D5500 something (=the washed-out" effect), that others remarked also about the D7200

Although in other review website took much better picture than here unfortunately. Every photography have different opinion of using the setting for review the camera. In pre production you cannot alter the setting much at all which will tell us the truth how the camera turns out. In an actual review change setting so we don't really know what setting did they set on.

Much better picture out of D5500 should be similar to D7200.

http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Nikon_D5500/sample_images.shtml More sharper than I saw in the gallery here.

Although thats APS-C sensor so will be softer than FF as usual even with lower sharpening setting. Its normal. You just need to apply bit of sharpening and that'll do. Similar to Pentax do not oversharpen image normally so most of Pentax image are soft due to APS-C sensor size. But APS-C still deliver sharper picture than 4/3rd sensor or so on.

@naththo
Sensor size has NOTHING to do with picture softness!

Tell that to my phone.

I tell you something. Sony baked the RAW before you download into computer and it was already sharpened. Pentax and Nikon don't bake it.

The link I post for cameralabs have better photos from Nikon D5500 than here. Its something wrong with someone on Dpreview operating incorrectly with their review. It is human error not D5500 or D7200 fault. Plus putting Sigma lens on, NOT native Nikon lens is a very bad move. I know third party can deliver good but compatibility is the biggest worry that we should be worry about.

http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/187176019/photos/3174399/capture

From top left to right then bottom left to right as in order:

Pentax K3 Without AA I believed.
Canon 5D MK II
Sony A7
Nikon D5500 Without AA I believed.

Now I know for sure Nikon looks soft but I look at detail it is still there. Maybe its the lens most likely not the camera or the RAW image itself.

Only edit so far is lens correction/aberration correction. No sharpening at all.

Sure - I understand that and there's a lot of value in seeing some of the twilight stuff there - I would have just liked to see more indoors, perhaps in more tricky lighting conditions.

It's perhaps because that's where I spend a lot of my time, but I suspect I'm not alone in that!

This seems to be the subject of a lot of discussion... Is it, or isn't it..?

io_bg: I didn´t know that, I thought the sensor stayed untouched (and even Nikon did not mention new sensor upon introduction).
So now it should be the same sensor that is in Pentax K-3?

iudex: There is some evidence (see some older threads here) that the D7200 sensor is still a ZToshiba, and not the Sony as in the D5300/D5500, but currently no proof one way or another..

I do mostly landscape photos and half of it in the mountains. Didn't mean so say anything bad about the camera, I own the D90 and I'm happy with the results. By looking at these 'done often' by me landscape photos (and these are at poor lightning condition) I see lots of detail and very pleasant bokeh.
And again, Thanks for sharing the photos!