Ken Rockwell on the Nikon D5200

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Nikon D5200First, a word of warning: Ken Rockwell is a bit of a loose cannon on deck, so  take it all with a grain of salt:

I wouldn’t pay $800 for a D5200 when I can get the pretty much identical Nikon D5100 for half the price. I don’t see anything significant to make it worthwhile to throw more money at the newer D5200.

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Adorama has the Nikon D5200 in stock

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Nikon D5200 Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm Lens is in stock at adorama, and the price is the best one we have found anywhere
This is with the 18-55 Kit lens, all in black of course!

If you only want the body:
Nikon D5200 Digital SLR Camera (Body Only, Black)

and it is also available in RED!
Nikon D5200 Digital SLR Camera with 18-55mm Lens (Red)

There is also a kit with a 105mm lens: Nikon D5200 Digital SLR Camera with 18-105mm Lens (Black)

Pocketlint on the Nikon D5200

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Nikon has not only gone DSLR crazy this year, but also megapixel mad. And we mean that in a good way. The latest Nikon D5200 model – which Pocket-lint was on hand to try out at a pre-launch event – features a brand new 24-megapixel APS-C sensor at its core.

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Nikon D5200 Hands-on Preview from DPREVIEW

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DPreview has has a look at the Nikon D5200, and they have a lot to say bout it.

“The D5200 is, of course, also under pressure from small, simple-to-use mirrorless mirrorless cameras, that are encroaching ever more onto SLR territory. Its AF system should be its trump card here, at least if you’re interested in shooting rapidly-moving subjects, as mirrorless cameras generally struggle with focus tracking. Of course this advantage only holds while you’re using the optical viewfinder.

Overall though the D5200 looks like it should be a perfectly pleasant and capable little SLR, offering a specification that wouldn’t have looked out of place on a top-end SLR only a few years ago. We’re looking forward to getting it into our studio to see if it lives up to its promise.”

Full review at DPREVIEW

Does the Nikon D5200 have an internal focus motor?

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The simple asnwer is : NO

This means that old lenses with no focus-motor will not autofocus. This includes lenses like the 80-400, the old 50mm 1.4, the old 84mm 1.8 and a lot of other older lenses.

In general, if the lens has a f-stop control ring, it’s not for the Nikon D5200.

How do you recognise one of these lenses? Look at this lens, the 50mm 1.4D

the inner ring (closest to the camera when mounted) has these numbers on it:

16 – 11- 8 – 5,6 -4 – 2,8 -1,4

This is a NO-NO for the D5200. It is also a sign that the lens is old, from the last millennium!F-stop ring on old lens