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There are plenty of other reasons to choose the D5200, though. Its sensor delivers impressively low noise, and gives a significant image quality boost over older Nikon digital SLRs. The autofocus is the best available at this price, and the video mode and articulated screen are up there with the best. And here are a couple of portrait shots. The built-in speedlight caused no red-eye effect in this test. Many of our outdoor shots were a little soft too, and some were more than just a little. After some extensive tests, we’re confident that the lens’s optical stabilisation was mainly to blame. While it clearly helped at shutter speeds slower than 1/50s, between 1/100s and 1/400s it appeared to introduce a small amount of blur – switching it off gave consistently sharper results at 1/200s. Switching it off is easy enough to do, but we’d prefer not to have to bother thinking about it.
The all-auto-area AF system seems pretty clever, but it can still get fooled and focus behind the subject. The shutter release action on the Nikon D5200 is surprisingly quiet, with a dampened mirror slap that makes this DSLR actually quieter than some rangefinder cameras. Furthermore, there is a Quiet Shutter Release mode, in which the mirror is raised fairly slowly to further reduce the sound it makes. This does, however, introduce some shutter lag, which usually isn't worth the few decibels of difference versus what is already an impressively quiet shutter. The Nikon D5200 also has ISO Sensitivity Auto Control, activated from the shooting menu. If set to On, the camera will automatically adjust the sensitivity if proper exposure cannot be achieved at the value chosen by the photographer. The user can put a limit on the maximum sensitivity selectable by the camera.
A more affordable alternative to the D5300
A good proportion of cameras now include digital filters with creative photographers in mind. The D5200 has the same seven filters as its predecessor, such as Selective Color and Miniature. It's still not possible to shoot these effects in raw format, and remove them in post-processing, though. Nikon D5200: sensitivity
If you loved the previous line up of Nikon cameras, you will love the Nikon D5200. The first thing you will realise about the Nikon D5200 is the flipping LCD touchscreen to your focus. Massively useful for selfies, the Nikon D5200’s screen is the best thing to happen to Nikon cameras in the Philippines. The differences between its predecessor and the Nikon D5200 are subtle, but turn on the camera and you find a whole other world. Everything digital There are 9 ISO settings available on the Nikon D5200 and the ISO speed can be adjusted in 1/3 EV increments. Here are some 100% crops which show the noise levels for each ISO setting, with JPEG on the left and RAW on the right. For stills, you can enter Live View mode to preview the effect or simply use the optical viewfinder. For movies, the recording is slowed down (dependant upon the chosen effect) as the camera uses a lot of processing power to apply the effect, leading to footage that can have a rather staccato feel. Note also that the camera sets virtually everything in the Effects mode - exposure, shutter speed, white balance, ISO, file type and quality - so its only creative in terms of the arty effect that's applied. Five of the same effects can be applied to an image or movie that you've taken, though, so you can have the best of both worlds (albeit without the luxury of a preview). The rear articulated LCD screen is hinged at the side rather than the bottom. This fully articulated design is a much more flexible solution, allowing the screen to be folded out from the left side of the camera and folded inwards to protect it when not in use. The screen is also big at 3 inches and high resolution too, with 920k dots, so there's nothing to complain about in this department. The screen also has an anti-glare coating, so that it's usable most of the time outdoors in strong daylight, although it still struggled a little with reflections.
Auto, auto with red-eye reduction, auto slow sync, auto slow sync with red-eye reduction, fill-flash, red-eye reduction, slow sync, slow sync with red-eye reduction, rear-curtain with slow sync, rear-curtain sync, off NIKKOR lenses: take advantage of Nikon's legendary NIKKOR lenses and make the most of the camera's 24-megapixel resolution. Capture photos with vivid colour and striking contrast. Shoot movies with crisp detail or experiment with cinematic effects.
Therefore, if you just want great photos easily, the D5200 (or D3200, D3100 or D5100) can't be beat. If you are like me and are constantly resetting the camera from shot to shot as conditions change (very few people know how to do any of this), the D5200 is annoying because I constantly have to stop my shooting to do everything in the menu system instead of directly with the buttons of higher-end cameras. On the outside, the D5200 is virtually identical to its predecessor, the D5100, with external changes limited to a dedicated drive mode button on the D5200's top plate, stereo microphone grills atop the pentamirror - like on the Canon EOS 650D - and a slightly redesigned rear multi selector. The D5200's more significant upgrades lie 'under the hood'. Impressively, many of these are inherited from higher-end Nikon DSLRs, including a 39-point AF system with 9 cross-type sensors and ample frame coverage, and a 2016 pixel RGB color-sensitive metering sensor, both taken from the D7000. The D5200 borrows from the D7100 a well-implemented Auto ISO feature that is tied to the lens' current focal length. The D3200’s 24-megapixel sensor produced disappointingly high noise levels at fast ISO speeds – compared to other SLRs at least – so it’s a nice surprise to find that the D5200’s 24-megapixel sensor exhibited significantly less noise. It also outperformed its main rival, the Canon EOS 650D at ISO 6400 and above, with less chroma noise producing a more forgiving monochromatic noise pattern in JPEGs. The Nikon D5200 produced images of excellent quality during the review period. The D5200 produces noise-free JPEG images at ISO 100-1600, with ISO 3200 also looking pretty good. ISO 6400 only shows a little noise, while the fastest settings of ISO 12800 and 25600 are quite a lot noisier and suffer from softening of fine detail and a loss of saturation, but the images are still perfectly usable for small prints and resizing for web use.
Key Features
High dynamic range (HDR): Gives detailed shots of high-contrast scenes by combining two shots taken within a single shutter release GPS compatible: Records the exact location of the camera when a picture is taken by using the optional GP-1 unit Build quality is excellent; even if you consider that it is built out of plastic materials, it still feels “premium” when you are taking hand-held photos.
The built-in flash is very good. Recycling is reasonably fast and exposure is usually dead-on, as we expect from Nikon. The pop-up flash on the D5200 has several settings including Auto, Fill-in flash, Red-eye Reduction, SlowSync, Red-eye Reduction with Slow Sync, Rear-curtain Sync and Off. These snaps of a white wall were taken at a distance of 1.5m using the kit zoom.Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
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