Introduction
With the ultra-high resolution of the D800 and the D800E, the incredible and affordable full-frame camera in a small package the D600, and then the brand-new magnificently performing 24MP sensor of the D5200, Nikon has been turning the camera world upside down and giving everything a good shaking up.
With all of these great new cameras with impressive features, people weren’t expecting a major upgrade to the D7000. Sure, it was expected that the resolution would be increased to at least 24MP, but what more could Nikon do?
Nikon dropped another bomb on the photo world and surprised everyone once again. Nikon took the best aspects from the newest and best high-end cameras, put these great features in the familiar compact body style and produced the D7100 — another game-changing DX camera. Nikon added more magnesium to the camera frame to make it even stronger and also increased the weather sealing making it on par with the D300s/D700 camera bodies. Nikon also put in the Multi-CAM 3500DX from the D300/s and updated it with features from the D4. This is now the top-of-the-line DX AF-system with 51-points (15 cross-type) and 3D-focus tracking. The D7100 also inherits the top-of-the-line Expeed 3 image processor and the 2016-pixel Color Matrix Metering II metering system. The D7100 also is the first Nikon camera to sport an OLED readout in the viewfinder, and the brand-new high-speed 1.3X crop mode. Further establishing itself as being as close to a professional camera ...
