Board:   [DoveNet] Hobby Corner
Subject: Photography
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Thu Jul 02, 2026 10:50

@VIA: DIGDIST
  Re: Photography
  By: Nook8081 to DOVE-Net.Hobbies on Thu Jul 02 2026 12:32 am

 No> Clear DayIs anyone in hereinterested in photography?

 No> This is my first post ever on a newsgroup, and first time using this old
 No> tech and I love it so far!

 No> Either way, photographers! Tell me about your gear! Doesn't need to be
 No> anything fancy, hell if you don't even have gear just talk about anything
 No> related to photography!

 No> Personally I have used a few different sets of gear, but my all time
 No> favorite (and set I miss) was a little Nikon D7200 DSLR that I fricckin
 No> loved, I had a bunch of little Nikkor lenses that I loved too. Miss that
 No> little beast. After I graduated highschool I had to leave it behind, I

I like doing photography occasionally.  And I actually still have my Nikon D7200, which I bought in 2015.  I have a few lenses for it, most of them Nikon - The 18-140mm that came with it, an 18-300 ultra zoom lens, a couple of prime lenses (35mm f/1.8 and 50mm f/1.4), and a Sigma 18-35mm zoom lens with constant f/1.8 focal length.

When the Nikon D7500 came out, I wasn't really keen on its reduced resolution (20 megapixels, vs. 24 megapixels of the D7200) and only one memory card slot instead of 2 in the D7200, so Ikept the D7200.

I bought the 18-300mm zoom lens to do some photography for an air show a year or two ago.  I hadn't used that powerful of a zoom lens before, and most of the shots didn't come out as well as I'd hoped (many were a bit fuzzy/blurry).

Sometimes I've thought about selling my D7200 and possibly buying a mirrorless camera, but I don't really do much photography these days, and I feel like it's hard to justify doing that now.  Also, for quick convenient photos, I think the smartphone I have nowactually takes very good photos (it's a Google Pixel 8 Pro). Most of the time, I tend to just use my smartphone for photos these days; I rarely get out my D7200.  I've thought about just selling my D7200 and not replacing it with anything, but not too long ago I had an opportunity to use my D7200, so I've kept it for now.  I was doing some portrait shots of people in an indoor space, which had fluorescent lighting but also had big windows to let in sunlight, and I think the photos came out fairly good (I used the 35mm f/1.8 prime lens and the Sigma 18-25mm f/1.8 lens).

 No> I do miss that little camera. Maybe I will pick up a new one off eBay
 No> sometime!

If you're planning on another D7200, Nikon doesn't make that model anymore, so you'd be looking at a used one.  Unless you can find an unopened new old stock perhaps.

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