So last week I got a new camera, and a new lens! I opted for the Nikon D7100. I was debating between the D7100 and the D600, but I decided the D7100 just made more sense for me and left me with enough money to spring for an ultra-wide lens which I've been wanting to get for a while. The lens I got is the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 version II. I took a trip to the zoo the other day to give the new gear a work out and I'll be slowly trickling some of those shots onto here over the next week or two. So far I'm very happy with the new camera. Editing the RAW files is going to take some getting used too, as they are ~4x the resolution of the files out of my old D70. With the files from my D70 any adjustments or changes I made to the images showed instantly with no delay whatsoever, but the files out of the D7100 have a bit of lag/delay when applying some changes.

An interesting facet of the new camera is that it out-resolves some of my lenses. What I mean by that is that like my kit lens for example, looks reasonably sharp on my D70 at 1:1, at 1:1 on the D7100 it's pretty damn soft. That's pretty much entirely because 1:1 on the D7100 is getting so much closer in than on the D70, if I were to take a crop from the D7100 that matched the D70's 1:1 the results would probably be very similar, maybe a tad sharper on the D7100 because of the lack of an AA filter.

A side note on the actual usage of the D7100, I noticed a lot of my photo's from the zoo were very over-exposed. I'm fairly certain this is because the light meter in the D7100 by default works opposite of the one in my D70, so I'd glance at it really quick think I'm slightly over-exposing and adjust my shutter speed really quick without checking to see if I nailed it. That's just kinda how I shoot, I've got a pretty good handle on how my much my shutter speed effects the meter in the camera, at least I did with the D70. I think I'm going to have to slow down a bit until I've really gotten used to the new camera.