Here is my astonishing review of this amazing camera

http://www.eoshd.com/content/9653/nikon-d5200-review

Heres a odd thing maybe someone can technically explain The original D5100 MOV file plays back with very strong contrast and less detail..yet when running it through handbrake converting to mp4 the contrast is improved and the image is sharper. grabs enclosed

Shot some footage today with the old 70-210 F4 Nikon and can only say that the quality of these daylight shots at 100 ISO are very very nice. The clarity, the colors, the sharpnes all looks natural and beautiful. Also the absence of moire and aliasing makes the output high quality. I have no regrets switching from the D5100 to this little monster of a camera!

@LPowell

This is why you need to get Pentax cameras :-) No chips, just simple contacts coding stuff. And no fucking crippled cameras without motors. I'll soon get my new K-01 that works with any old lens.

I prefer framing a shot in the viewfinder and manual focus confirmation enables me to do this without needing to switch to a magnified view on the LCD screen.

You mean that you need focus assist enabled in EVF, for cameras with contrast AF.

@tinyrobot, sorry for my hectic writing, and no punctuation in right places. I like the micro sctructure, grain structure better no GH2, compared to D5200, too many good things on GH2, histogram for one, audio I find comparable, Nikon has stereo mic, very good. I will test them together at some point this weekend, hope. Overall for run/gun, wedding with low light rooms, variety of difficult lighting scenarios, I't take D5200, shootin 3200 not a problem at all. Lattitude seems better on Nikon, nicer, smoother skin gradation, what brides like anyways, if we talk about event videography. For film, I dislike, what we used as "Canon" look, in this regards, D5200 is somewhat similar, with Nikon edge to latitude, actually just rewatched Skyfall, shot on Aleksa, catch myself thinking that Nikon has similar colorimetry, the way that colors are translated on screen, GH2 has somewhat finer, Alexa's grain structure... that's non scientific, imho observation.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

You mean that you need focus assist enabled in EVF, for cameras with contrast AF.

The viewfinder in a Nikon camera is an optical prism rather than a tiny LCD screen like the one in the GH2. It uses phase detection rather than contrast AF to confirm manual focus on an indicator scale. Contrast AF has its own advantages, but it's not fast enough to drive a real-time focus confirmation indicator.

@olegkalyan You can use the D5100 viewfinder to set aperture and confirm focus before switching into Live View. The viewfinder will then go dark and the LCD will turn on. At that point, you can confirm shutter speed and ISO and use the AE-Lock button to lock-down your exposure during the take.

Ninja 24p workaround- http://www.eoshd.com/comments/topic/2125-exploring-nikon-d5200-hdmi-output-review-update/?p=27585

I don't know why photographers like optical viewfinders. I was shooting stills with a Nikon 105/2.5 ai (highly recommend this lens) and I couldn't judge my DOF. I shot with a Nikon FM2 20 years ago, loved that camera but I don't wanna go back. I wish Nikon and Canon would just ditch the mirrorbox and go with a shorter mount.

@GH2UW

I think you meant to say Shutter Priority mode.

Nope, Shutter Priority does not work in D5200 video mode. Once you enter Live View, the camera will ignore any attempt to alter the aperture, either manually or automatically. As a consequence, you must set the aperture in Manual or Aperture Priority modes, before entering Live View. Shooting in auto-ISO Aperture Priority mode on the D5200 allows you to preset your desired shutter speed in the camera's menu settings, and use the Exposure Compensation button to fine-tune your exposure. Once I got used to its semi-manual operation, I found Nikon's auto-ISO Aperture Priority mode more useful than fully manual exposure control.

@squig I'll be waiting on those low key shots :) . It really is a challenge for HDSLRs, light must be perfectly set and you really must know the cameras DR and postprocessing posibilities to work it out well, so best of luck!

I agree about optical viewfinders: nowadays with a propper OLED viewfinder it's SO MUCH better...I don't really care about what it looks like in real life, I care about how it looks on a display, as that's the way I'll be watching it later on, so c'mon it just makes sense even for "quality" reasons, not only FOV preview, or histogram or whatever they chose to include in it. Going crazier makes me think about EVF apps. I'm such a dreamer, I can even see a cat saying "Good exposure beauty!".

About exposure control:

I don't know what big companies are finding so hard about giving us good ways of measuring exposure. Zebras, real live histogram (not the liar we find in the GH2) would just be enough.

I'm really a manual mode freak, I don't like the way you have to work with Nikons in video. Though as said, with a monitor you get all you need, that just makes no sense sometimes (as time's an issue for some productions), so you have to trust the cam as LPowell said. I'm not saying it's bad, just that I'm not bond to it. Anyway, Nikons matrix light metering system is really really good, the one I trust the most.

Not even when talking about quality but also, workflow, this cams are different yet even. It's so interesting how many ways there are to screw us and not do things just the right and simple way, as we ask them to be...but people here always get the best workaround to solve issues and share it :) it's so nice I can even cry about it.

@LPowell

Shutter priority does work on the d5200 for video automatically. Just checked. So please stop stating things as fact until you actually own one.

It is not a d5100.

Why would one want to use shutter priority for video when you now have manual controls is beyond me anyway.

As for manual lenses on the d5200...many use them just fine via using live view for photography and videowork.

I wouldn't understand, I'd shit myself!