Yeah, as soon as I got my D7100, I noticed it brought out the worst in some of my lenses. The previously regarded “very sharp” Nikon 50mm F/1.8D turned into mush (the 1.8G is supposedly superior). My Tokina 11-16mm F/2.8 moved down to just being very good, but was still lacking. The Nikon 35mm F/1.8 was getting there, though.
The sharpest two lenses I have are the Nikon 17-55mm F/2.8 and 80-200mm F/2.8D ED. Stopped down to F/4-5.6, they’re razor sharp, showing each individual hair on a dog’s head, or every letter on a car’s tire. The 17-55mm is especially impressive at the wide end, and I can’t see how DXOMark rates it at only 9MP for either end of the zoom.
Either way, it’s nice to know the sensor is as massively sharp as it seems vs the D7000, as opposed to what some other people say. Though, it would’ve been nice if they had also compared the sharpness between the D7100 and D5200, so we could finally quantify just how effective removing the AA filter actually has.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.