More than enough presets and forgiving auto modes for a beginner as well as full manual shooting

Try shooting in total darkness with any other camera series (except the 4th generation Olympus Pen) and the camera will simply refuse to auto-focus.

The best way to describe is the point and shot is like watching regular TV while the pic from this camera are like HD TV.

The D5200 has also a very fast shoot sequence on RAW extension, you get 5 pictures per second!

I race and shoot pics for motocross which is very demanding on a camera to get a crisp shot

I will continue to use my small Nikon digital and point and shoot being happy still with the results.

I recommend this to anyone who is interested in beginning camera work of any type, as the versatility of this camera is beyond your average point and shoot.

Great improvement on my little point a shoot, still getting a hand on basic funtionality

My wife is getting into photography and I've noticed she sometimes loses a shot when she changes out lenses

I wanted a camera on which I could quickly change the ISO so I could go from a bright sunny outside to a dimly lit inside and not miss a great shot because I was looking down fiddling with a menu on an LCD screen instead of looking up at a beautiful opportunity for a picture

Even at full telephoto the low light shooting is great

Still, I gave this camera the best shot I could

First I spent about 20 hours researching DSLR's from about $200 cheaper to about $400 more expensive because I wanted to upgrade from a Pentax 35mm and a pretty decent Fuji 16MP 15x RAW shooting, point and shoot

The camera focuses quickly and shooting is a breeze

Maybe it's a defect on just my camera, but it's been very disappointing especially when I thought I had a great, rare shot of a toddler who won't sit down

Nikon is choosing to refer to it as the "flagship of Nikon's DX-format HD-SLR lineup" and it's hard to see what the fabled D400 could add ... other than a larger full-metal body and faster continuous shooting with a bigger buffer

shooting is superb on this camera.

The D5200 has been great, i have been taking much sharper pictures and i continue to play with the manual mode to perfect my shot

Sony somehow made the older A55 easier than the A65 and A77 at getting a clean and noise free shot (maybe due to sensor difference)

It didn't take long to really get a good grasp, and since I picked up the Nikon 50mm f/1.8 shooting has been amazing

, i.e. shutter speed with a speed flash will not go faster than 1/250 s, etc

Switched from Canon Rebel DSLR’s to Nikon and glad I made the switch.

It will only auto-focus with the proprietary Nikon AF-S and expensive Nikon AF-1 lenses