Need your help and advice on my new D7100

[goodguy]

From what I see and feel I think my camera is just fine and it looks like in low light the D7000 is indeed better,

I'm not buying it.

I shoot almost exclusively at night and generally shoot 200-400 ISO except when shooting action which is generally around 3200 ISO. So I wanted to see what my D7100 does at higher ISO. I broke out my D7100, cut off some lights in the hallway and cranked up the ISO.

All I did was trim the photos a little but other wise their almost full size and straight out of the camera. Photos may have some fuzzy/blur, I was too lazy to use a tripod.

D7100/Nikon 28-70mm 2.8/3200



D7100/Nikon 18-200mm F4/3200



D7100/Nikon 18-200mm F4/6400

Impressive results, I cropped my picture purposely to highlight the grain.
The picture still looks very usable in 6400 ISO

 

[Tailgunner]

Impressive results, I cropped my picture purposely to highlight the grain.
The picture still looks very usable in 6400 ISO

I was really shocked at how decent the 6400 ISO turned out.

 

[raventepes]

From what I see and feel I think my camera is just fine and it looks like in low light the D7000 is indeed better,

I'm not buying it.

I shoot almost exclusively at night and generally shoot 200-400 ISO except when shooting action which is generally around 3200 ISO. So I wanted to see what my D7100 does at higher ISO. I broke out my D7100, cut off some lights in the hallway and cranked up the ISO.

All I did was trim the photos a little but other wise their almost full size and straight out of the camera. Photos may have some fuzzy/blur, I was too lazy to use a tripod.

Those look pretty consistent with the results I get from my D7100. Pretty decent up to ISO 6400 if it's exposed properly.

 

[KmH]

I cropped my picture purposely to highlight the grain.

Digital cameras don't have grain.

Calling image noise grain is like calling a hammer, a screwdriver.

 

[goodguy]

I cropped my picture purposely to highlight the grain.

Digital cameras don't have grain.

Calling image noise grain is like calling a hammer, a screwdriver.

Ok then lets call it noisy grain

 

[goodguy]

Update

Here are few more pictures I took in high ISO, results as you see are much better, I think what I need to do is be less jumpy and learn more about how to use my camera better, where are the strength and weaknesses are and improve my own photo skills.
All these pictures are not cropped

6400 ISO

5000 ISO

3200 ISO

All taken with my nifty fifty F1.8