Holy crap that is awesome! Dammit, I really don't need another camera....

From DXO Mark they say lots of positive things about the Sensor in the D5200. It seems like despite some limitations it's overall a very good camera for an APS-C. Nikon seems to do a good job with high Pixel Sensors. You'd expect them to have some issues, but overall they do better than you'd expect for such densely packed Pixel Sensors.

No conclusions yet, just a heads-up that Nikon-Toshiba have developed something very interesting, the original files don't appear to show any judder, only vimeo is doing that, some are 30fps. I find this very encouraging to be honest, what's more the stills appear to be every bit as good as the FF Niks lol. This camera is £500 in the UK, it has time-lapse, mic input and audio levels, swivel screen, 24/25/30 progressive fps, it has an awesome phase-detect af system for stills, a reasonable raw buffer and I believe almost unlimted jpg buffer. 1.5x crop and acess to all of the super 1.4/1.8 primes etc.

I think there are a number, I dont own any but here's an example; http://rugift.com/photocameras/nikon-adapters.htm

Looks even more promising!

I actually didn't like the dynamic range test. The denoising looks really bad imo. The moire test was great though...

You could just apply a flat profile to the camera and use that instead of Active D-Lighting?

@Mirrorkisser Nope, Nikon F-mount has the longest lens flange distance among DSLR's, which means that neither Canon FD nor any other type of lens can be adapted to focus at infinity. Additional limitations of both D5100 and D5200 are that vintage Nikon AI-S lenses are incompatible with the light metering system, and AF-D lenses will not auto-focus.

@apefos I've tried Active-D lighting in video tests on the D5100. While it does bring out shadow and highlight detail in high-contrast scenes, it's only usable when you have both camera and lighting locked down, and none of your subjects cast moving shadows. With any kind of dynamic scene, Active-D will react in an unnatural manner. But as you surmised, it can work well in still shots.

@apefos Yes, virtually any of the Nikons' still-frame features can be used in video mode (except for viewfinder focusing). I'd recommend you try Active-D at its lowest setting and underexpose the highlights. That will restrict the Active-D's effect to the shadows, where it looks more natural to my eyes.

I'm still not sure about the sharpness and detail in the footage i've seen. Can't tell if it's the camera, lens or Vimeo/YouTube processing that is causing things to look soft in some footage.

Interesting, about the same from this? d5200 is in another league for stills and its a £500 body in the UK.

I can see some faint aliasing in the lines of the cars in that screenshot. Look at the lines for the hood and fender on the car on the left and in the edge of the brake light on the car on the right. The lines on the GH3 are Cleaner. Still not bad for the D5200.

@lpowell, cheers for the info. I started to get interested in the camera, but i guess i wait and see then if the olympus om-d em5 will get a better codec and 24 or 25p. I dont want to change my whole lenspark.

This camera comparison is FAKE:

I don't know what he is using but it is not the D5200.