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I ordered my D7200 directly from Nikon, and it arrived earlier this week. My prior camera is the Nikon D300, and the D7200 is the first DX successor to the D300 that I felt was worthwhile, so I pulled the trigger and ordered it with the 18-140mm kit lens (which is surprisingly good). I'd previously played with the D7000 (not enough of an upgrade), D750 (passed on it due to the 1/4000 max shutter speed) and D810 (couldn't justify $3000 for what is a hobby for me). I have primarily taken action photography with the D300 - bicycle racing of various forms - and would use 6fps, 12-bit RAW at times, or JPEG at other times when I was feeling lazy. One of the things I didn't like about the D300 was its high noise levels at anything above ISO 800, so good high ISO performance is important to me. The D7200's high ISO performance is light years ahead of it - see the attached picture that was taken at 1/20 sec, ISO 12800, handheld with the kit lens at 116mm. There's just no way I could do that with a D300. The 2nd picture is taken at ISO 1600. Again, far, far better than the D300. My impressions are still preliminary - I'm still getting used to the very different modes on the D7200 when compared to the D300 (scene, full auto, effects, different AF modes that the D300 didn't have, and so on), but thus far I'm really impressed with the upgrade. The auto mode produces reliably good photographs in a point-and-shoot style, the scene modes are actually useful, and AF performance is significantly better in every aspect when compared to the D300. Low light focus is, subjectively, better - I haven't done a direct comparison, but it feels better. Regarding buffer depth - yes, it's better than the D300, and while I haven't yet shot action with it, I'm pretty sure it will work just fine. If you use a fast SD card, you can achieve somewhere around 14 shots at 5fps (no, that's not a typo) before it slows down when you are shooting 14-bit RAW. Using 12-bit RAW you can get somewhere around 20-25 shots at 6fps. To the person that said that it's a tinker toy: there's no way you've actually held it; the build quality is as good, if not better than, the D300. Both have magnesium bodies. The grip is virtually the same size as the D300 - the single biggest thing I noticed is the relative difference in location of the shutter release, and that took all of 5 minutes to adjust to.