Bravo Nikon!

As SteveR will agree, I'm sure, Stephen, it ain't the camera it's the person taking the pictures!!!

Great images, my friend.

 

Well, obviously you can't do the job without the camera!! But as you say, the camera is just a tool. But without the "eye" of the photographer the camera would be taking just a image of whatever it was pointing at. Give an Artist a brush and it's only his/her "eye" and skill that will bring a painting to life and make you wonder.
There's a lot of intelligent, manipulative, marketing out there persuading us that we can't do this or that properly without the latest most advanced gadget which leads us along the path to doubting our present camera and so desire the camera that marketing will promise us will give us that. We all succumb to marketing manipulation but we have to remember that it is just that.
I have seen many fantastic, stunning images taken with a 8 megapixel and a lot of bad ones taken with high specification cameras so, to me, it's the person, not the camera, that "sees" the picture before taking it, organises the composition and takes the shot at the right moment.

 

Here's a comment from a review of the Nikon D3200, Stephen.

What lens have you got on the Camera, Stephen??

 

To be honest, contentious it ain't!!. 24megapixels would be a "problem" on a small sensor but the D3200 has a Sony APS-C Sensor which due to the current processing software will give excellent results with 36 and 41 megapixels. Today, even with four thirds sensors, the camera software is designed to eliminate noise and aberrations that the sensor might produce but, depending on the sensor, an APS-C sensor will present few problems, except at high ISO's like all cameras, regarding noise.
I take it that the Bog Standard lens is a f3.5?? Getting a faster lens like a 50mm or 35mm f1.8 will certainly help in gathering light and of course a 35mm lens will give you wider angle. To be honest I don't pixel peep at lot and while I will correct any moire that is noticeable that's all I need to as the camera software is programmed to do just that!!

 

Sorry Freddy, I should have given an explanation to the word. It's where a camera sensor can't cope with two fine intersecting patterns and can show itself in a fine grid like pattern. Weaved clothing and other material can produce difference effects but it's all called "moire". It's one of the reasons that past cameras up to now have had an anti-aliasing filter fitted on the front of the camera sensor to alleviate it. The anti-aliasing filter actually very slightly "blurs" the image so you lose some sharpness but reduces the risk of moire while the camera software will try to make up for the slight loss in resolution.
Just recently among the Camera Manufacturers there's been a change in the thinking and they have started to produce Cameras that have had the anti-aliasing filter removed in an effort to increase the resolution of the image. That, due to the laws of Cause and Effect, increases the chances, but not greatly, of some moire in the images but the Manufacturers say that it can now be dealt with with present available software in post processing.