New firmware

Fixed an issue that resulted in live view ending about 10 minutes after being started in Camera Control Pro 2 with [No limit] selected for Custom Setting c4 [Monitor off delay] > [Live view] in the [CUSTOM SETTING MENU].

https://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/download/fw/455.html

http://nikonrumors.com/2016/04/03/nikon-d7100-nikkor-70-200mm-f2-8g-ii-lens-review.aspx/

New firmware - 1.03

• Reduced noise (horizontal lines) in movies shot with 1280×720; 60p or 1280×720; 50p selected for Frame size/frame rate.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the display to darken when images were viewed by pressing the (playback) button.
• Fixed an issue with the menus for some languages where continued scrolling would cause the camera to freeze.
• Fixed issues with the virtual horizon displayed using the Viewfinder virtual horizon option.
• Fixed an issue with the camera freezing when the Clean image sensor option was used.

http://downloadcenter.nikonimglib.com/en/download/fw/154.html

Will there be any updates of the NTool for the D7100 ? (Especially higher Bitrate?)

Yup, that's how Toshiba's sensor works. You need to crush the blacks in post or to use/make a style that is similar to the Standard.

If you like to color grade your shots, download Kodak Elitechrome picture style - with proper white balance you can get really nice results with this pic style, plus you will get some additional space for grading. Or just play with Picture Control Utility and see what you can make. Just remember, the more contrast picture style you make, the less bending is going to appear. If you are guerilla style, stick to the Standard.

Cheers!

http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/longterm/20140109_630095.html

Video sample of D7100 capturing via HDMI to Hyperdeck shuttle:

Like the D7000, the D7100 produced clean JPEG files with plenty of detail and a wider than average dynamic range. The default colour saturation for JPEG files in the review camera was higher than we usually find in enthusiast DSLRs, a fact that was confirmed by our Imatest tests. Interestingly, NEF.RAW files converted into TIFF format with Adobe Camera Raw showed the camera capable of restrained saturation and excellent colour accuracy.

The review camera exhibited outstanding performance at high sensitivity settings. Long exposures at night showed little noise right up to ISO 6400. The Hi 1 and Hi 2 settings were slightly noise-affected with exposures of a second or two. Interestingly the review camera produced flash shots with almost no discernible noise at both of these settings and noise was undetectable in flash shots right up to ISO 6400.

http://www.photoreview.com.au/reviews/dslr-cameras/advanced/nikon-d7100

So I was waiting for a Ninja and my D800 back to do a comparison for the Dynamic range. In the end I could not wait any-more because after sharpness this was the second most important thing for me. So I decided to conduct a little test this sunny afternoon. I shot this scene and measured my shutter speed to see fstop numbers. I used lpowell .4 gama and Samuel H flat 11, I also did a gamma correction to 6 in premier to get a flatter look a see how much I could go.

Everyone can also download the 1080p images here https://plus.google.com/photos/11599...NDvxu3QnuqyjgE which without jpeg compression.

So the first screen grab represent the scene in fstop. So at iso 100 f 5.6 the brightest part is at 1/4000 of a second and the darkest part is in the house at 1 second. I took those measurement with my Sekonic L758DR. I took two other measurement with one at 1/2 second and the other one 1/4 second. So if we round up the fstops in second it would be from 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000, 1/2000, 1/3000. So about 13 stop if we see that there is separation between the 1 and 1/2 second exposure. Is it too optimistic, should it be 12, that is my question.

The second frame grab is the scene captures with Flaat 11 profile. Third frame grab is Flaat 11 again but I changed the gama to .6 in premiere to boost the shadows a little bit to see how much we could see in shadows. The forth frame grab is the image taken at Lpowell .4 gamma . Then I included the frame grab of each scene with wavefrom monitor, so as people can see the exposure in the link above. You can have video of the three images to judge for the noise. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5jFCTM_caj5QmVYX1d0T1l5Z3c/edit

I tried to match them, in fact I worked on the Nikon one and so it might have degraded the image a bit. So don't look too mutch at the exposure or the latitude of the scene.