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| Nikon D7000 16.2MP DX-Format CMOS Digital SLR with 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S DX VR ED Nikkor Lens |
Nikon D700 in short.
Handling
The camera brilliantly well designed do be held and used. Press the flash pop-up button and rotate the control wheel. Sweet. The Nikon Camera interface really improved.
Low Light Shooting
The D7000 is almost equal of the D700. Use 1600 instead of 400 to get the equivalent of 4 times more light. At ISO400 your flash may need to use 1/4 power and you can get 1 maybe 2 shots of the toss and catch before the flash needs to be recharge. At ISO1600 use 1/16th power and you can get 5 to 6 shots. It's a huge thing..
Picture Quality
Like all modern DSLRs it takes great pictures. It makes really nice photos and that is all I care about.
Useful Photography Features (Not Marketing Features)
- 100% view finder! Big bright with 100% coverage. No more guessing of your framing. (It is not as bright as the D700. However, it is 100% vice 95%)
- 2 SD slots - When your getting paid to shoot a wedding or any gig, my card broke is not an excuse. Very useful feature. For the home user put two smaller cards rather than one big card and save some money.
- Smaller and lighter than D300, D700, D3s, D3x- When you stand on your feet for 9 hours shooting the wedding and reception, you start to feel every ounce you are carrying. Often you will be carrying two bodies with a fast tele zoom and fast wide zoom. That starts to get heavy. Light weight here we come.
- 2016-Segment RGB Meter- for spot on exposure and white balance--No one touches Nikon on this and this one is fantastic.
- 1/8000th -- Very useful for shooting into the sun wide open with a bright lens
- 1/250 -- Could be better (1/500th for D40) but could be much worse. Auto FP helps.
- Magnesium body and better sealing -- Shoot in dusty environments without messing up the inside your camera.
- Uses the ML-L3 infra red remote -- Small and cheap. IR sensor on the front and back of the camera.
- Autofocus focus motor for non-AF-S lenses
Marketing Features that will sometimes be Useful
- 16 Megapixel Nikon was obviously getting creamed in the marketing wars on this. This is going to lead to bigger files requiring larger hard drives and faster computers. Occasionally it will be useful if you can't frame as close as you would like and you need to crop or you need to print big. Alien Skin Blow Up 2, Image Resizing Plug-in Software for Photoshop, Macintosh & Windows and Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition 1-user Full are two very nice programs that can increase the size of your photos for printing large. 16 MP is nice by not necessary.
- 39 Point Auto Focus To me in some ways this is better than the 51 point of the D300 and D700 as that gets too unwieldy. However, you really don't even need 39. However, still useful on occasion.
- 6 frames per second I very rarely ever put my camera in 3 frames per second. When I do so it fills the card quickly. If you are shooting the big game then 6 is nice. Or it is nice for some cool special effects shots. Other than that you won't really find yourself using it that much.
Video
Shallow depth of field video is very nice. Even maybe you rarely record video, but you will never know there's some important things in front of you should be recorded in video.
Intangibles
You will feel very comfort to hold Nikon D7000 in your hands.
Conclusion
This small and light weight become more important to your satisfaction in use and shoot results.
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