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Ken Rockwell goes gaga over the Nikon D7000: http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d7000.htm I guess I should be glad I bought one. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | ||
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he dose talk some crap, but he's spot on about the D7000 "When doing battle, seek a quick victory." | |||
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Nikon Capture NX2 has now been updated for the D7000 and can be downloaded. DxO has also been updated for 4 or 5 of the D7000/lens combinations (which can now be downloaded), but two of the lenses I use (10-24mm and 50mm f1.4G) aren't yet available. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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My thanks to Wink. I am not any sort of expert on DSLRs. Now I know which one to buy. Thanks again, Rich DRSS | |||
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http://www.europe-nikon.com/en...ed-vr-af-s-dx-nikkor I can't fault this lens for a mid price item. Tried a few others but found this one perfect for a general purpose short zoom. Gives you 24 to 128mm 35mm equivalent. I wouldn't bother with the "Kit" lens and found the zooms with 18mm as the widest don't go quite wide enough to give that nice wide angle feel. "When doing battle, seek a quick victory." | |||
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When I gave my daughter a D70 I wasn't using I suggested she buy the 18-200 zoom as an all-around lens. It was a bit pricey so instead she bought an 18-135 on sale. She finds it to be a very nice lens, keeps on the camera most of the time and the photos I've seen with it look good. After her last visit home I noticed my 70-300 ED lens is missing. I like the 80-400 better for wildlife photos but the compact 70-300 is a handy lens, I may have to borrow it back one day. | |||
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I have two lenses I intend to use with the D7000: the Nikon 10-24mm DX lens and the fairly new Nikon 28-300 FX lens. This gives me an approximate equivalent (in 35mm film terms) of everything from 15mm to around 420mm, great for trophy pictures, scenery and wildlife, without too much weight. Also, if I ever buy a full frame captor camera body I already have a general use lens. In fact, other than the 10-24mm, I think buying full frame lenses is a better long term investment overall. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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That camera has got my attention as well. The ability to take movies and images as well as use my short zooms makes it a highly desirable device and at a price that doesn't require you to sell your pick up truck to buy it. Also appears much handier than my D2. Definitely on my list. -------------------- EGO sum bastard ut does frendo | |||
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Saeed, thanks for your comments on the 50-500 Sigma. Your "bird and lizard" photos are terrific. I enjoyed them very much. My one concern just from reading the specifications of the 50-500 would be the weight. Although I've had good results with the 80-400 it is a rather heavy lens, the 70-300 is much handier especially if a lot of walking is involved. The 50-500 is heavier than the 80-400 though of course there has to be some tradeoff for a 10:1 zoom ratio. With such a wide zoom range you could probably leave another lens behind which compensates some for the weight. It certainly seems to be a very sharp lens, judging from your photos. A couple of questions, if I may: were you using a tripod or were the photos taken handheld? What are your thoughts on the autofocus of the Sigma; was it fast and accurate enough to suit you? The Nikon 80-400 as you know is not a very fast focusing lens. Not complaining, it was designed that way and I knew it when I bought it. For my work it is fast enough. For fast-moving subjects such as birds on the wing a faster focusing lens would be nice. Last African trip I had a chance to photograph several bat-eared foxes which were running. While the photos weren't bad I wasn't terribly proud of them either. Didn't help I had been shooting indoors the previous evening and forgot to reset the color balance for daylight! Photoshop helped some but even these modern smart cameras need at least a bit of help from their owners. | |||
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Always shoot RAW as well, on the D7000 you can save RAW to one card and JPEG to the other. Gives you more chance to recover from mistakes. "When doing battle, seek a quick victory." | |||
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You're right of course, I usually do shoot both RAW and JPEG. Don't recall why I didn't in this case, probably worried about running our of card capacity. Penny wise, pound foolish. Wasn't aware the D7000 had dual card capacity. Since I kind of headed this thread off topic with lens discussion I should get it back on track by saying the D7000 sounds like a heck of a good camera. If I can find one for sale I'll probably buy it and use it along with my older D300, meaning my daughter will likely get the D200 I seldom use anymore. Maybe it will be leverage to get my 70-300 back (there I go talking lenses again). Wink, if you should revisit this thread I'd like to hear your impressions on the D7000 so far. | |||
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WOT! stay on topic on an AR thread???  Now I'm on to video with a DSLR, if you plan to shoot much video, your better off with something like the Cannon SX 30 IS. http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/...as/powershot_sx30_is Someone is bringing out a DSLR with a half silvered mirror (sort of) can't remember who. This will allow you to use the full functions of the camera while in video mode. I find the Nikon "Live View" pretty useless really and the Cannons not much better for video. If you notice the DSLR cameras used on pro shoots they have a cart load of junk attached to make up for for the fact it's NOT a Video camera. Also most of them only shoot 5 minutes in HD. I'm pretty sure the Cannon SX 30 will just go till you run out of card space. The Cannon screen is much more useful for Video shooting than the Nikon one on the D5000 I think that's the only Nikon DSLR that has a fold out screen. But it folds down, good for checking your settings or images but not so good for actually shooting with. Also I've found no DSLR with any lens comes close to how good my Lumix FZ 18 is at auto focus when it's really dark. "When doing battle, seek a quick victory." | |||
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Dave, I haven't yet had the opportunity to take many photos with the D7000, so no final conclusions about the quality of the images. I have this day job which seems to interfere with what I should really be doing. Besides, the weather we're having does not lend itself to outdoor photography for the time being. I will state with no reservation however that much of what passes as great images due to the quality of the equipment is really the quality of the post-production software AND HOW WELL THE USER MANIPULATES THE SOFTWARE. I know this applies to me at any rate. I have just redone some old RAW images from my Nikon D60 and they are tremendously better than my attempts of a couple of years ago. But concerning the D7000, I think it is superlative for a whole bunch of reasons: 1) the viewfinder is great for those who wear glasses (I do) much better than my D90 2) the addition of the two "user" settings on the mode dial (U1 and U2) are an incredibly useful feature for me. I have two frequently used Picture control settings that I can now program and they are at my instant disposition. 3) Partly because I wear glasses, and partly because I'm a clutz, I frequently take my photos at a slight angle, which I have had to correct in post-production. They are never level. Hooray, with the FN button programmed for it, I have a level in the viewfinder! I love this feature. 4) The two memory cards are great. I put RAW files on one and jpeg on the other. 5) I did try a few indoor/low light photos, and the auto ISO feature just moves the ISO up or down as required and I can't see any difference between a photo taken at ISO 100 and one taken at ISO 3200. Oh no, I have to go back to work, more later. _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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I just received one today, with a Nikon 18-200 VRII lense. I will let you all know how ti works out in a few days time. | |||
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Saeed, I have found that DxO software corrects very well the lens distortion on the 18-200mm lens, in case you have not tried it. Wink _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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I am afraid I did not use a tripod. We had one in the camp, which was so flimsy, I did not dare use it. So some photos were taken hand held, some were taken with my hand resting on a table, and some were taken with my hand resting on top of the truck. I understand that Nikon is going to bring out a new lense that goes to 400mm, with their new VR II. A word for those who might have been taken by the HD video capability on SLRs. I don't like the results I have gotten off several of them, from both Nikon and Canon. In fact, any of the small point and shoot cameras - like the Panasonic TZ10 and the Sony HX1 produce video which way beyond any SLR, especially if you taking clips of something which is not stationary, or you are moving. | |||
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Thanks, that's extremely valuable input.  -------------------- EGO sum bastard ut does frendo | |||
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