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I definitely need some help in this decision making: I am finally upgrading my camera (took a little time to save the $$) and have been planing to go from the old, outdated D40 to the D300S. No problem here, until i see the new D7000 with its new sensor and its 16mp! I do [...]

Technical specs do not a photographer make – a good photographer can shoot a far more compelling image with a homemade pinhole camera, than can a bad photographer with the most technically perfect equipment.

Having said that – kudos to Nikon – they really do seem to be pushing hard at the moment.

On DXOMark, the D7000 sensor is in a TIE with the D700 sensor – better even than the Canon 5D Mk II.

http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/en/Camera-Sensor/Sensor-rankings/Sheet-view

Awesome!

Nikon usually gives Chase Jarvis new cameras to test them out. Here are some of the work he did with the Nikon D7000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbBKukJzBk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNKtFkX29IE

Nice collection of gear – shot with a D7000:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVdp0L_wVk&feature=player_embedded

D7000 ISO samples to 12,800:

http://www.naturapics.com/809-sample-iso-du-nikon-d7000.html

In a rather weird turn of events, the D3000 is now at the top of the Amazon bestseller charts. Looks like the target market is rushing to buy the more-than-adequate older model at almost a third of the price! That might be a bad sign. Consumers don’t tend to care about ISO expansion and metal [...]

Seems to be trying to take a consumer sized body style and pitch it against the ‘pro-sumer’ 60D (which it rivals in specs and price)

Rare to see a consumer sized body in this price/feature bracket. Will be interesting to see how it fares.

Interesting DSLR – priced the same as the D90 was, and still categorized as a consumer-level camera but has features from the higher end pro cameras – weather sealing, metal body, 1/8000 second shutter speed, more AF points, ISO to 25,600 etc. And no increase in price for all this. Canon has forced Nikon to [...]

The D7000 looks like a great competitor to the Canon T2i in the consumer bracket, though the pricing is pretty high for a body in the XXXX line. Interesting to see the Amazon top 10 is an even split of 5 Nikon bodies and 5 Canon bodies. (Though still not sure how the #1 bestseller [...]

The Nikon D7000 is right now the #1 selling DSLR on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/3017941/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_e_1_4_last

It will ship mid-October.

Ive had the Nikon D90 for a few months now and I am sooo loving it. The increased ISO settings has allowed me to capture some awesome night shots. The video mode I’m still experimenting with but its really sensitive and awesome. I still use my Nikon D40 with the ML-L3 remote for some interesting [...]