Step up from D90?

VictorS

New member
​[h=2]Newb here from Indianapolis[/h]
Hey everyone. After the 35mm days I went into the dark side with point &shoots figuring the HAD to be the best as they had Zeiss lenses! Well after attending a wedding a few years ago with my daughter and discovering afterwards that my pictures were blurry and my daughters were stellar with her Canon DSLR I entered the world with a new DSLR myself. I chose a D90 and dumped the kit lens for a 17-55 f2.8 Nikon, a 50mm f1.8 Nikon and a Tamron 70-300.
I've taken an entry level photography class and I've been trying to understand if a new D7000 or 7100 would really be a step up for me for general photography. I rarely print anything above a 5x7 typically hate flash use Lightroom 4 and simply store pix on the computer. Half the salespeople I talk to say I'll never see the difference and the other half say I will. I certainly am cognizant of the feature difference but I'm not sure which way to go. Seems like the 7100 mega count is overkill for the apsc format but I'm also a newb with just enough knowledge to be dangerous!​





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Marcel

Happily retired
Staff member
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I'd say that that half salespeople are right on the money. If you mostly print 5x7s, the D90 is a very good camera. You might get a little better low light resolution with the 7000, but for the size of your final output, it's just great. Spending money on prime lenses (28 1.8 or 24 1.4) would get you better results than replacing the D90 with the D7000.

​Just my opinion.
 
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