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<blockquote data-quote="Patrick M" data-source="post: 23401" data-attributes="member: 2332">For every day use and instant snaps I'd never dream of using live view. Focus is fast and I've never missed a shot because of pulling the live view lever. I've used it enough now that my hands know where the buttons are.the function buttons are a nice to have. With my D80 I had them set up beautifully, but you know what, after a year I used just one function ... And I can do this on the D5100 anyway.I love the video with my VR ii lenses. Brilliant.I'd thought the D7000 was the one for me, but I'm not at all disappointed with the D5100 and I'm learning more about it every day....and certainly my photography is getting better too with those effects/scenes. What I do is set the scene, check the settings, switch to manual, set the settings from the scene, then make changes and see the results. I did this with my D80 after taking a course with Nikon at their UK headquarters in Kingston, Surrey and the technique works on any camera obviously, but it's great practice anyway.Give the camera a chance, it's worth it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Patrick M, post: 23401, member: 2332"] For every day use and instant snaps I'd never dream of using live view. Focus is fast and I've never missed a shot because of pulling the live view lever. I've used it enough now that my hands know where the buttons are. the function buttons are a nice to have. With my D80 I had them set up beautifully, but you know what, after a year I used just one function ... And I can do this on the D5100 anyway. I love the video with my VR ii lenses. Brilliant. I'd thought the D7000 was the one for me, but I'm not at all disappointed with the D5100 and I'm learning more about it every day....and certainly my photography is getting better too with those effects/scenes. What I do is set the scene, check the settings, switch to manual, set the settings from the scene, then make changes and see the results. I did this with my D80 after taking a course with Nikon at their UK headquarters in Kingston, Surrey and the technique works on any camera obviously, but it's great practice anyway. Give the camera a chance, it's worth it. [/QUOTE]

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