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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 160318" data-attributes="member: 9240">Why, indeed?  Here's the Reader's Digest version of my reasoning...<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I do a lot of outdoor and landscape photography, and Infrared Photography thrives in those environments</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I thought about doing it with the D90 but I get 33% more MP's with the D7000 with slightly better noise, and I've got WAY more shutter clicks on the D7000, so the D90 might be an easier sell.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I am more than set with a D600 and a D800, so my options for the D7000 are to let it sit around until I need to use it (bad weather, dusty environment, ???) or sell it.  I thought hard about the latter option and actually offered it to a couple people, but decided to hold onto it because...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">My brother is very big into IR photography and it gives me another opportunity/reason to just go out and shoot with him</li> </ul>Plus, the more I study and understand IR photography, the more interested I get in it.  At first, when I looked at IR images I didn't see anything intriguing about them.  But the more I looked the more I could see how I wouldn't just enjoy it, but how it would play well with the things I like to shoot.  It's "only" $250 for the conversion, which includes calibration to my lens of choice, and I figure that given the plethora of D7000's that are out there now, and its relative drop in price with the introduction of the D7100, I may actually get more if I decide to turn around an IR converted body, done well, than I would just trying to unload it - but that's a major afterthought.</blockquote>

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