I brought the camera as a result of the excellent reviews, and to complement my S5pro (D200). Just watching some of the propoganda on the D5100 guide on this site has firmed up my idea to get a d7000. The bizar section on taking a picture in live view almost made me choke! There the pictiure instantly appeared, I dont think so. Times vary a little but around 1.5 seconds is par for the corse! This makes taking any thing moving faster than a worm difficult, if not impossible! Then there is the problem that an image is only visible indoors or at night, any sign of sun and as the manual says " you need to take a picture,then review the histogram! No clues how you frame the picture?
The shutter release speed through the view finder is exemplary I measure around 0.05 of a second and at the 4fps it seems to be able to always get a perfect focus and exposure. Pity only one cross point autofocus sensor. Once I realised its obvious as you can see the directions of the others on the screen!
The lack of function buttons is my deal breaker, as you have lost the four Nikon has made no efort to make up for the loss. Not only buttons but the great rotating ring to switch shutter modes. Tonight I missed a great shot as I had lifted up the camera and pulled on the live view leave, nightmare! It needs a feature to assign that leaver too!
I have found that by setting the tiny toy button AEL to focus momentary lock,with some practice you can set the focus green on live view then lock it. Then its only about 480mS to get a shot, thats three or four times faster or a second a car at 30mph would have moved more than 8m!
The missing focus point select lock is diabolical, they are always moving, so easy to have them enabled by say pressing the delete key first. Why not make the four pad positions assignable and the ok button! Having two info buttons is also bizar! Just give the rear one a third option.
On reflection the missing focus srerew drive limits the use of all those lenses.When comparing cameras this should have been taken into account more at present it is not.
So given that its not a live view shooting camera, make it the same as,lighter not weather roof and D7000 and call it a day! Well maybe give it CLS commander. Its briliant with the SB400 completely a league ahead of the built in flash but the SB800 is a little to much and would be better used as a slave.
So will I return to the shop and upgrade to a D7000 and retire my s5Pro?
The shutter release speed through the view finder is exemplary I measure around 0.05 of a second and at the 4fps it seems to be able to always get a perfect focus and exposure. Pity only one cross point autofocus sensor. Once I realised its obvious as you can see the directions of the others on the screen!
The lack of function buttons is my deal breaker, as you have lost the four Nikon has made no efort to make up for the loss. Not only buttons but the great rotating ring to switch shutter modes. Tonight I missed a great shot as I had lifted up the camera and pulled on the live view leave, nightmare! It needs a feature to assign that leaver too!
I have found that by setting the tiny toy button AEL to focus momentary lock,with some practice you can set the focus green on live view then lock it. Then its only about 480mS to get a shot, thats three or four times faster or a second a car at 30mph would have moved more than 8m!
The missing focus point select lock is diabolical, they are always moving, so easy to have them enabled by say pressing the delete key first. Why not make the four pad positions assignable and the ok button! Having two info buttons is also bizar! Just give the rear one a third option.
On reflection the missing focus srerew drive limits the use of all those lenses.When comparing cameras this should have been taken into account more at present it is not.
So given that its not a live view shooting camera, make it the same as,lighter not weather roof and D7000 and call it a day! Well maybe give it CLS commander. Its briliant with the SB400 completely a league ahead of the built in flash but the SB800 is a little to much and would be better used as a slave.
So will I return to the shop and upgrade to a D7000 and retire my s5Pro?