Additionally, the screen supports Live View and the camera uses contrast detection AF in this mode. The Nikon D7000’s display is a high-resolution, 3-inch format display with a 170˚ viewing angle and 100% frame coverage. The shutter is even designed to 150,000 cycles! The Nikon D7000 DSLR is able to take on hard work. It is substantial, solid, and very well finished, complete with protection against sand, dust and moisture. The camera’s finishing is typically ‘Nikon’. That is quite a luxury and very pleasant during photography. The camera is equipped with a nice optical viewfinder with almost 100% image coverage and 0.94 magnification. The Nikon D7000 may not be called a semi-professional DSLR camera, but the camera has surprising and impressive specifications. For more serious work it may not be adequate, but for a large target group, this is an effective solution. You can quickly edit video material on location, according to your own wishes.
The Nikon D7000 has special video editing software built into the camera. Yet, there is an even faster and perhaps for the amateur, simpler way of doing this. The serious filmmaker will edit video with special video editing software. If you want to do more serious filming with the Nikon D7000, you will have to consider using an external microphone. The video clips are recorded in MPEG4 H.264 compression and can be enhanced by connecting an external stereo.
Continual focusing, although this is not as speedy as it is during photography, makes shooting video a lot simpler.
The new Nikon D7000 is expected to challenge the amateur to shoot video in Full HD. Although at first there was a lot of criticism for video and DSLR, this criticism is now being phased out to make room for often impressive HD video clips. There is yet more specialization, from the videographer and camera crew sector, and we see all kinds of creative productions appear from that sector. Such a source of power is not for nothing, as it not only delivers high-resolution photos, but the Nikon D7000 also supports Full HD video (1080p). This powerful processor forms the core of the camera and processes complex calculations. The 16 Megapixels resolution is processed by the new and fast EXPEED 2 processor. If that will be before the end of the year is still up in the air.
The expectation is that a shift will also take place in the Pro cameras. Right now, a situation has emerged in which the amateur series of Nikon DSLR cameras have a resolution of 10 - 16 Megapixels and the semi-professional and professional DSLR cameras almost all have 12, and the D3x have 24 Megapixels. With the Nikon D7000 and the recently introduced D3100, Nikon is setting a new trend within the Nikon camera family, which is a clear increase in the amount of effective pixels.
This new image sensor is much more sensitive and delivers a base ISO-range of 100-6400 ISO with the possibility of ‘boosting’ the sensitivity up to 25600 ISO. The Nikon D7000 is equipped with a whole newly developed DX-format CMOS sensor with 16.2 effective Megapixels.
Is the Nikon D7000 truly an innovation or is it an evolution? Our first impression is that the Nikon D7000 is evolution: a DSLR camera with many new and improved features. The opposite happened with the system cameras, such as Micro Four Thirds, Sony Alpha NEX and the Samsung NX- series. There was, however, no true innovation of the DSLR camera. The fast growth of the DSLR market led to what seemed to be a wild growth of ‘stripped’ DSLR cameras that served as beginner-level DSLR cameras, or ‘extended’ with a few upgrades in order to be attractive.
This Nikon DSLR is a camera aimed at the serious amateur photographer and offers a full package of camera-settings for creative photography as well as videography, as the Nikon D7000 supports Full HD 1080p video. The D90 is still part of the picture, at least until it gets a successor (the Nikon D9000?). A Nikon D9000 might just be the next model… The new Nikon D7000 is a whole new DSLR camera generation and falls between the Nikon D5000 and the D90, at least in terms of pricing. This is part of a nice series of SLR cameras, the D3100, D5000 and now also the Nikon D7000. Photokina 2010 reviews : Nikon is extending its D-series with a new SLR camera, the Nikon D7000. Photokina report Wednesday 15th, September 2010