Nikon D7000 Black Friday Deals

“Nikon D7000 16.2MP DX-Format CMOS Digital SLR with 3.0-Inch LCD and 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S DX VR ED Nikkor Lens”

 

Overview : Nikon D7000 Black Friday Deals

The Nikon D7000 represents an evolution of the company’s venerable D90 — the first digital SLR with movie capture capability and the first mid-range model with a high-res 3.0-inch VGA LCD panel. Externally, the Nikon D7000 is similar to its predecessor in terms of size, weight, and much of the controlled layout, but adopts a weather-sealed, magnesium alloy construction like that of the D300S. Nikon emphasizes that the D90 will remain in the lineup.

Graced with a 16.2-megapixel CMOS sensor, the Nikon D7000 is the second consumer Nikon to exceed the 12-megapixel mark. A/D conversion is 14-bit, handled by the new EXPEED 2 image processor.

Capable of shooting up to 100 JPEGs at 6 frames per second, the Nikon D7000 Black Friday exceeds its predecessor’s utility for action shooting, and Nikon also keeps the pressure on in the ISO sensitivity department, with standard ISOs ranging from 100 to 6,400, but reaching to 25,600 in its expanded range.

Metering is also improved in the Nikon D7000 Black Friday, with a new 3D Color Matrix Metering sensor with more than twice the pixels of past sensors at 2,016 pixels instead of the 1,005 in Nikon’s pro cameras.

A new Multi-CAM 4800DX autofocus sensor now sports 39 autofocus points, nine of them cross-type. 100 percent viewfinder coverage promises easier image framing as well, a major improvement in the Nikon D7000 Black Friday.

There’s a whole lot more new about the Nikon D7000 Black Friday. Check out our Nikon D7000 Review below for more.

The Nikon D7000 digital camera began shipping from October 2010, with pricing set at about US$1,200 body-only. A Nikon D7000 kit is also available, including the AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR lens for around US$1,500. The Nikon D90 remains in the product line.

 

Review : Nikon D7000 Black Friday Deals

Nikon is finally updating its flagship consumer SLR, the D90, after more than two years of distinguished service. (And that service isn’t over yet, as the D90 will remain in the product line going forward, as Nikon’s most affordable “enthusiast” SLR.) The “Nikon D7000 Black Friday” looks to be a worthy evolution of the first digital SLR to shoot video. Most people I know who shoot and love the Nikon D90 love it more for stills than video, but as always it’s good to know you can capture a movie when you need to. With the D90 in their sights, other SLR manufacturers exceeded the D90′s capabilities with Full HD video, so the Nikon D7000 Black Friday is Nikon’s answer, and then some, creating a formidable competitor in more ways than one.

Nimble is the word that comes to mind when I think of the Black Friday Nikon D7000 and its predecessors in this prosumer category. While the D300S speaks to the working photographer in me, the Black Friday Nikon D7000 appeals to the Dad side: It’s a casual camera that’s also serious enough for any type of work or play. Equip it with a lens like the 18-105mm, and you’re ready for a day out with the kids; add a decent telephoto lens and you can capture a day at the race track or an airshow, thanks to the D7000′s six frame-per-second top speed.

Just the right blend of big and small, the Nikon D7000 fits in the hand well, and yet packs away into a small space with ease (depending on the lens in use). The grip is tall enough for all four fingers, with a nice indent for the fingers to get a good purchase.

Weight is also good, if just a little heavier than the D90. The Black Friday Nikon D7000 body comes in at 27.7 ounces (1.73 pounds, 786g) with battery, and the D90 is 25.2 ounces (1.58 pounds, 713g). Just like its predecessors, the Nikon D7000 Black Friday feels balanced and solid, a pleasure to hold and shoot.

Dual slots. That card door on the right of the Nikon D7000 Black Friday is noticeably bigger than the SD-card door on the D90. Did they bring back the CF card slot? Not exactly; instead, they included two SD card slots. That, my friends, is what we call an upgrade. Both slots are compatible with SDHC and SDXC cards, and it’s possible to configure the camera to use the secondary slot as an overflow when the first card is filled; as a backup of everything written to the other card slot; or to have Raw files routed to one card, and JPEGs to the other. In addition, you can select which card movies should be written to, and copy data between cards in-camera.

Sensor. On the inside, the Black Friday Nikon D7000 is based around a newly developed DX-format (23.6 x 15.6mm), CMOS image sensor with 16.2 effective megapixel resolution, from a total resolution of 16.9 megapixels. The D7000′s imager has a pixel size of 4.78µm, and yields maximum image dimensions of 4,928 x 3,262 pixels. Two lower-resolution options are also available — either 3,696 x 2,448, or 2,464 x 1,632 pixels.

The Nikon D7000 Black Friday can capture still images as .NEF-format raw files, JPEG compressed files, or as both types simultaneously. To combat the effects of dust on the image sensor, Nikon has included its sensor cleaning function, which uses piezoelectric vibration at four different frequencies to shake dust from the low-pass filter.

Processor. The Nikon D7000 uses 14-bit analog/digital conversion, and output from the CMOS sensor is handled by a new EXPEED 2 image processor. Compared to the original EXPEED CPU in the D90, EXPEED 2 offers improvements in processing speed, image quality, and power consumption.

The EXPEED 2 CPU’s claimed improvements look to be borne out by the camera’s specifications. In its Continuous High mode, the Black Friday Nikon D7000 can shoot as many as 100 JPEG-compressed still images at a rate of 6 frames per second — a significant improvement over its predecessor, which was limited to 23 JPEG frames at 4.5 fps. When lesser burst speed is required, the Continuous Low mode provides anywhere from one to five frames per second shooting. Another hint of the power on offer from EXPEED 2 can be seen in the Black Friday Nikon D7000′s shutter lag, rated at just fifty milliseconds — a worthwhile improvement over the 65ms lag of the Nikon D90.

Sensitivity. The Nikon D7000′s sensitivity range is also greatly expanded, with standard limits of ISO 100 to 6,400 equivalents, while ISO 12,800 and 25,600 equivalents are available when ISO expansion is enabled. By comparison, the Nikon D90 offers a standard range of ISO 200 to 3,200, while its expanded range was ISO 100 to 6,400. The Nikon D7000 is the company’s first DX-format (APS-C sensor size) camera model to offer a maximum sensitivity of 25,600 equivalent, reaching into territory formerly occupied only by the company’s FX-format (full-frame) models. With that said, Nikon was pipped to the post in this department by Pentax’s K-r and K-5, other APS-C models to offer single-shot ISOs of up to 25,600 and 51,200 respectively, while several recent Sony interchangeable-lens models can offer ISO 25,600, but only in a multi-frame mode.

New metering sensor. Perhaps an even more significant change is to be found in the Black Friday Nikon D7000′s metering system, where the company has increased the resolution of its 3D Color Matrix Metering sensor to 2,016 pixels. That’s a huge leap forward from the 420-pixel sensor used in the D90. Even when compared to the 1,005 pixel sensor used in Nikon’s professional D3-series cameras (among others), it’s still just slightly more than a doubling of the metering sensor resolution. Not only does this new sensor allow more accurate exposure metering in the Nikon D7000, but it also provides improvements in other areas of the camera that rely on information from the metering sensor when making operating decisions. For example, the new metering sensor will also improve performance of the Nikon D7000′s Scene Recognition System, which considers a database of around 31,000 different scene types, and then uses the information to assist in calculating optimal focus, exposure, and white balance variables.

As well as Matrix metering, the Nikon D7000 Black Friday provides center weighted (75% weight for circle) and spot modes. The center-weighted circle defaults to 8mm, but can be changed to 6, 10, or 13mm. The spot metering circle is 3.5mm, or about 2.5% of the image frame at center. Working range for the D7000′s metering system is from 0 to 20 EV for matrix and center-weighted metering, or 2 to 20 EV for spot metering (ISO 100, f/1.4 lens, 68°F / 20°C).

Autofocus is another area that’s received significant attention from the Nikon D7000′s designers. The company has developed a new Multi-CAM 4800DX autofocus sensor, which includes 39 AF points, including nine cross-type sensors at the center of the image frame, operable with every autofocus Nikkor lens. The 39 focus points cover much of the image frame, and the Nikon D7000 includes 3D tracking capability that follows moving subjects from point to point as they traverse the frame. For manual point selection, when a 39-point system might prove overly complex, it’s possible to restrict the number of manually selectable points to a subset of 11 points throughout the frame. Nikon has also improved AF control in the D7000, with a new button positioned centrally in the Focus Mode switch used to select the AF point in concert with the camera’s control dials to select autofocus mode, active points, etc. Detection range for the D7000′s AF system is -1 to +19 EV (ISO 100, 68°F / 20°C). The Nikon D7000 also supports AF fine-tuning to address back- or front-focusing lens issues, a feature previously only found on higher-end models such as the D300 and up.

Exposure modes in the Nikon D7000 include Auto, Program, Aperture-priority, Shutter-priority, Manual, Flash Off, and Scene, as well as two new User modes. As mentioned previously, the Scene mode position on the camera’s Mode dial now groups the D7000′s scene modes together, rather than their meriting individual positions on the dial. Scene mode choices have been increased from the D90′s Portrait, Landscape, Child, Sports, Close-up, and Night Portrait settings to include Night landscape, Party/indoor, Beach/snow, Sunset, Dusk/dawn, Pet portrait, Candlelight, Blossom, Autumn colors, Food, Silhouette, High key and Low key. The two User positions are used to store and quickly recall camera setups for later use. Available shutter speeds range from 1/8,000 to 30 seconds in 1/3 or 1/2EV steps, plus a bulb position for longer exposures. The Nikon D7000′s shutter mechanism has a rated lifetime of some 150,000 cycles. Exposure compensation is available within a +/-5.0 EV range, in 1/3 or 1/2 EV steps. The Nikon D7000 also offers two or three frame exposure bracketing, with a step size between exposures of 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, or 1EV.

White balance. The Nikon D7000 provides no less than 20 white balance modes, including two Auto modes, 12 presets, 5 manual positions, and a direct color temperature setting. The secondary Auto white balance mode, known as Ambient Auto, uses information from the new color metering sensor to allow a warm color rendering, as might be desirable for shooting sunsets, golden hour photos, and the like. The function seems similar to that of Pentax’s Color Temperature Enhancement (CTE) setting, which was introduced in the K-7 model.

Flash. For shooting in difficult lighting conditions, the Nikon D7000 includes both a built-in popup flash strobe, and an ISO 518 intelligent hot shoe for external strobes. There’s no built-in PC sync connector, but Nikon offers an optional hot shoe mounted sync connector adapter for use with studio strobes. The built-in flash has 16mm coverage, and will pop up automatically as needed in Auto and most Scene modes, while in other modes it can be deployed manually. The Guide number is 12 meters / 39 feet at ISO 100, 68°F / 20°C. Flash metering modes include i-TTL, auto-aperture, non-TTL auto, and distance-priority manual, with availability of these modes depending on the flash model. -3 to +1 EV of flash exposure compensation is available, and the Nikon D7000 also offers two or three frame flash exposure bracketing, with a step size between exposures of 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, or 1EV.

The Nikon D7000 Black Friday includes in-camera support for Nikon’s Creative Lighting System with the built-in strobe, and with compatible external strobes, as well as Auto FP high-speed sync and modeling illumination support for all Creative Lighting System-compatible strobes except the SB-400. Flash X-sync is at 1/250 second, but can be increased to 1/320 second at the expense of flash range.

Viewfinder. The Nikon D7000′s glass pentaprism optical viewfinder has also been refined from that in the D90. While the 0.94x magnification and 19.5mm eyepoint are unchanged, the Nikon D7000′s viewfinder now boasts 100% rated coverage, easing accurate framing of images. It also provides a wider diopter adjustment range of -3 to +1m^-1. The rear-panel super density 3.0-inch LCD panel, used for playback and live view framing of images and movies, looks to be unchanged from that of the D90. Resolution is still 921,000 dots, roughly equating to a VGA (640 x 480) pixel array, with each pixel comprising three adjacent red, green, and blue dots. The D7000′s LCD panel has a wide 170 degree viewing angle, making it somewhat more useful for shooting from the hip, low to the ground, or overhead, although the tilt or tilt/swivel types on some competing cameras can make these tasks rather easier.

 

Conclusion : Nikon D7000 Black Friday Deals

Pro:

Con:

Very good image quality Better than average noise vs. detail handling at high ISOs Very good dynamic range in JPEGs, excellent in RAW files Lots of high-end features in a relatively compact body Attention to detail results in a great handheld experience Weather-sealed, magnesium alloy construction Fast access to Live view and Movie mode 6 fps burst mode doesn’t slow down for 14-bit RAWs Very fast shutter lag Two custom user settings on mode dial Full 1080p HD video (but only at 24fps) Full-time AF available during videos Adjustable mic sensitivity External stereo mic jack 39 autofocus points AF fine tuning Improved contrast-detect AF speed (but still sluggish) Flash can act as a commander to remote wireless slaves Active D-Lighting works well Extensive Retouch options Interval timer Virtual horizon Short viewfinder blackout time (fast mirror) Supports both IR and cable remotes GPS support Supports non-CPU lenses Dual SD slots with flexible assignment Excellent battery life Support for MB-D11 battery grip

Viewfinder not as accurate as specified (ours is also slightly tilted relative to the sensor) Viewfinder doesn’t show ISO unless adjusting Auto white balance has trouble with household incandescent lighting (not unusual, unfortunately) No live histogram in Live View mode Flash a little slow to recycle Pop-up flash can wash out a scene No phase-detect Live View AF mode Our sample had hot pixels in good lighting Kit lens hood rattles No in-camera image stabilization (lens based) Bundled software is very basic

 

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