Nikon’s prohibited new video-shooting D7000 is – on paper – the replacement for a D90. In being, it puts flattering most each other Nikon crop-frame SLR to contrition.

To uncover you only how great this $1,200 camera is, let’s review it to Nikon’s flagship APS-sensor model, a $1,500 D300s. I’ll put the some-more costly camera’s specs in brackets. The D700 has 16.2 megapixels (12.3), shoots during up to ISO 6400 (3200) in unchanging mode, captures 1080p video (720p) during 24fps. More surprisingly, both have magnesium amalgamate bodies as well as 100% coverage in a viewfinder (both pentaprisms, not dimmer mirrors). The D7000 even beats a D300s with the exposure-meter, regulating the 2016-pixel sensor (1005 pixels).

In actuality, the usually places a D300s obviously wins have been in autofocus, with 51 concentration points opposite “just” 39, as well as memory label format. The D7000 has the span of SD slots, and a D300s uses a faster and harder-to-lose Compact Flash.

So how does it perform? Handsome, bestubbled photographer and friend of Gadget Lab Chase Jarvis has had the bagful of D7000s for a few months right away, as well as Nikon gave him a an additional bag full of money to shoot the movie. The formula have been flattering good, as you can see for yourself:

Chase essentially strapped a single of a cameras to the fondle, remote-control helicopter to get a little of the shots (without revelation Nikon, of course), that shows another advantage of a D7000: during only 1.7-pounds (780g) it is not as big and lighter than the 2.2-pound (918g) D300, as well as almost matching to a D90.

This camera shows us one other thing: that foe is great. Nikon and Canon have been sealed into the conflict which keeps producing some-more as well as more extraordinary pack. Nikon’s D3 took high-ISO sharpened to a total brand-new turn, while Canon was concentrating upon cameras which fire good video. Now, both manufacturers have been throwing up to any other, and we have this brand-new D7000 as well as Canon’s fantastic EOS 550D (Rebel T2i) to uncover for it.

And wait, there’s some-more. Nikon has also launched a brand-new speedlight, the SB700, as well as the couple of lenses: the 35mm AFS ƒ1.4G (the S means it has the own engine inside, the G equates to no orifice ring) for $1,800 as well as the 200mm ƒ2G for $6,000. If you’re the Nikon shooter with some money to outlay, currently is probably the really great day for you. And all this prior to a Photokina uncover kicks off subsequent week.

D7000 product page [Nikon. Thanks, Geoffrey!]

Nikon D7000: Camera Road Test With Chase Jarvis [Chase Jarvis]