david_palmer5

<p>I certainly wouldn't swap my 17-55mm for a 24-70mm unless I decide to upgrade to full frame. To me 36-105mm is frustrating at both ends, barely wide angle, and hardly telephoto.</p>

<p>The hood doesn't exactly lock, but it clicks into place the same way that the AF-D 180 does. On the subject of buying 82mm filters for this lens, if you use a camera with a DX sensor then there's no need. I've used my copy of this lens with the D80, D90 and now my D7000, and I keep an 82-77 step-down ring permanently attached. This lens has enough coverage to use with full-frame, so there's no question of 77mm filters causing any vignetting.</p>

 

<p>True Robert, but the fakes aren't too difficult to spot if you look closely. If you buy Sandisk with the full packaging then you're generally quite safe.</p>

<p>I have the same problem, but only when I use a pair of 16GB Sandisk Extreme cards. Using one card at a time, everything's fine. It's only when I use both that things start to go awry. However, when I use my pair of 8GB Sandisk Extreme Pro cards there's never a problem. Go figure!</p>

<p>I recently bought a D7000 because my previous camera was broken and there seemed no point in just replacing it. High iso performance is important to me because of the type of shot I often take, so my upgrade path from D50 to D80 to D90 to D7000 has primarily been a quest to get better quality shots at iso 800-1600. Also I have physical disabilities which make the process of getting my eye to the viewfinder impossible in certain situations, like ground level macro. So Live View is an anti-disability tool to me. I have never been able to carry any of the heavier "pro" models due to muscle weakness, so the D7000 is the best the one for me. As to why I use Nikon and not Canon, that's easy. Like many others have said, I prefer the feel. Nikon fits my hands, and the last Canon camera I tried which felt right was the A1 I owned in the 80s. <br>

I have to second what Ray said about having produced some of his best shots using a D1. I find it amusing when people are so insistent that the D90 or D7000 is an amateur camera, when those same people would have described the D1 as a professional model a decade ago. The D7000 has a better spec in every regard than a D1, so if the D1 produced professional results then, why can't the D7000 produce professional results now?</p>

<p>Simon, who uses Live View? I do. It was one of the main reasons I moved to the D7000. I shoot a lot of nature macro and find digital SLR viewfinders very difficult to focus accurately compared with the old film bodies' focusing screens. The ability to zoom into the focus point using Live View is invaluable. Plus I am disabled and in many circumstances I cannot physically contort myself to get my eye anywhere near the viewfinder. Most macro shots at ground level would be impossible for me were it not for Live View. An articulated screen would probably help me, but I'd have the same concerns as others about its robustness and longevity.</p>

<p>I've had my D7000 for about 3 months and normally use it with a pair of Sandisk Extreme Pro 8GB cards (45MB/s) with no problems. However, when I try to use my pair of 30MB/s Sandisk Extreme 16GB cards, I get the same errors that other people have detailed on this post - the camera locks, it won't turn off until I remove the battery, or the 16GB card acts as if it's full with only 2GB of shots, and the camera starts to use the second card. These errors happen every time I use the 16GB cards, so I'm selling them and investing in more of the 8GB Pro version cards instead.</p>