Microgunner was right

[imschur]

photography is just as bad an addiction as firearms. I pre-ordered the Nikon D7000. I only ordered the body as I have lenses already  :dance:

[Microgunner]

Sounds like your having fun.  May God have mercy on your poor addicted soul.  ;D

[Madhouse]

Good lord, hope I don't get bit by THAT bug too!

[lmao_37]

Cool and addiction how many rehabs will you have to do a week ?  :o

[asmurff]

Nice thing about the camera bug is you can still do so many other things and still do it at the same time. My grandfather was a professional photographer and I doubt there was ever a time there wasn't a camera within easy reach. He mostly work for the Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and took photos and films of the their testing.

[imschur]

Canceled the order for the D7000. Three reasons, first I was tired of waiting. Amazon actually took $25 off the order because this release has been a fiasco. Reason two, I see enough reports with hot pixels and dead pixels. i could live with that in video mode or on the LCD but when they show up in images that means there's a sensor issue. Lastly while I saw some great images and rumors of impressive focusing the actual image results from normal folks seemed unimpressive. So after a lot of thinking I jumped ship to a Canon 60D. On paper its marginally better than the D90 and it gets creamed by the D7000. However the images I saw favored the Canon in the way I use a Camera.

As a side note Canon dropped the price of the 60D ($300) to the point where I got the camera body, Lens and a few other things for the price of the Nikon D7000 body.

[lmao_37]

That's cool :thumb: and don't forget you can use all the Olympus om lenses with an adaptor, i have a canon 350D/XD or whatever its called and i use all my Olympus lenses and i brought a 120mm lens used for $9 and it works like dream for what i want it for, i think i paid $10 for the adaptor ring online a few years back, i have see some nice ziess manual lenses for the Olympus om going for alot less money than 1 canon power zoom lens, i prefer fixed manual lenses over zoom lenses  ;D

[bdavison]

I bought a D60 about 2 years ago...thing is bullet proof.

I dont see the point in shooting video with a DSLR. If I wanted to shoot video, Id buy a video camera.

Nikon should quit worrying about soccer mom's Facebook vids, and get back to real photography.

Lets face it...when soccer mom goes out to a dimly lit soccer field to video her son or daughter tripping over their shoelaces with her pre-packaged 18-55 and 55-200, and starts shooting video at f/6 1600 ISO....its still gonna look like crap. And if Nikon thinks that soccer mom is gonna spend a couple grand on a f/1 prime for a D3000 they are kidding themselves. 

Quit goofin around with video garbage, and put those resources into better high ISO performance with low noise without needing a D3X

and for them to do a christmas special on the 70-300 VR Nikkor so I can afford to buy one without dipping into my gun money. ;D

[imschur]

Theres a bunch of Nikon rebates going on this month. Maybe that will help you.

There is also a rumor of a mirrorless DSLR from Nikon getting unveiled in 2011.

[bdavison]

Mirrorless DSLR?

How's that going to work?

LCD Viewfinder...BOOOOOO

Thats nothing but a glorified point and shoot. Why would they do that? Oh NOOOOO.

I guess Im a purist.

I hate that they added "live view" to the new DSLR's. Defeats the purpose of what you see is what you get. You just never quite get accurate reproduction on a LCD.

Im sticking with my D60 for as long as I can. If the mirror dies, im gonna have it fixed.

Id like a D80, because of the internal AF drive, but I can deal with that.

[imschur]

I have found live view helpful when I cant get my head near the viewfinder which seems like most of what I do. Im surprised someone hasnt developed a removable back so you can have all the controls and screen tethered off camera.