11 hours ago
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it's unfortunate that the real problem wasn't highlighted first..
In reply to ocean76,
5 months ago
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ocean76 wrote:
Hi to you all,
I have been a long time d7000 user and although I really love it's features I can say that I have never admired it's image quality..
but saying the D7000 doesn't have good IQ. This isn't an IQ problem.
If you had said I'm not getting as good a focus as my D5100.. I would have, from your examples, agreed with you straight away. There have been plenty of threads (esp from Mako) highlighting methods of AF fine tuning, but seemingly they have not been tried.
This is unfortunate as it gives casual browsers a false view of the D7000 and fuels the 'all D7000 users are fanboys' and are in denial.
Conversely.. if you had a perfect focusing D7000 and got a D5100 that didn't, you couldn't adjust it yourself at all and be totally at the mercy of the poor professional camera servicing you seem to have had. Then saying the D5100's IQ is lousy, would be equally untrue.
When I first learned that d7000 is going to be published I analyzed its features and said this is it: it is perfectly what I want and happily purchased it.But in generally it let me down in terms of image quality.(Ive been following these forums since 2010 and tried to read every single thread about d7000 soft focus problems, user errors, backfocusing problems and shared some of my problems in these threads.
Mako helped me a lot (thank you Mako) to solve some of my problems and Ive learned a lot from him)
I improved my holding sytle and focusing techniques and it truly effected the image quality but this was never a huge improvement indeed..and I always feeled the same thing: the image quality is not what it should be from such an expensive camera...
Then I purchased a 5100..After a few days of shooting, I surprised to see it's image quality although it is a cheaper and more lower camera...With less effort great great image quality..
The D5100 image is better but not great.. Again the IQ on both have the potential but focusing is the real problem.
Live View AF vs plain viewfinder AF on the D5100 will be an interesting exercise to do.. keeping in mind the mirror slap guidance
In summary,I can say that, thru my experience, d7000 has better functions and features than 5100 but it's image quality is worser than 5100.. and the difference is big...
after my latest test, I have decided to sell my d7000 and upgrade to d600.
(Now I am trying to save money to afford it and I hope I can get it)
I hope I can feel its superiority when I first hold it in my hands like it happened with my d5100..
(I love my 5100 and will always keep it)
And I hope it won't let me down as it happened with my d7000.
Both my D300 and D700 (fx) had to facilitate fine tune with my lenses (sigma and nikkor) The D600 may well require the same.
If your lenses need a fine tune on your potential purchase of a new D600, too, but you don't use the function.. then your D5100 could again 'look better' for all the wrong reasons.
below is my latest test:
2 photos; one belongs to d7000 and the other belongs to 5100.
both with the same nikkor 16-85 lens,
on the tripod
same f , same shutter , same iso
same distance to object, under same light
same picture control (standard-only sharpening is set to 5)
raw shootings (converted to jpeg in viewnx2 with no adjustments)
100% cropped views
please try the suggestions. Even if you sort it out to your satisfaction and still get a D600, at least you may not be tempted to say the D7000 was the worst DX camera you ever had.
Just wanted to share my feelings,
thank you
all the best with it.. let us know how you get on.
--
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