FujicaST605

Have checked the switch on the body?

I rented the 17-70 earlier this year.  I was very happy with it except for one issue, the zoom ring is backwards compared to all of my nikkor lenses.  I was always zooming the wrong direction....

You've made a good decision.  I would skip the D7000 and go to the D7100 when you are ready to upgrade to the D90.  The 39 pt af module has been too problematic for whatever reason.

I had focus issues with the 35 on my D5000.  I sent the lens to Nikon for recalibration. It worked better on the D5000 after that. It seems fine on my D7100.

What picture control settings are you using? I upgraded from the D5000 (same sensor as the D90).   On the D5000 I had sharpening set at 5.  On the D7100 I have set the sharpening at 6 and the...

In practice the noise is not an issue.  I keep seeing comments about the noise in the D7100.  In 5 months it has not been an issue.  Only if you sit around looking at 100 and 200% crops is it an...

I think you're right.  Camera movement, likely from pressing the shutter release to hard.

D7100?

http://www.sansmirror.com/newsviews/nikon-1-lessons-learned-on.html

No, Nikon's default jpeg are soft, but can be easily adjusted by their picture controls

Switched from Pentax Spotmatic F to a Nikon N8008s in the early 90's  ;-)

No oil issues here.  If the D7100 had issues like the D600 did with sensor dust it would have been reported by now.

He has a wide lens.  See the original post, he has the Tokina 12-24.

You have what you need. Polarizers are helpful to get the best water shots. If you're going to Oahu I recommend this tour : http://www.oahuphotographytours.com/index.html

Olympus XA.

You need a class like this: http://www.glazerscamera.com/basic-digital-photography There should be something similar in your area.  Don't buy any more gear.

On refurb lenses thee will be a small dot in the plastic on both sides (ends)  of the serial number to indicate it's a refurb.  Don't know of that holds for camera bodies.

It doesn't look like it supports the CLS system. Also lower guide number than the SB-400, and it uses AAA instead of AA like other speedlights. All bad. If you want a small flash, get the sb-400...

SB-400 already does this. For Less.

I have a D7100 and a D5000 (same sensor as D90) and the D7100 has less noise at all isos.