{"id":42043,"date":"2019-02-22T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keh.com\/expert-advice\/?p=42043"},"modified":"2019-02-27T14:58:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T19:58:47","slug":"giddy-over-the-nikon-d7000-gear-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keh.com\/expert-advice\/camera-gear\/product-reviews\/giddy-over-the-nikon-d7000-gear-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Giddy Over The Nikon D7000 : Gear Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been shooting with a Nikon D40x<\/a> since the summer of 2007; when I got it as a high school graduation gift. I\u2019ve done concert photography and sports photography with it for years. Then life happened and I wasn\u2019t attending concerts or working in sports anymore. Thus, I took a very long break from doing any serious photography. This all changed in August of 2018 when I picked up a new hobby, LARPing (Live Action Role Playing).<\/span><\/p>\n

The LARP I partake in, Dystopia Rising, is hosted each month at one of two local State Parks in Georgia depending on the year. At my first game in August I noticed that nobody was taking pictures. I reached out to the owner and asked if I could take pictures at the next event. September rolled around and there I was taking pictures of the action happening during Dystopia Rising. It was a great feeling to do photography again. At each event since September I knew I was improving on my ability to find the right moments to capture, but at times I felt as if I could be doing better if I had a different camera.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I started working at KEH at the beginning of this year. As a camera tech, they have us start out with back-checking what is in stock to gain understanding of the cameras. We’re able to get a feel for them, so we are not fumbling over them when we have graduated to working with the live inventory coming in. During the time I was looking over Nikon, I was keeping an eye out on a model post-2007 that I would be interested in to upgrade to. The Nikon\u00a0D7000<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a> ended up being the one. About four years newer than my D40x it had what I felt would help me capture scenes at Dystopia Rising better. The ISO is four times higher than that of the D40x and has high-speed continuous shooting. The higher ISO would help me to shoot inside of the buildings that are not lit well due to being genre-appropriate and the high-speed continuous shooting would ensure I didn\u2019t miss a moment of a fight scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When I was able to bring out the camera Saturday morning I decided to first test the higher ranged ISO in what is the Tavern for the game. When I started taking pictures and things were coming out clear and not dark I began to feel like a kid in a candy shop. I was finally able to get pictures inside the buildings and took more than I have in all the events since September. This event there wasn\u2019t a lot of fight scenes during the times I chose to take photos, unfortunately, so I didn\u2019t get a lot of those scenes. The high-speed continuous shooting definitely meant I had more pictures to sift through,but I always caught the moment I wanted. <\/span><\/p>\n

After getting to hang out with the D7000 for the day I definitely want to invest in owning one. <\/span>I plan on taking it out again for my next event to try night-time shooting. I\u2019ve not yet bothered to do that at a game, since I know my D40x can\u2019t even begin to handle that and I think the D7000 may be able to. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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18.0-55.0 mm f\/3.5-5.6 at \u0192\/3.5 at 1\/50 at ISO 4000<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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I\u2019ve been shooting with a Nikon D40x since the summer of 2007; when I got it as a high school graduation gift. I\u2019ve done concert photography and sports photography with it for years. Then life happened and I wasn\u2019t attending concerts or working in sports anymore. Thus, I took a very long break from doing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":42080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150],"tags":[288,26,419],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t