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John Woodland
March 11, 2011 at 3:53 pm in reply to: My doubts about Nikon D7000

I’ve been using the D7000 for a few weeks now. I have been fairly pleased with it. Not sure about the conversion to 25p. I have mainly been shooting 1080p24 and converting to Apple Pro res and editing in FCP. I would think you could then go to 25p without any concerns, but I haven’t tried it.

I never trust the lcd anyway. I would love to have the historgram up in live view and hope they do a firmware update and give us that option. For now, I shoot manual and before going into live view I set the exposure looking thru the viewfinder. Once in live view unless the scene changers dramatically it does well. You can hit play after and see the histogram to confirm if your exposure is good. Not great, but it works.

Confirm the aperture limitation. I have manual lenses so it again doesn’t bother me. I’m even thinking of getting my lenses modified so there is no aperture “steps” between fstops.

My biggest problem has been with moire. All the dslr’s have it, some worse than others. Just have to work around it.

If you want to see some good videos shot with the D7000 go to the D7000 group on Vimeo. There are a couple that I have done as I’m learning the camera.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Mark
John Woodland
March 4, 2011 at 7:58 pm in reply to: Nikon D7000 exposure darker than screen

I have the D7000 and depending on the scene I will usually shoot a still image first and check the histogram. Adjust exposure and then record the movie. You also have the option of reviewing the movie if you hit play after you stop recording. It shows you at least a still image of the histogram at the start of the recording.

As you can tell you can’t trust the displays brightness. I just wish the camera allowed you to have the histogram up while recording a movie. Maybe a firmware upgrade?

Mark
John Woodland
January 11, 2011 at 1:49 pm in reply to: D7000 sample and question

Thanks Chris. Actually it wasn’t on automatic though. I know it looks like the picture brightens, but it really was on manual and I think it is just the contents of the scene as it zooms in that makes it seem like it is in automatic. Weird huh?

Here are some more samples of different clips from the camera:

https://vimeo.com/18598174

Mark