Have you been bitten by the photography bug and want to invest on a great digital SLR?

We recommend the Nikon D5000. The D5000 kit is available at Amazon UK for £516.92.

The Nikon D5000 is a well balanced camera that does excellent in size, weight and price.

We warn you after your purchase of a Nikon D5000 you will have the following conditions:

1.Find every weekend excuse to go on mini excursions including photogenic Chinatown, the zoo, the local park, that neighbour’s garden with amazing flowers, etc.

2.The mini excursion may progress to full fledge photography excursion to exotic places like Cambodia!

3. Start a Flickr account and start stalking others in Flickr.

4. Become a fan of photo geeks like Ken Rockwell

5. Check in everyday on the latest news and reviews in camera.co.uk

6. Spend a lot of money on equipment.

7. Spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time talking about photography.

Just giving you a warning on what’s in store for you when you take photography as a hobby.

So why do we recommend the Nikon D5000?

Well you can pay more for other higher end cameras but you’ll just waste money because it won’t make your pictures any more better. The Nikon D5000 is less heavier and the features are easier to operate and understand.

Save your cash for other camera equipment, like a good zoom lens or a flash.

The Nikon D5000 has the same key aspects as Nikon high end models like the D90, this includes the image sensor, Live View and HD movie recording.

WHAT IT HAS TO OFFER

The Nikon D5000 gets an upgraded CMOS sensor of 12.3 megapixel (the D40 used to have 10.2).

Same as the higher-end D90, the D5000 also has the same base sensitivity range of 200-3200 ISO with Lo-1 and Hi-1 options extending it to 100 and 6400 ISO respectively.  It also features a vibrating low pass filter (for sharper images) and Nikon’s Airflow system for less dust problem.

The D5000 is a quiet camera and is reviewed as being as quiet as a Leica rangefinder. This is an important feature especially when you want to do travel and street photography in which discreetness is a big factor.

The Nikon D5000 digital camera is the first Nikon DSLR that’s designed to have a swivel Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screen. This feature allows the photographer to shoot more freely as the term “Vari-angle” suggests. One disadvantage of owning the Nikon D5000 digital camera is that you need to make use of AF-S lenses for the auto-focus function to work at its best since it is not equipped with an AF device.

Nikon 5000 photo quality

QUALITY OF THE PHOTOS

The imaging pipeline of the the D5000 is similar to the D40 (which Nikon stopped making). It

use a 12-bit analogue-to-digital conversion and an EXPEED processor similar to the D300.

What allows is to have great photos are feature like the lateral colour fringe correction.

Added features of the D5000 include soft filter, Perspective Control options in the Retouch section, Colour Outline and a 16:9 and 1:1 trimming options.

SPEED

The shutter block of the D5000 is for 100,000 cycles which you can do continuous shooting but it would be as quick as the higher end models. You’re just learning though so you don’t need a fast camera, you need a great camera that takes great photos, the Nikon D5000 lives up to that.

MOVIE MODE

You can record video with the D5000 but to a limited degree. It uses mono sound and has average video quality. You might also have a hard time focusing while shooting. But you’re buying a DSLR not a camcorder. So the D5000 still does the trick with taking great pictures.

IN A NUTSHELL

If you’re a beginner and want to get to serious hobbyist of photography get the Nikon D5000, it’s the lightest and smallest DSLR but has great technical image quality similar to the D700 under good lighting.

NIKON D5000 DIGITAL SLR

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