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[quote name='Дон Андре' timestamp='1285460368' post='3231']

There's a completely new auto focus unit, giving us "prosumers" for the first time what appears to be a professional system. [/quote]



This is value, not innovation. And just for the record, the prosumer EOS-3 had 45 AF points back in 1998.

There's also a new metering sensor featuring twice the number of pixels than that in the D3s.

When Nikon started using color information as part of metering - that was innovation. Doubling the number of segments isn't.

There's ISO 25k, which just has decended upon APS-C. You've got dual SD card slots which is also state of the art. You get a connector for a stereo microphone, full HD video, and 20 minutes cuts in a camera that is just above 1000€, perhaps you know how videographers drool over the 5D Mark II. Basically that's a huge open door to professional movie making. There's 6 fps for still shots, also a professional number. Of course you can say there's nothing new, nothing revolutionary.

All those features indeed exist in other cameras, so they don't represent any innovation, let alone revolution.

But for me, having all the state of the art technology in this package is better than having one incredible feature, but lacking others (like previous choices D90, D300, D5000 which could never really persuade me).

The value proposition of the D7000 is undisputed. It reminds me of the K10D surprise that Pentax pulled a few years ago (weather sealed camera for $1000 was unheard of).

I haven't followed the 60D very closely, but I really don't know why people put it down so much. The 9 point AF would be my biggest complaint, but otherwise it looks like a decent package.

I think lack of AF microadjust is the more serious omission, but it's still a nice camera.