D7000 - one of great camera shootout by zacuto

That could very well be the case, but I wouldn't be surprised it holds its own against this massive line up. That's what I am hoping anyway, but what I am really wanting to happen from this shootout is that nikon representative realize how much adding some basic features (e.g. exposure adjustment in live view mode, display of grid and histogram in live view mode, etc) to D7000 will benefit users who use D7000 for indie film or any other video works. Then he/she/they can suggest firmware update that exactly does it. That would be sweet.
 
The D7000 will do nicely. There is no doubt about it. This guys are pros and know how to properly shoot all those cameras. I don't think they will shooting personal pets and flowers either.
 
Wow, what a line up! I had to look them all up. Red One $25,000, AF 100 $10,000? F 3 somewhere between $12,000 to $16,00. Arri Alexa $ 79,641. Weiscam ??? Awesome high speed. Canon 5d $2900. Canon 1d $4900. D7000...............$1200. I can't wait to see the shoot out either. ;)
 
Seriously? Red's 42 MBYTE/s 12-bit RAW vs Nikon 24 MBIT/s 8-bit compressed? That's a test we need to see?

Let me spoil the shocking results right now...

(and it doesn't make me love my not-$25,000 D7000 one tiny bit less)

Ridiculous waste of time.
 
Lee Saxon said:
Seriously? Red's 42 MBYTE/s 12-bit RAW vs Nikon 24 MBIT/s 8-bit compressed? That's a test we need to see?

Let me spoil the shocking results right now...

(and it doesn't make me love my not-$25,000 D7000 one tiny bit less)

Ridiculous waste of time.
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W-wwwhat can I say! ;)
 
I do not think it will be waste of time at all. If it was a competition to see who wins between RED and D7000, it might have been. But it is not a competition. I watched the entire first shootout episodes and it was informative. I am looking forward to seeing the upcoming shootout because I want to know D7000's strength and weakness compared to other cameras.
 
I've seen colorists work wonders with 5D footage recently although they hate to work with it due to lack of color depth. But if it is shot well and under non-extreme circumstances (i.e. shooting a light bulb and looking for the filament) it can approach 35mm. The Nikon's issue isn't the frame rate as much as the codec and simply the lack of ones and zeroes to work with.
 
bumkicho said:
I want to know D7000's strength and weakness compared to other cameras.
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I agree, but against its competitors. D7000 v 60D/7D v GH2, that's the test I want to see. Who's cross-shopping a Red One and a D7000? I doubt there are even many cross-shopping an AF100 and a D7000. 5DII might even be a stretch.
 
I know most here are discussing the D7000 in a video context, but has anyone noticed the extraordinary dynamic range of the 14-bit RAW images it produces? I can't even touch them with 8-bit TIFF. When I first bring some grossly underexposed footage into Adobe RAW, much of a frame looks black or nearly so. Just hitting the 'auto' button in the RAW importer and, like magic, the photo is nearly perfectly-exposed.
I've shot some backlit images with the afternoon sun streaming into the window and directly into the lens. Initially, the photos looked hopeless. But a little tweaking and bringing up the "fill lighting" slider in Adobe RAW made the photo look as if it picked up 5-6 additional f-stops of dynamic range. The crazy part is no banding and very little noise after this extreme push.
As a still cam, I am very impressed. For video? Naw.. at best, it provides the resolution of 720P in a 1080P frame size with soft aliasing. Okay for home movies, but if you want to shoot professionally with shallow DoF, best to get an F3 and do it right.
 
basspig said:
For video? Naw.. at best, it provides the resolution of 720P in a 1080P frame size with soft aliasing.
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I am not sure where you get this info, but I don't believe it is true.

basspig said:
Okay for home movies, but if you want to shoot professionally with shallow DoF, best to get an F3 and do it right.
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For some of us it is easy to say grab F3, AF100, or Epic, but for many of us it is not feasible. 5D was used in tv show House and D7000's video image can compete with 5D's video image. To me that's a bit more than home video.

I agree with what you said about its still images!
 
The video from the D7000 is pretty good, but it doesn't utilize the 1080P pixel count to the Nyquist limit. Compared with some 720P footage I shot with my Sony EX1, it looks to have similar, perhaps slightly less resolving, with copious amounts of sharpening artifacts (false contour/fringing). Yes, you COULD shoot a TV series on it, and for most people who watch TV on 17" plastic Daewoo televisions, it looks as good as anything. By itself, with nothing to compare against, it's pretty good.
I've been experimenting with our D7000, shooting some videos, and when I finally got the exposure right, it does look pretty nice.

As a still camera, shooting RAW, it just phenomenal. That's what it was designed to do--shoot stills--and it does this VERY well. The video feature is a nice add on novelty, but for real video, I'll grab an EX1, or an F3 if I want to have most of my frame out of focus.
 
Zacuto shootout episode 1 is out. If you have watched it, please share your thoughts. As for DSLRs are concerned, I am surprised to see how d7000 and 7d compare quite well against 5d and 1d. Shocked to see F3 and AF100 didn't do as well as I thought they would. But I have to say it's just DR test.
 
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I watch the episode but there latitude test was flawed it left no range to go up so if a camera was over exposed it would not show and would lose detail. What they should have done was exposed for a midpoint and recorded the exposure above and below.

Any no says any thing about the D7000 (or even the D1 IV canon for that matter) in the test. Thought I guess people wouldn't, If you never seen these DSLR's footage before you would think there is only a few differences between most of the DLSRs and if you joined this game earlier you would own a 7D or 5D and be focus on those products because of it. I this respect the D7000 is not a bad camera, it has yet to stand out for anything.
 
The D7000 looked the best IMO of all the DSLR's on the underexposure test...the detail on the dress really stood out. On the highlights the 7D held more detail than the rest.....but I agree the test is flawed - way too many variables on each sensor to just set all the cameras the "same"
 
From the test footage, it seems to me that the D7000 did better with shadow detail than the 5D MII and was about even with it in highlights.

I don't know if they used Technicolors CineStyle color profile with the Canons or not. Also, some sensors are more light sensitive than others, which can throw off a test big time.

I watched it on my MacBook Unibody, so it's hard to catch all the details.
 
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