I did a four-day shoot last week in a sweltering physics lab, and the D7000 acquitted itself pretty well. DSLRs aren't the ideal cameras for technical work, but I'm a sucker for the Nikkor 105mm ƒ/2.8 for close-ups of apparatus. A couple of quirks showed up, however:
On occasion, we saw the monitor glitch during recording, usually when the camera had been running in Live View for some time. I assumed this was overheating, had my runner log the glitch, and we re-shot the take. It happened about three times in six hours of footage, so not a huge problem - however, reviewing the footage it looks like it's a display glitch, not a sensor/codec glitch. Certainly, I can't find the glitched frames we saw on the monitor. Anyone else see anything like this?
Another issue: we were mostly viewing D7000 output via an HDMI-to-DVI cable and a 1080p monitor. At one point, the D7000 decided it would only output the blue channel, with lots of added noise. The in-camera LCD was fine, the cable and monitor were fine (we could test with other cameras)... but nothing we could do persuaded the D7000 to change its mood.
The following day I tried again, and it was fine. Weird.
Minor problems, though - on a complex shoot the Nikon rarely got in the way, and pairing it with a Panasonic HMC151 gave me a lot of flexibility in how I shot items that had a habit of changing as we went along. The D7000's dynamic range really helped in a couple of places, I've been only slightly bitten by moire issues, and colour matching is looking good so far.
On occasion, we saw the monitor glitch during recording, usually when the camera had been running in Live View for some time. I assumed this was overheating, had my runner log the glitch, and we re-shot the take. It happened about three times in six hours of footage, so not a huge problem - however, reviewing the footage it looks like it's a display glitch, not a sensor/codec glitch. Certainly, I can't find the glitched frames we saw on the monitor. Anyone else see anything like this?
Another issue: we were mostly viewing D7000 output via an HDMI-to-DVI cable and a 1080p monitor. At one point, the D7000 decided it would only output the blue channel, with lots of added noise. The in-camera LCD was fine, the cable and monitor were fine (we could test with other cameras)... but nothing we could do persuaded the D7000 to change its mood.
The following day I tried again, and it was fine. Weird.
Minor problems, though - on a complex shoot the Nikon rarely got in the way, and pairing it with a Panasonic HMC151 gave me a lot of flexibility in how I shot items that had a habit of changing as we went along. The D7000's dynamic range really helped in a couple of places, I've been only slightly bitten by moire issues, and colour matching is looking good so far.
