Nikon D5000

It's been officially 1 month I've spent some time using the D5000 and it is AMAZING. Just like Lee, I've saved money from getting this and now I can get audio equipment.

The only situation I have to counter is probably how to do slow motion with this camera. It was always easier to do 30p to 24p slowmo. Anybody have some recommendations or tips for the d5000 slowmo situation?
 
Slowmo with Nikon Dmovie?? Twixtor...

I've spent a lot of time with my D90 - it's just a butt-kickin' still camera - it's subtle, but the changes in the image from D80 - D200 really have something going on.

For video? Man, it needs as much contrast as you can get in the scene - if you look at the handheld stuff earlier in this thread, you can really see that "flat smush" look that DMovie leans toward. Contrast & some color saturation really helps, mainly I think it just takes your mind's eye off of the softness.

I tried keying D90 footage and it's, umm, challenging. Really challenging (beats the heck out of the DVX though).

Friday my Rebel T2i (or D550) arrives - yeah, I bit the bullet, as early reviews say it's indistiguishable from 7D footage, and you get full manual control (though you can't dial-in WB numbers like the Nikon, I believe you can manually balance... but tweaking the temperature in increments is another great DMovie helper). I'm not dumping Nikon - I have too much awesome glass and a lot of my income is from still shooting. So I got the lens adapter and I have a pretty major video shoot coming up. No AF with my Nikon lenses, I did get the wide kit lens though, I'll stick a new thread on here somewhere at some point and detail my Canon-Nikon experiences.

$799 for the D550 body - shoots 1080p at 24 & 30fps, and 60fps at 720 - so I can use the DVX-style slomo trick without the godawful resolution loss - pretty psyched. (My wife is not psyched. "So you're selling that D90 you just bought?" "No baby, but I'm not buying a Scarlet yet, isn't that cool?"
 
I am about to buy a D5000 and I have a doubt: what class os SDHC I need to shoot both photo and video? Class 4 is enought or I need a Class 6?

One more thing: what is the clip length? How much time can I shoot with a 16Gb SDHC card?
 
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The manual states a class-6 card; I bought a few, they're not expensive. I tired class 4 cards from my D90 and they seemed fine - for paying work I'd go with the class 6, cards are cheap these days.

For clip length, can't say - I did a commercial shoot and never ran out of time, but these were short takes. You can download the owner's manual from Canon's site, it will answer your questions about length and file sizes, card capacity, etc - it's all in there.
 
Thank you Michael.

Other thing: Somebody know any comparison between NIKON D5000 and PANASONIC LUMIX GH1? How about the lenses?
 
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i shot a feature on the d90, 40 hours of material total, and we never had a problem with the ultra cheap 8gb kingston cards we used. i don't know what "class" they were, i just know they cost like $20 each almost two years ago.
 
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