Excellent performing DX camera. This camera, while likely fine for a beginner, will be more helpful for a more advanced photographer who can grasp a lot of its features. It has multiple ways of tweaking options and camera functions. It has two user customizable modes that allow you to reliably reproduce your favorite camera setups with just the twist of a mode dial. There is a user customizable "My Menu" feature so you can find you most often used options, like for instance Auto-ISO (which adjusts the ISO so your shutter speed never falls below a preset that you have set).The D7000 is a revelation in High ISO performance compared to my D200; even with pixel peeping, well exposed ISO 3200 pictures take minimal chroma noise reduction to look extremely clean. I think this D7000 is at least 2 stops better than my D200 and at least 4 stops better than my Canon S95 point and shoot. Related to this, it has great dynamic range when shot in RAW.
Autofocus and flash performance are excellent as far as I am concerned. It has a wireless flash commander mode, which is very useful for speedlight owners. The Nikon flash system is quite excellent and flexible, I find. Couple flashes with the excellent higher ISO performance, and you can really maximize what you are able to light with flash.
The body itself seems well built, though there is a bit of flex in the hand grip portion.
Minimal complaints, other than the grip flex and perhaps the metering blows highlights a little too readily.
I definitely recommend it for Nikon DX users, certainly for those upgrading cameras that are more than a generation old, like my D200.
Review by Govis
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