24 June 2011, Friday
D5100 or D7000?
I still get this question a lot. People lose all sorts of sleep sweating over the details of this or that, but the choice is clear.
If you're the sort of person who sweats the details, worries about setting your White Balance trims and flash exposure compensations, owns 27 lenses and tweaks every menu setting, then of course you deserve the D7000. If you're the sort of person who's reading this page every day, you want the D7000, no doubts about it.
On the other hand, if you 're a normal person (not the sort who would be reading this page), just want great pictures and couldn't care less about all your settings and gizmos, then you obviously will prefer the price and lighter weight of the D5100.
They each have the same sensor and the same technical and artistic image quality. The pictures are indistinguishable from one to the other. The difference is the camera into which sensor is put, and how heavy and how many AF points and direct controls, instead of menus, it has.