new d7000 or SH D700

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I am new to photography this year. I was recommended to get a SH camera and see if I gel etc.

Well I love it, so I have decided that I should buy a brand new camera and the natural choice is a D7000 body for under £700. I have a budget of £1000

Ive tried it in the shop and it felt very similar to my D90 which I have just sold, so all good.

However a good friend of mine has a 4 year old D700 with shutter count of 68k which I used yesterday for a couple of hours.

My main interest is landscapes and architecture using tripod and filters. Very keen to try HDR bracketing etc

The usual advice is learn with your camera and get better glass, but I like the idea of a brand new camera with warranty, but my head has been turned by prospect of a higher quality camera for similar money, and feeling ill end up full frame at some point.

I loved the super sharp results I got with the D700 even with my cropped wide angle. Did not really try the 70 - 200 : doh

My lenses 50mm prime
Sigma 10 - 20 4 - 5.6 WA
Tokina 12 - 24mm WA ( dont ask )
Sigma 70 - 200 2.8g - new version
Tamron 24 - 135

Cokin filters and Manfrotto tripod - SB400 flash

Am I bonkers to even think about the D700?

Should I just stick with the D700 and trade the spare WA for a 24 - 75 or Tammy 18 - 50

So many desicions. Comments please
 
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If you go for the d700, the tokina and tamron arent ff I don't think, and I'm not overly sure about the sigma uwa either.

It's something to consider at least, as you may want to sell and replace them or use a crop mode and loose some mp. Or even just crop them down in pp.
 
It depends what you mean by quality. The D700 is better built, being a "pro" camera, and is full frame of course, but the D7000 is higher resolution, but a DX camera is inherently less sharp than a FX camera due to smaller sensor size. So while the images from the D7000 are higher in resolution (size) the apparent sharpness between the two will be apparently similar unless you print very large... when printing big the aliasing from the D700 will become apparent before the D7000 will.

The D7000 will be new, with warranty etc, and that's always desirable.

Tough call. You need to decide what is more important. New camera with warranty, 16MP and a richer feature set, or a FX camera wit lower resolution and build quality you may well not need.

Some of your lenses are DX also, so shooting the D700 in DX mode will be seriously low res.
 
Currys have 10% off all items over £499, finishing tonight. Brings the D7000 down to £630
I am very tempted by this.
 
Money no object, then it would be full frame all day long.

However, with your budget you're not going to be able to afford the lenses that do it justice unfortunately.

With a grand to spend, I'd recommend the d7000 and put the rest towards high quality glass, or even better, some time getting 1-1 tuition from a pro.
 
i had the loan of a D7000 thought i would love it

i didnt its not a patch on the D700,no where near for me.
 
Liking the price of £630
 
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I'd have to also say the D7000 is probably the better camera for your needs. Esp since the D700 has done 68k actuations.

I'd say that unless you were going to be doing a lot of low light stuff then you prob won't notice that much difference between the D7k & D700.
 
Keep it simple as my mum would say. I think I will get the D7000 from currys for the £630.

Thanks guys
 
D7000 in this case - no need to change lenses so they function to take advantage of the FX sensor - used on the D700 in DX crop mode you're looking at about 7mp.

The tokina 12-24mm is a brilliant lens, one of the best DX wide angles and will really complement the D7000's high IQ
 
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Interesting how people only think a FF camera has the edge in low light.
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TBH, in this case, they're probably right! The D700 is an exceptional performer in low light (or, as some people have said, "unavailable light") situations.

In this case, given that the OP would have some serious extra expenditure in new lenses to replace the Dx ones (the D700's Dx mode reduses the MP to jsu over 5 IIRC), I would go for the D7000, although if he had ne Dx lenses, I would recommend the D700 without hesitation. Even at 68,000 actuations, it's just about run in, and from a shop will have some sort of warranty (just spotted that it was the 7000 that he tried in the shop and the 700's coming from a friend - maybe ask the friend for some sort of warranty -if I'm selling to a friend, I'll usually offer a cash back warranty - if the kit craps out within 3-6 months through no fault of thirs, I'll give them their money back.)
 
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Yes I know, I have a D700. But a lot of people bang on about the only benefit being better hi iso.

Serious expenditure in lenses? the 70-200 is a FF lens, the 50 is also FF, he can sell the 10-20 and buy a 12-24 Sigma or include his Tokina and get a Nikon 16-35 for roughly the same amount. Replace the 24-135 with a Nikon 28-105.

68k is not really that high but for 1000 he can find a lower mileage D700. In this case the OPs decided so it doesnt really matter anyway.
 
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